Healthy Living Zoe

  Healthy Living

In order to be healthy, you need to do lots of excersise, get lots of sleep, and eat a balanced diet. Doing these things doesn't just help your physical health- it improves your mental health too. All these things are linked, because not doing one of them will make it more likely for you not to do the others. For example, if you just ate fatty foods and became overweight, you would be less likely to go out and excersise, and if you don't excersise, you tend to have difficulty sleeping. 

              A Balanced Diet

It is important that we eat a variety of different foods to help us keep a balanced diet. There are 6 different food groups, displayed in the pie chart below. Carbohydrates and vegetables are the ones we should eat the most of. Carbs are things like bread, pasta, rice and potatoes. We should also eat plenty of protein. This includes beans, pulses, fish, eggs and meat. The other main food group is dairy. These are things like cheese, milk and butter. You shouldn't eat too many oils and spreads, though it's important to have some. Finally there are sweets, which you should only eat occasionally. These can rot your teeth or cause diabetes. 

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      This chart shows how much of each food group you should eat

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Medicines and Drugs

Most drugs are used to help someone get better when they're ill, and these can be very useful. But sometimes they can be harmful, even if they are prescribed medicines. If you take too much of a medicine, it can make you feel more ill than you were before. Some drugs, like nicotine, can be addictive, so people who take them find it hard to stop. In most cases, these drugs are harmless in small doses, but can be very dangerous when they are taken very frequently. Cigarettes, for example, contain tobacco, which can damage your lungs and sometimes even cause your body to develop deadly diseases like cancer. They also contain nicotine, making them addictive. Now we have e-cigarettes, battery-powered devices which generate water vapour to simulate the smoke. This vapour does not contain tobacco, so for people who are finding it difficult to stop smoking, e-cigarettes are probably the best option for them.

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