If you lie down for decades due to illness, the meaning of "long life" becomes lighter even after the age of 100. Families such as children are also struggling. You have to be healthy in both your body and mind to enjoy a "healthy life." These days, a healthy life is more important than general longevity. What are the characteristics of people who are healthy in body and mind even after the age of 90 or 100? All of them cannot be generalized, but the good points are worth referring to. There are already known contents, but let's find out again.
Don't forget to stretch in the morning stretching
Those who enjoy healthy life rarely skip stretching right after waking up in the morning. Honorary professor Kim Hyung-Seok (philosophy major at Yonsei University), who was born in 1920 (103), also emphasizes stretching in interviews. Of course, you can't copy this person's habit unconditionally. If you rub your whole body, such as your arms and legs, with your hands, it helps to circulate blood and control blood pressure, which had been stagnant while sleeping. It is similar to the health effects of massage. To prevent injury, do not stretch strongly and gently. If you are middle-aged, lifting your hips and waist in bed can also help with thigh and hip muscle training.
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Drinking warm water
The body loses its moisture supply while sleeping for seven to eight hours. Nevertheless, moisture is constantly discharged from sweat and secretions. Drinking lukewarm water with less irritation in the stomach releases waste accumulated in the body overnight and activates metabolism. The process of changing old substances into new ones in the body is metabolism. Blood, which has become sticky due to lack of moisture, flows well. Blood vessel disease (stroke, heart disease) often worsens in the early morning. This is because blood becomes sticky and can block blood vessels.
Make sure to eat breakfast
Breakfast provides the energy needed for morning activities. Students and office workers should also eat carbohydrates. Too much carbohydrate avoidance to control weight reduces the efficiency of work, such as brain activity. The three essential nutrients are carbohydrates, protein, and fat. Examples include vegetable-fruit salads (food fiber, vitamins), eggs (protein, fat), yogurt (calcium, protein), nuts (unsaturated fatty acids good for blood vessels), and whole wheat bread (carbohydrates, unsaturated fatty acids).
In order to supply the energy needed for morning activities, they eat breakfast containing three essential nutrients evenly. If you don't have gastritis or stomach ulcers, filling your stomach to some extent with breakfast and drinking a cup or a half of black coffee will help you concentrate or defecate.
Drink a cup or half of black coffee
The effect of coffee is still controversial, but if you don't have gastritis or stomach ulcers, drinking a cup or a half of black coffee helps you concentrate or defecate. If you fill your stomach to some extent with breakfast, the caffeine in coffee does not significantly damage the gastric mucosa. Chlorogenic acid in coffee and gastrin secreted by the body stimulate the intestines and cause them to go to the bathroom. Feces are also very important for a healthy life.
Diligently move
For those who enjoy a healthy life, "If you eat, you move." is an iron rule. Don't lie down after breakfast or sit on the sofa and keep watching TV. He moves his body diligently in everything. The slope of the neighborhood also goes up to improve household activities, walks, and further leg muscle strength. Many of our grandmothers enjoy healthy life even if they are far from fitness club exercise for life. They are all diligent people.
The above lifestyle is the schedule of retired people. Busy office workers often skip breakfast. However, if you wake up a little early, you can use your morning time like a thousand gold. Stretching and eating are enough. If you use public transportation, you can walk and climb stairs.
Writer: Yeyoung Jeon