You Too Can Lead a Healthier Lifestyle

By Dr Graeme Teague


To get in the right direction of feeling better, losing weight and improving your health you can take these definite steps to reach these goals. Experts do agree on some points like eating healthy, exercising regularly and getting enough sleep, despite conflict on other points. For you to look and feel your best there are some important ways to start this, and we are going to look at these.

One of the most important issues to deal with to enjoy better health is stress. Science has shown that stress has a terrible effect both on your emotional health and physical health. Feeling your best is a lot harder when you're plagued by anxiety. There are many ways to deal with stress, but the first step is to acknowledge that it's a problem for you.If you are very stressed out, you might want to get some professional counseling. There are many self help techniques like finding inspirational literature, self hypnosis and even deep breathing exercises that can help you deal with your stress. Remember that stress isn't just annoying or uncomfortable, it can be deadly.

One of the best health tips for anyone to do is simply drinking water. The nice thing regarding this bit of advice is that it's a simple and inexpensive thing to do. The only problem with it is that, for some reason, many people still don't do it. Whether you're driving somewhere, at work or at the gym you should have an adequate water supply to ensure you drink enough water throughout the day. Another thing you can do is replace any less healthy cold beverage, such as soda or sugar filled energy drinks with pure water. You should get a filter if you're not too sure about the quality of your home's water.

Some research indicates that drinking may be good for your health, and this is controversial to say but people who drink a little have fewer diseases than those who don't drink at all. Wine is very good as it has a high content of antioxidants like resveratrol. If you do not drink alcohol then you can still get these antioxidants from both fruit and fruit juice. You can have a resveratrol supplement and fruit juice instead of having wine. However, if it's something that won't bother you, having a glass of wine every day can be good for your health.

So many people have a difficult time staying away from super unhealthy foods and junky snacks even though indulging in them makes it very hard to stay healthy. It's not that hard to rationalize a single serving of french fries, glass of soda or bar of chocolate but over time those things all add up on each other. These foods might be easy and fast but they're bad for your health.If you're used to eating junk food don't try to give it up all at once. You should, instead, start slowly subbing in fruit, veggies, nuts, trail mix, etc for candy, chocolate, starchy snacks and salty snacks. Think of healthy eating as a long term commitment that you can begin working on immediately. In summary, regular exercise, good emotional health, getting enough sleep and eating healthy foods are all a part of being healthy. Do not allow yourself to be overwhelmed by attempting to change your lifelong habits in one night. If you can apply a few of these tips every day, and resolve to make improvements over time, you'll find that your overall health gets better very soon.




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