The Definition of Health

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According to this paper, an overall definition of health, labeling it not only as bodily wellness and freedom from sickness or disease, but as a state where all functions, both physical and mental, of the human body are working to their greatest potential. This paper discusses health promoting lifestyle decisions, as well as, behaviours such as depression and stress that are detrimental to health.

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"When one thinks of the word "health," one often just pictures the state of the person as related to being ill or not, with all of the major body systems functioning to the best of their respective abilities and the human body being without overriding illness or disease. Yet, this writer holds with the larger belief that health depends on much more than just the lack of illness or disease. Health is a state in which the whole human, both physical, mental, and psychological, is fit and able to function at a high level. This would, of course, mean that the body is disease-free and not inhibited by any great health-concerns or illnesses. But it would also mean that the body is in a state of physical fitness, without such lingering problems as obesity or other detrimental factors."

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