Human health and longevity involve many factors. The United Nations Health Organization (WHO) believes that human health and life span are related to five major factors: genetic factors account for 15%, social and environmental factors account for 10%, medical services account for 8%, climate factors account for 7%, and a healthy lifestyle ( self-care) accounted for 60%. This is a scientific analysis. Therefore, medical scientists say: "Health is in your own hands."
1. Lifestyle determines a person's health status and quality of life to the greatest extent, and is also a guide to forging quality of life and healthy life. If we have respect for life, life will show its thickness and strength. Many centenarians have summed up many insights and experiences. For example: The four key points are "walk every day, basically eat a vegetarian diet, don't get angry when things happen, and work and rest appropriately." Four essentials: the brain needs to be used, the body needs to move, the heart needs to be relaxed, and the stomach needs to be empty. Four Eights: sleep for eight hours, drink eight glasses of water, walk eight thousand steps, and eat eight times full. There are many others.
2. A good attitude makes life full of sunshine. This is also an important factor in health and longevity. If you have a good attitude, everything will be fine. A good positive attitude keeps us full of energy.
As Samuel Ullman said in "Youth, Not Years, but State of Mind": "As time goes by, decline only reaches the skin, abandonment of enthusiasm, and decadence will surely reach the soul." We are born in a prosperous age, the society is stable, the country is peaceful and the people are peaceful. Under the good trend of respecting and caring for the elderly, the number of centenarians is increasing year by year. Dusk is not lonely and lonely, but should be the most beautiful time of the day in life. Be good at finding your own fun and never bother others. If you truly keep the three "joys" in your heart: "Happiness in yourself, happiness in contentment, and happiness in helping others", you will definitely smile often.
3. Cultivate personal interests and hobbies and improve the taste of life.
How to cultivate personal interests and hobbies is very important. Whether it is singing and chanting, or writing poems and poems, whether it is playing music, chess, calligraphy and painting, growing flowers and collecting stamps, or fishing and traveling, there should be a love that comes from the heart. In this way, once you retire and have more time, you will not only not feel lost, but also realize that there is not enough time, and you can find your own fun. This is the true way to cultivate one's moral character.
Mr. Cai Shangsi, a great historian and professor of the History Department of Fudan University, has completed his 104-year-old life journey. As the last disciple of academic masters such as Liang Qichao, Wang Guowei, and Cai Yuanpei, Cai Shangsi is remembered not only for his life-long works that he diligently produced over the years, but also for his independent scholarly spirit and optimistic and positive attitude towards life. In his youth, Cai Shangsi loved literature and history. He visited famous teachers and was obsessed with books. Over 90 years old, he is still a frequent visitor to the Shanghai Library. This century-old professor, who is one of the few in the world, was asked about his health regimen. His answer was: "One is to nourish the mind; the other is to train the body." Mr. Cai lived a life of poverty and did not smoke or drink. He is indifferent and nourishes his mind, and he also insists on "exercising his body" and soaking in "cold water bath" on time every day. He has done this every day for more than 50 years. "Never graduate, stay young forever" is his consistent belief.
Four. We must have ideals and spiritual pursuits.
Another long-lived scholar, Zhou Youguang, is an outstanding philologist in my country and is now 103 years old. He experienced many ups and downs in his life, but he was indifferent to fame and fortune and regarded all misfortunes as luck. During the "Cultural Revolution", Mr. Zhou was sent to the "May 7th" Cadre School to work. This was a painful memory in his life, but he considered it his luck. Because the insomnia that originally troubled him was cured when he went to work at the May 7th Cadre School. To this day I no longer suffer from insomnia.
This is exactly what the saying goes: "A blessing in disguise is a blessing in disguise?" So don't be disappointed when things don't go your way. During the Cultural Revolution, he often said two sentences: "Suddenly encounter the situation without warning." If you are shocked, don’t be angry if you are attacked for no reason." This is the wise saying of the ancients