World environment day! (05/06/18)

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                                                  World Environment Day is the UN's most important day for encouraging worldwide awareness and action for the protection of our environment

The theme for 2018 is "beating plastic pollution".

This day is also known as "the people's day" according to UN, as each and every one had the right to keep his/her environment clean and conducive for living. This can be an individual, community base approach or with the help of the government in one way or the other.

According to the theme, plastic dumping around us, I.e in houses, schools, commercial avenues, cities, etc should be prohibited as these help in polluting our environment and even when picked and dump in landfills it's still dangerous as in the long run it end up polluting the soil and hence our water bodies.

According to the World Environment day website, "Every year, up to 13 million tons of plastic leak into our oceans, where it smothers coral reefs and threatens vulnerable marine wildlife. The plastic that ends up in the oceans can circle the Earth four times in a single year, and it can persist for up to 1,000 years before it fully disintegrates."

 This is how dangerous it is to dump plastic any how as the tendency for it to degrade takes years to do so.

The is a general saying, if one can't reuse these plastic let him refuse using them. Why using something knowing you will use it once and dump it (though I know difficult). And after using them we should make sure we adequately dispose them correctly.

Recommendations:
To the community, To individual and to the appropriate ministry responsible for waste disposal in different countries, they should all immobilize themselves to keep the environment clean and conducive for living, not only for the proper development of the area but also for a healthy living as cleanliness is next to Godliness. 

Together let's fight against environmental pollution for a better environment.

Happy World Environment day 2018

Importance of physical exercises!!!

Hi, as I mentioned earlier, the secret I healthy living and preventing some medical condition like hypertension and many others, is to do regular physical exercise. Just came back for a reminder. Stay well!

healthy living

HYPERTENSION

Hypertension (HTN), also known as high blood pressure (HBP), is a long term medical condition in which the blood pressure in the arteries is persistently elevated.
It's a common public health problem in our communities.

It's has many risk factors, viz
Excess salt, excess weight gain, smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, family history,
Diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia.

Life style modifications are the main goal for preventing HTN

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) usefully recommends 

_regular aerobic exercise 
_reduction of salt,
_alcohol, and smoking, and 
_advocates ‘healthy, low-calorie diets' for ‘overweight individuals with raised blood pressure’

The above recommendations are what we call avoiding modifiable risk factors...
Other like non modifiable factors, those that you can't do anything, but will obviously have HBP in the long run, if at all you have, viz 
_Family history 
_Age
_Gender... Just to name a few

NB: While following the above mentioned life style modifications, regularly go to your nearby clinic for check up ,especially 
If you are 40 years and above
if you have conditions like diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, and other chronic illnesses.

And if the blood pressure is elevated on two separate occasions then your physician will place you on antihypertensive medications.

I wish you well.

HEALTHY LIVING

Health professionals play a central and critical role in improving access and quality health care for the population. They provide essential services that promote health, prevent diseases and deliver health care services to individuals, families and communities based on the primary health care approach. [WHO]  http://www.who.int/hrh/professionals/en/

So it is with great interest to your well-being and healthy life style that I post, here, to give you the tips required for you to have that health you so much desire.

   

This how engaged I am to help you achieve your good health! 📚💉💊💲🔬