To stay healthy, one must maintain certain habits including eating a balanced diet with adequate nutrition from all food groups while avoiding sweets and fats, keeping a regular meal schedule including eating breakfast, practicing good hygiene like washing hands before eating and brushing teeth daily, getting sufficient rest such as 9 hours of sleep per night, breathing clean air outdoors, and exercising regularly as physical activity improves health.

1. HEALTHY HABITS
NATURAL SCIENCE UNIT 1

2. What do people need to stay healthy?
1ºThey need
a balanced diet.
2ºThey need
to keep a meal
Routine.
3ºThey need
a good hygiene.
4ºThey need
enough rest
5ºThey need
breathing clean
air
6ºThey need
Physical
exercise

3. What is the difference between health
and illness or disease?
Health is a state of complete well-being
and illness or disease changes
this state
Questions
What do we need to stay healthy?
We need a balanced diet, to keep a meal routine, a
good hygiene, enough rest, breathing clean air and
physical exercise.

4. HEALTHY HABITS
To stay healthy, we must keep healthy habits.
1º A balanced diet: keep a varied diet
with adequate amounts of all foods.
Avoid sweets and fats.
Adequate amounts of all foods Avoid sweets and fats

5. HEALTHY HABITS
2º keeping a meal routine:
Eat five meals a day and always have breakfast

6. HEALTHY HABITS
3º Good hygiene:
•Wash your hands
with soap and water
before eating
•Brush your teeth •Take a shower
every day

7. HEALTHY HABITS
4º Enough rest
Sleep at least 9 hours a day.

8. HEALTHY HABITS
5º Breathing clean air.
Don´t stay too long indoors with
smoke or many people
Clean air is outdoor
Polluted air is indoor
with smoke and people

9. 6º Physical exercise:
HEALTHY HABITS
Exercise improves our health