Preventive Health Measures
It is said that prevention is better than cure. We can achieve good health and avoid trapped into many diseases, if we apply certain preventive strategies in our day to day life.
Food habits
Our eating habits are one of the major causes of our illness. We can avoid so many Diseases like obesity, hypertension, diabetes and heart disease by eating nutritional and healthy food. If we stick to the diet chart our doctors suggest, we can easily avoid the risk associated with it.
Exercise
We can avoid diseases like osteoporosis, arthritis and muscular pain by exercising regularly. Our regular workout will help us to maintain normal metabolic parameter by reducing cholesterol and blood sugar levels.
Immunization
Many infectious diseases like hepatitis, influenza, tetanus, pneumonia, cholera, typhoid can be prevented by going for timely immunization. Vaccination can prepare the body to fight with the disease when we come in contact with them.
Life style
Modern life style is causing so much illness among children as well as elders. Eating processed or junk food, less sleep, work stress, drinking excessive alcohol, consumption of tobacco product or are leading people to liver disease, throat, lung and other various type of cancer. Pollution is another cause of illness for which we, human beings are responsible. By making small life style changes we can remain healthy and prevent may disease.
Counseling
In metro cities hospitals do have facilities for screening familial disease like breast cancer, colon or prostate cancer. Genetically prone individuals can go for test like mammogram and colonoscopy which can help early detection of their disease with the consultation of their doctors and prevent complication.
Preventive Health Check up
Health checkups at regular intervals can prevent many serious diseases. Medical advances have led to trading complete health check up packages which are beneficial for us.
Medical experts believe that routine check up of stool, blood, urine, liver, kidney and pulmonary test and chest x ray can not only detect disease early but can also stop it before it starts. Many insurance companies are providing health insurance to serve this purpose. Women can go for pelvic ultrasound if they have any doubt about their health.
So we must undertake stress relieving measures like yoga, aerobics along with regular health check ups to stay away from any serious illness.
