1. Eat a balanced and nutritious menu

Eating a healthy, balanced diet is an important part of maintaining good health, and can help you feel your best.

This means eating a wide variety of foods in the right proportions, and consuming the right amount of food and drink to achieve and maintain a healthy body weight.

The Eatwell Guide shows that to have a healthy, balanced diet, people should try to:

eat at least 5 portions of a variety of fruits and vegetables every day

base meals on higher fibre starchy foods like potatoes, bread, rice or pasta

have some dairy or dairy alternatives (such as soya drinks)

eat some beans, pulses, fish, eggs, meat and other protein

choose unsaturated oils and spreads, and eat them in small amounts

drink plenty of fluids (at least 6 to 8 glasses a day)

2. Stay physically active

Regular physical activity is proven to help prevent and manage non-communicable diseases such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes and several cancers. It also helps prevent hypertension, maintain healthy body weight and can improve mental health, quality of life and well-being.

3. Get Enough Sleep

Getting enough sleep is important for people of all ages to stay healthy. Learn how much sleep you need. People often cut back on their sleep for work, for family demands, or even to watch a good television show. But if not getting enough sleep is a regular part of your routine, you may be at an increased risk for obesity, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and stroke, poor mental health, and even early death. Even one night of short sleep can affect you the next day. Not only are you more likely to feel sleepy, you’re more likely to be in a bad mood, be less productive at work, and be involved in a motor vehicle crash.

4. Manage stress levels

Stress management consists of a wide spectrum of techniques and psychotherapies aimed at controlling a person’s stress level, especially chronic stress, usually to improve everyday functioning. Stress produces numerous physical and mental symptoms which vary according to each individual’s situational factors. These can include a decline in physical health, such as headaches, chest pain, fatigue, and sleep problems, as well as depression. Stress management is one of the keys to a happy and successful life in modern society. Life often delivers numerous demands that can be difficult to handle, but stress management provides several ways to manage anxiety and maintain overall well-being. There are several models of stress management, each with distinctive explanations of mechanisms for controlling stress. Much more research is necessary to provide a better understanding of which mechanisms operate and are effective in practice

5. Practice good hygiene habits

Good personal hygiene involves keeping all parts of the external body clean and healthy. It is important for maintaining both physical and mental health.

In people with poor personal hygiene, the body provides an ideal environment for germs to grow, leaving it vulnerable to infection.

On a social level, people may avoid a person with poor personal hygiene, which may result in isolation and loneliness.