My Top 10 Health & Nutrition
Recommendations
Author: Daniel Brown
These 10 health recommendations will help secure your health
and help you to live your life abundantly!
1. The most important thing that you can do to keep from
getting sick is to wash your hands...
By frequently washing your hands you wash away germs that
you have picked up from other people, from contaminated surfaces,
or from animals. We pick up germs everywhere on a regular
basis, so if you do not wash your hands frequently you will
infect yourself when you touch your eyes, your nose, or your
mouth.
One of the most common ways people catch colds is by rubbing
their nose or their eyes after their hands have been contaminated
with the cold virus.
Wash your hands frequently! Introduce the rule of every family
member washing their hands when they get home. It is a quick
and easy way to reduce the spreading of germs.
2. Put meals in a crock pot before you leave in the morning...
When you come home from a long day from where ever, the last
thing you probably feel like doing is cooking dinner. So,
we just throw together something quick and simple, therefore
sacrificing our nutritional needs.
The real beauty of slow cooking is that a healthy, complete
meal can be tossed in the crock in the morning and then ignored
until dinnertime. This is a real plus for working families
but also convenient for stay-at-home parents who may have
enough to do without stirring and stewing over a more complex
dish throughout the day.
3. Get unhealthy junk food out of the house...
You are most likely going to eat some regular junk food outside
of your house, like at grandma's, or at some party somewhere.
Given that fact, why keep junk food in your house? You can't
eat what is not there, so set yourself up to succeed. Store
healthy snacks instead.
Since we often eat without hunger (purely out of boredom
or other emotional reason), we should have some healthy snacks
in the house instead. You can go to any health food store
and buy snacks that are made with natural ingredients, and
that are low in fat and sugar.
4. Make exercise motivating by choosing an activity you enjoy...
Physical activity is a cornerstone of a healthy lifestyle.
Not only does physical activity make you look and feel better,
but it is also critical for improving your health and extending
your life. Being active significantly lowers your chances
of developing potentially fatal illnesses, including heart
disease, diabetes and cancer. In addition, remaining active
throughout your life can help you stay healthy and disability-free
as you age.
The real key is finding a physical activity that you enjoy
and that you can do at least 3-4 times per week. If you are
exercising out of necessity it will be short lived. Don't
fake yourself out. The best form of exercise is one that you
will stick with.
The ideal exercise regimen should suit your lifestyle, schedule,
and present fitness level. Think about what forms of exercise
you enjoy. You may love biking but hate swimming, for example.
Also consider other factors. For example, do you prefer to
exercise indoors or outdoors? Do you prefer exercising by
yourself, or do you find that exercising with others is more
motivating? Make it fun!
5. Drink plenty of water...
Water is excellent and necessary for the body and overall
good health. Every part of your body needs water to work properly,
and it needs a lot of water, so give in to it.
If you give yourself more water you will generally feel healthier
and more fit because it flushes out toxins and other unwanted
things lingering in your body. Water also replenishes fluids
that help lubricate the internal components of your body,
keeps you hydrated, reduces hunger (which helps with weight
loss), helps to make skin look smooth and young, plus a load
of many other benefits, probably even some yet to be discovered.
If you are not used to drinking water, it may seem hard at
first. But, very quickly, you will enjoy the clean, refreshing
way it makes you feel!
6. Get your hormones checked...
Low thyroid, low progesterone, and low testosterone are all
very common and usually result in excessive weight gain, low
energy, low libido, fatigue, muscle weakness, headaches, irritability,
and a host of other symptoms.
Getting your hormones tested is very simple... All you need
to do is order a saliva test kit, spit into a tube, send your
tube to a doctor who understands bio-identical hormones, have
him/her write you a prescription, and then have your prescription
filled at a compound pharmacy.
I recommend everyone have their hormone levels checked once
every year, especially if you are over 30 years old!
If you have any of the above listed symptoms, your hormone
levels could have dropped off considerably over the years
leaving you feeling like your half dead. I know, I've been
there. It's worth doing!
7. Get regular physical check ups...
This includes the regular medical routine all men and women
should have, plus regular dental cleanings, eye exams, and
chiropractic adjustments. Don't wait until your sick. An ounce
of prevention is better than a pound of cure.
8. Search for natural remedies to what ails you...
Most people will let their doctor tell them what they need,
or do not need. If you have a great amount of faith in your
doctor, then that's good. But, most people will go along with
whatever the doctor tells them without researching the facts
on their own. It's your body and your health on the line.
Be open minded! There are a lot of natural products that
can alleviate a lot of specific symptoms that you may be taking
medications for. Medications can be very helpful in some cases
but they are extremely toxic to the body. If you can find
a natural replacement, or better yet, a natural cure for your
health situation instead of a drug, then you'll be better
off.
Be proactive! It's your health and no one should care more
about that than you.
9. Keep the stress away as much as possible...
It has been found that most illness is related to unrelieved
stress. If you are experiencing stress symptoms, you have
gone beyond your optimal stress level! You need to reduce
the stress in your life and/or improve your ability to manage
it.
First of all, determine what events distress you and determine
how your body is responding to the stress.
Second, see if you can change your stressors by avoiding
or eliminating them completely. Is there any way you can shorten
your exposure?
And third, reduce the intensity of your emotional reactions.
This is simply attitude. 10% of life is what happens to you,
and 90% is how you react to it.
Some additional tips to help combat stress include; Exercise
three to four times a week, eat well-balanced meals, maintain
your ideal weight, avoid nicotine and excessive caffeine,
mix leisure with work, take breaks and get away when you can,
get enough sleep and be as consistent with your sleep schedule
as possible.
10. Use natural vitamin and mineral supplements...
Like the names imply, natural vitamins are in a form that
occurs in nature while synthetic vitamins are manufactured
in a laboratory. The only benefit of synthetic vitamins is
that they are cheaper to make, therefore less expensive for
the consumer. Natural vitamins are worth the few extra dollars
they command.
Vitamins in nature occur within a family of micro-nutrients,
trace elements, enzymes, co-factors and other unknown factors,
that help them absorb into the human body and function to
their full potential. Natural vitamin supplements extracted
from whole food sources maintain this delicate balance of
complementary
co-nutrients and are more biologically active.
Synthetic vitamins are usually isolated into one pure chemical,
thereby missing out on some of the additional benefits that
nature intended. These man-made vitamin formulas often contain
fillers, stabilizers and/or salts that decrease the content
of what you want to ingest, may inhibit absorption, and can
actually deplete the body of other nutrients. Dollar for dollar
you will absorb more vitamins and getting more benefits from
a
natural supplement than the cheaper synthetic version.
Read supplement labels carefully to distinguish the natural
from the synthetic. Some products marketed as "natural"
only contain 10% natural ingredients. You're best bet is to
look for food sources on the labels - things like citrus,
yeast, fish or vegetable names. If there is a chemical-sounding
name or no source listed, it is most likely a synthetic supplement.
Conclusion
Again, these 10 health recommendations will help secure your
health and help you to live your life abundantly!
About the author: Daniel Brown is a natural health advocate!
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