Various Tips to Stay Healthy and in Good Shape

There are various tips to stay healthy and in good shape that are small things you can change here and there in your daily routine and diet. If you stick to changing the little habits one at a time, pretty soon you will realize that you feel better, look better and sleep better. The same health habits that can change a sedentary life can also benefit those who have health problems, and even in some cases improve their condition.

Move, Move, and Move Again!

One of the easiest healthy living tips to implement is to start getting a little exercise every day. You think you don’t have time; you are busy all day and all evening until you fall in bed at night. You can get this exercise while you go about your usual activities. Take the stairs instead of the elevator, park farther away from the building at work or when shopping, and walk the rest of the way. It only takes a couple of minutes longer, but you would be surprised how much exercise you will get. Pack your sneakers in your bag when you leave for work. Take a walk at lunch or on break.

You are What You Eat

Some good healthy tips that you can apply to your diet are also simple and easy. Eat low fat yogurt with live acidophilus cultures every day. It’s great for breakfast, a snack or dessert. When you scramble an egg use a canola oil spray instead of butter or margarine in the skillet. The spray has 0 calories and 0 fats. Take a salad or light sandwich to work for lunch instead of going out for fast food or a sit down lunch. Bake, broil or grill your meat rather than fry it. Try eating pinto beans instead of meat; all the protein and none of the fat. Steam your vegetables crisp tender instead of boiling the vitamins and nutrients away. Snack on raw veggies, dried fruit or un-buttered popcorn instead of chips, crackers or cookies.

The Healthy Choices

Step down from whole milk to 2%; it has pretty much all the flavor and much less fat. Try flavored water or sugar-free fruit flavored drinks rather than sodas. Drink as much water as you can stand; the body is about 75% water and it needs to be replenished. Water also flushes the toxins from the body. Tap water should always be filtered or purified for drinking. The chemicals that kill undesirable bacteria and microbes are not good for you and should be removed before you drink it.

Eat lots of fresh fruit; many will tell you that the natural sugar in fruit is just as bad as cane sugar. This is simply not true. The natural sugar in fruit is easily processed by the body and is the kind of sugar your body craves to give you energy. Do not panic when a label says high fructose corn syrup; it is all natural and made from corn. It is similar to the sugar in fruit. The same is true of carbohydrates; the body will not function properly without them. They are the fuel that allows your body to burn fat.

Step down the size of the portions of food on your plate and eat it more slowly; you’ll feel just as full without nearly as many calories. When you really want something, eat it, just don’t eat it all. You’ll be amazed how much difference a few of these changes can make in the way you feel.

This article is the courtesy of Patrick Grant from good-health-tips.org, a website about various health topics.