Health is Wealth

Maria Rosario H. Mallari

How important is health to human beings? Health is wealth as they say. But how it will be a wealth? How can we say that a human has a good health? Is it when a person is free from illness or injury? Is it when a person experiences profound happiness?

Health is the most important factor affecting the life of a person. Yes, it is a wealth. A wealth that we cannot acquire but it is within us. It is disciplined, a factor that help us to live a life full of optimum happiness in our challenging world nowadays. The foods we intake, the activities we do and the lifestyle we have will affect our health.

Since Kindergarten we studied the food groups, food pyramid, nutritional food, proper dietary allowances but the important thing is that how we manage to eat these kinds of foods. We always consider the nutrients, vitamins and minerals that we get to nourish our body. Remember that in molding the individual there are four H’s that we develop the head, heart, hands and health. We cannot manage to think, to feel the sense of affection and even doing the things we want to do if we do not have good Health. The importance of health is that, since we are in womb or our mother we are properly nourish. As we grow old, we are being guided properly with the foods that provide nutrients to our body. Food gives us energy and regulates our minds and bodies. Eventually as we grow older we acquire the good health habit.

Being a human is being healthy. An inherited good Health is wealth. We need wealthy health to go on in our life. The importance of it is on how to value health in our life.

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The author is Teacher II at San Isidro Integrated High School