Follow this Basic health tips daily to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
1. Reduce Stress
There are many recomended ways to reduce stress. Some techniques recommended by experts are to think positive thoughts. Spend 30 minutes a day doing something you like. It may be Soaking in a hot tub; walk on the beach or in a park, read a good book, visit a friend, play with your dog, listen to soothing music, watch a funny movie. Get a massage, a facial or a haircut. Meditate.
2. Keep Moving
Make it a daily habit to find ways to move your body. Climb stairs if given a choice between that and elevators or escalators, Play with your kids, take your dog to a walk, toss balls with friends. Anything that moves your limbs is not only a fitness tool, it's a stress buster. Increase your time of moving day by day and make it a serious habit.
3. Drink Less
While recent studies show a glass of wine or one drink a day (two for men) can help protect against heart disease, more than that can cause other health problems such as liver and kidney disease and cancer.
4. Quit Smoking
smoking is harmful to your health so reduce the use of tobacco products that kill. Smoking is responsible for cancer.
5. Stay away from pollution
If you can't live in a smog-free environment, at least avoid smoke-filled rooms, high traffic areas, breathing in highway fumes and exercising near busy thoroughfares. Exercise outside when the smog rating is low. Exercise indoors in air conditioning when air quality is good.
6. Reduce Fat
Avoid fat foods such as fried foods, burgers and other fatty meats like pork, bacon, ham, salami, ribs and sausage. Nuts and sandwich meats, mayonnaise, margarine, butter and sauces should be eaten in limited amounts. Even Dairy products such as cheese, cottage cheese, milk and cream should be eaten in low fat versions.
7. Floss Your Teeth
Recent studies make a direct connection between longevity and teeth flossing. Nobody knows exactly why. Perhaps it's because people who floss tend to be more health conscious than people who don't.
8. Choose Your Parents Well
The link between genetics and health is a powerful one. But just because one or both of your parents died young in ill health doesn't mean you cannot counteract the genetic pool handed you.
