How to Make Your Body Healthier

Do you want to get healthier after you got sick? Many people will say “Yes, I do”. The reason is people cannot do their activities if they are not in a good condition. When you are sick you can rarely go to places, see friends or do travelling. Illness not only weakens your body in many cases, but it also often interferes with your immune system, making it less able to protect you from other dangerous substances and conditions until you recover. That is why when you recover from illness, you need to regain your strength and maintain good health. There are some steps you have to do that make your body healthier and prevent to be sick after you recovered from an illness.

Begin by eating healthy food and healthy beverage. Illness suffers both your immune system and your body. Eating properly after you get better supplies the calories your body needs. You have to choose meal that is good for your body. You should consult your doctor about food that you may eat or that is not. As we know that human need carbohydrate, minerals, calcium and many more. To get all the nutrition the human body needs, you must eat balanced variety of food, increase fruits and vegetables, choose whole grains, include beneficial fats like omega 6, omega 3 etc. You need mineral and vitamins with antioxidants to help remove unhealthy substances, called free radical or oxidants, from your blood. Furthermore, do not eat junk food. Sometimes, people prefer buy junk food that the price is more expensive to buy vegetable. Unhealthy foods can make you feel, and possibly become, even more sick.

 In addition to healthy food, you have to give more attention with your beverages. A half part of our body contains water. You must drink more water because water helps flush metabolic wastes to keep your metabolism in top shape. Drink at least two liters of water every day. Try to drink water that has been purified and not to drink alcoholic beverages.

After choose a good food and beverage, the next step that you have to do is doing exercise. Exercising is also important to get your body healthier. By exercising, you will decrease the effect of getting sick. Exercising after you beat an illness helps your body regain strength by forcing your joints, muscles and organs. You can do a simple exercise such as jogging, jumping, push up, sit up and etc. Also you can do some cardio. Biking, running, walking and swimming are excellent cardio exercises. Those activities can make your body are getting sweat. As we know that there are some benefits of sweating, which as a natural cleanser, such as clean your skin, lower body temperature, and help fight sickness. However, you have to choose an appropriate exercise that is good and proper for the condition of your body. The important thing that you have to know is you do not need to force your body of doing an exercise. If you force your body without knowing your condition, you will get pain on your body and get sick. Whereas by exercising you are expecting to get healthier, but you will get the opposite if you do not follow the rule.

The last step to get healthier is taking a good rest. Rest means that you have to relax. Not only relaxing your body, but also relaxing your mind. Sleeping is one way to make your body relax. However, you do not need to sleep more or sleepless. You have to sleep if your body wants to sleep. Getting plenty of sleep helps relieve stress. Make sure you get at least 7 or 8 hours a night. In addition to sleep that can make your body relax, you have to refresh your mind. There are some ways to refresh your mind such as going outside, shopping with your friend, going picnic or spending time to do something that you like. You need more rest to build up your energy.

By doing all steps above, you will have a healthy body and fully functional immune system. Health is not a simple thing that human can ignore it. The WHO's 1986 Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion further stated that health is not just a state, but also "a resource for everyday life, not the objective of living. Health is a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities”. It means that health is the important thing in our lives. Nobody likes to be sick. Therefore, you have to change your bad life style become a good life style. “Your health depends on yourself”.  

By : Rima Ayu Annisa Octavia & Aufa Nabhila