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How To Lead A Healthy Life - Healthy Living 2 Avoid toxins. Seems an obvious point to even mention that poison might be bad for you. And yet, how many individuals cough, gag, and turn green when they try their first cigarette. Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down. Though obvious, and your body's best attempt to scream at you, not to do that again, smokers are everywhere, despite those obvious warnings and internal red flags. But toxins are not just found in products you smoke. Toxins can be environmental, such as smog, or breathing contaminated air while you sit in traffic. It can be found in the food you eat: pesticides. Your microwave oven. Anabolic steroids. Industry related chemicals in your workplace. Fumes. The build-up of overly processed (junk) food in the walls of your intestines. Mad cow disease infested meat. On the surface, each of us might agree that toxins should be avoided logically, and yet exposure to them on a daily basis, completely contradicts that same human logic. Avoid toxins like you would avoid a punch square in the nose. You definitely cannot lead a healthy lifestyle if you are surrounded by or ingesting toxins, even in minute quanitites. Prevention. The cheapest health insurance known to man is prevention, but often completely overlooked. Do the right things to keep you healthy. Bullet-proof immune systems don't get sick. There's a "joke" that dates back generations before me, about a fellow who goes to his doctor, jiggles his arm violently in the air, and says: "Doctor, it hurts when I do this." The diagnosis? "Don't do that." And so is true with the art of prevention. The odds are greatly stacked in your favor that you can completely avoid trouble in life (and of course this stretches beyond the topic of your health), by never putting yourself in a position that ensures your waist-deep in the middle of it. Avoid the things that will put you in harm's way. Again, makes perfect sense logically. And yet, throughout the world people die much too early, and cheat themselves of all the riches that they wholeheartedly deserve, when they should be living longer. Countries whose inhabitants find themselves wallowing in legitimate regret, wishing they would have done things differently. "Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda" woes and regret on one's deathbed are much too common. Your actions, all them have consequences. They can be great consequences or disastrous ones. Prevention has a dramatic impact on the latter. |
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Vital Components: How To Lead A Healthy Life Manage Stress. It took me literally about 26 years to fully understand what I am about to tell you. And I utter these words from a long ancestral line of proven "control freaks", myself included. Quit worrying about things you cannot control. Stress and worry will eat you from the inside and the price you pay can be staggering. The fear of something happening is often imagined to be devastatingly worse than the reality of that fear. And yet, much of the panic your mind creates is overrated and can easily be controlled. If living longer is the objective, staying happy is much more constructive than staying mad or worried. Treat yourself well. Excessive indulgence can be unhealthy, but by no means does living healthy mean sacrificing all the things you love. Reward good behavior. Abusing the idea of self-indulgence, such as deciding (again, your choice - you are in control) that a reward might be having your favorite potato chips as a snack, but defining that snack as an entire, family-size bag of potato chips consumed in one sitting will ruin your previous healthy intentions. Humor. Keeping your sense of humor is key. It can literally perform miracles. People who have been sick and declared helpless and beyond hope by conventional doctors, prescribing "rest" while their patients wait for their allotted, best guessed, time to run out, have had complete recoveries, simply by adjusting their attitude. More than just positive mental attitude mumbo jumbo, scientific studies that have tracked sick people turning better, often have no medical explanation, despite the living, breathing, vibrant life standing before them as absolute proof. The missing ingredient was laughter. Laughing and smiling seems too easy to be considered important. And that’s why many look right past humor, like racing to the middle of a book wanting to see where the little known, highly prized secrets are. It is a powerful influence on its own, capable of reversing terminally diagnosed disease. But, so few believe in its power, and opt for more difficult answers that one might spend an entire lifetime hoping to find. Smile. Laugh. Tickle yourself. Embrace the choices you make today. Remember each decision, including those in the moment seem insignificant, but has consequences. It is up to you to feel better, or feel worse. Have you come to a conclusion? Do you want to live and be healthy? Learning how to lead a healthy life is simply a matter of making a decision to do so, then despite what is often published in an overwhelming way, taking simple, easy to do steps that add up exponentially. Little decisions and steps add up to big ones. Depending on your age now, if you are a senior, teen, or somewhere in the middle, if you have strong bones or weak ones, if your saturated fat intake and cholesterol readings are of the chart or not, are priority factors that help you focus on first steps, versus steps towards living a healthy life that true, are a step in the right direction for your overall health, but may not be the most pressing issue, for you. Literally the kind that can have a meaningful, worthwhile IMPACT on your life - Right now, simply DECIDE do you want that to be a good impact or a deadly one? (Your choice). Rob McMackey P.S. This health article will consistently be updated for your maximum benefit. Please, keep in touch. If you have questions or comments about how YOU are leading a healthy life, and perhaps would like our insight, get in touch. |
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