Fitness & Wellness

What Is Clean Eating?

What Is Clean Eating?

Clean eating means eating more whole foods and avoiding processed foods, particularly those high in sugar and refined flour. Some people have tried clean eating and focused on how difficult it was and maybe you were one of those people. It doesn’t have to be, although if you eat in restaurants frequently, it is a little harder. It can be an inexpensive, simple method of losing weight forever. At Rising Fitness, we’ve made it easier with a personalized dietary plan to help you learn how to cook healthier to develop healthy habits. If you’re eating in a restaurant, you’ll learn ways to choose healthier foods.

Start with meal planning and eating at home.

We create the meal plans for you, which includes a shopping list. With that help, you can do meal prep ahead on the weekend and just heat and eat during the week. That makes meals quicker during the week and saves time, while ensuring you get all the nutrients you need without extra sugar or additives. That means clean eating can save you money, since you’ll use all the ingredients for various meals throughout the week.

If snacking is your downfall, clean eating has you covered.

Clean eating doesn’t mean eating less or starving yourself. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. It means learning to eat healthier and includes snacks for mid-morning and mid-afternoon. The snacks are healthy and provide extra nutrition, while filling you up without excess calories. Some options include nuts or homemade trail mix, veggies and dip or a piece of fruit.

Clean eating doesn’t mean eating just raw fruits and vegetables.

Quite the contrary! It also doesn’t mean you can’t have any processed food. Almost all food is processed in one way or another. In fact, washing fresh fruits or vegetables is a form of processing. Frozen fruit and vegetables without any additives, such as sugar, can be part of a clean eating diet. Canned food that doesn’t have added sugar or salt can also be in a clean eating diet. In fact, even canned beans that have added salt can be rinsed several times and used.

  • When you eat in a restaurant or a family get-together or business luncheon, it’s not always possible to eat clean. Choose the healthiest options, but if they’re not available, it’s not the end of the world. Just go back to clean eating at your next meal.
  • Our program has a grocery list, so it eliminates that step. You can check the ingredients you need for the next week’s meal and do all your shopping at once. Shop after you eat, so cookies and snack foods don’t tempt you.
  • Always wash, chop and store fresh fruits and vegetables when you get home from the grocery. That way you’ll have snacks immediately and cut preparation time on the weekend.
  • You can freeze leftover fruit and vegetables and have them in the freezer for smoothies and other quick meals. It helps you save money. Ripe bananas can be cut in rounds, frozen on a tray and stored to make healthy ice cream that takes just a minute.

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Is It Important To Time Your Workouts?

Is It Important To Time Your Workouts?

It doesn’t matter what you do, everything has a sweet spot. You know when it’s just the right amount. Goldilocks knew it when she sat on the chair, tasted the porridge and slept in the bed. There’s also a sweet spot when it comes to how long and how often you workout. It’s one reason we recommend that you time your workouts. Timing can tell you a lot.

If you’re running a mile, it can tell you how much progress you’ve made.

Timing your workout can help you understand how much exercise you’re actually getting. If you go to the gym and take long breaks between exercises, stopping and talking to others, that hour at the gym is deceptive, since it’s not how long you really exercised, but how much time you spent at the gym. If you aren’t making progress, but are “putting in the time,” start recording actual minutes exercised instead.

Spending long hours actually working out can also be a problem.

No matter how great exercise is for your body, you can get too much. Your body needs to recover and heal, especially after a tough workout. It’s important to time strength training, making sure you have between one or two days in between to allow the body to repair the micro tears in the muscles that cause them to get stronger. Timing your next tough workout after a particularly grueling session is important. Even though exercise burns off stress hormones, tough workouts create stress and can affect your immune system for as long as 72 hours. Time the tough sessions so you get rest between them.

Timing a workout can include the time of day you exercise.

There’s a lot of debate on whether it’s better to workout in the morning, at lunch or after work. Unfortunately, there’s no clear answer. Your hormone levels may be higher in the morning, so you’ll burn more fat, while getting your day started right and getting your exercise done early. A midday workout ensures you have more energy than you did in the morning and can boost your energy level throughout the afternoon. Working out at the end of your work day can burn off the hormones of stress and help you to wind down, while be invigorating as well, as long as you don’t do it too late. The answer is “You do you.” Do what fits your needs, but do it consistently and at the same time each day.

