Steemit Engagement Challenge S8-W4: An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away

Dear Everyone...!

Related to the Steemit Engagement Challenge topic which was released in Season 8 Week 4 by Steem Cameron Community about the phrase "An Apple A Day Keeps The Doctor Away", I will associate it with one of the classic phrases expressed by Decimus Junius Juvenalis "Mens Sana in Corpore Sano".

Even though this saying is contradictory, I see it as an important part of living a healthy life.

To increase user participation in this topic, I invited some of my friends to participate in expressing their ideas/opinions. Hopefully @sofian88, @heriadi and @harferri accept my invitation.

I see this expression as a form of health promotion campaign for the whole community. If you look in more detail about the content of apples which contain many sources of nutrients such as antioxidants and other sources of vitamins, apples are very effective at reducing risk, once again I repeat that the antioxidant content in every apple consumed will reduce the risk of contracting cancer, not protecting it from deadly cancer.

Apples which are rich in antioxidants can increase one's body's resistance to free radical attacks, thus consuming apples which are rich in antioxidants is expected to prevent cell damage or even death.

Just consuming apples every day does not guarantee that you will be kept away from the doctor. A healthy lifestyle has a strategic role in creating a healthy and disease-free life. It makes no sense to just eat apples on a regular basis to expect health but ignore the essence of a healthy lifestyle. I mean a healthy lifestyle such as: Regular exercise, diet, positive thinking, avoiding consumption of disease-predisposing foods, adequate rest and maintaining personal and environmental hygiene.

Agent, host and environment are the 3 main elements that cause disease. Although the phrase ""An Apple A Day Keeps The Doctor Away" is an attempt to reduce the risk of cancer, the three factors above play a major role in the process of the disease.

As health workers at First-level service facilities in the North Aceh District Government, we always promote these 3 aspects in maintaining health. I want to describe the interrelationship of these 3 elements so that they can cause disease.

Hosts are humans as targets for disease, while Agents are temporary disease causes, in this case carriers or causes of disease either in the form of living organisms such as germs, viruses, bacteria or fungi, then chemicals and climate which can cause trauma due to accidents and various causes of disease. other. The third is the environment which i known as the extrinsic factor. An unhealthy environment is known to be another factor that encourages the spread of disease to humans as hosts.

So, to ensure the quality of life in order to create an optimal degree of health, the efforts I have made are:

1. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle: the effort I make is to consume adequate nutritional intake, nutrition is an important element needed by the body to meet energy needs every day. There is an assumption that most people in my environment ignore the importance of breakfast as an essential need for them, even though breakfast is important to note as a source of energy which is needed in a large enough frequency during the day's work. I continue to ensure that this is an important investment towards creating a healthy life.
2. Avoid foods that are high in fat which have the potential to cause disease over a long period of time.
3. Exercising before going to work in the yard for 15 minutes, I try to increase my stamina and enthusiasm for work.
4. Routinely consume fruits as a complement to daily needs.
5. Time management: adequate rest is an important element in meeting the body's need for rest.
6. Keeping the environment clean by disposing of trash in its place and maintaining effective room air circulation.
7. Routine check-ups of health status: As health workers, we are required to carry out routine check-ups because as officers we have a high susceptibility to infection.

These seven points have been an important part of my life for a long time, and I continue to preserve them as a culture for myself and my family.

The important points above are part of the scientific disciplines that I have acquired since semester 1, living in a dormitory has many rules that must be obeyed, especially as we are health students. We continue to be forged and guided by dormitory caretakers for almost 3 years to apply these habits in boarding life and continue them in the post-educational life setting.

This activity has now become an important need that is difficult to abandon, for example if I don't exercise in 1 day, it's as if something isn't perfect. Work productivity has decreased and that has become an obstacle that has occurred so far.

I realize that smoking is an Agent factor that can endanger my life, I keep trying to get rid of this bad habit by sucking on candy and staying in the room completing tasks until it's time to go home

I have benefited a lot from the habits I have been doing since 2001. I am grateful to continue to have a healthy body and rarely get sick, even if I experience a decline in my health status, it is closely related to the workload that I have to complete, I have to work until morning and usually, my respiratory system will be disturbed, such as flu and coughing. However, this condition gradually improves quickly if you sunbathe in the morning and boil ginger as a drink.

The next benefit is being able to apply this habit in the family and work environment so that we continue to strive to be pioneers of healthy living for ourselves and society.

I will explain more specifically about some of the benefits of the activities that I do:

• Exercise plays an important role in the body's metabolism, carbohydrates consumed will be converted into glucose and glycogen before being distributed throughout the body after being filtered by the kidneys. However, without sports activity, glucose will accumulate in the blood and become a predisposing factor for Diabetes Mellitus, let alone having a family history of certain diseases.
• Breakfast: Adequate calorie needs will support work productivity, and avoid feeling sleepy and not enthusiastic.
• Consumption of fruits: fruit contains lots of vitamins, and even apples can help the body in warding off free radical elements during activities.

Everyone can do the same thing, the key lies only in will and habit. Practising it every day will become a culture and a necessity that cannot be separated.

In practice, at the Health Service Facility, I and the Non-communicable Disease Prevention Team hold routine exercise activities that are carried out every Friday. The gymnastic participants are not only from health elements, but we involve all visitors and patients with certain conditions such as High Blood Pressure, Diabetes. and patients with digestive system disorders (dyspepsia).

After the gymnastics, the visitors were also given health education so that they realized the essence of health as an integral part of creating a healthy life.

Other activities are activities that do not require costs so that with existing consistency, they can adopt them as an effort to maintain their health.

To maintain a healthy life, you don't need to spend a lot of money, what you need to do is pay attention to the body's needs, adequate nutrition, regular exercise, a controlled lifestyle by avoiding predisposing factors for disease and lastly, keeping the environment clean.

However, health will be very expensive if this aspect is neglected, a person will be susceptible to disease and will reduce the quality of life.

Come on... from now on, get used to living a healthy life by continuing to show integrity and consistency to achieve ideal health. If not us, then who, if not now, then when?