Good health is worth more than the greatest wealth. In that I believe unconditionally! Unfortunately nowadays many people don’t. More often I see boys and girls to smoke and to drink alcohol. Most of them just turn their back on sport. Sometimes I think they don’t care about their health. Once my good friend told me: ‘I live once’. I never understood it. 

I have always been asking ‘When I live once why should I do not use my body perfectly?’ Many people are addicted to alcohol and cigarettes and most of them will say that they have a reason about that. Did you know that cigarettes are also known as the plague of the 21^st century and alcohol is one of the most common reasons why family falls apart? Reasons why people get addicted to cigarettes and alcohol are different starting from financial problems, sickness or personal issues. People are trying to hide them but they can’t. 

One of my favourite quotes is “The sun sees your body; the moon sees your soul.” Nothing can be hidden forever. I remember when my friend was abandoned by his girlfriend and he began drinking. He was broken. I felt bad and useless because there was nothing I could do. After a few weeks he began smoking cigarettes. Now he doesn’t think about her, but he still can’t stop smoking. He is waiting for the right time.

Don’t give the wrong person the right part of  yourself because they will let you down. Life is only as good as your mind is. Think positive and stop waiting for tomorrow, or next year, or for life. It’s true that time is healer, but if you smoke and drink in this situation time is against you. Many people can’t change their life even if they want to. Imagine a person; let’s say he is sixty-eight years old. He doesn’t have a wife or children or even a home and he is very sick because of alcohol and cigarettes. What would you do if this man were you? If you are alone? Think about that. Would you stop what you are doing and take care of your health or you would keep going the wrong way?

Denis Todorov, 

A student at 'St st Cyril and Methodius' School, Asenovgrad, Bulgaria

 

'It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver'  - a very wise man's words…  and he is right. Most people don't take care of themselves and that is wrong we can’t replace our health like piece of gum.

We have to know what good health  is to us- mental and physical and how much we care. It is good to care as much as possible,  it is like a balanced act. If you are strong in body, you are strong in mind

For some people doing this is difficult. Not all accept themselves to do what is said that's why it is not only physical. Most often we have to train mentally.

In conclusion it is not only physical when we say Good health; it is mostly mental health... and  that is good to achieve Real wealth

 

Sabri Salif, 
A student at 'St st Cyril and Methodius' School, Asenovgrad, Bulgaria

 

 

Gergana Kamisheva, 
A student at 'St st Cyril and Methodius' School, Asenovgrad, Bulgaria

Firstly, if you are following a diet that restricts certain foods or food groups, and you enjoy it, keep doing it. There is no ‘perfect’ diet for everyone, and no one can tell you what the right diet you can follow is. But if you aren’t following a diet and you want a long-term success you have to know something – controlling calories and eating plenty of whole foods. Having ‘fun’ food with moderation and control often leads to less overeating and a positive relationship with the food. The result is less stress and more freedom ultimately. 

Secondly, if you want to feel happy for a long time, you have to eat something that gives you energy and makes you happy after you ate it, not only when you are eating it, for example chocolate... When you are eating chocolate, you feel so happy but after that your stomach doesn’t feel good and wants to eat more and more. Of course the result of this is awful. You eat more calories than you burn which often leads to overweight. 

Finally, food is 80 % of healthy lifestyle but 20 of this is sleeping enough, doing some sport and drinking more and more water. The sport you do should make you feel fun, and it shouldn’t be boring, and it shouldn’t make you feel too tired…

Eat healthy food, sleep enough, do some funny sport. This is the secret of the happy and long life. 

 

Sevil Myumyun, 
A student at 'St st Cyril and Methodius' School in Asenovgrad, Bulgaria

On the one hand, there are so many people who are in perfect physical and mental condition and the most ironic thing is that they don’t appreciate it. Sometimes we should get to the edge of the abyss to realize what we have and what matters. People are yearning for fame, fortune and easy life and at the same time millions people with diseases dream to be in good health. 

On the other hand, there are so many ways to keep our health. One of the easiest is to be in nature. Nature has something magical that fills me with unprecedented energy and it is full of beauties. I prefer to be in nature and listen to the sound of silence, birds and quiet winds rather than go to a club full of people I don’t know.

