Let’s Talk About Health

Juliet Cohen asked:


Health Habits is a important parts of growing up. Many god habits icrising your growth. There are an infinite number of positive acts you can take for your well-being. One can get good health by setting basic rules in life. Eating is an essential and important part of life. One can get good health by setting basic rules in life and thereafter following them for a long duration.. After all, food gives us the calories and nutrients we need to survive and it also provides us with the energy we need to go about our daily business. Healthy eating helps to provide your body with all of the essential nutrients that it requires to function. And, though we often forget to think about it, the food we eat has a direct impact on our physical, mental, and emotional health. For these reasons (and many more!) it is important that healthy eating becomes a vital part of our daily lifestyle. But what exactly is healthy eating? Here are some of the basics that can help get you started on the path to healthy eating.Take breakfast every morning enriched with vitamins and minerals and avoid fat and cholesterol rich food. Develop any kind of hobby according to your interest to enjoy and live longer. Protect your skin from damages using protective clothing and avoiding hot sun. Take variety of fruits and vegetables in daily diet. A holiday that gives you more than just happiness, also a legacy of good health. You try to make these simple changes in to a regular habit in order to achieve long term success. It is very important to improve your health in order to be happy and enjoy life.

Good health is of prime importance to all of us. Stay home if you have a respiratory infection when possible.Keeping hands clean is one of the most important steps you can take to avoid getting sick and spreading germs to others. Avoid contact with people who are sick. Cover your mouth with tissue paper when coughing or sneezing and encourage others to do so. Wash your hands after disposing of the tissue paper. Positive thinking is very essential in order to be healthy. You need to clear out your mind and fill it with positive thoughts. You will have to remove all the depressing and negative emotions and thoughts from your mind and replace it with healthy and positive thoughts. These positive thoughts can be extremely energizing and always lead to good things in life. You can get involved in practices such as meditation and yoga to get rid of the negativity and force yourself with positive thoughts. Try to avoid refined foodstuffs. The main reason for ill health and diseases is improper food habits. Because of this many people suffer from diseases like diabetes, cancer, obesity ect. Try to avoid smoking and alcoholic drinks. For good health, you need to exercise daily. Exercising in the morning can leave you with a refreshed feeling throughout the day. Exercising can put you in a good mood and it will be easier for you to think positively and eat healthy foods. You can also get involved in activities such as swimming, biking, walking or playing your favorite sport in order to keep you healthy.

Tips of Good Health Habits

1. Start your day with a healthy breakfast- People who eat breakfast are less likely to overeat later in the day and are less inclined to pack on the pounds. Children who eat breakfast have the tendency to perform better in school, and adults, better at work.

2. Drink lots of water throughout the day, the more the better. A good amount to aim for is at least four to six 8-ounce glasses per day. In fact drinking a glass of water when you first get out of bed in the morning is an excellent way to get a jumpstart on your day.

3. Variety is the spice of life- Get into a habit of eating a variety of different foods with your meals, just make sure that at least five servings are fruits and vegetables.

4. Eat plenty of lean, high protein foods in your daily diet such as lean meat, fish, chicken and beans. Stay away from salted and processed meats. Also eat grains, whether they be in the form of wholegrain cereal, breads etc. Grains provide the body with fiber, iron and B vitamins and are therefore a necessity.

5. Milk is more than just delicious, it is very good for you.

6. Some foods, such as potatoes and cheese often get a bad rap as being extremely fattening. Perhaps it is a reputation they do not deserve because “everything in moderation” is a good rule of thumb to live by.

7. Beware of excessive intakes of caffeine. Avoid coffee, soft drinks and chocolate. It can cause dehydration.

8. Take vitamins on a regular basis.

9. Adopting the vegetarian or vegan lifestyle-Vegetarians, and vegans even more so, need to supplement their diets with vitamins to replace what they no longer receive from specific kinds of foods.

10. Dieting can be dangerous.



DEBORA

Kevin Gianni asked:


This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni’s Fountain of Youth Summit, which can be found at http://fountainofyouthworldsummit.com. In this excerpt, Dr. Maria Grace shares on the value of preparing food.

