Healthy lifestyle and sustainable habits lead to better long-term health, and reduced risk of lifestyle-related disease

Your habits reflect your health. Health is found by short-term and long-term habits that shape health status. Long-term sustainable habits include diet, physical activity, and lifestyle. These components are cornerstones of health as it is related to each other. Healthy life is about balance and sustainability. Sustainability of habits is essential to prevent lifestyle-induced disease like diabetes, hypertension, and obesity. Health policies and interventions have focused on these preventative approaches to improve individual and community health.

The role of the individual to keep a healthy lifestyle to improve health is by having a healthy diet and lifestyle. The healthy diet is composed of a balance diet with fruits, vegetable, protein, healthy fats, fiber, and complex carbohydrates to ensure the body is getting the essential nutrients. Trendy diets produce results but is not sustainable in the long-term. Physical activity is key to strengthen and circulate blood to the heart and tissues. Lifestyle choices, including adequate sleep and stress reduction, is important to support a sense of wellbeing.

The role of the community is to have health campaigns guided by the ministry of health to supply education and provide the health resources to improve the health status of the community. Individual effort empowers the community to make health-informed decisions to improve health. Parents, family, teachers, doctors, and other community members are influencers to motivate an adoption of a healthy lifestyle.

Therefore, healthy lifestyle and habits are a product of the environment to improve health and reduce risk of lifestyle-induced diseases. We as individuals and a community have the responsibility to improve our health.