Have you ever thinking about changing your life for the better? Maybe you’re thinking of weight control, being more active or just feeling healthier. To live a healthier life you’ll most likely need to make some adjustments in a wide variety of areas. Being “healthy” is based on many things including: your genetics, diet, exercise routine and lifestyle choices. Since you cannot control your genes, making changes to items you have control over can help lead to a healthier lifestyle.
For some, living a healthier lifestyle may mean increasing weekly exercise. For others, improving their sleep habits or nutrition may be the priority. Whether you’re at day one or 100, healthy choices are part of a lifelong journey.
Focus on making small changes to your diet, exercise and other lifestyle factors to help make you healthier.
A healthy lifestyle isn’t just diet and exercise. So what is a healthy lifestyle?
A healthy lifestyle involves proper nutrition, exercising regularly, not smoking, limiting the amount of alcohol you drink and maintaining a healthy weight. Being healthy also means taking the appropriate preventative measures, such as buckling up whenever you get in a car, getting your yearly physical and any recommended medical tests and immunizations at the doctor’s office and practicing safe sex. It’s also about having a positive attitude and a positive self-image.
Our busy lifestyles can be hard on our family’s health. Rushing to and from school and work can make it hard to find time to be physically active. We can also slip into the habit of choosing unhealthy snacks and take-away foods or spending our free time watching TV or in front of the computer.
However, these choices can be dangerous for our health and our children’s health – both now and in the long-term. That’s why it’s so important to stop, take stock and make a conscious decision to follow a healthy lifestyle.
With good food habits and daily physical activity you will be well on your way to a healthy life.
Eat a variety of foods, base your diet on plenty of foods rich in carbohydrates, replace saturated with unsaturated fat. Enjoy plenty of fruits and vegetables. Reduce salt and sugar intake. Eat regularly, control the portion size. Drink plenty of fluids, maintain a healthy body weight. Get on the move, make it a habit. And keep changing gradually.
Easy to say, but sometimes not so easy to do!
Life is beautiful and you don’t want to bog yourself down with unnecessary health problems. Today, your vital organs may be working well, but they may not be tomorrow. Don’t take your health for granted. Take proper care of your body.
In general, most would agree that a healthy person doesn’t smoke, is at a healthy weight, eats a balanced healthy diet, thinks positively, feels relaxed, exercises regularly, has good relationships, and benefits from a good life balance.
Just change one thing in your life today. Have a healthy life beginning now. Living a healthy lifestyle will bring you happiness, health and the life of your dreams. You can fit into your favourite pair of jeans again. You can enjoy all the benefits that perfect health offers you. You can feel your best at all times of the day.
“Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body”.
Joseph Addison
“Health is not a condition of matter but of mind”.
Mary Baker Eddy
“Health is the soul that animated all the enjoyments of life which fade and are tasteless without it”.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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