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Living A Healthy Lifestyle: Steps To Living A Longer Life

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March 7, 2016

Austin Richards

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It’s safe to say that now more and more people are becoming fitness conscious and trying to live a healthy lifestyle. By making a few changes in your daily routine, you can live longer and lessen the amount of health risks we face every day. Healthy living isn’t just about exercising and eating healthy, it’s about having a permanent lifestyle changes.

Here’s How to Live a Healthy Lifestyle with Steps to Living a Longer Life: 

LEARN AND FOLLOW A HEALTHY DIET

A healthy diet consists of clean unprocessed fruits and green vegetables. Those who follow a healthy diet eat foods that are low in saturated fats and dairy. Avoid refined sugars that are common in soft drinks, and go for water, unsweetened teas, and low-fat milk. Wine is also great when kept in moderation. According to the Mayo Clinic, high consumption of coffee can lead toward an increase in cholesterol levels though has many benefits which includes lowering the rates of cancer, diabetes, and Parkinson’s disease.

It is also recommended to learn portion control for our daily intake as this will play a big role in overconsumption.

DON’T SKIP BREAKFAST , BE A LITTLE LATE

Some may suggest that skipping breakfast can lead to weight loss or maintain a healthier weight, but doing so it just the opposite as forgetting to eat breakfast will actually slow down your metabolism. Eating most of your high calories in the morning will help you burn it throughout the day. Enjoy a high-fiber, high-protein breakfast to keep your body feeling energized all throughout the day.

STAY HYDRATED, JUST WATER REALLY COUNTS

Water not only improves the conditions of your skin but also helps to suppress appetite, de-bloat the belly, and prevents headaches during warm temperatures. Keep your body hydrated will help you improve your diet and control how much you eat while keeping your body satisfied in between meals.

EAT CLEAN, WHOLE FOOD THAT ARE PESTICIDE FREE

Eating whole foods isn’t just about weight loss; it’s about living a healthy diet. Eat natural, unprocessed foods to keep your body working at its prime and highest potential while you fight off unwanted pounds and calories. Choose greens over yellow veggies, or low-fat rather than high-fat contents. Go for organic as much as possible as they aren’t treated with pesticides or chemicals.

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SNACK RIGHT and often

Skip the chips and cookies and snack on some fresh produce like fresh vegetables and fruits. The high fiber contained in fruits and vegetables will naturally fill you up and keep hunger at bay, leaving you satisfied much longer. Try a fresh fruit bowl with yogurt or Carrots and celery with low-fat ranch dressing.

ONLY EAT WHEN YOU’RE HUNGRY

Studies show that more people tend to eat due to boredom and less mindful of how much they eat. Learn how to tell the difference and not multitask while eating. Staying mindful will help you eat enough to satisfy hunger and curve cravings.

STAY PHYSICALLY ACTIVE, MOVEMENT IS ONE OF THE PILLARS OF WELLNESS

Part of living a healthy lifestyle includes staying physically active and maintains a daily exercise routine. This will keep you strong, active and develop muscle to protect your body. Maintaining physical health will help you in the long run, especially against developing osteoporosis.

KEEP A JOURNAL; That Way You talk to SOMEone everyday about things that are BOTHERIng yyou

To help you make mindful choices and keep track of your daily food intake and physical fitness, keeping a food journal will help you stay on track with your healthy lifestyle.

KEEP AN ACTIVE SOCIAL LIFE, GET OVER YOURSELF

Studies from Birgham Young University suggested that those while a close family life and friends live longer than those who are lonely. While there is not enough evidence to prove it, research suggest that a community gives people a sense of security and connection. This may actually help to promote a healthier lifestyle and avoid self-destructive habits like excessive drinking or recreational drugs.

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GET ENOUGH SLEEP Throw away your alarm clock

Research suggests that getting enough sleep leads to bolstering your immune system and lowers blood pressure. Lack of sleep has also been associated with numerous health-related problems such as diabetes, obesity, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease. One study from Harvard Medical School suggests that those who sleep an average of less than 6-7 hours are more exposed to rhinovirus, meaning they 3x more likely to develop a cold when compared to those who get at least 8 hours of sleep.

Did you know that laughing lowers stress levels and helps keep feelings high? Studies have also shown that adults with a sense of humor tend to outlive more than those who don’t. Living a healthy lifestyle isn’t just about following the perfect diet and exercising, it is about keeping both your mind and body healthy Facebook

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The Roll of Yoga for Health and Wellness

Health is not a mere absence of disease. It is a dynamic expression of life – in terms of how joyful, loving and enthusiastic you are
- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

One who is stable and established in the self is healthy. That is to say that identifying a healthy person doesn’t only entail physical fitness, but what’s even more crucial is ones mental fitness. One cannot say that ‘I’m healthy, but not interested in life’. The enthusiasm in life shows how healthy you are.

Causes of sickness or ill health are generally noted as impurities on the level of mind, body and speech. Your own speech can create distress in you as well as other people around you. Even distress or discomfort should be treated as an illness.

Body, mind and spirit are like a tripod – even if one aspect isn’t functioning properly, our life will not be balanced and that will lead to ill health. Yoga (a component of ayurveda) is that link which creates a harmony by aligning all the three components (body, mind and spirit) into one. This harmony, in turn exists to support life.

Yoga is an integral part of our lifestyle. It removes the impurities from the level of mind and unites everything with the spirit. For instance, insomnia could be connected to stress, anxiety or depression. You have to address that issue instead of merely taking medication. This way, you have a wider perception of your own mind, body, thoughts and emotions and there’s more clarity and you are able to guide your prana (life force) in a positive way to progress in life.

One can start practicing Yoga at any given moment of time and you may start with meditation or directly with pranayama without even doing the asanas (postures). Make sure that when you practice yoga asanas, you don’t just stretch the body because the mind has to be with the body. You can’t be watching television or reading the newspaper because if your awareness isn’t there, the asanas won’t have much effect on you. But if each stretch is synchronized with the breath and awareness, your practice will become a yogic practice.

Role of Food In Keeping One Healthy

Yogis in The Himalayas can survive without food because they don’t need to eat as their body survives on prana. But we need to eat and maintain a healthy diet.

Did you know that your next day starts from your dinner? What you eat, what time you eat and how much you eat affects your sleep, the morning and your entire day.

Needless to say, ahaar (food) makes a profound impact on your body and mind. Imbalance of vata, pitta and kapha (three prime energies in the body) lead to most health-related issues. For instance, if someone’s pitta (fire element) is high, certain foods can aggravate the pitta and cause restlessness, lack of sleep and anxiety, which makes it a necessity to know what foods are suitable for the body and mind by consulting an ayurvedic doctor.

Second Most Important Aspect of Health

Vihaar (Daily Routine) plays a tremendous role in measuring how healthy an individual is. A sadhak should know what is suitable for his/ her living.

There is a tendency in our body towards health. At one level, our body intelligence signals that what we are doing is not alright, but we all have our excuses because we are following our mind and emotion. That intelligence fails when you become a slave to your mind and creates problems on a physical level. And soon, it becomes a pattern.

A headache is not a disease, but a signal for something bigger, and when we suppress that sign with painkillers, the real cause soon surfaces on a much bigger scale.