Do you know why some people are always healthy? If you study all the healthy people in the world, you’ll begin to notice some behaviors many of them share in common. For example, healthy people tend to live an active lifestyle. Exercise is usually a main part of their lives. They spend less time in front of a TV, and more time out and in achieving things and living life. Being on your feet all day and sitting in front of a computer can mean a loss or gain of hundreds of calories a day.
Healthy people surround themselves with other healthy people. We are highly influenced by the people closest to us. Surrounding yourself with healthy people tends to make you healthy by association. Not only are you inspired by your healthy friends, but there’s also a sense of social pressure to be healthy yourself when you’re around them. Who says social pressure has to be a bad thing?
Does your job make you feel bad? Healthy people have a job that makes them happy. We’ve all heard the saying that if you do a job you enjoy, you’ll never work a day in your lives. Happiness and health are highly related. Healthy people tend to be happy. Not only do healthy people tend to like their jobs, but they tend to live for them. They look forward to getting up every day and living their lives to the fullest.
People with self-confidence look healthy. Healthy people have confidence in themselves. They don’t worry about what other people think. They surround themselves with positive people, and they go about their days as if they can achieve anything.
Healthy people like smiling. Try smiling at everyone and not only do you get a smile back, but it makes you feel good about yourself. You’ve just made someone’s day better. Healthy people understand the link between happiness and health, and they tend to walk around with smiles on their faces, or laughter in their hearts.
Healthy people don’t wait for problems to come to them — they go after problems. Regular checkups(检查) are the normal things for healthy people. People who live long and healthy lives catch problems before they become so big that they destroy their lives. They discover them early and then take action to prevent them from happening again in the future.
Do you consider yourself a healthy person? How many of these habits fall into your life? What other habits of healthy people have you noticed?
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? They often exercise and 2. watch TV. ? They achieve things and live life. ? They prefer being on their feet all day to sitting in front of a computer. |
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They are 3. by other healthy people. |
? Being around healthy friends 4. them to keep fit. ? They will be under social pressure to be healthy when they are around other healthy people. |
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They do jobs they enjoy. |
? They seek happiness and health by doing a(n) 5. job. ? They live their life as6. as possible every day. |
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? They don’t worry about others’ 8. about them. ? They are around positive people and spend their days positively. |
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They smile a lot. |
? Smiling not only makes them feel good but makes surrounding people happy. ? Smiling or laughing means happiness, which is good for 9. . |
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They discover problems early. |
? They get checkups10. . ? They discover problems when they are still small and manage to prevent them. |