  • While the amount of time you spend is important, so is intensity and style. A HIIT—high intensity interval training—workout is shorter, but provides the same benefits as a longer steady state workout. The more intense the workout, the shorter it should be.
  • If you have a heart monitor or blood pressure machine that provides heart rate, check your resting heart rate. If it suddenly and consistently increases in a resting state, you’ve stressed your body and may need to cut back on the workout.
  • If you’re timing your workout, only count the amount of time you’re exercising. Track each exercise and tally the number of minutes. You’ll be surprised at how little time you spend actually exercising.
  • If you workout too much, you could be sabotaging your efforts. Overworking your body can actually lead to loss of muscle mass and cause you to be tired.

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Getting Started With Running

Getting Started With Running

I firmly believe that Rising Fitness in Houston, Texas, provides the best program to get clients fit faster. However, once people start here, they often want to live a fitness lifestyle that goes beyond the walls of the gym. That includes having fun with the family hiking, biking and even running. We help clients get into shape to run and guide them on getting started. Each new physical undertaking requires knowledge to stay safe and injury free.

Running is a great addition to any workout program.

You get the benefit of getting outdoors, plus a calorie torching workout that builds stamina and endurance. You don’t have to start out with a full ten miles or hour of running. In fact, we don’t recommend it. Start with shorter runs and build to taking longer ones. If you want to get in a full half hour or longer, you can break it up to shorter ten to fifteen minute sessions throughout the day until your body is ready for a distance run.

Alternate your speed to maximize the benefits.

You can turn your run into an HIIT—high intensity interval training—-workout, which is one of the most effective for burning calories and getting into shape. All you have to do is alternate between a few minutes of top intensity and moderate, recovery intensity for an equal amount of time. Moderate intensity means you can carry on a conversation, but you can’t sing. You also have a light sweat after about ten minutes and are breathing fast, but not out of breath. High intensity means saying more than a word or two is out of the question. Sweat forms after a minute or two and you’re really breathing hard.

Warm up, cool down and stay hydrated.

As you would with any type of exercise, you need to get your body ready for the run with some warm-up time and end your workout with a cool down, which can be as simple as pacing for a while. The Texas sun can be sizzling, so watch the heat. When the temperature rises, either take your running to the gym on a treadmill or do it earlier in the morning before it gets too hot. Make sure you’re hydrated and take water with you to sip along the way.

  • Stay safe when you run and be aware of your surroundings and traffic. If you run at night or in the early evening, wear reflective clothing. Run with a partner and let your family know where you’ll be running.
  • Choose level terrain when you first run. Seasoned runners may choose uphill, uneven terrain, but when you’re beginning, be a little easier on yourself with a flat, even surface.
  • Track your runs. If you opt for a certain length of time, track the mileage, too. The same is true if your goal is distance. Track your time. As you continue running, you’ll find it takes far less time to get the same distance.
  • Drinking or eating a lot before a run isn’t recommended. A small high carb snack two to three hours before a run is recommended, just as consuming about 200 calories after a run is. Avoid sugar, high fiber and spicy foods. Stick with a simple carb and protein, like peanut butter and whole wheat bread.

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How Much Caffeine Is Too Much?

How Much Caffeine Is Too Much?

Recent studies have shown that some people benefit from having some caffeine before a workout, but how much caffeine should they take and in what form? Caffeine occurs naturally in a lot of forms that are quite popular. That cup of coffee, tea or cola soft drink contain caffeine, so does that bar of chocolate. Caffeine acts as a stimulant in the body, which is one reason people use coffee to help stay awake. It does have some drawbacks, including the potential to increase both blood pressure and heart rate.

There’s been a number of studies that show caffeine may provide a benefit for people who exercise.