The Fountain of Youth World Summit with Dr. Maria Grace, psychologist, psychotherapist and author of Reel Fulfillment.

Kevin: What do you think of some of the biggest challenges that people face? That people just eat food, it’s not prepared with love, it’s processed? Is that the biggest challenge that people face from staying healthy?

Dr. Grace: It’s one of the biggest challenges, yes. Food that you buy and eat out of the box is no longer food. You know, we need to eat live today alive. When you eat something dead, how can you turn something dead into life? I don’t get it.

So we eat dead stuff. We eat dead stuff, we eat fat, we eat without paying attention to what we are eating, we don’t share the food that we eat okay? And so because we take away all these pleasures that surround the ritual of eating we concentrate just, we concentrate is a figurative term here, because we don’t really concentrate when we eat. We eat unconsciously.

So we keep eating and eating and eating and just stuffing our body with food and then the only gratification that we’re most likely to get is this fixation from having eaten. Sometimes we don’t even remember what we ate. Sometimes we don’t even pay attention to how many times we chewed of what we ate. Wouldn’t you agree?

Kevin: Yes.

Dr. Grace: We eat very, very fast and then what does this do to us? It taxes the body and we eat fast and, again, you see, you may eat very healthy food. You may eat just the raw food or just organic or just vegan or just I don’t know you name it. I mean there’s just so much, the technology and the of good, healthy food is so advanced today that every day we come up with a new brand or a new department of good, healthy food. I don’t care what kind of food we eat, but we may eat it very fast.

If we slow down a little bit and start paying attention to how we eat, how we eat is the first one, our behavior around eating. Then we’re going to start paying attention to what we eat. We need time to pay attention, we need time and space to pay attention to what it is that we’re eating.

Kevin: Right.

Dr. Grace: I really think that in order for us to become conscious of what we eat, we first need to pay attention how we eat it.

And then we will realize that when we sit down and we eat, I don’t know, and the 30 ounce sirloin steak…

Kevin: Oh gosh.

Dr. Grace: …at 10:30 pm and then try to go sleep and we need to eat, we need to take pills…

Kevin: Sure, enzymes and everything else.

Dr. Grace: So we need to 5 or 6 of them and about, I don’t know, 3 or 4 glasses of Alka-Seltzer and then walk up and down and then we need god knows what else to fall asleep and we think all this is stress. Well, it’s maybe stress, but not all of it may be stress from the office or stress from the boss. A lot of it is actual stress from the steak, you know, that is trying to be digested by our stomach which is working overtime while we, the rest of the body, needs to rest.

Kevin: Yes.

Dr. Grace: You see? When we sleep our bodies shut down. So what that this does, that the stomach should be relatively empty or free from heavy food okay? So if we slow down, though, and paid attention to all this process then perhaps that sirloin steak might be eaten with less frequency or a little earlier in the day.

Kevin: Yes.

Dr. Grace: So I’m not saying stop eating meat, I’m not saying this because I can not force people to completely change their food habits because I believe that, you know, such and such is better than other, but what I firmly believe again and I’ll say it again is that if people change the way they eat then the food they eat would be reconsidered and they would also change the food they eat as well.

I’m talking about what do we watch on Food Network that makes us salivate every time?

Kevin: Yes.

Dr. Grace: We sit in front of the TV and we watch the Food Network for hours and we say, “You know what? I love this channel” and I’ve asked thousands of people, “Why do you love this channel?” They say, “Look at they prepare this food. It’s just fantastic”. Well, what I am saying is turn your own kitchen into Emeril’s kitchen. Be your own Emeril. Be your own Rachel Ray. You can. Buy the ingredients, buy the baking sheet, buy the pots, buy the pans and start cooking. The satisfaction that you’re going to get is amazing. It’s phenomenal. It will change your whole outlook on food. You will learn a lot more how to pick the right ingredients. You will learn a lot more about the difference between organic vegetables. You will learn how to pick free ranged chicken from hormone fed chicken. You will, that is where you really, really learn the difference. Not by reading just books or watching TV shows.

