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How do you raise a healthy family even when you are not from one? Do you know that sustaining a marriage and raising children are challenging things to do but can be easier with proper planning, determination and prior written vision? Raising a healthy family entails a lot, it should therefore be planned, forecasted and mapped. An important and first thing to do so a family can stand firmly is to have a vision to direct you and be determined to get it right. It is about laying a foundation to fall back on, a template of how you want your family to be, bearing in mind that having a healthy family is not just about a member of the family not falling ill. It is way more than that. You can read about other aspects of health in the post complete health . Concept of health embraces the social and mental aspects too, so a healthy family is complete in all these aspects. I t is important to have a vision, a picture of what you will like your family to look like. Before you develop a vision to ...

You are educated, right! beautiful. Do you know that only right education, right information can be a strong pillar of a healthy family? We have introduced the 5 pillars of a healthy family in the first post, and I have discussed having a vision and proper planning as the first pillar. The next on the list is education and information.  Education is the best legacy they say, it is the process of achieving, values, skills , beliefs and moral habits.  When we are talking about education as a pillar of a healthy family, we will be short of credibility if we only look into formal or classroom education.  Informal education and information is an integral part of this pillar such as including cultures and social values. What does your culture, belief system and values teach you about being healthy? How do you perceive illness and health from the point of view of your cultural and religious background?  Unto the classroom or Internet students, what information do you know ...

How can our world be more healthy? How can we overcome outbreaks  of diseases? Where do we start from to ensure an individual is healthy and lives life to the fullest? It may seem to be difficult and a capital project, yes, but there's a place we can start from, The family.  What is family in its entirety?  The family is the smallest unit of the society, everyone belongs to one either by birth or adoption, either 'legally' or 'illegally'. Someone must have an origin, a generation, a root, a family. This special group comprises of those related by blood or marriage. It could be the nuclear type (just father, mother and children) or the extended type which may include every other person. Medically, a family can be related to a household, the group that eats from the same kitchen or pot. I hope I have brought up the memory of your primary school definition of a family.  What is a healthy family?  A 'just a family' is differen...

In 200level medical school, I had this room mate who was a good cook but her food seems saltless to my taste bud. Tolulope, now Dr Akinnimi Tolulope will cook nice food yet with as little salt and oil as possible. It was strange to me even though then I had a little knowledge of why I should reduce salt intake but I couldn't really comprehend the greatness of its importance.  Looking back now, with so much medical knowledge I have gained over 8 years ago, I must say that my room mate was wiser then. You see, one thing about habit changing is that it could look strange to you and others at first but when you keep at it, it becomes your character. Reduction of salt in diet can become a part of you. Wait, salt is very important, yes, very very impotant. Salt is used for preserving food and to prevent food spoilage, we also use it more importantly to add taste to our food. Salt (table salt) contains sodium and chlorine. It is this sodium content that we need to watch, since we cannot s...