While there’s no concrete agreement, many studies show that consuming caffeine before a workout may boost your endurance, which in turn may produce a longer and more productive workout session. The reason why that happens is debated. It may cause the body to use fat stores as fuel instead of sugar stored in the body or trick the brain into feeling less tired. If you need a cup of coffee in the morning as a jump start, you know it may also boost your enthusiasm to get going and get tough.

How much caffeine does it take to get those effects?

Studies show that for the average person, between 200 and 350 mg helped people boost their endurance. How much is that when you translate that to cups of coffee, hot chocolate, chocolate bars, cola or tea? The average cup of coffee contains between 90 and100 mg of caffeine. A milk chocolate bar has about the same amount as a cup of decaffeinated cup of coffee, while dark chocolate contains between 5 and 20 mg of caffeine per ounce and can be higher. A cup of hot chocolate has about 25 mg of caffeine, while a cola has between 30 and 50 mg of caffeine. Two cups of coffee before working out is approximately 200 mg, the amount shown to improve endurance.

Caffeine isn’t the answer for everyone.

Caffeine affects everyone differently. Some people can guzzle pots of coffee without noticing any difference, while others have a cut and feel jittery. In fact, studies show it can even affect the performance of those people in a negative way. Caffeine also acts like a diuretic, which can lead to dehydration due to frequent urination. It can have an adverse effect on your digestion, causing diarrhea and upset stomach.

  • It can cause problems with the heart and nervous system, seizures, muscle tremors, insomnia and a rapid heartbeat.
  • It’s hard to get too much caffeine from just drinking coffee for most people, but when you consider it’s in candy, medications—including pain relievers—and tea as well, it can add up.
  • Avoid caffeine tablets or caffeine powder. Just 1/16 teaspoon of caffeine is the actual serving size. If you took just one teaspoon of caffeine powder in water, it would be like drinking 35 cans of Red Bull at once and have some grave side effects.
  • Choosing tea or coffee for your pre workout caffeine can provide some health benefits. Coffee has some nutrients, like B vitamins and has been shown to reduce the risk of diabetes. Tea, especially green tea, is loaded with antioxidants and can lower your risk of cancer, heart disease and diabetes.

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Simple Changes For A Healthier Heart

Simple Changes For A Healthier Heart

If you want a longer life, keep your body healthier. Your heart plays an important role in your overall health and ability to function. Making small changes for a healthier heart also improves other areas of your body and allows you to be more active, which improves your heart health even more. It’s all connected and continuous. It’s never too late to get started, but the older you are, the slower the changes will occur. It’s all about living healthy every day.

Your heart needs a workout regularly to be its strongest, just as all muscles do.

When you workout, muscles get stronger, including the heart. Besides getting stronger, it gets more efficient, too. Exercising increases circulation throughout the body, including to the heart. That improves the dilation of the arteries that send blood to the heart. The more dilated your arteries are, the lower your blood pressure is. Since high blood pressure can lead to heart disease, lower blood pressure is important. The longer you workout, the better your heart muscle becomes at getting oxygen from the blood and the more your body controls the sympathetic nervous system.

Eating healthier is another change you can make for your heart.

At first, it may not seem changing your diet is simple, but it really can be. Don’t overthink it. Just start by cutting out processed foods and foods that contain white flour and added sugar. It’s simple, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. Those two changes can make a huge difference in your health. While most physicians recommend a low sodium diet for lowering blood pressure and a healthy heart, a low sugar diet is just as beneficial. Add more fruits and vegetables to your meals and choose them in a rainbow of colors.

Fat has been vilified, but it’s necessary for a healthy heart.

People often mistakenly choose low fat or no fat foods to help their heart, but those same foods are often high in added sugar to make them palatable. You need healthy fat in your diet. In fact, butter made from milk from grass fed cows improves heart health, since it contains higher amounts of CLA—conjugated linoleic acid—which is heart healthy. It also is high in omega3 fatty acids, another heart healthy fat. Unsaturated fat helps boost healthy blood cholesterol levels and reduce unhealthy ones.