Kevin: And here’s the big objection: I don’t have time. What…

Dr. Grace: But you have time to watch TV. I ask people, “How many hours of TV do you watch a week?” And it’s incredible. If we count the hours that we watch TV. If we could cut them in half we could still have time to cook.

Kevin: Sure.

Dr. Grace: Okay? And even zapping through channels is a time-consuming or what about the internet surfing? What about people reading recipes on the internet? That’s another secret addiction, you know? They search for recipes and then they go from one recipe to another and one recipe to another or they collect recipes. All that takes time. Well, what I’m here to say to you people is, okay, pick one of those recipes and cook it. Make it happen. Make it happen. Bring it to work. Share it with people. It will give you enormous satisfaction. Even the feedback that you’re going to get from some people, they will say, “You know what? I like it.” Some other people will say, “Well, it needs a little bit more, I don’t know, sugar or salt or less of this or more of that”. This builds community. This builds friendship. This is why people love watching Chocolate for example, the movie. Where we have a character who moves into this little village with her daughter and she’s a chocolate baker and she makes fantastic recipes using chocolate and the movie shows how this woman heals an entire community just by teaching them how to make chocolate cakes.

We yearn for this healing. We yearn for this love that we see that is shared among those people on big screen. You are the director of your movie and that is your life. So make the banquet. Prepare the banquet. It’s not difficult. It’s really easy and it’s a lot of fun. That is how you are going to feel active and engaged in your own life. In one very, very, very significant aspect of your life which is your eating. We live, if you think about it, Kevin, I mean that’s the bottom line here. If we don’t eat, we don’t stay alive.

Kevin: That’s a fact of life.

Dr. Grace: Okay, and isn’t that the bottom line?

Kevin: You say pick one recipe and it sounds so easy and I work with a bunch of people and I say, “Pick one exercise” or you know even in the success field is just pick one route and go for it. Though, that really, for some people it’s very difficult to make a decision. You know, you have hundreds of recipes. It’s almost like it’s easier to collect a hundred of them than actually make one. What do you say then?

Dr. Grace: Yes, well, I have to say a couple of things. First of all, we live in a culture of accumulation here. We think that accumulating material objects equals abundance. We have our pantries are always overstuffed, but and we order takeout. I mean, what is that? I think we, personal growth and self-fulfillment and self-actualization always implies, that’s the whole idea of the hero is journey by the way, always implies that we have to question the culture. At a certain point we do have to go against the cultural demands to carve our path in life. To carve our hero’s path.

So the culture says that you must have stuffed cabinets and you must have 12 shelves full of cookbooks and about 1300 handwritten recipes, okay? But brand new pans and pots and never used pots and pans in your kitchen, okay? We have to reverse this and start using our pots and pans and it’s okay if we have 12 recipes and not 1200 recipes, but we use them all. We can make the first step right now. We can pick one recipe. The one that we’ve always wanted and it does not have to be complicated. I love cooking meals that take less than 20 minutes to prepare.

Kevin: Sure.

Dr. Grace: We have all sitcoms are about 20, 25 minutes okay? Or series. *** and the City, I mean, minus the commercials, is about 20 minutes. That’s it. That’s as long as we can stay with a ritual. So pick something that takes anywhere between 20 and 30 minutes and once you love it then go through the next recipe and then to the next .

Now let me give you an example about how I practice what I preach in my own life. I am currently going through a rather big transition and I just moved from a very functional and small apartment in New York City to a 4 bedroom house in on the shore of New Jersey. The house is empty for now because it’s a renovation and work I have an empty fridge. So what did I do yesterday? I went to the store and I was really hungry and I had a choice of buying something and eating it on the spot or buying something that I could prepare.

So I bought ham and cheese and whole grain bread and I went to my car and I opened it up and I made a sandwich. Right next to my car there was another car with a guy who looked at me through the window and he was holding a huge bag of chips. So as I was making a sandwich for myself he was opening the bag of chips and he looks at me and laughs. We look at each other and we both say with one word, “We’re hungry, hey.”

