Have you ever thought of how healthy you are? What are your health risks and how to reduce them to become healthier?
This website is dedicated to health risk assessment tools, calculators and health related articles. These tools and information are free and will help you to determine your general health status. While you can’t use them to get diagnosed, they are certainly useful for a general home health risk assessment. Proper assessment allows you determine whether you are at higher risk for certain diseases.
There are a variety of daily habits that affect our health in a number of ways and shorten our lifespan. The first and most common is obesity. It very important to have proper knowledge regarding your weight. The easiest way to find out if you are overweight is to calculate your body mass index, or BMI and to find out your body fat index.
Among other factors that can influence our health are radiation level, mobile phone usage, smoking, exercise habits, black mold, alcohol abuse, loud noise, unhealthy eating habits and many others.
You can start off with taking this simple test:
Write Yes or No or tick the suitable answer of these questions:
1) Do you take heavy meal at your breakfast?
2) Do you take equal amount of food on three meals namely breakfast, lunch and dinner?
3) Do you drink at least eight glasses of water daily?
4) Do you consume alcohol, nicotine and caffeine very often?
5) Do you exercise or hit gym at least thrice a week?
6) Do you have high cholesterol, blood sugar or blood pressure?
7) Do you generally have a. Loads of leafy vegetables b. Plate full of meat on your daily meal ?
8) Do you avoid processed and refined foods that contain high preservatives?
If maximum of your answers are (Yes) for question 4, 6 and 8 and (No) for question 1,2,3,5 then you need to change your lifestyle immediately before its too late.
If maximum of your answers are (Yes) for question 1,2,3,5 and (No) for question 4, 6 and 8 then you will always be a healthy person as you have good habits.
It is important to understand that these online health risk assessment tools and articles should not replace regular visits to your physician. Their purpose is to provide a wakeup call and get you thinking about the ways you can improve your own health and habits today to prolong your life. If you found the results are disturbing, you should get proper treatment by referring to your local health professional that will discuss with you lifestyle changes you would like to make.