Strategies for Promoting Healthy Lifestyles in Families

This paper establishes the connection between lifestyle and family living as
well as proposes some of the strategies for improving healthy life in every
home. This exposition is done under critical analysis of the factors affecting
lifestyle including but not limited to the following parent‟s working
lifestyle, parent‟s social lifestyle, family feeding habits and environmental
practices. Also, the paper examined some of the challenges to healthy
lifestyles in families which include family cultural background, poor
feeding habit, lack of quality time spent together as a family and influence
of technology and mass media. Conclusions were reached that healthy
lifestyle promotes healthy family living once necessary precautions are
taken based on established standard as discussed in the paper. Based on
these conclusions, it was recommended that families should improve on
their concerns for health and well being, need for greater awareness and
components of health and wellness should be highlighted on a greater
scale in all the levels of schooling, from the primary to the tertiary
institutions.