Kevin: Okay.

Dr. Grace: Now, what was the difference, though, between us? I was not eating chips out of a bag. It was something almost automatic for me to buy something that I could create a ritual out of alright? My ritual was to make my own sandwich because I took time. The few minutes that it took for me it was my food, it was my ritual and I opened a little napkin and I ate it and this is what I do.



FREIDA

Max Woody asked:


Hi, my name is Max Woody and I’d like to share some important information that has changed my life for the better.

I’m 42 years old and operate a full time business, have a family and the normal responsibilities of most men my age. I like to exercise and do everything possible to stay healthy.

During my late 30’s I was always looking for the best in a multi mineral vitamin to make sure I would get my nutrients everyday.

I tried many of the men’s formulas through places like GNC and others. I did a lot of reading and research only to find that many of these multi mineral vitamins were not being totally absorbed through the body. Worse yet, they were not all natural products and during the long term could cause bad side effects to the body.

Finally, I found a company that offers an excellent, all natural men’s and women’s multi mineral formula that also contains a blend of herbs and anti-oxidants that have made a big change in my health for over 3 years now.

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ROSETTA

Adam Thompson asked:


The key to a long, happy and prosperous life is, of course, good health. While we may be pre-destined to certain conditions or diseases, there are definitely things we can do to ward off illness and stay healthy for as long as possible. Here are five simple tips that anyone can do to help you live a long life full of good health.

1. Don’t smoke, and if you do quit immediately. Smoking is perhaps the most preventable and avoidable cause of many debilitating and fatal diseases and conditions. Besides damaging the lungs, smoking also does considerable, irreversible damage to the heart as well as other organs of the body, including even the skin, not to mention the high risk of several types of cancer.

2. Drink in moderation

Studies have shown that drinking in moderation, meaning no more than one drink per day, can have a protective effect on the body depending on the type of alcohol consumed. Red wine, for instance, has been shown to have a positive effect on the heart while distilled spirits such as vodkas and bourbons may increase a person’s risk of developing certain cancers.

3. Eat healthy

An overwhelming percentage of the population is either overweight or obese. A simple, yet sensible eating plan coupled with regular exercise is the absolute best way to lose weight, keep it off and stay healthy for the rest of your life. There are no “quick fixes” when it comes to good health and diets that are high in fat and cholesterol are linked with diseases such as diabetes and cancer.

4. Exercise regularly

After consulting with your doctor the two of you can determine what level of exercise is the best for you. It’s important to remember that more is not necessarily better, particularly if you are just starting to exercise or have had an otherwise sedentary lifestyle. A gradual increase in your work-outs will also increase your level of endurance for the best long-term results.

Here are some simple exercises that are excellent for losing weight, getting in shape and maintaining good health while strengthening your heart at the same time.

- Walking: Almost anyone can do it and brisk walking can burn a few hundred calories per hour.

- Running: While not for beginners, running is an excellent form of cardio exercise as it increases lung capacity, strengthens the heart and burns many calories.

- Swimming: This full-body exercise is easy on the joints but still burns calories and strengthens the heart as well as the muscles.

- Bicycling: Either indoors or out, bicycling is a great exercise to help you stay healthy as it burns calories, increases endurance, builds leg strength, and strengthens the heart and lungs.

5. Make time to relax

Stress and tension can lead to serious health problems if they are not dealt with in a productive manner. Research has proved that those with a Type-A personality or those who are prone to stress or anger are far more likely to suffer from heart-related illnesses as well as a host of other detrimental conditions.



GERMAN

Kevin Gianni asked:


This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni’s The Healthiest Year of Your Life, which can be found at http://thehealthiestyearofyourlife. com. In this excerpt, Jill Fleming shares on listening to your body and staying healthy.

The Healthiest Year of Your Life with Jill Fleming, a registered dietician and author of Thin People Don’t Clean Their Plates.

Kevin: Jill I want to thank you so much for being on this call, as we’ve just heard you have this incredible line up of talents and things that you’ve done, so why don’t you just start?

