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Friday 11 April 2014

Healthy Lifestyle







Living a healthy lifestyle doesn't mean hours of training at the gym and eating only salad leaves. It's about making easy-to-manage healthy choices in your day-to-day living. Says Dr Craig Nossel, head of Wellness at Discovery Vitality: " The trick to making your lifestyle healthier is to make small healthy changes everyday, such as taking the stairs instead of the lift, increasing your fruit by one, drinking one extra glass of water or quitting smoking." So, let's start with the fundamental basics of healthy living: regular exercise, healthy eating and healthy lifestyle choices:  
I like to move it, move it!

Do as King Julian does and move your body. Not just once now-and-then -but everyday whenever you can. Although a set exercise session is great to work into your daily routine, you can burn kilojoules in other small ways such as:
  • Walking to someone else's desk rather than sending an e-mail.
  • Parking furthest from the building and walking in.
  • Taking the stairs more often.
  • Doing house cleaning or gardening
  • Taking the dog for a walk or cycling with the kids instead of watching TV.

We all stand together

We spend our lives sitting- at our desks, in front of the TV, in a meeting or on the phone. New research emerging highlighting the potential risk to health from all our sitting behaviour. So, break your sitting time by standing by five minutes and reap the health benefit. Every little bit counts and it all adds up to burning more calories. If you're overweight, making small changes in your daily exercise routine can benefit your health. In fact one study has found that just a 10% drop in weight help overweight people to reduce their blood pressure, cholesterol and improve their well being.

Eating healthily

When it's comes to healthy eating, there is an overwhelming array of theories, diet books and online information about what to eat- which is often conflicting. Although the research is still on going and developing, what the experts all agree on is that our diets are too high in sugar, our portion are too big and we should eat a variety of whole natural foods.

Sweet enough

From sugary drinks to breakfast cereal, it;s hard to get away from sugary food. Often the sugar is hidden in canned goods or pre-packaged foods, or even in foods we think are healthy for us such as fruit juice. The average person takes in about 22 teaspoons of  added sugar each day. According to the American Heart Association the daily target should be no more than six level teaspoons for women, and nine for men- that;s for both foods and beverages combined. The easiest way to limit your sugar intake with one small change is to cut out sugary fizzy drinks. This alone can help you to lose or maintain a healthy weight which in turn will reduce your risk of heart disease, obesity and diabetes.

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