.The trick to healthier life style is to make little healthy changes everyday.Such as using the staircase instead of the lifts,increase in water consumption by an extra glass,increasing your fruit intake by at-least one and quitting smoking.
Here are the fundamental basics of healthy living :regular exercise,eating healthy and healthy life style choices.
*Regular Exercise:Exercising regularly like moving body not once,but
everyday and strolling to the market,rather than driving,using the staircase more often,cleaning the house or garden,cycling instead of watching T.V.This are great way to work into your daily routine exercise session.
*Standing More Often:We sit most times of our lives-watching T.V,in meeting or lecture hall,at our desk and during seminars.There is research coming up highlighting the potential risk of our sitting positions to health.So it is best to break your sitting time by standing for at least 5 minutes and reap the health benefits.
Every bits counts and it all sums up to more caloric burning.
Making some changes in your daily exercise routine can be of benefit to the health,especially if you are over weight.In fact a study has revealed that drop in weight by 10% help reduce blood pressure,cholesterol and improve the well being of over weight people.
*Healthy Eating:Online information's of what to eat and diet books often conflicts healthy eating.Although research is still on and developing,experts warned that our diets are too high in sugar and our portion of meal is on the large side.They advice that we eat a variety of whole natural foods.
Sweet Enough:From cereal breakfast to sugary drinks,getting away from sugary foods is quite difficult.At times the sugar is hidden in canned drinks or prepackaged foods,even in healthy food as we think such as fruit juice.22 teaspoons of added sugar is taken in by the average person everyday.According to a heart association in America,six level teaspoons for women and nine for men should be the daily target for both food and beverages altogether.
The simplest way to cut down sugar intake is to avoid sugary fizzy drinks.This alone helps loosen or maintain a healthy weight,which in return will reduce risk of heart disease,diabetes and obesity.
Portion distortion:The portion size of our food and drinks have increased gradually over the past years.Portion size increase doesn't include the take away portions only,but goods packaging,dinner plates and glasses in restaurants and even the size of our refrigerators.
There are some easy ways to cut down on portions,and they are.
*Eat your meal from a smaller plate.
*Dish your meal in the kitchen,rather than having the serving dishes at the dinning table.
*Eat small portion of meal regularly.
Home made food:Cooking your meal is a much healthier way to eat than buying prepackage or ready made meals,which are mostly high in salt and fat and very low in nutrients.To make sure you get variety of vitamins,minerals and nutrients into your body everyday,be the chef of your meal and eat variety of fruits.
Your body will speak for you if your meal is unbalanced.
*Choose to live:For a better,longer and healthier life,avoid smoking.Its side effects on health is so significant that it is tag the most important public health problem in the world.Smoking reduces life span by affecting the internal organs and ages the outer layer of the body which result to skin damage.Tobacco smoking can create pucker lines around the mouth,stain the teeth and finger and also cause wrinkles by robbing the skin of nutrients and making it look grey.It takes a courageous mind to quit smoking and the positive changes will begin to manifest within a short period of time which will benefit your health and well being.
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*m.news24.com
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