World celebrating International day for Older People
The first day of the month is celebrated as the International day for Elderly people marked by the United Nations. The day is usually celebrated to raise awareness about the issues faced by the old people including age-related sickness, health and mental peace in them.
To admire the day, we have some health tips for Elderly People to make them Hit and Fit.
- Say Bye to Smoking
Studies suggest that most of health problems faced by the elderly people are due to smoking as it kills by causing lung congestion, heart failure, cancer and many other severe respiratory diseases. To avoid such health problems elderly people should quit smoking at the earliest.
- Walk Daily
Go for a daily walk in the morning as it is good for health and body too. Physical activity helps you to maintain a proper weight, prevent and control illness, it helps you to sleep better and reduces stress.
- Eat Healthy
Many diseases like diabetes 2, high blood pressure, heart and stomach problems occur due to not eating healthy food and if you eat then you don’t eat on time. To get save from such illness, elderly people should take food on time with proper vitamins and calcium in them.
- Maintain a Balanced weight
One of the biggest hurdle in one’s life is not having proper weight and elderly age is the most sensitive where you should have proper maintained weight as extra weight leads to heart disease and less weight will turn your appetite down leading to stomach problems. One should keep their body fit following a proper diet chart with daily exercise.
- Prevent skin from cancer
As we become older our skin also gets dull and thinner with wrinkles and ageing spots. The skin become less elastic and if we get any cut our skin takes longer time to heal. At this age we need to be more protective with our skin and needs to save it from ultraviolet rays and sun to avoid skin cancer.-WTN
