Saturday, January 1, 2011

7 Health and Fitness Tips

Many people unconsciously do things without considering the potential undesirable lifestyle may pose to their health. Eating foods without looking at the labels or what they contain can take a toll on one's health through time. It therefore pays to be vigilant about what you eat in order to live a long life.

Here are seven health and fitness tips on food and lifestyle habits that will make a difference in your health thus enable you to live a long life.

Health and Fitness Tip # 1. Avoid power drinks, sofdrinks, or artificial juice drinks.


Do you know that power drinks, softdrinks, and artificial juice drinks contain harmful ingredients that can weaken your bones and make you age faster? Phosphoric acid contained has been correlated to osteoporosis or brittle bones.

Aside from this, artificial drinks contain caffeine, artificial flavoring or sweeteners, preservatives, among others. Caffeine has been known to cause insomnia and increased risk of having kidney stones. It is also linked to miscarriage and low-birth weight among infants. Artificial sweeteners, especially aspartame, can cause migraines, dizziness and forgetfulness. Preservatives can be carcinogenic. There are at least 12 harmful ingredients that can be found in power drinks, colas, and artificial juice drinks.

Health and Fitness Tip # 2. Watch out the fish in your diet.


Through the process of bioaccumulation and biomagnification or the gradual build-up of toxic elements like mercury in organisms, fishes that make their way into human diet through the food chain, can cause irreversible paralysis. Fishes like tuna tend to accumulate high levels of mercury. Mercury destroys the nervous system that can cause deformities in developing animals and ultimately, death.

Health and Fitness Tip # 3. Eat fruits and vegetables.


Hypertensive people can adopt a diet of fruits like potato, apple, vegetables like okra, tomato, cucumber, and eggplant to normalize blood pressure. Also, pineapple and lemon grass juice work wonders that keep blood pressure down. Eating life-giving fruits and vegetables would ensure that you live a long life with vigor.

Health and Fitness Tip # 4. Consume apples but watch out for preservatives.


Apples are known to contain antioxidants that will help prevent many diseases including cancer; unless these fruits are laced with toxic preservatives. Some resellers or market vendors use formalin, a toxic chemical, in preserving apples to maintain fruit “freshness”. In tropical countries, this practice is all too common.

Health and Fitness Tip # 5. Don't be a couch potato. Find out why you tend to be lazy.


Diabetes can cause laziness because of lack of insulin in the body. This results to fatigue. Laziness is also a symptom of lack of motivation, sleep, and exercise. Laziness runs in the family, too. When a person is lazy, he/she procrastinates. Procrastination further worsens the condition because inability to complete a job on time will lead to other negative outcomes like low self-esteem.

Health and Fitness Tip # 6. Don't worry.


Although worrying serves as the body's defensive mechanism to cope up with stress, studies point out that excessive worrying can cause many undesirable bodily reactions like dizziness, fatigue, head and body aches, nausea and shortness of breath. Worrying also increases the tendency of people to commit suicide due to depression. Why worry when you don't need to. Life is short. Why would you wish to live a long life when all you do is worry each day.

Health and Fitness Tip # 7. Avoid using cheap skincare products.


Cheap skincare products may contain mercury that can be absorbed through the skin and pass through the bloodstream. The kidneys sustain damage first and foremost because of the organ's blood-filtration function. Damaged kidneys will require either frequent dialysis or a kidney transplant that will be very costly.
Being mindful of these health tips will enable you to live a long life free of debilitating disease.

Source: Seven Health Tips on How to Live a Long Life 

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