Scientists often tell people what activities are good for the health of people, while others are bad. But most people continue with unhealthy activities. Why? Solutions.
Nowadays, people can easily access scientists’ advices on healthy and unhealthy activities through various channels. However, most people still choose to stay with their unhealthy habits and are very reluctant to make changes. There are a few reasons behind this phenomenon.
The first and foremost reason is that people are lazy and tend to procrastinate most of the time. The majority of people are often comfortable with what they have been doing for years and even though they are aware of their unhealthy life pattern, there is a lack of motivation to change. For instance, nearly every ‘white collar’ in big cities admits they should do some sort of exercise after a stressful day of work. However, they may still prefer to have a relaxing night after work. In fact, the right timing and opportunity to exercise seem to be never found due to laziness.
Second, information overload could impact people’s acceptance and awareness of the information they received. It is not uncommon to have scientists telling people things are good for health and two days later these activities are overturned to be unhealthy by a different group of scientists. With millions of information to receive every day from different sources, people lost confidence, become indifferent to the advices and would rather stay with old habits, which sometimes can bring no benefits to health.
Third, some young people are keen to follow their role models – namely those young Holly Wood celebrities. Unfortunately, many celebrities maintain bad habits such as drinking, smoking and doing drugs. Juveniles are often lack of judgement and would rather follow what the stars do than listen to some ‘boring’ scientists’ advice.
Knowing this problem, there are mainly two things people can do to improve. First, stop procrastination and start doing healthy things step by step. For example, we know it is very healthy to drink 10 glasses of water per day but we are only having 5; we could start by drinking one more cup of water each day and keep adding up over the next few months. People shall set smaller goals and make one little improvement at a time. Second, parents should take responsibilities and help young people to live a healthy life style. And also the media shall reduce the report of unhealthy habits of celebrities. The society shall make an effort to create a positive and optimistic environment for the youths.
In summary, it is not easy to stick to the healthy activities all the time because this could potentially make people step out of their comfort zones. However, if both individuals and the society as a whole can make efforts to maintain positive attitude, it is also not hard to achieve a much healthier life style.