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10 Tips for Living Healthy
  1. Look after your whole wellbeing: physical, emotional, social and intellectual
  2. Address these consciously and make sure you are providing opportunities and the right environment for all members of your family to develop all these in the best way possible
  3. Physical means you are addressing the need to eat good and healthy food and you are doing exercise regularly. Eating the right food means:
    • eating a nutritious plant based diet rather than an animal based diet,
    • eating fruit, vegetables, grains, bread, rice and potatoes several times a day,
    • controlling fat and red meat intake and substituting for pulses, beans and legumes,
    • limiting salt and alcohol consumption ,
    • using low fat milk and dairy products.
    • Adapted from WHO CINDI guidelines. For more information see in the following link - the WHO 12 recommendations for healthy eating - http://www.euro.who.int/Document/E70041.pdf (p.12)
  4. Emotional well-being - everyone has feelings and needs to nurture these and develop positive thinking about oneself and about others. Within families we need to nurture an environment of love, security, positive attitudes and good communication. Build a high self esteem in children and partners and listen to them, talk positively and without aggression and get everyone in the family to talk and express themselves about their feelings and about themselves.
  5. Social - the family is the primary socialisation insituition which means that for the first few years the family is the only structure where a child can learn to socialise and share. Meeting others and having an opportunity to interact with others is also important. All members of the family must interact healthily with others and learn social skills from within the family eg not interrupting when someone else is talking, sharing, appreciating other's thoughts and beliefs...
  6. Intellectual - the family and all opportunities given by the family and elsewhere could be a learning environment or an environment which can promote a healthy intellectual development in different members of the family. Create areas and opportunities for the family members to grow intellectually too - this can be done from early on through reading to children, playing with them in activities which can make them use their thinking processes and brain, discuss, reflect and reason with them and with partners, use family meals as a time to share and talk with each other. Going abroad can be a time when the family is together for some quality time but when one can also share in the beauty of culture and special attributes of foreign countries.
  7. Each family member should be comfortable in the family and should find every possible means of support to develop one's potential. Encourage, do not stifle each other.
  8. Excercise daily in something you can cope with - if all you can do is walk then that is enough but do so everyday. Find a time when this is possible and get all your family to do some exercise too.
  9. Live sustainably and responsibly and safeguard the environment around you for our future generations.
  10. Be a role model and your family will follow your attitudes towards healthy lifestyles too.
 
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