“Health is not a physical accomplishment but the manifestation of our awareness of who we are and integrity in living out of knowledge.”

-Rand Olson

Every student who studies abroad must be facing lots of struggle. Some of the struggles are homesickness, expenses, time management, and loneliness: due to the migration from one place to another. Our body is unable to adapt to the change and time lag is another factor that affects the health of students. By focusing on these topics, we would like to share some of the struggles faced by students due to poor food and health habits.

Tips for maintaining healthy habits

Students normally get careless about their health, and this leads to tiredness and laziness, which reflects in their school grade performance. So, these are some of the health tips for students to improve their performance.

1. Every morning you should drink two glasses of warm water mixed with a spoon of honey. Honey is beneficial for maintaining metabolism and is beneficial for brain cells.
2. You should have wet sports every morning, which you can get easily from nearby grocery stores. So, before going to sleep, put some sprouts in a bowl of water and eat it for breakfast. It will provide you energy and brighten up your senses.
3. Do some morning exercise, yoga, jogging for at least 20 minutes. This will make you feel refreshed and confident to move ahead for the day.
4. Don’t miss your breakfast; add nutritive value to your breakfast through apple or banana with a glass of milk, or brown bread with egg. Avoid fast food for breakfast.
5. Include dairy products to your diet like milk, yogurt, cheese, buttermilk, curd, etc. These things take students towards a healthy and balanced diet.
6. Do some physical exercises in the evening so that keep your muscles toned up.
7. Avoid the use of alcohol, smoking, drugs, and other health-injurious products.

Awareness For better mental health

You must be aware that almost half of the young adults have some mental health disorder in their lives. Concerning health, it can affect people of different ages, races, gender, and background. College is a particularly ingenious period. Thankfully, there are multiple services to help the students through this challenging time.

Mental health is an emotional and psychological state of a person. It affects how we think, feel, and act. Which, in turn, influences decision making, engagement with other, school performance, and dealing with stress.

Mental health problem comes in many forms and often be broad on by stressful situations. Like migration from one country to another country, staying away from family and familiar culture or stress of exams. Student’ abroad struggle in adjusting all of these changes at once.

How to deal with mental illness?

Students struggle with mental issues because of unawareness of their mental health. Some of the symptoms of it are feeling helpless, having mood swings, extremely happy at one moment and sad the next, feeling disgusted for a longer period, and much more. The reasons may include poor eating and sleeping habits, excess smoking or intake of drugs, feeling reluctant for something beyond our expectations. If you find someone else, who is facing similar symptoms, immediately reach out to help them.

Another cure to tackle mental illness is taking counseling. Getting help for mental illness is known as counseling. It is essential to get help for mental illness as early as possible. The longer you wait, the more difficult it would be to manage. Students can get help from numerous health places that can help. Your on-campus counseling center is there to help you deal with such issues that keep this information confidential. Students can contact their insurance company to locate a nearby provider or any therapist, psychologist, and psychiatrist directly.

Always be cautious about health

Students studying abroad get an opportunity to gain knowledge and understanding of the world’s culture. For students studying abroad, it is advised to have an international insurance plan for health as misfortunes like illness and injury are uncertain in a student’s life. Therefore, adopting good food and health habits will make your lifestyle better. As: “It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.”
-Mahatma Gandhi