11 important health tips for a healthy diet and lifestyle
In fact, we are now past the first quarter of the year. Have you managed to keep those New Years resolutions regarding your intentions for a healthy diet and lifestyle? For many people, staying on the white line that is consistent with attempts to keep their intentions / promises of a healthy diet and lifestyle can be difficult.
The first thing to recognize here is that we are not perfect and prone to mistakes, so it is up to everyone to recreate our intentions … and remember that no one, at least not that I know of, achieves perfect health. The trick is to realize that it is ongoing, so stay encouraged and inspired on how you can maintain that healthy diet and lifestyle.
-Responsibility is the key and taking care of oneself when putting thoughts and deeds into action. Continue educating yourself about this lifelong process while learning to discern is another key. So here are my top 11 health tips for a healthy diet and lifestyle. I highly recommend including these tips in your health strategies.
1. Eat lots of raw foods
A raw food diet allows you to get all the nutritional benefits from your food. Foods like this do not denature (deform) vitamins and enzymes through irradiation, heat, or freezing, and therefore can be effectively involved in the body’s metabolism.
2. Avoid eating too much at one time
Eating in moderate amounts throughout the day allows you to keep your insulin levels normal. Intermittent fasting also helps with insulin levels. Both situations can also contribute to maintaining or losing weight due to the normalization of insulin.
3. Distinguish between healthy and unhealthy fats
Don’t be fooled by advertising hype; you need good quality fats as part of an essential diet. For example, contrary to what has been said, saturated fat is good for you. An excellent example of a good healthy saturated fat is coconut oil with multiple health benefits.
4. Choose organic
Organic food does not have laden chemicals like in the non-organic option. It is GMO-free and has a higher nutritional value …
5. Avoid GMOs
GMO foods have potential harmful effects from their ‘toxic genes’, they contain a number of chemicals used as herbicides, fungicides, pesticides and fertilizers … which can not only compromise the nutritional value but can also cause potential harm.
Some GMO fruits are known to contain 30 times more fructose than organic ones.
6. Alkalize your body
Eat foods that help raise your body’s pH for a healthier option.
7. Avoid junk food
With almost zero (or not at all) nutritional value, these toxic, sugar-laden, high-salt foods have the effect of causing a wide range of health problems. Learn to discern this.
8. Drink plenty of clean, filtered, or natural water.
Having an abundant supply of water for the body provides numerous health benefits.
9. Try to get 15 to 30 minutes of direct sunlight a day.
If not available, say in winter time, try supplementing with vitamin D3 tablets. Around 5000 IU a day will be enough …
10. Exercise for 15-20 minutes a day.
Excellent information can be found online that explains the health benefits of exercise and why it is necessary.
11. Have a generally optimistic / cheerful attitude in life.
Remember thoughts, feelings and emotions … your attitude in life manifests reality. Keep a close eye on how you see life and, if necessary, make the necessary changes.
-It is hoped that the reader has been encouraged to investigate and make the necessary changes to lead a healthy diet and lifestyle.