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"Holistic disease prevention is all about building and maintaining a strong immune system"
During the Roman Empire, Romans had an approximate life expectancy of 22 to 25 years. In 1900, the world life expectancy was approximately 30 years and in 1985 it was about 62 years. Life expectancy from birth is a frequently utilized and analyzed component of demographic data for the countries of the world. It represents the average life span of a newborn and is an indicator of the overall health of a country. The life expectancy rose rapidly in the twentieth century due to improvements in public health, nutrition and medicine and currently Andorra, San Marino, and Singapore along with Japan have the world's highest life expectancies of 83.5, 82.1, 81.6 and 81.15, respectively. In Europe the life expectancy has reached an average of 78.6 years for men who were 50 in 2005, and 83.5 years for women. The highest average age is in Denmark and the lowest in Estonia.
A study found that productive health among seniors was directly linked to the wealth of the nation and it is also showed that a bit of preventive medicine in less-wealthy countries went a long way: "A one percent increase in spending on elderly care would result in a one-year increase in healthy life years.
Even though preventing measures constitute longer life expectancy the quality of life must be present for gratification. Quality of life differ for each individual throughout stages in life and is defined as one owns personal wellbeing, personal satisfaction with cultural and or intellectual condition and the ability to function in the ordinary tasks of living.
The imperative part of the definition is the personal wellbeing as this represent the heavy weight on the scale. Pain is a highly personal experience and interferes with the quality of a person's life.
The immune system is a barometer of health and any return to a healthy state should involve immune enhancement. There is many way to enhance immune functions and by addressing diet, nutritional status, lifestyle hygiene, genetic uniqueness, environmental factors, and psychological factors such as mood and stress, one can improve resistance to disease and minimize the chance that invading microbes will gain foothold.
Education and the option for healthy choices are a great part of disease prevention and must be taught from childhood. In this respect parents do have a great responsibility in promoting and educating on healthy choices, which later in life only will benefit the child's welfare. Sadly is it that the current trend shows that in many modern countries obesity and overweight children is on the raise. In the United States statistics showed 4% overweight children in 1982 compared to 1994 with 16% overweight children and in 2001 an escalation to a booming 25 % of overweight children. It is a clear pattern that today's children are becoming more overweight and obese, which puts them at risk for serious health concerns such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and elevated cholesterol and blood pressure levels. In addition to the risk of obesity-related health concerns, poor food choices could lead to other health concerns, like osteoporosis from inadequate calcium intake.
Even though it is a common knowledge that today's children is tomorrows future, the world in the developed countries are still with one foot in the mass grave for profits and with the other on giving the coming generation the best possibility for a descent healthy life. Many schools has however looked beyond the short term economic impact and are now taken part in the lunch programs. School lunches must meet the applicable recommendations of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which state that no more than 30 percent of an individual's calories come from fat, and less than 10 percent from saturated fat. Regulations also establish a standard for school lunches to provide one-third of the Recommended Dietary Allowances of protein, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, iron, calcium, and calories. School lunches must meet Federal nutrition requirements over the course of one week's worth of lunches served, but decisions about what specific foods to serve and how they are prepared are made by local school food authorities.
Unhealthy school lunches are one of the contributors of malnutrition in the form of excessive consumption of unhealthy foodsand as well as no education, or at least a very little part are of the children's day-to-day learning.