Finally, I would say that every person should have real values and appreciate what he/she has and be happy of that fact. As for other kinds of people they will understand what they have when they lose it. As the singer Alicia Keys sings in one song, “Some people live for the fortune, some people live just for the fame, some people think that the physical defines what’s within.”

 

Dimitar Kalvachev,

A student at 'St st Cyril and Methodius School',Asenovgrad, Bulgaria

 

In order to live well we are looking for a high-paid job. We live in lodgings and we dream for getting credit for buying a home, boasting a new car, new clothes, getting up early, and picking up public transport that takes us to the workplace. At lunchtime we eat something on our feet or we miss lunch at all. In the evening we get the same transport, which leaves us at the same stop, from where it took us, we buy something from the store to cook at home fast, we go to bed, and we almost did not find time to talk to our loved ones. 

We get up in the morning and our everyday life goes in the same way. And so, living day after day, we forget that at one point our body refuses to listen to us, just does not obey us, it is sick and helpless. Once we realize that we are losing fight with our everyday life, we begin to look for ways to regain our previous strength and power, to feel fresh and smiling, to enjoy everything around us. Then we understand that we have lost our health and we are looking for ways to restore it.

 I constantly repeat to myself that I am the most important person on Earth because when you take care of other people and forget about yourself, then it takes a long time to remember that you are also a human. I learn to enjoy little things, to value health more than anything else and to feel life again. Health is our greatest gift. We have to keep it and take care of it. 

 

Mustafa Shaban,

A student at 'St st Cyril and Methodius School', Asenovgrad, Bulgaria

Health is wealth because without it no one will be able to work productively and therefore, there would be petite chances and opportunities for earning and making money. To generate income, one has to work and that cannot be done if he or she is ill and is incompetent to do physical activities. 

This is why it is important to be healthy. Being healthy not only makes you able to be wealthy but it makes you happier. Exercising on a regular basis to keep you healthy releases chemicals called endorphins that produce a happy state of mind. Also, waking up early is something you should consider. Why do you think the CEOs of some of the most powerful companies in the world wake up ridiculously early to head to the gym? For instance, Apple’s CEO Jim Cook can be found in the gym at 5 a.m. What’s your excuse again?

 

Your health is your true wealth!

Don’t neglect it!

 

Hristo Nikolov,

A student at 'St st Cyril and Methodius' School, Asenovgrad, Bulgaria

 

 

 

People go through all kinds of stages of development. We want to own houses, drive cool luxurious cars, wear expensive clothes and to be honest to you, we all set targets but we never realize that one day our health/body will leave us. The only thing we care for is to achieve our goals and sometimes we fail while we are trying to accomplish them. We get upset, stressed and mentally have a breakdown. We just push ourselves to the limits because we think that the jewel of life is hidden in material things, but no… it is actually hidden in you. Just think about it. 

There is no point in owning a house with a garden when you are not able to mow the lawn on your own because your body is already exhausted for the additional work. There is no point in owning a car when you are mentally not well. There is no point to hear that you have a problem with your eyes because you were staring at the computer too much at work. The thing I am trying to tell you over here is that even with a limited income, a person with sound health can live a happy and enjoyable life. 

The bottom line is health is a great treasure.  It is the source of all happiness.

 

 

Erkan Kamber, 

A student at 'St st Cyril and Methodius School', Asenovgrad, Bulgaria

To live happily people need to have healthy lifestyle. And what does healthy lifestyle mean? Actually, having healthy lifestyle is hard nowadays. Because we live in a world where nobody cares about anything. And when people eat something unhealthy they don’t care about it, they just say “Everything is unhealthy”. Healthy lifestyle is a way of living. People who keep it up are trained to care not only about themselves but about the others, too. Healthy lifestyle means eating quality food, drinking lots of water, walking, running, training any sport or just doing the best for your mental health. I think that keeping healthy lifestyle is something like respecting your own body, because you are giving it the chance to live more. 

