Being
active and healthy is important but not very easy
When was the last time you broke out in sweat? For me it’s
been a long time. This is because I’m always at home studying or playing video
games. This is what most children and adults do. They play, eat, study and
sleep. This daily routine is bad for our health but people find it difficult to
take initiative to go outside. The main reason I have started to think like
this is because of an article on fats which was made by my friend Paul. It made
me realize that I eat too much junk food, I always stay at home and I also
learnt many benefits of being active.
I found out that there are many people like me so I have
decided to share it to you all.
The biggest reason to why I should active is that I always
stay at home all the time. Even when I go to school we are sitting down most of
the time. The only time when I’m active is during PE which is hardly 1 hour and
30 minutes in a week. We need to be active at least 1 hour per day. I remember
1 day when I was so lazy that I didn’t even bother to pick up a ringing phone
in another room. I also started procrastinating all the time. I have heard that
this is how people become fat and it still gives me the shivers behind my
spine.
Another reason is I eat a lot of junk food from these
tempting fast food stores. There are also many others who eat a lot of junk
food. I visit fast-food restaurants once in two weeks bu8t some people visit
them every single day! Imagine how many hours you will have to run to bund that
much calories! I read this news article last month where a 50 year old man
called George drank 10 cokes a day for a month! At the end of the experiment he gained
10.433 kilos and he was low on energy. He also had to go to the toilet often.
He ended the experiment by saying a big percentage of the people around the
world eat food equivalent to the calories of 10 cokes and that this is very
dangerous. Thousands of people has read this article and the video and have
been shocked at the results. After watching this video I stopped drinking coke
for 2 months. So think again before you eat too much junk food. You don’t want
to look like him.
Now there is only 1 important thing left for you to become a
healthy person. It is to be active.
There are many ways and advantages of being active. The easiest
way is walking every day. To start off walking is an excellent way to be
active. You can eventually start walking faster,then jogging and then running.
One good way is to time your speed and try to beat bit every time. Another fun
and useful way is swimming. If you even swim for a week it's good enough. Being
active is beneficial because it can get rid of headache, back pain and other
problems. It also helps reduce stress which is common around the world. Yoga
and exercising will be very helpful for this. Even heart diseases can be
prevented by being active. Children should reduce their time playing on iPad
and computers as this is the main reason for child obesity, instead they should
play soccer, cricket and other sports and outdoor games. John F Kennedy an
American president said “Physical fitness is one of the most important key to a
healthy body”. So try your best to be physically active.
I now realize that being active is important but raising
awareness is even more important just like George who did the coke experiment.
He was very successful in this. So try your best to encourage others so that we
can all live a healthy, happy and a prosperous life.
Hari Prasanna
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