- Physical activity
- A benefit of physical activity is that it can improve your health and reduce risk of developing certain diseases like type 2 diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular diseases. Physical activity can have immediate and long term success, for example a long term success is that exercise can help control your diet so eating the right foods and drinking the right stuff. An immediate success is that your respiratory system will respond better because it is getting more oxygen to the lungs. However lack of physical activity can be a risk factor to the cardiovascular disease and other conditions. Also lack of physical activity can lead to depression and anxiety, it is common to affect the body’s ability to regulate blood sugar and break down body fat.
- Alcohol
- Alcohol can have an affect on the body because it can damage your organs and cause organ damage also it bad because it can lead to an abundance of alcohol can harm the liver, whose job it is to break down harmful substances in the body. This can lead to hepatitis, jaundice and cirrhosis, which is the buildup of scar tissue that eventually destroys the organ. Alcohol for women should be at least 1 drink per day and up to 2 drink per day for men and only by adults at a legal drinking age
- Smoking
- Specific health risks such as coronary heart disease, cancer, lung infections
- A health risk of smoking is that it can damage your heart and blood circulation increasing a risk of developing conditions such as a heart attack, stroke and many other conditions. Smoking causes serious damage to the lungs which affects how you breath so for a asthmatic it would effect them even more because they already have trouble breathing.
- Stress
- Specific health risks such as hypertension, angina, stroke, heart attack and ulcers
- Some evidence suggests that a parent’s chronic stress might even increase the risk of developing asthma in their children. One study looked at how parental stress affected the asthma rates of young children who were also exposed to air pollution or whose mothers smoked during pregnancy. The kids with stressed out parents had a substantially higher risk of developing asthma.Stress can worsen diabetes in two ways. First, it increases the likelihood of bad behaviors, such as unhealthy eating and excessive drinking.
- Diet
- Recommendations and guidelines from public health sources (e.g. NHS), benefits of a healthy diet, effects of poor nutrition
- The risk of poor nutrition is that you can be over weight or obese, tooth decay and high cholesterol.Short term affects of diets that lack basic nutrients can result in decreased in energy and focus and contribute to an unhealthy body weight Serious, long-term effects include an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis and cancer. A benefit of a good diet is that it help with weight loss ,reduce risk of getting cancer and can improve your memory.
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