Everyone will leave this world one day, but why does it have to be so soon? Why people don’t want to live longer? Young girls and boys are ruining their lives by smoking, drinking alcohol and even using drugs. What’s the point of living like that and why to be no one when you can be someone? The newest dangerous trend among teenagers is smoking hookah also known as shisha. The consequences of smoking shisha can be very dangerous to the health of the user. Shisha is a water pipe filled with tobacco or fruity tobacco. Smoking shisha is thought to be not as harmful as smoking cigarettes, but on the contrary, shisha smoking is more damaging to the himan body than cigarettes. There is a full range of risks connected with shisha smoking. Hookah smoke is filled with dangerous toxins which can cause cancer. Even though teenagers know smoking is dangerous they keep doing it, because they think it is cool. But it’s not cool to play with your health. 

Your body is your most priceless possession… So go take care of it!

 

 

Elif Tyurkedzhi, 

A student at ‘St st Cyril and Methodius’ School, Asenovgrad, Bulgaria

 

 First of all, we all know that health comes first. We can not do anything as long as we don’t have it. Because it effects our whole life and everything we do and everything we want to have depends on it. If you want to drive the most expensive car or wear the most fashionable clothes etc. you can’t do it without health. So as you see, real wealth is not money. It is your health.

  So, if our real wealth is our health; what should we do to protect it? Let me give you some advices to protect the most important thing of your life: health. You should drink 8-9 glasses of water a day. It helps you eat less and function the metabolism faster. It also prevents you to feel tired and have headache. Then, you should exercise daily. You don’t have to do it for hours, just putting a limit to yourself and doing it daily will be enough. You should be careful about your cleanliness. You should cut your nails when they’re long enough. You should have a bath regularly, brush your teeth twice a day. Also, you should take care of what you eat. You shouldn’t eat fatty foods, fast food and convenience food. They will effect your whole body and make you gain fat. So you should prefer healthy foods such as vegetables and fruits. Besides, you should wash your hands before your meals. Also, sleep is very important. You should sleep 8 hours everyday, not more or less. It will keep you fit.

  These are some keys to have a healthy life, to increase your wealth. If you do these, you will have a much more happier, healtier and more productive life. Doing these will give you your real wealth, and not doing this will give you a poverty that gets worse day by day.The choice is yours!

Don’t forget, your life is all you got and making it richer is in your hands!

 

Zeynep ÖZDEMİR from Turkish team (Edremit Şehit Mustafa Serin Fen Lisesi)

Worldwide it is said that technological advances save time and energy – yes, that is true but they definitely have an enormous impact on our health – computer programmers often have headaches and eyesight problems, children  at school or at home don’t do anything except for staying in front of the computers.

No one, however, cares a lot about it. We don’t pay attention to what we eat, what kind of lifestyle we have, and how we look after ourselves. Hospitals are full of sick people. And again, nobody thinks about it until it is too late. 

Personally, I think that good health is real wealth. Money cannot buy your well-being or nice lifestyle. Your completely new car and large house would not cure your pains. It is absolutely important to be in good health as to live happily. 

 

Slavena Yaneva,

A student at ‘St st Cyril and Methodius' School, Asenovgrad, Bulgaria

I agree with the people that think that health is like a treasure. It can influence your life in many different ways. Every person has been in bad health for some time and will agree that is not the best thing to happen from all the things that could have happened. But most of the time we are to be blamed because we do it to ourselves. We don’t dress well for the occasion or we don’t eat as we are supposed to.

We take health for granted and don’t really realise how good is to be in a good physical and psychological state. The first example that comes to mind is when you catch a flue and you start thinking about how good it was when you were healthy. You get in a negative state of mind and stay at home to recover as fast as you can. Things like that can be avoided most of the time if you pick the right clothes going outside or elsewhere so you don’t get cold and stay warm. Our diet plays a big part in that too because if we eat our macro and micronutrients we are most likely not going to catch a disease. There are many other things that can put us down but the moments we remember are the happy ones so those are the ones that really matter.

Most of the time happy moments happen when you are in a healthy state. And if those are the moments you are more likely to remember then it is more than obvious that good health is real wealth.

    Mario Ivanov, XI ‘d’
A student at 'St st Cyril and Methodius' School, Asenovgrad Bulgaria