Tips to Healthier Living

Written by Shannon Kadlec


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6. Stay healthy by always carrying cleansing hand gel. You will prevent yourself and those around you from getting viruses by using hand gel regularly. Also, be sure to get your flu shot in October every year if you are in a high risk group. High risk groups include those over 50 years old, children with asthma, people with heart or lung diseases or people that care for others in a high risk group.

7. Eat fiber!! You have heard it all your life and it is true. People that fill up on fiber are much less likely to be overweight than those adults that do not. You will eat less and have a lower insulin level.

8. The healthiest foods to eat arerepparttar following: avocados, spinach, broccoli, kale, cantaloupe, carrots, mangos, pumpkin, red bell peppers, strawberries and sweet potatoes. Spinach is one ofrepparttar 115737 highest antioxidant foods there is. It is filled with heart-healthy foliate, vitamin A, potassium, iron, calcium and vitamins C and A.

9. Do not skip breakfast! Research shows that eating inrepparttar 115738 morning will increase your metabolism by 10 to 25 percent.

10. Walking everyday is an important step to preventing osteoporosis, improving circulation, increasingrepparttar 115739 supply of oxygen to your blood and keeps your joints lubricated. Exercise isrepparttar 115740 key to keeping unwanted weight off. Dieting may take offrepparttar 115741 same weight but dieters that are not exercising will not keep it off forrepparttar 115742 long run. If you only exercise and not diet, you will lose just as much weight as a dieter but will keep it off.

11. Adults lose as much as half their muscle mass between ages 35 and 70. Using a protein supplement and regular strength training will stoprepparttar 115743 loss and even reverserepparttar 115744 loss. It also will preventrepparttar 115745 onset of osteoporosis.

It only takes a few extra pounds to raiserepparttar 115746 risk of high blood pressure, high cholesterol and high blood sugar-especially when these extra pounds aroundrepparttar 115747 mid-section. Exercising for at least 20 minutes-three times a week will keep you fit and get you onrepparttar 115748 road to a healthier future.

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The Atkins Diet - Separating Fact From Fiction

Written by Nick Nilsson


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Reduced Consumption of Refined Foods - highly refined foods arerepparttar source of many health problems. The more processed a food is,repparttar 115736 less nutrients are generally in it. The Atkins Diet encourages a focus onrepparttar 115737 consumption of more natural state foods such as vegetables, lean meats, fish, eggs and healthy oils.

Some ofrepparttar 115738 negatives that have been associated withrepparttar 115739 Atkins Diet include:

Rapid Regaining of Lost Weight - this can happen when a person comes offrepparttar 115740 Atkins Diet. They regain allrepparttar 115741 weight they lost. One ofrepparttar 115742 major reasons for this is that when you eliminaterepparttar 115743 carbs from your diet for a long period of time, your body becomes more sensitive to them. When you go back to your regular eating habits (which may not have been great to begin with), your body reacts more strongly torepparttar 115744 sugar and carbs in foods, leading to weight gain. This weight gain can be reduced by easing offrepparttar 115745 Atkins Diet gradually rather than by feasting on carbohydrates.

Lack of Food Choices - it can be difficult to find things to eat that are low carb. Most grocery stores are primarily stocked with carbohydrate-laden foods and it can get boring eatingrepparttar 115746 same things over and over again. Luckily, withrepparttar 115747 popularity ofrepparttar 115748 Atkins diet and other low carb diets, there are many delicious recipes available to help alleviate this boredom.

The Atkins Diet may not be for you but by incorporating some ofrepparttar 115749 principles in it, such as lowering your carbohydrate intake and eating more natural-state foods, you may find that you can achieve great results without ever having to restrict yourself. It may take a little longer butrepparttar 115750 results will be more permanent as it is more of a lifestyle change than a diet.

Nick Nilsson is Vice President of BetterU, Inc., an online exercise, fitness, and personal training company. Check out his latest eBook "The Best Exercises You've Never Heard Of" at http://www.thebestexercises.com or visit http://www.fitstep.com. You can contact him at betteru@fitstep.com or subscribe to BetterU News, his fitness newsletter at betterunews@fitstep.com.


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