Health and Fitness

Try to be active in your lifestyle.
It makes a person healthy and strong.

Everyone needs to be active if they wants to stay fit, not just people who have weight problem.
Stay active by jogging, walking every morning, play some sports like basketball.
If a person wants to have muscles and look lean, then one needs to workout in a gym.

There are 3 reasons for people who wants to workout:
(1) The person is overweight
(2) The person is underweight
(3) Just for fun just to keep in shape

Include in your plan to exercise to have cardiovascular and weight training.
This helps to burn calories and increase the muscle to fat ratio that will increase ones metabolism and gain or lose weight.
If you feel something wrong in your body, you first consult the doctor before undergoing any form of exercise.

Lets see the benefits of exercising:

(1) It is the easiest way to maintain and improve ones health from a variety of diseases and premature death.

(2) Studies have shown that it makes a person feels happier and increases ones self esteem preventing one from falling into depression or anxiety.

(3) An active lifestyle makes a person live longer than a person who doesn’t.

For someone who has not done exercises for a long time, please start exercise gradually.
Endurance will not be built in a day and doing it repeatedly will surely be beneficial to the person.

It is advisable to workout regularly with a reasonable diet.

A person can consult with a dietitian or a health professional to really help plan a good diet program.
It starts by evaluating the lifestyle and the health of the patient before any program can be made.

Afterwards, this is thoroughly discussed and recommended to the person which usually consists of an eating plan and
an exercise program that does not require the use of supplements or one to purchase any expensive fitness equipment.

A good diet should have food from all the food groups.
This is made up by 2 things. The first is carbohydrates. The food that a person consumes should have vitamins, minerals and fiber.
A lot of this can come from oats, rice, potatoes and cereals. The best still come from vegetables and fruits since these have phytochemicals,
enzymes and micronutrients that are essential for a healthy diet.

The second is fat which can come from mono and poly saturated food sources rather than animal fats.
Since fat contains more than double the number of calories in food, this should be taken in small quantities to gain or lose weight.

Another way to stay healthy is to give up some vices.
Most people smoke and drink. Smoking has been proven to cause lung cancer and other diseases as well complications for women giving birth.
Excessive drinking has also shown to do the same.

For people who don’t smoke, it is best to stay away from people who do since studies have shown that nonsmokers are also at risk of developing cancer due to secondary smoke inhalation.

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