12 Tips to stay healthy and live longer.

Hi Steemers! I’m Victory by name, and I have
only just discovered this beautiful
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I mainly write about health and health related topics. My first write up will focus on how to stay healthy and live long. I know it's an familiar subject to your ears but i'm going to make it interesting for you guys. So lets kick off with the tips. My write up will be base on the tips provided by world health organization (WHO).

• Eat a healthy diet.
  Developing healthy eating
  habits starts with choosing
  delicious healthy foods.
  It's not difficult to develop healthy eating as some people imagine it to be. A healthy diet is one that contains essential nutrients for the body up growth. And it does not necessarily mean that the food should be complicated. A simple but healthy diet is alright.

• Be active physically everyday.

  Physical activity or exercise improves health and reduce the risk of developing several diseases like
  diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular disease etc . Physical activity and exercise also have immediate and long-term health benefits. Most importantly, regular activity can improve the quality of life.
  Walking, running, jogging, skipping are examples of physical activity you can engage on.

• Get vaccinated.
  Every year, thousands of people get sick and are hospitalized
  from vaccine-preventable diseases. Getting vaccinated is cheap and convenient. Vaccines can prevent you from contacting some deadly diseases like Hepatitis, Tuberculosis and Polio etc.

• Avoid or minimize the usage of alcohol.
  Moderate alcohol consumption may provide
  some health benefits, such as:

• Reduce risk of developing and dying
  from cardiovascular disease
• Reduce risk of ischemic
  stroke (when the arteries to your brain
  become narrowed or blocked, causing
  severely reduced blood flow)
  -Reduce risk of diabetes.
  With these benefits, over consumption of it has more deadly disadvantages.
  Over consumption of Alcohol can lead to
• Insomnia
• Obesity
• Heart disease
• infertility
• Pancreatitis
• Liver disease
• Kidney disease.

• Avoid the use of Tobacco
  Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable illness and death worldwide . It causes many different cancers as well as chronic lung diseases such as emphysema and bronchitis, heart disease, pregnancy-related problems, and many other serious health problems.

• Manage stress for your physical and mental health.
  Handling stress is like pulling a heavy
  shipping container..
  Stress is a way your body respond to any kind of demand or threat. If you tend to get stressed out frequently—as many of us do in today’s demanding world—your body may be in a heightened state of
  stress most of the time. And that can lead to serious health problems. Chronic stress
  disrupts nearly every system in your body. It can suppress your immune system, upset your
  digestive and reproductive systems, increase
  the risk of developing cardiac attack and stroke, and speed up the aging process. It can even rewire the
  brain, leaving you more vulnerable to anxiety, depression, and other mental health problems.
  So managing stress is important even though its difficult to do. I will be writing on steps in which stress can be manage successfully.

• Practice good hygiene.
  There's this saying that says "Cleanliness is next to godliness"
  It's not only that. Good hygiene will prevent you from having some dangerous ailments like cholera, enteric fever, diarrhea etc. To practice good hygiene is more cheaper and faster than treating those ailments. Prevention is better and cheaper than cure.

• Avoid speeding and drinking while driving.
  Over speed kills faster. If you want to live long, then avoid it. And also avoid drinking while driving.

• Use of seat belt while driving and always wear helmet when cycling.

• Practice safe sex.
  There are millions of sexually transmitted diseases around the world. These can be prevented by practicing safe sex.

• Regularly check your health.
  Regular medical checkup will help to detect diseases in their early stages.

• Breast milk is the best food for babies.
  Do you want your baby to be healthy? Then give him or her exclusive breastfeeding.

I will drop my pen here. Do you have any questions or additional information about this topic? Then drop it by using the comment box. Thanks.
My next article will base on Sexually transmitted diseases.