Mind Your Health

Celebration of Nutrition Month is done every July. This year’s theme was “Wastong Nutrisyon Kailangan, Lifestyle Diseases Iwasan.” But what could be the germaneness of this activity to us students, the youth? Would it contribute a great development in our life?

Different crises are being suffered this time not just in our country but in the whole world. The most common of these is on financial. Many had shut their companies down due to bankruptcy and because of this scenery, the rate of unemployment here increased. Surely, this will affect the shape of people because they won’t have money to buy nutritious foods. On the other hand, sharp-witted humans have invented and introduced new gadgets using the latest technologies. These would really help us in our everyday life. A common instance is our mobile phones that make our communication quicker. Nevertheless, there are also gadgets which are disadvantageous. Many cause pollution in our nature and this thing also affects the health of man.

Notwithstanding with these glitches, our school had still the guts to promote a healthy living among the students for they conducted different activities. These are the following: Nutri-quiz which aimed to test the students how aware they are in their health; Food Festival which made students be aware or know what the nutritious foods are; Cook Festival whose purpose was to inform students how such healthy foods are made; Nutri-jingle which intended to apprise students about ways of maintaining a good lifestyle; and many others.

With this kind of activity, we realized how important our health is. It is really true that health is wealth. But we must put in mind that not just in nutritious foods make us healthy.

In doing so, we must perform exercises which are best early in the morning or late in the afternoon. It helps us avoid such diseases. We must also have enough time to take a rest. We must sleep at least 8-10 hours. Visiting our doctors often reduces also the risk of acquiring illnesses. Maintaining one’s body clean makes us healthy either as well as taking vitamins. Another thing is not just using medicines or drugs without the prescription of a physician. Drugs must not be abused so we cannot ruin our health and our future!

So we should be careful enough when our HEALTH is the thing. Balance everything for us to possess a good health, a good lifestyle and to avoid diseases!