Optimal health: can you achieve it?

 

While discussion around optimal health is happening quite often, but people still need clarification about it.

While WHO provides a clear definition of optimal health and well-being including not just physical, but also mental and social well-being, it is not without diseases.

If you talk about optimal health considering complete physical, mental and social well-being, it doesn’t seem realistic all the time. It can be really hard for some people to actually achieve it. Optimal health is quite personal. It may depend on various factors, such as where a person has been health-wise and where they are today. Of course, optimal health for an athlete is going to have a different meaning than a senior person of age 60-something with diabetes or other illnesses.

Considering the need to increase awareness around optimal health, various social agencies are busy with health promotions with a focus on community well-being, which they call promoting Elite Health. For instance, Global Village Radio provides a platform to facilitate interactions related to health and wellbeing to various communities across the world.

Optimal health is not about attaining the perfect health (which may be virtually not possible), but being as healthy as one can be by adopting various practices and forming sustainable healthy habits.  

Global Village Radio does health promotion and provides guidance on several questions, such as:

How to attain optimal health with chronic conditions?

There may be no cure for most chronic conditions, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, but that doesn’t mean you can’t manage these conditions. With certain practices and lifestyle changes, one can reduce the risk of serious complications and reach a better health position.

Have so-so health habits

Poor nutrition, no exercise, and chronic stress along with so-so sleep habits can lead to slow and steady damage of the health. Hearing experts to keep in under watch can help attain optimal health.