  • Keep moving. If you sit longer than fifty minutes in a row, you could be wiping out the benefits of exercise and eroding your health if you don’t exercise. Get up and move for five minutes every 50-55 minutes.
  • Reduce your exercise time and boost your endurance with high intensity interval training—HIIT. Studies show HIIT can get you into shape faster. It’s a technique that can be used with any exercise. You workout at top intensity for minute or two and then the same amount of time in recovery mode.
  • Learn to relax and eliminate the effects of stress. Learning simple techniques like meditation and breathing exercises can help reduce stress. Stress takes a toll on your heart health.
  • Get adequate sleep. Not only does lack of sleep cause you to gain weight by diminishing leptin, the hormone that makes you feel full and increasing ghrelin, the one that makes you hungry, it’s also heart healthy.

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Not All "Fats" Are Created Equal

Not All “Fats” Are Created Equal

We provide nutritional guidance at Rising Fitness in Houston, TX. When people see fats in their nutritional plan, they are often surprised. In fact, many have been consuming low fat or no fat foods, which actually sabotages their weight loss. There are three main categories for fat, saturated, unsaturated and trans fats. Unsaturated fat is liquid at room temperature, while saturated fat is solid. Saturated and unsaturated fat are easily found in nature, but most trans fats are man-made with just a small amount naturally occurring.

Are some of these fats healthier than others?

Trans fats are definitely unhealthy. They are the hydrogenated products that were created to have longer shelf life, like margarine and shortening, and touted as a healthier option than butter or other natural sources. Saturated fat has been given the label of unhealthy for the heart, but new studies are showing it’s not. Unsaturated fat has been touted as the healthiest. It has two classifications within that category, monounsaturated and polyunsaturated. Within the polyunsaturated category there are fatty acids, omega3 and omega6 are polyunsaturated, while omega9 is monounsaturated. You need all types of fat—EXCEPT trans fats.

Fat can help you lose weight.

No matter what type of fat you eat, it keeps you feeling fuller longer. Fat is high in calories, but gives you a feeling of satiety. When you eat healthy fat, you aren’t eating carbs and converting your body to a fat burning machine. Fat doesn’t spike insulin production as carbs do. Less insulin means your body needs to access the stores of fat in your body. It conditions your body to burn fat, while helping you to consume fewer calories. If you eat fat-free foods, the fat is often replaced with sugar, which can cause you to gain weight.

Each type of fat has its own benefits for the body, except trans fats.

Saturated fat can strengthen the bones, help create cell membranes, protect the liver, boost the immune system and protect you from harmful microorganisms in the digestive system. Unsaturated fat help decrease LDL and cholesterol levels, aid in preventing plaque build-up in the arteries. Monounsaturated fat raises the good cholesterol levels—HDL—which also helps prevent plaque and improve bone health. Omega3, a polyunsaturated fatty acid, helps prevent platelet clotting and blocking arteries, reducing the risk of hardening of the arteries, while providing protection from irregular heartbeats. Omega3 also helps improve brain functioning and improve liver health. Both Omega3 and Omega 6 reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke, while also improving your skin.

  • Your body needs a balance of Omega6 to Omega3 in a ratio of 1:1 to fight inflammation and reduce the risk of disease, but most American diets provide a ratio of 16:1. One study showed too much Omega6 can cause aggressive behavior.
  • Foods high in polyunsaturated fat include fatty fish, such as salmon, flaxseed and walnuts. Avocados are high in monounsaturated fat, as is peanut butter. Healthy foods with saturated fat include cheese and dark chocolate.
  • The British Journal of Nutrition published a study in 2009, which showed that people who had the highest consumption of unsaturated fatty acid had lower BMIs and the smallest amount of belly fat.
  • To reduce blood pressure and blood cholesterol, increase polyunsaturated fats in your diet, which includes food like Brazil nuts. Control blood sugar levels with monounsaturated fat like cod liver oil and peanut butter.

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Are Artificial Sweeteners Worse Than Sugar?

Are Artificial Sweeteners Worse Than Sugar?