Jill: Okay. Thanks, Kevin. Thanks for having me on today. My story starts back when I was 16 years old and I had food allergies and I started reading labels and just became very fascinated with nutrition. Everything I would pick up I would did, you know, this was in your food and just became very aware of what I was putting in to my body. So I went on to study dietetics and got two degrees in nutrition and during the time that I was studying I gained 40 pounds.

Kevin: Really

Jill: Yeah. So I realized that it wasn’t just knowing what you should do, but also applying that information to your life, so as soon as I finished college and started teaching weight loss classes which I knew was the area I wanted to focus on, I started to lose my weight almost instantly. As I was teaching people how to do it and how to fit the healthy choices into their lives I was doing it as well. During college I had a lot of stress and there were too many other things going on to focus on what I should have been doing for my health.

Kevin: When you said that you gained 40 pounds, what were you thinking as you were going through this information?

Jill: I really wasn’t too aware of the added weight coming on to my body because, you know, when I was in college I was wearing big floppy sweatshirts and little stretch pants that were very flexible and accommodating to my extra weight. What I really did notice though was being short of breath, being more tired, not sleeping well. I noticed my energy just being very low and that was what bothered me the most.

Kevin: You said you had food allergies. Did they continue to manifest as you went from you being 16 years old through college?

Jill: My food allergies now are almost totally gone.

Kevin: Okay.

Jill: I think at that point when I had my very unhealthy lifestyle choices while studying nutrition, I was consuming somewhere between 8 and 10 cans of diet coke a day.

Kevin: Wow.

Jill: Definitely not healthy and I think I just overloaded my body on some of the artificial sweeteners and preservatives and a lot of the junk that was in the processed food.

Kevin: Right.

Jill: I think my body just rebelled and said we can’t take this any more and it manifested itself in allergies.

Kevin: So you think the toxicity of the artificial sweeteners caused that?

Jill: I truly do and it’s hard to prove that, but I guess you know your own body better than anyone else. As soon as I started getting the chemicals and the preservatives and the artificial sweeteners out of my diet, it was rough at first because I was pretty much addicted, but I started to feel better. My energy started to return and it was easier to make better choices as I started to feel better.

Kevin: Let’s talk about diet soda real quick. I know that there are some people out there who as healthy as they are they’re still drinking diet soda, I mean it’s amazing, I hear it from some of the people that I would think are so healthy but their still drinking diet soda. What did you do to go from 6-8 diet soda’s a day to zero?

Jill: Well, I was drinking so much and my body reacting in a way that I was so swollen I hardly could open my mouth to even eat.

Kevin: Wow.

Jill: I was using a straw to drink my diet soda’s to get them in, I needed them that bad and after I went to the food allergist he said the sodium benzoate, which wasn’t even a sweetener but just a preservative that was in the soda, is showing a strong reaction with you so you need to stop this immediately. So I just quit cold turkey from that day on. I mean I couldn’t pass a soda machine without getting a soda. It was a really strong habit. I just gave it up from that day forward and started drinking water and it was really tough, tough transition. Kevin: Okay.

Jill: But I just had to go from all to nothing, because my body was in such stress.

Kevin: Well, it took a doctor.

Jill: Yeah. Exactly to point out what I was doing which I should have known, but being in college at that time 20 years ago they really weren’t talking about how the artificial sweeteners were that bad for you. I had to experience it myself.

Kevin: And 20 years ago your doctor knew that?

Jill: Yes, he did

Kevin: Okay.

Jill: Well, they did all the testing and that was the one that came up the strongest reaction for me.

Kevin: Wow. That’s pretty interesting. You’ve spoken in many places over the time that you’ve become a dietician and now writing as an author. Now, what are some of the important things or the keys that you think are essential to staying healthy?

Jill: I like to really simplify all of the complicated nutrition and exercise and advice that’s out there in to the basic model that I call the Wellness Triangle.

Kevin: Okay.

