Ways of Maintaining Good Health

Good health can be maintained in the following ways:

• By maintaining personal cleanliness.
• By doing regular exercise.
• By maintaining a clean environment.
• Regular check-up.
• By eating a balanced diet.
• By avoiding bad/harmful habits.

Effects of Balanced Diet on Health:

• It provides energyEnergy is the ability to do work. Energy exists in several forms such as heat, kinetic or mechanical energy, light, potential energy, and electrical energy. Units of Energy: The SI unit... More for activities of life.
• It prevents deficiency diseases.
• It is necessary for growth.

Effects of Exercise on Health:

• It keeps us fit and trim.
• It aids in the removal of waste from the body.
• It aids and strengthens the muscles.
• It increases the rate of heartbeat thereby improving the circulation of blood.

There are situations when exercise is not advisable, these are during starvation, pregnancy, old age, and sickness.

Effects of Bad Habits on Health:

Bad habits include smoking, drinking alcohol, and using other harmful drugs such as Cocaine, Marijuana, Heroin, etc.

• It damages the brain.
• It damages vital body organs such as the liver, heart, kidney, etc.