As a society, we’re addicted to sugar. It seems like extra sugar is added to all processed foods. Approximately 80% of all food on the grocery shelf contains it. As a result, sugar related illnesses like type2 diabetes, heart disease and fatty liver disease have increased. Obesity has become the leading cause of preventable deaths. To combat that, artificial sweeteners have flooded the market and become almost as prevalent in diets as sugar. There is a problem. We may be replacing one health enemy for a new one. Could sugar actually be healthier?

Artificial sweeteners can affect your hormones.

You may be still packing on the pounds, yet have substituted all sugar containing foods for ones with artificial sweeteners. There’s a reason that can happen. Artificial sweeteners contain between 200 and 600 times the sweetness as sugar, which can dull the taste buds, requiring more sweetness to get that sweet taste. Studies show it can slow your metabolism by affecting hormones. Some studies show artificial sweeteners can increase the risk of stroke, heart problems, type 2 diabetes and even make bad changes in your microbiome that affect your whole body.

There are different results from different types of artificial sweeteners.

Artificial sweeteners include a wide variety of products, with each having their own negatives and positives on how they react with your body and brain. They include acesulfame, neotame, aspartame, saccharin, and sucralose. They trick your brain into thinking it ate something sweet, but don’t provide satiety. Just like sugar, artificial sweeteners trigger the area of the brain, making them both addictive. It also interrupts the body’s natural response to sugar, which is to prepare for increased blood glucose. That causes the body to stop signaling and results in weight gain and higher blood glucose levels.

New studies show that artificial sweeteners can increase viscous fat.

Diet soft drinks are often the most prevalent place people consume artificial sweeteners, so scientists used that to study the effect they had on the waistline. A large circumference is indicative of viscous fat, which is associated with many types of conditions and diseases. It’s the worst possible fat, since it’s hard to lose and crowds organs. It showed that those who drank the most diet soft drink, had the largest waistline. Another study showed drinks with artificial sweeteners increased the risk of metabolic disease by 36% and type 2 diabetes by 67%.

  • Your microbiome affect many of bodily functions and your digestion, including mental processing. Artificial sweeteners can cause a disruption and change in your microbiome that affects your health.
  • Not only are artificial sweeteners in food like salad dressing, alcoholic beverages, snack foods and candy, it’s in children’s chewable vitamins, toothpaste and mouthwash. Even nicotine gum for those trying to kick the smoking habit, contains artificial sweeteners.
  • Aspartame has been linked to “brain tumors, mental retardation, birth defects, epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, fibromyalgia, and diabetes,” according to Flying Safety, the United States Air Force official publication.
  • Rather than choosing either products with added sugar or ones with artificial sweeteners, consider giving up added sweetness of all types. It takes a while, but eventually you’ll find the true sweet taste of fruits and that they fill your need for something sweet.

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Workout And Relieve Stress

Workout And Relieve Stress

Sometimes when you’re done with your daily responsibilities, you may feel totally stressed out and just want to watch TV or videos. While it might feel good to engulf yourself in the story, it won’t help you relieve the stress you feel. What should you do instead to relieve stress? The answer is simple, just workout. Try it sometime and you’ll see. It doesn’t have to be a traditional workout, just running up and down stairs or going for a brisk walk can help lower stress levels and make you feel great.

What does stress do to the body?

Stress causes the body to change. Your brain creates hormones when you’re stressed and those prepare you to run or fight. The fight or flight response was important for early man, when stress was caused by real danger, like wild animal attacks. Today, much of our stress comes from traffic jams, an angry boss or just the chaos of everyday life. The brain doesn’t care. It still sends out the same hormones and makes the changes to get you ready for running or fighting, even though the situation doesn’t call for it. These hormones increase the blood to extremities so you can run or fight, dilate the eyes to see better, increase heart rate and blood pressure, slowing blood flow to other areas, like the organs for digestion.

How does exercise help?

Since stress changes the body to run or fight, running and fighting causes it to burn off the hormones. Exercise mimics those activities. When you’re working out, you’re doing exactly what it takes to eliminate the hormones of stress and increase the hormones that make you feel good and act like natural pain killers, something else important if you’ve just fought off a saber-toothed tiger.

