Saturday, February 3, 2007

Preventive Practices

My preventive practices compare pretty good. My health can be improved in numerous ways. I need to exercise more and be more physically active. Being tied up with school, work, and other activities tends to take away from physical activity, which causes weight gain. It also causes people to become accustomed to an unhealthy, sedentary lifestyle. School and work also cause increased stress levels which can affect blood pressure and cause insomnia. I suffer from high stress and elevated blood pressure myself. This is caused from worrying too much and staying up to late to meet deadlines and to study for my classes. However, I strive to make sure that I obtain at least five or more hours of sleep per night. In addition, I wear seatbelts and practice safe driving conditions to avoid motor accidents. I dance on a regular basis, but I need to try to engage in other forms of cardiovascular exercises in addition to dancing to obtain an optimal level of health.

1 comment:

KIRAN said...

I believe in the preventative practices and everyone should because it is fact that you live longer due to a healthy practice. School is a stress for me too on somedays but I try not to let it stress me out that much and if it does I will just find myself working out the pain with pain at the gym and that tends to balance things out for me. Physical activity fills that gap of exercising weekly every chance I get when I am out of school. I try to get at least six to eight hours of sleep myself but usually at least five to six when school is around.