Young generation and the nation's health: prevention of infectious diseases, healthy lifestyle.

The theme of the essay:

“Young generation and the nation's health: prevention of infectious diseases, healthy lifestyle”.

 “The question of health now is the first. The future of the country depends on standard of nation’s health, youth standard of health»,-said V.V.Putin, the President of the Russian Federation during the meeting of the Council for Physical Culture and Sportin Kazan. A man comes into this world for their comfortable existence and personal happiness.

A man comes into this world for their comfortable existence and personal happiness. His intelligence, skills, experience, and his life are necessary to his children, society, and future generations. Correct lifestyle of future generation is a guarantee of nation’s health as a whole.

Young people don’t think about their lives. But it is worth to think about it as early as it is possible, not when we begin to lose it.

According to medical statistics nowadays only ten per cent of school-leavers is healthy.

Forty per cent of young men are unfit for military service because of health problems.

Children's alcoholism, drug addiction, smoking are the most important problems in our country. Russia is in the top five of smoking leaders. According to the last information of World Health Organization, more than three million of teens are smoking now: 2.5 million youths and 0.5 million girls. More than 500 thousand of teens are alcoholics, 80-85 per cent - schoolchildren, 3.8 per cent drink alcohol regularly, 18 per cent are moderate drinkers, 27 per cent drink occasionally. Annually drugs kill thousands of teenagers, millions degrade.

Some factors cause such unfortunate statistics. For example, cigarettes and alcohol prices are the one of the lowest in the world. It makes tobacco available for all population; it doesn’t depend on income and social status.

Entertainment industry has also made a great job. It calls to inhale tempting smoke or to try unforgettable taste of beer. Numerous sorts of colored, bright packets of cigarettes cans of beers with easy titles and pictures. Everything is made for people’s death. It became very fashionably to be a person with cigarette and beer in your hand.

Moreover, children are always looking for example to follow. These are our peers, adults, idols.

Nowadays our Government pays great attention to youth problems. On the one hand, there are a lot of bills, parties, which support a healthy lifestyle. Everybody knows that it is forbidden to sell alcohol and cigarettes children under eighteen, moreover it is written everywhere. On the other hand, nobody controls it. It is not difficult now to see young boys and girls drinking beer or smoking on the street in any time of the day. However, nobody tries to deal with it. To my mind our government should toughen the laws. Firstly, raise prices on alcohol, cigarettes. Secondly, control it selling, increase fines for shop assistants and parents. Finally, forbid smoking and drinking alcohol in any public place.

I also would like to say that we should not wait the government actions. Everybody should try to find the effective methods against harmful habits. Since ancient times, it is known that the roots of vice come from the family. Many problems can be solved by creating more favorable conditions in family life and family upbringing.

To my mind, the family and school should go together. They can strengthen the educational influence. For instance, the teachers of our school pay great attention on healthy lifestyle and youth problems. Our parents, teachers and we make interesting projects; take part in practical activities, workshops, discussions. As for me, I am the member of school volunteer movement called “Creators”. Our movement promotes a healthy lifestyle, talking with students of the school on various topics. We make different presentations, print leaflets, publish school newspapers, and run blogs in the Internet. I hope that our actions will really help our future generation in question what to do or not to do.

Finally, it is very important to pay great attention on public service advertisement against alcoholism, smoking and drugs.

In conclusion, I would like to say that a man who makes a decision to drink, smoke or take drugs thinks that he has free choice. But this freedom will turn into addiction, which becomes weakness. Maybe it is worth to renounce such free choice and lead a healthy lifestyle? After all, health - is a condition that is difficult to guarantee. Something can break down in the human body at any time. It is easy to save the health than to recover it. Today, healthy lifestyle is the companion of successful and strong person. It is important to say “No” those who try to impose the opposite opinion.