Quality of Life: 7 Essential Tips to Improve It.

What comes to mind when you hear quality of life?

A lot of people misconstrue it to mean standard of life. But, that is wrong.
Irrespective of how it is defined, the important thing is that you create for yourself a life that you enjoy every day.

When you wake up, are you happy? do you look forward to the day’s activity, are you excited to need come people? Carefully analyze these things and see your self improving.

7 Essential Tips to improve the Quality of life

1. Focus on eating well
   food, water, drinks. everything you consume would reflect on your quality of life. focus on healthy diets, fruits, vegetables, healthy fats.
2. Practice Personal Hygiene
   keep your surroundings and body clean and your life will thank you for it.
3. Identify what makes you happy
   what gives you real satisfaction? what do you want out of life? Everyone deserves to be happy irrespective of race, age, gender, economic standing.
4. Get into your productivity zone
5. Sleep
   Sleep is the body’s time to recharge and replenish itself. If you don’t take time to rest, your body will pick it’s own time and to your disadvantage.
6. Exercise regularly
   the importance of exercise cannot be overemphasized.
   
   READ ALSO : WHY YOU NEED REGULAR PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
   
7. Disconnect from unhealthy relationships
   Unhealthy relationships causes conflicts, stress and makes you unhappy.

What increases the risks of low life quality?

1. Unhealthy eating habits
   Unhealthy meal patterns and irregular meal timings lead to hidden hunger, which means loss of micronutrients leading to deficiencies.
2. Stress
   Stress, lack of sleep, and lack of physical activity contribute to weight gain. Stress and lack of sleep increase the levels of the hormone cortisol, which leads to inflammation in the body.
   Cortisol increases hunger and cravings, leading to weight gain. This may lead to pre-diabetes, high blood pressure, hormonal problems, and finally PCOS for women.
3. Smoking
   Smoking damages your entire cardiovascular system. Nicotine causes blood vessels to tighten, which restricts the flow of blood. Overtime, smoking can increase your risk of a variety of problems like cancer, blood clotting, erectile dysfunction, infertility, wrinkly skin.

Why is having a good quality of life important?

1. You are happier
2. Life is more satisfying
3. You get more productive.

If more than 60% of the world’s population was happy, more productive and seeing life from a peaceful and satisfying angle, wouldn’t it be better for us all?