Healthy Living
Healthy Lifestyle
Healthy Lifestyle means
- Adopt healthy habits
- Quit bad habits
A Healthy Lifestyle includes:
- 1. Practise
- Healthy eating
- Healthy eating is the foundation of health.
- Every kind of food provides different nutrients that our body needs.
- We should take reference to the “Healthy Eating Food Pyramid” and take 6 to 8 glasses of fluids (including water, clear soup etc.) for health.
- Regular physical activities
- Recommendation on regular physical activity
- Children and adolescents should do at least an average of 60 minutes per day of moderate- to vigorous-intensity physical activity, mostly aerobic, across the week. Vigorous-intensity aerobic activity, as well as those that strengthen muscle and bone, should be incorporated at least 3 days a week.
- Physical activity includes any activities such as sports, playing with friends, walking or cycling to school, climbing stairs, doing housework or participating in physical education class.
- Strengthen heart and lungs
- Improve blood circulation
- Relax your body and mind, and relieve mental stress
- Burn excessive calories and control body weight
- Prevent osteoporosis
- 2. Maintain
- Personal hygiene
- Brush teeth in the morning and before sleep
- Take bath and change clothes every day
- Keep your hair tidy and clean
- Wash your hands before meals and after using the washroom
- Clip your nails regularly
- Cover your mouth and nose with a handkerchief or a tissue when coughing or sneezing
- Cover wounds to avoid infection
- Avoid sharing personal items
- Regular daily routines
- Keep regular regimes to
- Get up in the morning
- Have breakfast
- Go to school on time
- Have lunch
- Go home after school
- Do homework
- Play games, participate in activities or rest after study
- Have dinner
- Family gathering
- Go to bed
- Mental health
- Sharing Share the bits and pieces in your daily life with others.
- Mind Keep an open mind for acceptance to new ideas.
- Enjoyment Engage in and enjoy activities that you are interested in and turn them into your hobbies.
- 3. Refuse
- Smoking, alcohol and substance abuse These bad habits may cause not only serious physical harms but also indulgence; and thus, destroy your future. Therefore, you should love yourself and resist temptation, say "NO" firmly.
Benefits of regular physical activities
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Everyone is unique and has his/her own strengths and weaknesses. Learn to accept ourselves, care for and understand others.
(Revised in June 2025)
