"Steemit Engagement Challenge / S11W5 - "The Four Main Factors of Health"

A healthy living is my number one priority. I may not have the finances, but the little I have, I make sure I take care of my health because when I am healthy, I am wealthy.

The four main factors of health; diet, rest, exercise, and mental health are essential to our health and should also be improved day by day.

Food is any edible substance we eat to sustain life, but do you think all food is healthy for us? Do you think every edible substance is supposed to be consumed?

Well, for me to be healthy and remain healthy, I eat a lot of healthy meals. Now, looking at the 6 classes of food we have, which are Protein
Carbohydrate
Vitamins
Minerals
Fats and oil
Water

cucumber	fufu with vegetable soup

There are a lot of foods classified under each of these classes. While growing up, we had a food timetable at home that helped us cover all the classes of food weekly. My mom made the timetable and pasted it in the kitchen, I loved that pattern.

Rice with veggies	Plantain with vegetable

The foods I eat these days are not bad at all because my health is my number 1 concern. I love vegetables so much that I can eat veggies 4 times a week. Fruits are not exempted for my healthy living too. I also do not just eat, I make sure that for my healthy living, the environment where I eat should be clean and I also wash my hands before eating.

But lately, I desire to improve my diet by drawing out my food timetables, making sure to have all the listed meals available, going back to my early morning lukewarm water every day and a glass of milk at night. Oh! I missed so many routines already. Well, I will go back to them, hopefully next month.

I could remember a certain incident that happened at my house when I was much younger, I was asked to cook while everyone went out.

I am someone that doesn't joke with my sleep pattern at all, so that day I set the food on fire and allowed it to cook, while waiting for the food, I slept off. Do you know it was a neighbor that came to wake me up to go check what I was cooking?

I guess this was the reason I don't even sleep well these days. Unfortunately, I don't have a sleeping pattern, especially during the day. I know normally we ought to sleep at least 7-8 hours but maybe because of my busy schedule, I don't see the need for sleep.

You know in Nigeria today, we all have this mentality about sleep, that the rich don't sleep but the poor sleep. So this mentality usually reminds us that we don't need to sleep away our time to make money.

But we forget that health is wealth and it only takes a healthy person to make money. I wish I could sleep at noon for at least 3 hours every day, I think my health will have more added advantages.

As for exercise, I do it every day. I wake every morning by 5 am and do my full body workout right in my room before setting out for the day.

For the past 3-4 months now, I have not entered a tricycle to my workplace, I prefer walking down to my office in the morning and walking back home at night. I don't see it as stress because each time I return home, I feel so strong.

Oh! Do you know I dance too? Ah, that is also part of my exercise, but I don't do it daily. I dance either at noon or at night.

Games

For my mental fitness, I play games. I have this particular game on my phone that keeps me busy when I need to relax. This game makes me laugh a lot and keeps my brain focused on how to keep winning.

Good meal

I eat and drink smart. My daily meal determines my mental health and that is why I love taking a glass of milk so as to sleep so well at night. I don't forget my fruits too.

Meditation

Meditating on the word of God is what keeps me mentally fit.

Stay with positive-mindeded people

You know the saying that says,Communication with the wrong person can kill". I try as much as possible to stay with positive energetic people. Staying with negative people will always kill a man mentally.

I invite @mariami @princa @beautyfair