2023-05-12 08:00:00
As we enter adulthood, we realize that as much as we want to follow a wellness routine and be healthy, there are many factors that condition us. A high pace of life It can push us towards habits or customs that, although they can help us in the short term, do not have a long-term guarantee. For example, we come home tired after a long day at work and instead of going for a walk or a run, we prefer to stay on the couch.
To help us become aware, Tamara Pazosbiologist and science communicator, has written ‘This book will make you live longer (or at least better)’, in which it compiles all the habits that we can (and should) incorporate into our routine individually to contribute to our well-being and that have scientific support. But in addition, to its dissemination it incorporates reflection, a socioeconomic analysis and invites collective change to protect public health.
“It’s not that people don’t want to be healthy, it’s that there are other factors affecting well-being that interfere with decision-making or even limit our options”, explains the expert. And it is that technology has led to progress in all aspects. “But despite finding tools that could reduce the workday, we maintain daily marathons of 8, 12 or more hours a day,” she says. Nor is leisure separated from technological advances, since series, video games or social networks “catch” us”.
The biologist points out that screens “train our brains to prefer immediate reward”, thus limiting our ability to value actions that clearly benefit our health in the long term, in such a way that “we go automatically”. So we feel that we don’t have time to cook healthy, do physical activity or spend quality time with our loved ones to nurture our personal relationships.
HOW CAN WE START LIVING HEALTHIER?
He sedentary lifestyle It has been booming for a couple of years, as the author points out, which can be aggravated by chronic stress. And it is that stress “is correlated with the emotional distress”, generating symptoms of anxiety, depression, anger and hopelessness. Hence practicing a moderate physical activity or intense for about 30-45 minutes each day is key to relieving stress and is that doing sports releases endorphins and molecules related to muscle contraction and other processes.
“The leisure of digital platforms in ramified and short-term environments trains in our brain a preference for immediate reward”
For this reason, the expert indicates that it is necessary to “defend a social context favorable to health” and it is that the context has a great capacity to influence decision-making. In fact, more and more studies are coming out that relate socioeconomic status to a sedentary lifestyle or less balanced diets, which lead to worse long-term health prognoses. so you have to promote sport-friendly urban spacesprotect the most impoverished areas of the fast food outlets that are less healthy (although cheaper and more accessible) and bring quality proteins, legumes, fruits and vegetables closer to these nuclei.
Finally, the author also individually recommends promote self care, but without doing it from self-demand, but being “understanding with ourselves”. In her book, Tamara offers 5 healthy habits menus to which we can resort to improve our well-being, incorporating them progressively. And the change can start now, “under the philosophy that everything adds up”. According to the biologist, “it is important to eliminate perfectionism in health, because it can leave us immobile and unprotected”, in such a way that “restrictions and prohibitions only lead to more stress and self-punishment”.
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