Health and Wellness
Wellness is defined as our overall good health, and the condition sustained by healthy eating and fitness habits. We have so many places to turn for wellness information, that it would be impossible to cover all the possibilities in one article.
However, we’ll cover the most common places to look, and let the reader take it from there. The major sources of wellness information are available to everyone, everywhere. Libraries, the Internet, your physical fitness instructor, and your health teachers are all viable avenues of information sources.
The library contains more information about health and wellness than you could possibly read in a year’s time. There are magazines, periodicals, medical journals, and all sorts of books written on ways to become fit, to maintain fitness, or to participate in fitness activities.
Benefits of Wellness
There are sources of information that explain the benefits of being well, the physical benefits, the mental benefits, the social benefits, and the self-esteem and emotional benefits, which is nothing but the wellness of body, mind and soul. The library will also usually have video and audio information available on almost any topic covered by the reading material.
They may even have wellness tapes available for viewing. Often, the library provides the opportunity for the low-income to access materials that otherwise would not be available. Video and audiotapes are examples of this opportunity.
The Internet opens more windows on wellness than the library, since the Internet is a compilation of many libraries, news articles, newspapers, and individual input. You have only to type in the word wellness using one of the available search engines, and suddenly you’ve got more sources of information than you can research.
The search engines often return information in the order of actual relevance to your search words. So bear that in mind as you search. The first couple of pages will contain the most relevant information on wellness.
You can locate information about wellness, local wellness programs, and instructors who specialize in one-on-one wellness evaluations and personal attainment plans. Your local school physical education instructor and health teachers are invaluable sources of wellness information, in that they have an education in health and well being.
They are privy to the most sought after reliable sources of real wellness benefits. Many of the articles you will find, and much of the information you read, is not 100% accurate, ask a teacher, or instructor actually involved in wellness programs, and you are going to receive much more accurate feedback.
Your federal government publishes massive quantities of information about the health and wellness in this country, from many different perspectives.
The United States Department of Agriculture is responsible for determining our daily-recommended allowances, and as such, accumulates much information about wellness programs, the state of physical and mental wellness in the United States, and how well we participate in wellness programs.
Past these sources, check out your local fitness center. Quite often they have random information posted, current magazines, and periodicals that address current wellness issues and often offer interested persons the chance to observe wellness in action.
Stress
Stress is a condition that your body enters as the result of a message received from your brain telling it to prepare to run or fight. The body reacts by preparing for that eventuality. The cause of your stress is inner conflict.
Meditation
Meditation has been shown to relieve stress, and promote overall good health, by simply reflecting upon our day, and finding happiness within ourselves. This and other mind exercises help us to keep our mind fit, and functioning at top performance levels.
Don’t expect miracles overnight like some fad diets promise. When you first start dieting, you will probably lose more water weight. Remember that your weightloss should be gradual. The American Heart Association weightloss recommends that you eat a variety of foods from the different food groups.
Obesity
A person with obesity problem will have surplus of body fat. In addition, obesity has been linked to mental health conditions such as depression or feelings of shame and low self-esteem. A number of factors, such as poor diet, lack of physical activity, genetics, and certain medical disorders, cause obesity.
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