Health is the level of functional and metabolic efficiency of a living organism, and in humans refers to the ability to adapt and self-manage when facing challenges. Maintaining health is an ongoing process shaped by evolving healthcare and personal strategies. Key ways to maintain personal health include eating a nutritious diet with a variety of plant and animal foods, exercising regularly to strengthen muscles and the cardiovascular system, getting sufficient quality sleep, and practicing good hygiene. Personal health also depends on adopting preventive behaviors and receiving medical care when needed.

1. What is health

3. Health is the level of functional and
metabolic efficiency of a living
organism.
 In humans it is the ability of
individual to adapt and self manage
when facing physical, mental or
social changes.

4. HOW TO MAINTAINING HEALTH ?
Achieving and maintaining health
is an ongoing process, shaped by
both the evolution of health care
knowledge practices as well as
personal strategies and organized
interventions for staying healthy.

5. An important way to maintain your personal health is to have a
healthy diet.
A healthy diet includes a variety of plant based and animal based
foods that provide nutrients to your body. Such nutrients give you
energy and keep your body running.
Nutrients help build
and strengthen
bones, muscles and
tendons and also
regulate body
processes.
1. DIET

6. Physical exercise enhances or maintain
physical fitness and overall health and
wellness. It strengthens muscles and
improves the cardiovascular system.

7. sleep

8. Age condition Sleep need (hours)
New born 14 – 17
Infants 12 -15
toddlers 11 -14
preschoolers 10 -13
School age children 9 -11
teenagers 8 -10
Adults 7 - 9
Older adults 7 -8

9. Health science is the branch of
science focused on health. There are
two main approaches to health
science: the study and research of
the body and health related issues to
understand how humans function,
and the application of that knowledge
to improve health and to prevent and
cure diseases and other physical and
mental impairments.

10. Personal health depends partially on the active,
passive, and assisted cues people observe and
adopt about their own health. These include
personal actions for preventing the effects of a
disease, through integrative care.
It also includes personal hygiene
practices to prevent infection and
illness, such as bathing and washing
hands with soap ,brushing teeth ,storing
and handling food safely etc...

16. Like vitamin C, vitamin E is a
powerful antioxidant. It helps
protects your cells from damage.

17. Vitamin K is critical for your body’s formation of blood clots. Without it
you could bleed to death from a simple cut .It may also help maintain
bone strength in older adults.
Foods that contain vitamin K include
Asparagus
Broccoli
Romaine lettuce
Kale, collard greens...