What are the most up to date consolidated daily health maintenance measures?
Title could be enough. But since this question is so simple that it looks a bit absurd or obvious...
Unlike many questions out there in this site, I'm looking for fitness (rest included) in the health sense, in opposition to aesthetics or body improvement.
I'm not talking crazy here in listing these examples, which I believe are world wide common sense:
Eat at least 3 meals daily: breakfast, lunch and dinner. I'd bet most languages even have those 3 separated words to describe each of those meals. If not, they certainly do have this concept.
Have around 8 hours of sleep, every day, despite recent studies.
Brush and floss - rinse doesn't matter.
Wash your hands (notice bath isn't required daily - not world wide at least).
Question here is: what else is there? Sunscreen, maybe? I'd like to know what is, today, considered consolidated things that every single human being should do daily to maintain good health - including nutrition and even, eventually, exercises. For any age or size, if that wasn't clear.
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There is no common sense.
There is so little consensus on most issues that I doubt we'll have many answers outside of the medical field.
Don't contaminate your wounds or food with harmful bacteria. But if you're antiseptic, that causes problems too.
Eat food. That's about as much as everybody can agree on. Number, timing, content, and even definition of food is hotly contested by reasonable people. For kicks, compare government recommendations, the Paleo diet, and vegans.
Don't smoke. (There are a huge number of other "don'ts" that I will omit for brevity.)
Floss and brush your teeth. I don't think this is disputed, but I wouldn't be surprised.
Avoid a sedentary lifestyle. What that means in terms of quantity and types of activity is hotly contested by reasonable people.
Sunscreen is hotly contested by reasonable people. (There are benefits of direct sunlight, and sunscreen may prevent those while allowing cancer-causing rays. Or we might just use the stuff poorly.) We don't understand our need for sleep, and some people can get highly varying amounts while retaining normal function. There is no scientific agreement on which supplements help or harm, and how much, and for whom.
This is a situation where we would like the science to be much clearer and in more agreement than it actually is. (Several of the points regarding the difficulty of science regarding health & fitness can be extrapolated from this answer regarding strength training and this critique of the recent Red Meat Is Satan scare.)
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