importance of good health

 

          What is the importance of health?

Having good health is important because

1. Improve longevity

If a person doesn’t have a healthy lifestyle, it would affect the daily routine of a person. When the body gets proper nutrition, it becomes more fit and healthy, improving longevity.

2. Prevent diseases

The most important concept of leading a healthy life is to provide immunity strength against various diseases. The immune system is the body’s natural defence mechanism to fight against foreign agents that cause harm to the body.

Having a healthy body and mind is very important for overall well-being.

3. Improve mental health

Having a bad lifestyle would result in poor mental health. Adapting a healthy lifestyle would relax the mind and improve the mood.

Improve mental health

Only when a person is happy mentally, they would perform productively. Mental health is equally important as physical health.

4. Lead a productive life

A healthy person would serve his/her community and nation. Only when a person is not affected by any disease,he/she is considered healthy.This inturn would help them to serve better.

5. Financial benefits

The cost of medical expenses is rising. Only if a person invests in health right from a young age they would prevent or reduce the extent to which they develop a disease.

By having good health, they can reduce the possibilities of themselves getting hospitalized and minimize the cost incurred for medical treatment.

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