Iris Publishers- Open access journal of Biostatistics & Biometric Applications | Effective Lifestyles for a Healthy Life above Forty Years

Authored by Matthew Chukwuma Michael

This paper seek to identify the effective lifestyles that enhance a healthy life above forty years of age. It highlighted and explained some age-related health issue and lucidly showed how they vary with age. It viewed lifestyle from the perspective of a cultural way of doing things and the individualistic perspective as those individual habits that may be relatively distinct from the general way. It discussed some effects of lifestyle and age on health. It concluded that effective lifestyles for healthy life above forty years are those lifestyles that should be adopted in order to achieve a complete wellbeing of the individual in that age group. It finally highlighted them to include, but not limited to, proper choice of what to eat and what to avoid; proper choice of life partners; regular, enjoyable and satisfactory sexual life; planning of economic and financial life; avoiding illicit drugs and drug/substance abuse and adopting good stress management strategies.

Life is a process of observing, experiencing and performing the characteristics of life which include; feeding/nutrition, growth, excretion, irritability, movement, respiration, reproduction and ultimately, death. It is easier to explain the act of living than to explain life itself. We experience the characteristics of life on daily basis except one (Death) which we experience once in a life time. Funny as it may, but obvious, people are scared of death and often times, do not want/pray to experience it. However, death is part of the events that define life; hence, all living organisms die in order to complete their life journey. Health is a state of general mental, physical, psychological, social and economic wellbeing of an individual. Therefore, health of an individual is measured by the quality of life he/she lives and how useful the individual is to the society.
Age, as they say, is just a number but a saying goes that a fool at forty is a fool forever. More so, for every functional process, there is a period for optimum performance, wear and tear, repair and, finally, breakdown. Living organisms are not exceptions; from birth, many events occur in the transition to death and, those events, most times, depend on age. Most times, the longevity and functionality of a system/process depends to a large extent on the way it is operated/handled or managed. What increases longevity is ensuring that what promotes good standard and specifications of a system are upheld. To the human organism, the way we observe, experience and perform the characteristics of life are called lifestyles. Where the lifestyles are found to meet up with good standards and specifications, they are said to be effective. Thus, it is not out of place to examine the effective lifestyles that will enhance healthy life at forty years and beyond.

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