Jill: And there are three corners obviously to the triangle and they are all equal in importance and one of the corners is nutrition, how you’re fueling the body? Are you staying hydrated? Are you giving your body real food, good food and not too much of it? The second corner is exercise, are you moving your body on a regular basis? And I actually call this move and squeeze.

Kevin: Okay.

Jill: We’ll talk about the squeezies a little bit later.

Kevin: Great.

Jill: In the third corner is R&R, rest and relaxation. How are you sleeping? Do you have a lot of stress? Are you able to keep your stress level low? So between those three corners if you have one area that is out of balance, if you’re not feeding your body well, you’re not giving it the best fuel and staying hydrated, the other two corners will be thrown off as well. So being pretty good in all three corners is the ideal for optimal health.

Kevin: What do you suggest for someone? Is this something that they write down and assess or how does someone go and assess these three corners?

Jill: I think for most of us even just hearing about the Wellness Triangle will instantly say, “Oh. Wow. Yeah, I do not sleep well.” And they’ll know that the sleeping is the place to start, so if they get their sleeping and their stress under control they’re able to make better nutrition choices, its amazing. Then when they are fueling their body better and their sleeping better they’ve got more energy that their able to do their exercise or people say, “Oh, I **** exercise. I’ll never do it.” When they’re not doing the exercise their not sleeping as well at night and their not fueling their body as well because they kind of have the all or nothing mentality. So I think for the most part you could write it down but I think just hearing it mentally you can figure out what corner you probably need to start with.

Kevin: Yeah, I know which one I need to start with.

Jill: It’s different for everyone. It’s really amazing. I’ve had people that all they needed to do is start getting their sleep under control and everything fall into place and they start to lose weight and fell better and have more energy and they said it was just almost too easy.

Kevin: Yeah. That’s good news.

Jill: Yeah, it is. It’s easier than you think.

Kevin: Yeah. The title of your book is Thin People Don’t Clean Their Plates, Simple Lifestyle Choices for Permanent Weight Loss, is cleaning your plate one of the main reasons for weight gain and health issues?

Jill: I think what the title really signifies is that people who are not overweight, who are pretty close to what their ideal body weight should be and where they feel healthy in their body are listening to their body. They’re eating in relation to hunger and stopping at the point of satisfied. So if two people are sitting next to each other, one person was a lean person at their ideal body weight and the other person was heavy and needed to lose weight, I would guess that the person who stops at the point of no longer hungry would be the lean person, even if there’s still food on the plate and with my research studying people who are overweight versus people who were lean and at their ideal body weight, the overweight person typically would clean the plate regardless of if they were full or even if it tasted good. It was just a habit and we all heard those voices growing up, I believe. You know, clean your plate. They are saying to children you need to eat it all and **** to waste food.

Kevin: It’s horrible, isn’t it?

Jill: Yeah, but it’s just interesting that we all hear those voices that come back to still haunt us today and thinking that we stop eating when we’re uncomfortable. That’s how I was bought up. If you’re not uncomfortable then you need to keep eating. You need to be full.

Kevin: Yeah, which is definitely not true at all.

Jill: No and that’s one of the biggest things. Getting in touch with what your body is saying and when overweight people start to listen to their body and stop at the point of satisfied or no longer hungry, it feels very foreign. The first time I did it after my heavy phase at college at Thanksgiving it felt so strange to me. It felt wrong and that night I actually wanted to eat dinner and I thought I’ve never wanted to eat dinner on Thanksgiving evening, because usually it was the big lunch that you stuffed yourself to the point where you felt you were going to get sick and then needed a nap and then just kind of grazed the entire time. When I listened to my body and stopped, that evening four hours later I was ready to eat again.

Kevin: Yeah.

Jill: So it’s really amazing. The fun part is that you can eat what you want and more frequently, so it’s not that you have to stop and never eat again. It’s three hours later when you get hungry you say now you can eat again and I love eating.



SASHA

Moses Wright asked:


When one ages, it can be harder to maintain our fitness level. For some, they might notice that a few extra pounds have been piling up and it is harder to shed the weight now as compared to the past. It is vital to pay more attention to our health as we grow older.

