10 Ways to maintain health so you don't get sick easily

1. Eat green vegetables

Eating green and leafy vegetables is rich in vitamins that help you maintain a balanced diet and
support a healthy immune system.

According to a study conducted on mice, eating criciferous vegetables, such as broccoli,

cauliflower, and cabbage, can help send chemical signals to the body that increase the protein on
the cell surface needed to make the immune system work more optimally.

In this study, healthy mice that did not eat green vegetables decreased cell surface protein by 70-
80 percent.

2. Take vitamin D

Vitamin D deficiency can cause symptoms of illness such as poor bone growth, heart problems,
and a weak immune system.

Foods that contain the best sources of vitamin D include egg yolks, mushrooms, salmon, tuna
and beef liver. You can also buy vitamin D supplements and choose those that contain D3
(cholecalciferol), because this is good at increasing vitamin D levels in your blood.

But before taking supplements, you should consult this with your doctor.

3. Regular exercise

Stay active by exercising regularly. You can start with a light exercise such as walking or
jogging. Regular exercise can make you fit and slim.

In addition, a study shows that regular exercise can prevent inflammation and chronic diseases,
reduce stress, and accelerate the circulation of white blood cells to fight disease.

4. Get enough sleep

Adequate sleep is one of the keys to a strong immune system and keeps the body in a state that is
in good condition so that it can carry out good activities. A study shows that people who sleep at
least eight hours every night for two weeks show that the body is more immune from attacks by
viruses and bacterial germs. Meanwhile, people who are less than 6 hours a night will be 4 times
more susceptible to flu from viruses than people who sleep 7 hours or more.
5. Manage your stress

Stress has been shown to affect the health of the body, making people susceptible to disease.

Cortisol helps fight inflammation and disease. Constant hormone release in people who
experience chronic stress can actually reduce the ability of these hormones.

This can cause the body to become inflamed and susceptible to disease. So one way to maintain
proper body health is to control stress. You can try doing yoga or meditation exercises or you can
do activities that you like to control or relieve stress.

6. Socialize with people around

Loneliness is often associated with triggers of several diseases and also with social relations can
help the mental health of people or people who have performed heart surgery to accelerate the
recovery period.

Research published in the American Psychological Association shows that social isolation can
increase stress, which slows down the body's immune response and the ability to heal quickly.

7. Maintain cleanliness

Another way to maintain health is to maintain personal hygiene and environment around. That
way, you avoid attacks by various diseases. Here are some ways to maintain good hygiene:

 Bathe every day

 Wash your hands before eating or preparing food, and after eating.
 Wash your hands before inserting contact lenses or doing other activities that make you
in contact with your eyes or mouth.
 Wash your hands for 20 seconds and rub them under your fingernails.

 Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when coughing or sneezing.

8. Live the work wholeheartedly

Especially and most important in living a healthy life is to live this life wholeheartedly with no
burden of being a healthy person means to be happy and this is much easier if when you wake up
in the morning, you feel enthusiastic to do the work you love. If you do not work sincerely and
wholeheartedly, you will only be burdened with work and cause stress.
9. No snacks at random

What is needed when buying food is that the environment for which food is sold is cleanliness
about the composition of the food whether it is good or not for the body if consumed. The
method of processing uses preservatives and dyes or not made of excessive chemicals and can
endanger the body that consumes because consuming foods made from chemical preservatives
can interfere with digestion and endurance.

10. Don't be near people who can transmit the disease

Usually contagious diseases are like flu and cough. Therefore we should not directly interact
directly with suffering from infectious diseases.