Hello all

Let’s look into what best we can do to avoid the deadly chronic illnesses around us.

Many chronic diseases are caused by key risk behaviors. By making healthy choices, you can reduce your likelihood of getting a chronic disease and improve your quality of life.

1. Eat Healthy
   Eating healthy helps prevent, delay, and manage heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and other chronic diseases. A balanced diet of fruits, veggies, whole grains, lean meats, and low-fat dairy products is important at any age. If you are overweight, losing even 5% to 7% of your body weight can help prevent or delay type 2 diabetes.
2. Get regular physical activity
   Regular physical activity can help you prevent, delay, or manage chronic diseases. Aim for moderate physical activity (like brisk walking or gardening) for at least 150 minutes a week.
3. Avoid too much alcohol
   Over time, excessive drinking can lead to high blood pressure, various cancers, heart disease, stroke, and liver disease. By not drinking too much, you can reduce these health risks.
4. Regular health check ups
   To prevent chronic diseases or catch them early, visit your doctor regularly for preventive services.
5. Get enough sleep
   Insufficient sleep has been linked to the development and poor management of diabetes, heart disease, obesity, and depression. Adults should get at least 7 hours of sleep daily.
6. Make healthy choices
   By making healthy behaviors part of your daily life, you can prevent conditions such as high blood pressure or obesity, which raise your risk of developing the most common and serious chronic diseases. Learn more about healthy actions you or your loved ones can take.

Sticking to all this will help you achieve great physical and mental wellbeing.

Until next time

Shyma Menon,
Founder – Kilobeaters