Helping build sickness-free family
It is never the desire of anyone to fall sick. In fact if you unfortunately fall prey to sickness, the feeling associated with such a state is not a pleasant one. Thus acting to prevent sickness is better than waiting for diseases to attack us.
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It is even better if the family can stay without ill-health all year round. There are so many things we can do to prevent diseases from attacking and worrying us. For example, observing very good personal hygiene is a sure way of preventing cholera and ebola.
Choosing a healthy diet and exercising regularly helps to prevent lifestyle related diseases. Most people know how good and helpful these preventive health strategies are but moving ahead of that knowledge and putting it into practice seems a very impossible task for many.
Those who have succeeded in implementing some of these strategies will always give testimonies of how helpful such healthful life choices have been to them.
This article will assist families in their quest to help each member; father, mother and child live well so as to stay healthy all the days of their life.
Mothers
They are the managers of the home and providers of the food that everyone eats at home. They are very busy taking care of everyone else but not themselves. Often, they provide the wrong foods for every member of the family as well.
The position of mothers is so vital and powerful in the home. If they are able to get good information about healthy diet and put it into practice, others in the house have no choice than to just eat what they are given.
Mothers need to make some time for themselves as well. Eat early and make time for some exercise. Prepare those meals with little or no oil, cut down on use of fried foods. Stop using stock cubes to cook for the family as well.
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Fathers
The men are often out of the house early and mostly return very late at night. They therefore leave home without food, and return to eat late at night. This has become the norm since these men have to work hard to fend for the family.
Their meals are mostly taken care of by their wives and or house helps. In order to remain a healthy father till retirement, you need to change and make certain adjustments to this seemingly normal lifestyle.
Eat most of your foods from home. Start by first of all helping your wife or home caregiver to gain good knowledge on making healthy meals.
Eat some food at home before you leave in the morning.
Do not be too busy to reject your wife’s lunch pack prepared at home. Carry it along to the office.
Get back home early for that home-made supper as well. The office food is very likely to help you develop one of the lifestyle/diet related diseases before you go on retirement so beware.
Worst of all is that most men think they are incomplete without drinking alcohol. Thus they drink all their life and worsen chances of living without diabetes, stroke, and hypertension among others.
Alcohol is not an essential food, thus the human body does not need the alcohol you put into it. Just learn to stay off it for a better future.
Children
Feed your children some healthy meals and when they grow up, they will not depart from them. In the school-going age, give them fresh fruits for school and not soft drinks.
Giving them money to buy food is not a good idea, cooking healthy meals for them is a better idea. Do not always provide them with the ice creams, do that once a while, not always.
Let them engage in some outdoor play activities rather than in-door activities all the time.
• The writer of this article is a Dietician at Trust Hospital & Clinics. Grab copies of his book titled: “Diet, Health & Wellness” and his video/ audio diet advice on CDs. Contact: 0244090262, Also available at Kingdom Books and Stationery Shops.
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