It is well-known around the globe, today, that our metabolisms begin to slow to a biological crawl as we get older. Except for the hopes of some sort of miracle, or some extreme technological breakthrough, this is the facts, and we have no choice but to live and accept it as it is.

Medical science, for some time now, has been doing exactly that; trying to find a “cure,” if you will, to the unstoppable process of aging. Studies have, in the last twenty years, hinted as to what causes aging. With continual research, more information can be found and can be used to try to turn back the clock or delay the aging process.

There’s no telling as to when such a breakthrough is going to happen, so until then, it seems that the most sensible thing for a person to do is to use the methods we have in order to stay healthy. It should be of no shock to anyone to know that the two main factors to achieving this goal is proper exercise and a sensible diet.

Depending on a persons age and current health, it’s wise to establish a diet and workout regimen that will better suit the individual. It is common and normal to feel some form of discomfort for a few days after an individual starts to exercise, but the discomfort will taper off. Intense pain is a symbol that an individual has overtaxed himself and that serves no benefits at all. Find a happy medium.

Let it be known that in order to maintain a healthy physique, it’s necessary to alter your diet as well. It is difficult to have a healthy body when one is still chowing down on fatty food?

Some people, after reaching a certain age, have a tendency of eating foods that they would’ve normally have shunned in their earlier years. At times, this indulgence comes as a sort of reward after the many years of discipline and hard-labor. The one thing that goes over-looked by so many, though, is that this can prove very negative in these latter years as our metabolisms slow.

As with everything and at any age, everything should be done in moderation. It is perfectly to grab a snack occasionally and it can be good for your health and mindset. Sugar and fat are actually necessary components in our diets, seeing that simple sugars are essential for energy and unsaturated fat is beneficial for regulating hormones and other important activities.

Eating healthily is only one of the the important aspects; it is important to exercise as well to be really healthy. A easy exercise like walking is beneficial by improving the cardiovascular system. This easy activity maintains strength in our joints and keeps it lubricated and makes our muscles strong.

Professionals have proven that those in the 60 or more age group with little to no exercise have only a 60% aerobic capacity of those in the 30 year old age group. Up to seven pounds of muscle mass can be lost in just the small span of ten years without proper diet and exercise. Studies have also proven, though, that this does not have to be the case, as long as we learn how to take better care of ourselves.

Certain medical facilities have examined the effects of runners for the span of twenty-five years, and have shown that the results proved that these runners lost very little capacity over the past twenty years. Even those that engaged in resistance training maintained over a ten year span. This is in accordance with a very popular saying that goes, “Either use it, or lose it.”

For people that really haven’t changed their lifestyles, whether by diet or by exercise, have a better chance of reversing the effects of aging. It is recommended that one starts off slow and take the time build one’s fitness level until he is comfortable with a fitness program. Many people that overexert themselves tend to feel more pain than those that start slowly, and because of this, many people tend to give up before they’ve witnessed any positive results. Even to become a jogger, one should start as a power-walker. Also, very importantly, don’t be afraid to seek the advice of a professional.



ELNORA

Sandra Mungure asked:


There’s a lot we can do to stay healthy but these are the 5 tips that I consider to be very important

Stay Active: Our body is meant to move; as we stay active our body will function the way it’s supposed to. Lack of physical activities will make our body systems suffer and become vulnerable to various conditions and diseases such as coronary heart disease, cholesterol, blood pressure, obesity, low-back pain, and stress. Exercise helps to tone our body, keep our heart and lungs healthy, boost brain activities, firm muscles and detoxifies. Being physical activities can be anything from more vigorous routines such as aerobics to simply walking,

Fiber: Eating right is the next essential step to maintaining health body. It is important to avoid fast foods which contain a lot of saturated fats and sugar. To be healthy, our bodies require vitamins, nutrients and minerals. Fiber provides those vitamins, nutrients and minerals which lower your risk of diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, obesity and diabetes, intestinal problems, colon cancer, blood clots and many more. Foods that have fiber in them include vegetables, fruits, brown rice, whole grains (wheat, oats, barley) and Legumes(lentils, dry beans and peas).

