Staying healthy is often attributed to making good decisions and choices. These are choices you make when eating, exercising, smoking, meditating, managing stress, etc. All these can make a difference in your overall health. You are faced with these choices every day. Like when eating, do you choose fries from salad or soda from water? Making healthy choices will pay off overtime and now is the best time to think of ways to stay healthy. You may need to make some changes.
Ways to stay healthy and fit:
- Eat healthy foods. Your body needs a variety of nutrients to stay healthy. Nutrients come from the food you eat. These nutrients help your body stay strong and fight disease. Usually fresh foods have the most nutrients. Choose fresh foods like fruits and vegetables, whole grains, low fat dairy, lean meat and fish. These foods will help you maintain a healthy weight, increase your energy and makes you feel good.
- Keep a healthy weight. Choose foods low in fat, salt and sugar. Poor food choices can lead to poor health. Today, with food everywhere, some people struggle to maintaining a healthy weight. Food ads may temp you to eat. Fast foods and snacks high in sugar, salt and fat can be hard to resist. Food portions today are often much larger than you need. Eating proper portions can help you maintain a healthy weight. Being obese can lead to many diseases.
- Are you getting enough exercise? What do you do to stay active? Our body needs exercise to keep fit and to keep our muscles strong. Exercise can help prevent heart disease, diabetes, high cholesterol and obesity. It also improves mental health. Make exercise a part of your daily routine. Find something you enjoy doing. Do this 3 times per week, 30 or more.
- Don’t smoke. Everyone knows that smoking can kill.
- Get a check-up. You don’t only get a check-up when you’re feeling ill. Visit your doctor at least twice a year.
- Take care of stress. Too much stress can affect your overall health. Stress can lead to depression and sickness. Treat chronic stress by learning to cope with it. Find healthy ways to relax and distress.
