Many health problems can be prevented by making healthy choices now. Risk factors are habits or conditions that increase your chance of future health problems. A single risk factor like smoking can be dangerous to your health, but when combined with other risk factors, your health risk rises. You can take charge of your health by recognizing and reducing risk factors one at a time. Additional risk factors could include, but are not limited to, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, abuse of alcohol or other drugs, stress, poor nutrition or lack of exercise.
Total wellness includes many aspects of the whole person.
Social, spiritual, and emotional wellness are all extremely important for overall health and safety. The medical community tends to focus on physical wellness for improving overall health. Proper nutrition and exercise are two main focal points. Nutrition and exercise are popular targets due to the fact that many Americans focus their efforts on weight loss. Although we try not to use physical appearance as a motivator, weight loss in general can help lead to a reduction in many risk factors.