The 4 secrets of strong health

If someone works in IT, he may know there are various types of testing the software, such as unit testing, manual testing etc.

Due to the full set of tests one may find 100% of bugs. However, according to statistics, no single type can give you this result. It means that if you cover your program by thousands of unit tests, you'll catch up maybe 30% of bugs without manual tests.

If the same statistics had existed for the full set of health, I think it would have given nearly the same results. There is no magic pill or exercise which makes you healthy alone. However there is a set of elements which together will bring your health and mood to absolutely new level. From my experience (and according to my lessons ;)), these core components of good health are:

1. Healthy food and water
2. Positive thinking (you are what you think)
3. Regular sport exercises
4. Sound and regular sleep
   
   

I mean you can not be healthy when you think about yourself as healthy man or woman, however eat sandwiches and drink liters of cola.

You can not be healthy by spending all your time in gym, but sleeping one night 3 hours, other 5 hours, another 15 hours.

But you can and will be healthy if:

• your sleep is regular and lasts from 7 to 9 hours
• you eat healthy food, for the most part fruits and vegetables
• at least two times a week you do some physical exercises
• and you really believe that all that you do makes you healthy!
  
  

It is my lesson that have come to me not from one day of my life, but maybe for the last two years of constant experimenting.

For instance, I felt myself sluggish for the last two days. It was strange for me because I was eating well, sleeping good and having optimistic thoughts. However, something was wrong... But, how I felt myself great spending 1.5 hours at the Aikido ! It was like a reborn!

In my future posts I'll cover these 4 aspects of healthy life in details.