20 High Potency Steps To Bubbling Health

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11. Sleep Is Not Optional
Even in the face of contending demands for your time, the temptation to stretch the working day to 24hours should be resisted. Sleep still has an important place in your quest for good health. A good sleep will renew your system, relax your nerves, reinvigorate you and empower you to deliver better results. So, create time for sleep. How much is enough for each day may be arguable. But less than four hours may leave you worn, irritable and unable to deliver to your full potentials. Over time, a poor sleeping habit will weaken your health.

12. Conscious Accident Prevention Is a Major Weapon
Your health can suffer a serious nose-dive due the effect of an accident. A spinal-cord injury, for instance, will be a serious health problem, yet an accident that causes it might just be avoidable. Granted that accidents may occur, a great deal of safety can still be achieved by cultivating a preventive attitude. If you drive a car recklessly, without seat-belts and under the influence of alcohol, you won't claim to be protecting your health and life. So, become accident conscious and take steps to minimise the risk of accidents: get dangerous items out of threatening locations, ensure proper lighting, maintain your car properly, ensure proper electrical systems in your house or office and always provide fire extinguishers, keep medicines out of the reach of children, pay attention to expiry dates and dosages of drugs and avoid self-medication. As can be seen, there's a lot you can do to ensure due care against accidents that can adversely affect your health.

13. Cultivate A Positive Attitude And Avoid Depression
Challenges will come in life, but a positive attitude will help you escape despair and depression. You need to lift up your spirit when reversals occur in your life, as major emotional problems can do serious damage to your health. A strong family bond, a circle of trusted and reliable friends and good network of associates are factors that will impact positively on your emotional well-being. Polish these relationships as they will provide the support you need, when challenges come your way.

14. Routine Medical Checks And Tests Can Save Your Life
Early detection of health problems can, in most cases, improve your chance of successful treatment and recovery. Early detection of cancer, for instance, can ensure a complete cure. High blood pressure, dubbed 'the silent killer', is frequently not detected unless a BP check is done. This is true of various other diseases. If you are serious about good health, programmed medical checkups should should rank high in your toolkit.

15. Your Doctor's Prescriptions And Advice
These are critical to your health maintenance plan. Your doctor's prescriptions carry the weight of his professional training and experience. You need to respect them and his opinion. When drugs are prescribed for a condition, the least you'd do is to obtain them and use them. When you have an appointment with your doctor, you need to keep it.

16. Pay Attention To Your Vital Organs
Your health can suffer from problems associated with your vision, hearing, dentition, etc. You need to protect the these parts of your body, knowing that any problem to them will affect you health condition.

17. Take A break, It's Okay
You should know when you deserve a break, to maintain good health: a break from work, a break from pregnancies, a break from an exacting routine. You need to renew you whole being after an extended period of rigourous work. Take a break and bounce back re-invigorated.

18. Cultivate a prevention mentality
The age-old philosophy that 'prevention is better than a cure' still holds strongly today, especially regarding your health. There is the challenge of diseases that may not presently have an easy cure. But even when there is a cure, there is a chance you may not be so lucky. Besides, ill health has costs in money, time and stress. Given all these, your best bet is always to toe a preventive path: would you rather be on anti-retroviral drugs than exercise basic care and avoid contracting the HIV virus? With prevention as a cardinal rule, health challenges are likely to be minimised.

19. Basic Health Literacy Will Give You A Headstart
You don't have to be a medical doctor or other health professional to know some basic things about health: about common diseases, about nutrition, about preventive action or about what help to look for when you need it. Health knowledge is a life-long engagement, just like knowledge in any other field. To help you achieve your health goals, you need to devote some effort to learning what can help you achieve a healthier lifestyle and station. That requires reading available health publications, offline and online, asking questions of health officers when they attend to you and picking up relevant information from any other reliable sources.

20. Avoid Self-Medication And Quackery
Always go for the medical attention of qualified professionals. It is not for nothing that they spent years learning about human diseases and their treatment. The tendency to seek proper medical care only when other options have failed you results in loss of critical time in effectively addressing your condition.

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