In the best of health

1. Are you interested in healthy living? Complete the questionnaire to find it out.

1.	Do you have breakfast?	always	usually	sometimes	never
2.	Are you careful about what you eat and drink?	always	usually	sometimes	never
3.	How often do you weigh yourself?	every day	once a week	from time to time	never
4.	How often do you exercise?	every day	once a week	from time to time	never

2. If in your answers dominate the following, then:

1. Always, usually, every day.

You are quite interested in healthy living. You do your best to be in a good form and feel fine. You are a purposeful and ambitious person and make your dreams come true.

2. Sometimes, from time to time.

You remember that you should care of health only when you’ve got problems with it - extra-weight, headache and others. You should be more attentive to your organism and be more regular and organized in everyday activities.

3. Once a week, never.

You prefer to flow with the current. You are either indifferent to your health or ignorant about it. You should be more responsible and ambitious. Remember that ‘’prevention is better than cure’’.

3. Doctors worked out certain rules, which help to stay healthy. Let’s learn some of them.

The laws of health

One of the first duties we own to ourselves is to keep our bodies in perfect health. If our body suffers from any disorder, our mind suffers with it, and we are unfit to perform our social duties.

There are certain laws of health, which help to get rid of diseases and stay healthy. First of all, a constant supply of pure fresh air is indispensable to good health. For it nothing impure should remain within homes, and every room in the house should be ventilated every day.

A certain amount of exercises is necessary to keep body in good condition. All the powers we possess are strengthened by use and weakened by disuse. Therefore labour and study should succeed each other. The best way of getting exercises is to do some work that is useful for body and at the same time interesting to the mind. It is more essential for the old and young to do morning exercises, if possible, in the open air. Going in for various sports activities such as swimming, shaping, fighting, tennis and so on is very popular at present

Remember that exercises warm, invigorate and purify the body. Rest is also necessary to the health of body and mind. That is why the best time for sleep is during stillness of the night.

Late hours are very harmful to the health as they exhaust the nervous system. We should go to bed early and get up early. It is a good rule “to rise with the lark and go to bed with the lark”.

Most essential to our body is food. Our body is continually wasting, and requires to be repaired by fresh substance. Therefore food, which is to repair the loss, should be taken with due regard to the exercise and waste of the body.

Be moderate in eating. If you eat slowly, you will not overeat otherwise there is an opportunity to get overweight and problems with digestive system. We should abstain from everything that intoxicates.

Consult doctors every 6 months. They give good pieces of advice how to keep fit or diagnose the case and prescribe proper therapy if you get ill.

Thus we must remember that moderation in eating and drinking, reasonable hours of labor and study, regularity in exercise and many other essentials lay the foundations for good health and long life.