World Physical Therapy Day: Importance of physical health

 Physical health forms a major part of our life. Being physically active, maintaining nutritional balance, good rest and sound sleep are a few components of physical health. Giving importance to physical health will reap benefits at all ages of your life. Good physical health can contribute to leading a successful life. Physical activity or exercise will reduce risks of long term diseases like cancer, diabetes, cardiac and respiratory diseases. It will have long term health benefits too. Inactivity is on a rise due to sedentary lifestyle, technological advances in gadgets, etc.

Goals should be small and realistic like designing a small chart to write out your fitness goals and try to stick to it as much as possible. Once you achieve the goals, you can change them and raise your activity/fitness.



Walking to the metro or railway station if possible to add fitness to your commute, parking the car farther away from the entry of your office will add more walking/activity time to your day.
Walk and talk during mobile phone calls: Walking around every time you get a call on your mobile phone. This will be a break from sitting for long hours at your desk and also get in a little activity throughout the day. Don’t stop during long conversations, pick up the pace instead.

Practicing 10 minutes of deep breathing/pranayama in the morning, while watching television, between work hours or before going to bed is very effective to lose weight and stay healthy.

Socialize more often. Dancing can help burn more than 200 to 300 calories every 30 minutes. One can lose up to 2 to 3 kgs a year by laughing for 10 to 15 minutes every day.

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