Precepts for Healthy Living

‘Eat your breakfast like a prince, have your lunch like a king and dine like a pauper.’ Sounds interesting, isn’t it? O, this is just a dictum that speaks useful precepts for healthy living. 

Gone are the days when people used to relish lives, eat with contentment, take up physical exercises to stay fit, walk distances to meet relatives and friends and be cheery at social gatherings. To sum up their hale and hearty lives, we can say that they were all spirited and their faces glowing with smiles and simplicity.

I remember well those bygone years when every small town had the privilege of six essentials—primary school, little library, devoted dispensary, calm community hall, spacious playground and bodybuilding gym. Everyone enjoyed everything…good education, leisurely hours, caring treatment, entertaining gatherings, sportive events and regular exercises.

Now-a-days, with the humdrum of busy, workaholic lives, we find weird patterns of living…either people eat heedlessly and become obese or eat scantily to stay slim. Ugh…who takes passion to eat right meals, tone their muscles with regular exercises, and stay in shape with strength?

Instead of conscientious living, we all make a mess of our lifestyles. In prime youth, instead of doing push ups to build up mass and strength of the chests, shoulders and triceps and practicing dumbbell workouts, we stay behind to lead lethargic lives, take delight to have savory dishes and bulge our bodies to obesity.

And when we enter into the sphere of forties, we all race for the progress of our lives in terms of career pathways, plentiful wealth, classy success and lavish living. Sadly, while we age, we forget about our health. We work extended hours for more earnings, we take unwanted stress and become hyper, we become negligent and consume junk food, and at the end of the day we find trivial time for rest. Ah, how lives become hectic and keep battering our bodies to stress, sloth and sicknesses!

Perhaps, the best part of our lives is our prime youth. Unfortunately, we take no time to groom it with fitness and eventually we turn our bodies frail, obese or ailing. Ah, then what?

It’s high time that we overhaul our eating habits, check our lifestyles, better consult health specialists, stick on to healthy food and enroll ourselves to fitness centers…at least, with little workouts we can burn our body fats, reduce tummies and stay fit.

In a lighter vein, shouldn’t we think what sense it makes when one goes to a gymnasium to stay healthy while still tied up to the nasty habit of smoking, junk foods and drinking unhealthy beverages? 

Let’s quit all dirty habits to stay healthy in order to avoid any damage to our internal body organs.