Purpose of healthy lifestyle principles:
- Define the requirements for optimal human health
- Support the conditions required for humans to thrive
- Have been discussed and documented by many authors and influencers and relatively universally refer to variations of the principles below.
Healthy Lifestyle Principles include:
- Food: Sufficient Hydration and Nourishment
- Environment: Sufficient Sunshine, Fresh Air, Pure Water and Cleanliness
- Fitness: Health requires fitness
- Sufficient Recovery: Sleep, Rest and Relaxation
- Emotional (Mind / Body / Spirit balance):
- meaningful life
- Connectedness (with others, with nature and with self)
- Courage
- Faith (not blind faith)
- Emotional Resilience
Healthy Lifestyle Principles were developed through these movements:
- Natural Hygiene [Ref] which originated through the writings of Herbert Shelton
- Nature Cure
- Physical Culture, popularized by Eugen Sandow and Bernarr Macfadden
- Orthopathy, popularized by Isaac Jennings
Understanding Healthy Lifestyle Principles is important, and just as important is to live a
meaningful life, free from being rigid or dogmatic.
“Life is fruitful and abundant when lived with joyful purpose…and miserable and unfruitful when lived as war.” – Grant Campbell