When I first retired, the change in living environment, from daily activities, eating, resting, to working hours were all abnormally disrupted. In just the first 3 months, I lost 2kg, my family was worried, especially my wife, told me to go see a doctor, I was only 60 years old but looked like an 80 year old man.
Although my family still cared for me every day, ate and rested according to my preferences, had nutritious food, and also had tonics equal to 3 packs of Chinese medicine every month, there was no improvement. Then I had to go to the provincial hospital for a check-up. The doctor said that I did not have any significant illness, I just needed to rest, eat properly, and eat what I should and should not eat, and I would return to normal. But I had to pay attention to always moving, doing moderate exercise, not lying down too much, and not thinking about regrets about the past.
I listened to the doctor's advice and followed it. At first, I was not used to it, but eventually I got into the routine. After 6 months, my health improved, then returned to normal, and my weight was back to the same as when I first retired. I was also reassured, thinking that daily activities and exercise must be regular to get results, from practical activities combined with reading books and newspapers about health care for the elderly.
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I understand that in real life, to have good health to prolong life, there must be 3 factors: Living and eating must be moderate, as the elders say "disease comes from the mouth", meaning that disease also comes from the mouth, if you eat and drink haphazardly, without abstinence, it is easy to get sick; second, you must know how to exercise regularly to keep the blood circulating, do light work within your capacity, exercise regularly every day, combine physical training with mental training; third, the elderly must also have a certain amount of supporting supplements, act as a catalyst for digestion and have regular medical check-ups so that if any illness is discovered, it can be treated early.
Through the above lessons, I have planned to take care of my health with a schedule of activities for each day and each hour. In the morning, I wake up at 5am for the summer and 6am for the winter. I lie down on the bed and do some exercises, massage my body, first rub my hands together and then gently scratch from my head to my neck, rub my eyes and nose, use my hands to rub my stomach in a clockwise circle 50 times and vice versa, lie on my back and kick my legs up to the sky 100 times, bend my knees and use my hands to pull them into my stomach, then slowly sit up, get out of bed and stand and wave my arms about 500 times for about 10 to 12 minutes in the "Dat Ma Dich Can Kinh" way; then go out and walk about 3 - 4 km, come home and take a hot bath in the winter, a cool bath in the summer, do personal hygiene and have breakfast.
I eat 5 meals a day, a full breakfast, a moderate lunch, a light dinner, and in between I eat some fruit or a glass of milk... from 8am to 10am I socialize with friends, receive guests, or go to the garden to water vegetables or prune and care for ornamental plants, do light work like sweeping the house, taking care of chickens and pet birds. In the afternoon I spend 2 hours reading newspapers and books, I always have 2 issues of newspapers every day: Elderly Magazine and Phu Tho Newspaper, reading the current affairs sections, the sections in the eyes of the elderly and the remedies, and if there are any good news articles I will share with my teammates the next morning during tea time.
In addition, I also spend time thinking about writing articles for newspapers, science and life newspapers, good examples of good people of local newspapers and have been published in newspapers, is also a motivation to help me be more enthusiastic, passionate about reading and writing articles, at the same time it is a way to exercise the mind, not letting the brain lie idle leading to forgetfulness and confusion of old age. After dinner, I sit and watch TV, the 19:00 news I will never forget, watching the VTV1 movie until the end, at 21:30 I spread my teeth and go to bed, I never sleep too early and do not stay up past 22:00 to wake up on time in the morning, at noon I only rest for 1 hour to 1:30, in the afternoon every 15:00 I play a few games of table tennis and then take my mountain bike to ride on the asphalt roads of the village fields about 8-10 km.
My schedule is like that, rotating in 24 hours a day and night, the next day repeats like that, I have done it for more than twenty years now, I feel healthy, my mind is comfortable, my spirit is alert and clear. Elderly people ask me what is my secret to maintaining such good health, I have shared it with many people and have implemented it with results.
I think to take the above measures to have good health, first of all you must have determination, perseverance, and endurance, if you are a bit careless then it will not work.
The saying goes, if you have health, you have everything, without health, you have nothing, health is more precious than gold, in the book of the ancients it says "than trong thien kim" which means: A person is worth a thousand gold, with health will make gold, without health, being sick and sitting on a gold tray is not happy. Although I am old, I am still taking the above measures to have health, eat well, sleep well, and have gained weight between 55kg and 61kg, I have determined that I must live with health, first of all for myself and for my family and children to be happy and joyful.
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