Your daily choices can affect whether you stay active as you grow older or develop life-limiting and disabling diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, and stroke. Perhaps, you know exactly what you need to do to enjoy a healthier and happier life: it is about taking time to exercise or finding ways to reduce stress. Besides, the only way to live a healthier life is to adopt a healthy lifestyle.
Usually, the biggest obstacle is laziness. Indeed, it is not easy to change deeply rooted habits, such as driving to nearby places instead of walking or eating donuts instead of fruits. However, gradually working towards change can increase the odds of success. If you want to change, the following lifestyle changes can help you achieve healthy changes in your life. Also, in the book, "Resilience," the author Patricia Scott shares her journey of surviving a liver transplant and explains how one should fight the life-threatening disease and lead a meaningful life.
So, the significant lifestyle changes that can prevent you from chronic diseases are:
1) Eat Healthily
A healthy diet is essential to health. It should not only address things like being careful in a diet but also about paying attention to maintaining a healthy weight. With a nutritious diet, you can control blood pressure, cholesterol, and sugar levels, fat intake, and other causes that lead to deterioration of health.
Instead of focusing on individual foods, it is better to coordinate regular eating habits toward healthier choices by mixing various foods in the right proportions, at the proper intervals, and with a great deal of exercise.
2) Exercise Daily
Exercising daily, at least five days a week, is indeed essential for an adult's body to have an active immune system. At least 3-5 days a week of religious exercises will significantly help your healthier body. Some of how sports activities can be incorporated into daily life are to avoid taking lifts, avoid sitting for long periods, a short walk after eating the last meal of the day, etc.
3) Quit Smoking
Today, smoking and drinking are considered "cool" among teens, but these are the most prominent health enemies. It has been observed among those who quit smoking and drinking; the number of deaths from heart disease was reduced by one-third. Besides, smoking and drinking alcohol increase the risk of atherosclerosis and blood clotting, which can damage the heart and blood vessels.
When people give up smoking and drinking, their risk of lifestyle diseases will be impressively reduced, even more than the standard drugs used to reduce the risk of heart disease (such as aspirin, statins, beta-blockers, etc.), even more. When people quit smoking, they have better skin, more energy, better lung capacity, and, therefore, better breathing. So, quit smoking and drinking to regain the positive aspects of life.
4) Control Your Weight
By eating properly and getting regular exercise, everyone needs to manage their weight to ensure a healthy life. Being overweight, especially those who are too big in the middle can lead to heart-damaging diseases. If you understand the effect of weight on body health by determining the body mass index (BMI) of healthy and unhealthy body fat, you will be healthier. A BMI over the age of 25 marks the obesity line, stating that you should now pay attention.
5) Maintain Blood Pressure & Sugar Levels
When people take all dietary measures to maintain body proportions and control weight and exercise, they can keep their blood pressure and sugar levels.
Acknowledge your bad habits and take steps to put them right today. Whether it be smoking, excessive drinking, lack of exercise, sleeplessness, or overweight, recognizing them, and beginning to reverse them is vital for a healthier and happier life.
In conclusion, it is unrealistic to switch to a healthy lifestyle overnight, but taking the necessary steps to make sure you are always healthy will take you forward and help you become the fittest person.
Author's Bio:
Dr. Patricia Scott is the author of "Resilience" and an occupational therapist. In her book, she describes how she survived two liver transplants, spinal cancer, a medically induced stroke, and complex autoimmune pneumonia. During this time, Patricia Scott exercised the values and beliefs of success and want everybody to practice the same.
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