Good habits and prevention, how much do we know?
We repeat it as a mantra that a healthy lifestyle is the key to our well-being and an antidote to many diseases. We also all agree in sharing that prevention is a part of all those actions to protect our health.
Information, these, which must find space and be available to everyone. Well, can it be enough? Pursuing a healthy lifestyle assumes a more accurate knowledge of what is really good for us and what is really considered "healthy", starting, for example, from our clinical history.
Drinking 2 liters of water a day is good for everyone? Is the 10 thousand step rule always applicable?
Working on your lifestyle is not an impossible task. If common sense does its part to suggest which habits would be better to abandon and which good practices to encourage, we must take into consideration the idea that health requires greater awareness .
How to monitor your health
Who wouldn't want to be able to quickly consult the professional who already knows our story? Someone who can promptly give us the answers we are looking for on symptoms and ad hoc therapies?
These desires find a response today in new personalized therapeutic approaches that put the patient at the center, valuing technology at the service of the person .
This is how the role of pharmacies is perfectly integrated in this network because it is close to the needs of the patient thanks to trusted professionals who know how to advise in the choice of products, even natural ones.
The technology helps us to remember when we have to take therapies, to keep the reports in order and make them available at the right time, to accurately and frequently monitor many of our parameters and give us suggestions to improve our lifestyle.
Among the applications created with the aim of helping us keep a diary with our medical data, there is Apoteca Natura Check App: an interesting novelty available in the Android version and in the iOS version, which serves not only as an electronic collector of our health data, but - and it is unique - the pharmacist keeps us in touch .
What can be managed with a simple click of this application?
> A personal health diary that can be consulted at any time and shared with the pharmacist from whom we can receive tailored advice;
> A precise reminder of our therapies;
> A graph with the most important values related to our health values;
> An archive of reports, recipes, certificates to be shown during visits or at the counter during our medical purchases,
> Information always useful to improve habits and have fun discovering "how much we really know about prevention".
Prevention, the guidelines for our well-being
Just to be wary of DIY, we have authoritative guidelines provided by institutions for a healthy and long-lived life.
> Drink water to guarantee our physical and cognitive functions, to improve blood circulation and thermoregulation of our body.
> Doing physical activity The beneficial effects are innumerable: weight is kept under control, muscles and bone tissues are strengthened, toxins are eliminated and the brain is also beneficial. With sports, stress and anxiety and depression symptoms are reduced.
> Consume fruits and vegetables in quantity: better if in season because rich in vitamins and other nutritional properties that support our immune defenses and reduce the risk of tumors.
> Prefer a balanced and varied diet: Not only fruits and vegetables, but also legumes, whole grains. Instead we reduce complex sugars, poor quality fats and make moderate use of salt.
> Reduce smoking and alcohol, enemies of health: the cigarette is the main cause of lung cancer and the consumption of alcohol inflames and alters the liver cells that can eventually become cancer cells.
> Sleep well: when sleep is fragmented, it can increase the risk of stroke and arteriosclerosis, especially in the elderly.
