A Healthy Change

張貼日期：Mar 28, 2011 5:5:43 PM

A Healthy Change

William Chang

Imagine one day you lie in a bed in a hospital and have been diagnosed with a kind of cancer or disease, hopeless and desperate. We are all living in lifestyles of our own. Some of them are beneficial, and some are harmful. What if we can do some changes in our life and make ourselves healthier, would you pay for it? Some little good changes as the following can affect our health considerably.

       Eating a healthy diet is the most important change we can make in our lifestyles. Our bodies need enough nutrition to make them well functioned. For instance, we should eat enough meat and vegetables in every meal instead of eating plenty of junk food such as French fries and instant noodles. And remember, eating too much or not enough can also cause us overweight or malnutrition. Hence, we should always have a balanced diet.

       Exercising regularly is the second change that can make us healthier. Some of us might think exercise is exhausting and troublesome. But exercising regularly indeed makes our heart and lungs stronger and more efficient. In addition, it can strengthen our muscles, promote their development, and increase their efficiency. However, it only takes us twenty minutes, or half an hour a day for exercising.

      The final change is to get enough sleep. We always say that our life is so busy that we do not have enough time for sleep, but it is not true. Most people spend their nighttime watching TV and chatting on the computer instead of going to bed earlier. Actually, we can get immeasurable benefits from sleep. According to the Time magazine, a person who is getting fewer than 7 hours’ sleep a day will gradually decrease their quality of performance. So, we should never ignore the importance of sleep.

      There are still many changes we can make to improve our health. The examples above are the basic three changes for our lifestyle. However, we should make little efforts for our health. After all, no one would like to spend the rest of his or her days in the hospital.