The Importance of Lifestyle Factors in the Maintenance of Health and Well-Being

The significance for this research project is that it will provide relevant and up to date data of the current levels of physical activity within Australian adults. This project will deliver an in-depth analysis of the frequency, quantity, duration, and variety of physical activity among Australians. It will also provide information about what factors are promoting a healthy lifestyle and what barriers are preventing adults from achieving the recommended weekly levels of physical activity. The research will address:

Review and revise an individual’s daily plan with the individual and others to increase the opportunities for participation

Central Idea: Exercise and physical activity are a great way to feel better, gain health benefits and have fun.

The chapter continues with talking about the things that influence one’s health. It talks about individual health, things we can control, like lack of nutrition, little to no physical activity, and how much alcohol one consumes just to name a few examples.

Public policies that focus on lifestyle determinants promote better health outcomes for an entire population by means of education, implementing wide spread policies, and initiatives for at risk areas of the population. Socializing and empowering determinants help connect and form a relationship between structural determinants and lifestyle determinants. This section of our health policy really helps tie in a key component that gives our national health policy a higher chance of success as a whole, it is more or less the bridge that binds the other parts. Doing this ties the individual and collective responsibilities for better health and allows a higher chance of success on both the individual and societal levels (Estes et. al., 2013).

1. Readiness for enhanced regular activity: related to planned exercise activity in the week for the family to improve overall health.

Physical activity is a very important aspect of an individual’s life. There are many health benefits to being physically active. Living an active life helps to prevent and lower the risk of chronic diseases such as diabetes, obesity, depression, and heart disease (Tuso, 2015). Healthy People 2020 (2018) states that about 80% of adults and adolescents do not meet the physical activity guidelines. Staying active may be difficult if there are no community resources to help. The intention of this paper is to implement interventions within Paulding County that will help increase physical activity among community members.

The topics discussed in chapters six through ten focused on injuries, health risks, prevention of health conditions, pain, specific health conditions such as obesity, and the effects of chronic illnesses. These chapters caused me to reflect on both the physical and psychological effects that various health conditions can have on people. Our mindset can have a direct effect on how we cope with illnesses as well as increase or decrease our risk for developing new conditions. Proper education about health risks and conditions that are becoming more prevalent throughout society can help in the development of new treatment methods and ways to avoid the onset of certain illnesses.

    While working on this project I  have learned that physical fitness does not come easy. It takes commitment, time, and will power. Without these you can’t obtain physical fitness or maintain it. Physical fitness is not easy to gain nor is it easy to keep it. If it was then everyone would do it, but those who stick to their plan will gain enormous rewards and their life will be significantly better.

Over the period of this course there has been a few topics that I have really learned about and either it has influenced me to change my lifestyle, and/or attribute to develop healthier patterns for myself whether it be in my marriage, for my child, or for my health. I will discuss the topics that mattered the most to me, that we covered throughout the duration of the semester. Which includes; The Common Challenges to a Healthy Lifestyle, Marital Expectations, and Income.

The study and implementation of active living parameters, healthy community design, safe routes and built environment will be crucial to achieve the project goal of making physical activity a regular part of low-income children daily lives.

The Open University (2012) L185 English for academic purposes, Block 3 Session 2 ‘Text 2.1: Factors that influence the health of an individual’ [online], https://learn2.open.ac.uk/pluginfile.php/717531/mod_resource/content/1/Block%203%20Text%202.1.pdf (accessed 02 February, 2013).

The growing public focus on improving their healthcare had been a window of opportunity for the health and wellness industry to improved or develop the new product or services. The increasing of public awareness of health and wellness could be because of the increasing of the rates of heart disease, high rates recorded the numbers of obese people, the feeling of unhealthy, and various other health scares have all drawn attention to the need for healthy lifestyle

It is important to understand the cause of the current crisis on the matter, factors that lead to diseases and good health, in addition to the steps that need to be taken by an individual so as to maintain good health.

Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is indeed a meaningful duty we owe ourselves. ‘If you do not have good health, you do not have wealth’. Healthy lifestyle means upholding a balanced and nutritious diet as well as involves in fitness activities. A healthy diet alone however isn’t sufficient to produce a healthy body as physical activity helps to keep one in shape and free of sickness and disease.