Water: A lot of weight loss programs require their customers drink at least 8 glasses because they realize that water is essential to weight loss. A lot of people don’t realize how important water is to our body. Water is essential to our body. The majority of our body is water about 70%. Breaking down our body, blood is made up of 83 percent water, bones are 22 percent water, and muscle is 75 percent water. So it is important to keep yourself hydrated.

Stress: Reducing the amount of stress we have in our life plays an important part in how we are able to cope with it. Stress can do much damage to our body and mind and has been linked with “burnout”, fatigue, sleep problems, depression and it lowers our immune system. Learning techniques on how to cope with stress and worry are essential to keeping yourself balanced and full of energy. There are a wide variety of techniques from simple breathing exercises which can be done anywhere, at anytime, to full system relaxation and De-stressing to meditation.

Sleep: It is important to get enough sleep, Boston University School of Medicine found that participants that slept 7-8 hours decrease incidence of diabetes, compared to those who slept less. Hormones have an effect on our health; Hormones affect our health. When we suffer from lack of sleep, we begin to crave more carbohydrates and sugar, our blood sugar levels will also fluctuate. If we don’t get enough sleep it can cause problems with our adrenal glands, the adrenal glands regulate your body’s health, when our adrenal glands start suffering, and we start to suffer.



CHARLIE

Terence Young asked:


If you wish to enjoy the pleasures of life, you have to stay healthy. To stay healthy you have to give up certain undesirable habits and maintain discipline in your eating and living habits. Given below are the ten commandments of staying healthy.

1.Do not smoke and avoid smokers— It is an established fact that the risk factor of getting lung cancer and heart attack due to smoking is extremely high. With over 300,000 Americans dying every year due to lung cancer, it makes sense to quit smoking and to avoid smokers, as passive smoking is as dangerous as active smoking. Did you know that nearly three quarters of the deaths caused by emphysema and bronchitis are the direct results of smoking? If you are a smoker, you should stop smoking right away.

2.Take balanced nutritious diet and maintain your Body Mass Index (BMI) between 18.5 and 24.8—Your body needs vitamins, proteins, minerals, and carbohydrates in the right proportion through a balanced diet. This will maintain the right weight, lessen the fat in your body, minimize the aging process, improve the immune and cardiovascular system, and regulate sugar and cholesterol levels. It will also prevent the BMI from going up as a high BMI indicates extra weight, which is very risky.

3.Stay away from alcohol—Alcohol harms the central nervous system and the heart functions, causes stomach ailments, damages the liver, and can cause blackouts. The biggest risk of taking alcohol is that you can get addicted to it leading to many health risks. You should avoid alcohol if you want to lead a healthy life.

4.Daily exercise is essential—A minimum of 10 to 15 minutes of exercise every day is required for good health and for avoiding many diseases. You should walk at least 5000 steps daily. In your daily activities, you should avoid elevators and walk up the stairs. Instead of walking, you should do some running.

5.Get enough sleep at night—It is very important to sleep right as a good night’s sleep will rejuvenate you. Without proper sleep, the above tips will prove futile.

6.Get all your vaccinations—Your body is exposed to illnesses all the time. In order to build up the body’s immune system so that antibodies are produced to fight these illnesses, vaccines are required. It is, therefore, essential to get all of the vaccinations.

7.Use the correct condoms—Find the right condom, as there are many shapes, sizes, and colors available.

8.Visit the doctor regularly—Visiting the doctor regularly will allow an early diagnosis of any ailment so that it can be treated more easily.

9.Recognize your body symptoms and signs: It is essential to know your body as the signs and symptoms it shows are indicative of impending diseases. As such, you should be able to recognize these symptoms so that corrective measures can be taken on time.

10.Stick to your therapy: People infected with HIV have a new lease of life with the Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART). However, there are some problems also. Successful treatment requires strict compliance to your regimen. The above tips will help you.

It is not difficult to follow the above suggestions. All that you need is a little bit of determination and discipline to get on the road to good health.



BRADLY