To live to be a hundred

I think that everybody wants to live to hundred. But it is really difficult in our modern world. Air and water pollution, greenhouse effect and many other facts badly influence on our health. To be healthy we should eat right food, regularly pay visits to doctors and of course go in for sports. Nowadays we have a great amount of different doctors and they can really help us. We have general practitioner, surgeon, optician, pediatrician and many-mane others. But we have more and more diseases. AIDS, different allergies, asthma, bronchitis, cancer, diabetes, fever, malaria, measles, pneumonia and etc. We just can catch a cough and we will sneeze, shiver, have problems with swallowing, high temperature. And even this cold can lead to much more serious diagnosis and finally we can become bed-ridden. So if we have regular check-up we will avoid any of these illnesses. And if you realize that you feel really unwell, you should call to ambulance immediately. And of course if we want to be healthy we should go in for sports. There are so many kinds of sport, such as artistic gymnastics, gliding, skating, rowing and canoeing, skiing, ski-jumping, windsurfing, shot-putting, polo, water polo, baseball and many-many others which can attract your attention. Nowadays you can buy all equipment: bats, arrows, cues, pucks, shuttlecocks and etc. There are a lot of competitions, contests, matches and championships in our country. So you can choose any of a great amount of kinds of sport and strong health is guaranteed. And of course it is necessary to keep a diet. Overweighting becomes a common thing in modern world and it is awful. You should eat low fat food, control your weight and maybe change your eating habits. And it is clear that if you follow these sometimes simple sometimes don’t instructions, you will live to hundred.

Maladies of the 21st Century

We entered the 21st century with such maladies as heart and vascular system diseases, environmental diseases, cancer, AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome). The risk factors causing these diseases are poor environment, constant stress and bad habits. We witness more and more cases when people suffer from such environmental diseases as food allergies, chronic fatigue syndrome, and asthma. They all have a huge impact on the quality of life, darken our prospects for future. Alcohol, drugs, smoking, AIDS have also become the reality of our life, especially among young and middle-aged people. Such social maladies as smoking, alcohol consumption, drug abuse, AIDS have as a result of people`s ignorance and lack of healthy habits.

SMOKING

Smoking is very dangerous. Most young people smoke because their friends pressure them to do so. They may be copying their parents who smoke, or other adults they respect. At one time this would have been accepted as normal. But in the past 30 years attitudes about smoking have changes. Smoking is now banned in many places so that other people don`t have to breathe in smokers` shocking tobacco smoke. Passive smoking, when you are breathing someone else`s smoke, can damage your health just like smoking can. Smoking becomes addictive very quickly, and it`s one of the hardest habits to put an end to.

Take 1000 young people who smoke 20 cigarettes a day. A quarter of them will die from a disease caused by smoking. That`s 250 lives wasted! Only six of those 1000 teenagers will die in road accidents. So what is it in cigarette smoke that is harmful? Chemical called nicotine is a substance that causes addiction. It is a stimulant that increases the pulse rate and a rise in the blood pressure. Cigarette smoke also contains tar- a major factor for causing cancer. Chronic bronchitis occurs when tar and mucus damage the air sacks in the lungs. The sufferer has a bad cough which is worse in the mornings, and may get breathless easily.