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How rich you are, how much of wealth you have, but do you have health? If you
don’t have health then there is no use of your wealth, luxuries, highly
professional degrees and so on… everything will be vain.. If you have health
then you have the world’s precious wealth.
You think that by having a quality lifestyle
you will be healthy but, you may don’t know that some of your habits may have
bad effects on your health and can make you fall sick. But probably your
immunity can protect you from common infections and diseases , but think about
your children whi have the same lifestyle .They are growing, their immunity is
still developing and not that developed which is enough to protect
them.
Only a quality life style is not enough
to stay healthy and protective from getting ill because the environment in which we are living is not
pure enough, we have used it as much we could and still using the environment for our daily
necessities and self-benefits, as a result our necessities has affected the
environment very badly. The rain is infected , the air is full of germs and
harmful substances, the soil has loosed its fertility and mixed with
non-biodegradable substances and much
more. Every day we breathe lots of harmful
things like Smoke, leads, dusts,
floating germs and more harmful particles. The air is not pure anymore like
before and we can’t imagine that how much our body fights and defend from such
things. We cannot stop these external vulnerability , but we can protect ourselves from them by
strengthen the immunity inside us. It’s
all our immune system that fights for us to defend from getting sick. To make it more clear I have described all the
facts in different paragraphs below.
Parents behaviour:
Children comes into this world without knowing anything they learn to eat , speak,
walk, run , play , read, etc. from their parents. Always be beware about what you speak, eat, drink and
do in front of them because almost everything they learns from you
and if it will have bad effect on them it will tamper their growth.
Quit smoking & Drinking:
Very old proverb “Smoking is injurious
to health”. But if you can’t stop smoking then, please don’t smoke in front of
your child. The smoke exhale out of your
lungs is more dangerous for the people around you and children learn most of
the activities from their parents and they will grow up into addicted smoker.
So beware.
Special Note for Newbie Mommy: If you are breast feeding mom then you must stop
smoking and drinking for the period you feed your baby, the nutrition in the
milk depend on what you eat and drink . Add lots of healthy foods like fruits
and green vegetables , get some good health drink , it will be beneficial for
both of you and your baby too.
Daily Exercise:
Daily Exercise doesn’t mean to let your child join daily gym. It is to keep
your child’s physical activities updated. Minimize the usage of joysticks and
PlayStations, let them go out and play with their friends. Get them a kids’ bicycle , bicycle riding is best exercise can be done
by anyone. Do a family exercise regularly let your kids join you and encourage
them to follow what you do like rope jumping, skipping, play merry round, basketball, tennis
and so on… This will boost their metabolism, immunity, intake of more oxygen,
and make them feel fresh and active.
Polio Vaccine:
It is one of the most important vaccine
must be given to every child from birth to five years of age. It is recommended
by W.H.O (World Health Organization) for
immunization against polio virus. Polio is incurable but it can be prevented by
immunizing the body. Follow the polio vaccination schedule which are generally
advertise in Television Channels, Newspapers , Magazines and sometime the local health department also comes around
streets to announce the date and time of
polio vaccine.
Balanced Diet:
Proper nutrition is an important fact for adequate growth and immunization .
All essential nutrients are required by body in adequate quantity to boost immunity,
antioxidants to fight infections, and all necessary vitamins and minerals like
vitamin C, E , Zinc etc. Avoid packaged and processed foods they can be cooked
quickly but they contain more sugar, and
less in required nutrients. Serve freshly made foods to your child and add more
amount of fresh fruits and green vegetables and pulses in their plates. Fruits
are rich source of vitamins and antioxidants and green vegetables and pulses are good source of
minerals, & protein . Always change
the meal twice or thrice a week, as children feel bored by chewing same type of
foods in their mouth, try something different on every alternate day.
Cleanness and
hygienic:
How does it look when we see our surroundings are clean and green, its seems
like a healthy environment. To have a healthy life we have to main cleanness
both our environment as well as our body. We adults know that how to keep
ourselves clean but our kids don’t know, sometime they stay out of our eyesight
and we can’t know what they are doing and eating outside . Teach them wash
hands properly before going to eat anything,
put a sanitizer or dry hand wash in their school bag , it will be handy
and keep them away from germs that can make them fall sick .
Apart from these keep in mind what your kids eat and wear everyday, make them wear clean and washed clothes
everyday, change their bed sheets regularly with a clean one and must have
regular bath with lukewarm water.
Eat to be alive , don’t be alive to eat
:
Eat that much which is required by your body to perform your daily activities ,
don’t eat too much unnecessarily , it
will turn your body in obesity and it is the key to many type of disease like Diabetes,
heart diseases, High Blood pressure, and so on. Also you should keep in mind
that what and how much you are feeding your child, don’t feed them when they
say that “can’t eat more”.
If you have left too much of food in your kitchen, don’t
throw them away, give the foods to those children who don’t get proper meal every
day, stand outside for a while you will
see a lots of child like this, give them they will be very happy.
Adopt the natural amenities:
It is good to stay in natural environment as much as possible rather than in a man made surroundings.
Make your child a habit to into bed and get out of bed early, make them breath
in fresh air of early morning, let the drops of dew touch their feet. I heard
that morning has an amazing power of healing so many things inside our body.
If you or your child fall sick , don’t ask your doctor every time to prescribe
antibiotics, ask your doctor if he/she have any natural remedies. Natural
remedies work together with our immune system to heal out the disease where as
the antibiotics are chemically processed
substances work of their own and doesn’t allow our immune system to
work.
Family health check-up:
Go for a health check-up along with your children at least twice a year. Its is
very important and helpful to secure your family with a good health. And take a
protective vaccination for tetanus etc. once a year.
Daily health tonic and multivitamins :
The land has loosed it’s natural fertility , farmer are using artificial
fertilizer and HYB seeds to maximize the output, but the required nutrients in
them has decreased, the milk men injects some kind of medicines in the cow and
buffalo’s body to maximize the output of milk from their mammary glands but not
the required vitamins and minerals. we eat food grains that fulfil our empty
belly but we don’t get the required nutrients by our body. Hence you should
have some daily health drinks that is full of multivitamins and minerals specially
for your child , their body needs to much of energy at this developing stage.
Apart from this your entire family can have Dabur Chyawanprash , it’s a pure ayurvedic health tonic for your entire family. It is
filled goodness of natural herbs, vitamins and minerals which provide
immunization and strength from inside.
Being a great Parents
: (Most Important)
It’s a great challenge , Only medicines, balance diet food and nutrients , and
immunization is not enough to keep your child healthy and immunized but , Before being a parent you must become a good
friend to them. Somewhere and sometime in your life you probably have faced some
problems and situation that you could not share them with your parents and
later you had felt that it would had been much better if you had told about
that with your parents, isn’t it? So don’t let your children face the same
situations, they are your children, you mean the world to them and you can help
and care about them better than anyone else in this world. Sort out some time from your busy schedule
and spend with them, play with them, go
out , talk make them laugh and share some moments of your
day you had, make them feel comfortable with you so that whenever they will
have any problem they will come to you first and they can share with you
everything without hesitating . Win their hearts , they will win your heart too
and It will lead them a complete stress
free growth.
This post has been written for the contest An Immunue India
held at Indiblogger
by Dabur
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