Not all stress is easy to identify or eliminate.

Danger can be real or perceived. We all understand how getting screamed at by the boss can be stressful, but what about people that are afraid of a tiny spider? That doesn’t make sense. Have you ever felt stressed and scared just watching a movie or waking up from a nightmare? Your brain doesn’t differentiate between real and imagined, just as it doesn’t differentiate between fighting and exercise.

  • Exercise increases circulation, which can help clear your brain and make you more alert from the extra oxygen and nutrient laden blood. It relieves muscle tension and that goes a long way to relieving stress.
  • While exercise is important, so is healthy eating. No matter how much you exercise, if your diet is filled with sugary treats, your body will react with stress from the spikes and valleys of blood sugar levels.
  • If you’re feeling anxious, studies show that exercise can help. In fact, it’s used as an adjacent therapy for anxiety and depression. In some studies, exercise was used as a replacement for medication.
  • An imbalance of your gut microbiome—the microbes in your digestive tract—can affect your emotions. Exercise can help increase the beneficial bacteria, so can a healthy diet that includes prebiotics like fiber.

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Let's Teach Our Kids To Be Healthy

Let’s Teach Our Kids To Be Healthy

While it’s normal for children to run like wild animals when playing and be active, it’s not necessarily how it is today. We are a nation of screens and video games and kids are caught up in the technology. Today, we have to take an active role to ensure that our kids get the activity they need. We have to do the same as adults, since manual labor has been replaced by modern machinery. How do you teach kids to be healthy? It starts by being a good role model.

You have to motivate your kids and what better way than playing with them?

It’s not always easy to find time to play with your children. You may still be at work when they get home from school, then there’s the dinnertime hassle and before you know it, it’s bedtime. One way to help is our kids club and youth program. They can come to the gym the same time as you do and both of you will get fit. Carving out time specifically each night to shoot hoops, ride bikes, play red light/green light or do hula hoops, for example, can create more than a healthy lifestyle for your kids, it creates bonds.

Save time with meal prep and let the kids help.

Have you ever tried meal planning and prep? You create a meal plan for the week, create a list of ingredients, shop on one night and then when you have time, usually on the weekend, cook all the meals for the week. We provide meal plans with our app with meals the kids can help prepare ahead. Meal prep can make mealtime easier, since all you have to do is heat it and serve. Kids can help. Nothing tastes better than a meal you helped create, so give them a starring role in the dinner.

Have water in the refrigerator ready to drink and cut out the sugary drinks.

Sometimes, having a drink already in the fridge can make it more appetizing. If your kids don’t like water, try infused water. You can make a wide variety of flavors without added sugar and even create ice cubes with fruit inside it. Steer clear of soft drinks and even fruit juice. While it might seem healthy and is better than soft drinks, fruit juice is high in sugar and doesn’t have the healthy fiber of the whole fruit. Infused water or water and the whole fruit is far better.

  • Combine the physical with the mental and learn about the wild life and plants before hiking or take a walk at the Houston Botanical Garden. Visiting the Museum District and stopping at the Health Museum can provide a great education.
  • Have healthy snacks in the refrigerator ready to eat after school or bagged in individual servings on the counter. Whether it’s cubed watermelon, a bag of nuts or homemade trail mix, they’ll learn healthy eating.
  • Set a bedtime and stick with it, for both you and your child. Getting adequate sleep is extremely important, so get them started out right, while you also break bad habits.
  • Make household chores part of your routine together. Cleaning house can be fun if you put your muscles into it. When you have helpers, it can also save time to do other activities with the kids.

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A Holistic Approach To Fitness

A Holistic Approach To Fitness

The minute you enter Rising Fitness in Houston, TX, you’ll realize that we’re different. We take a holistic approach to fitness that’s based on each person’s individual needs. If you’re already eating healthy, but have a difficult time with stress and don’t get nearly enough exercise, there’s no reason to focus on your diet. We talk to clients to find the best ways to help them. While the person with a healthy diet may get a few tips, we’ll focus more on the problems he or she faces, stress and a sedentary lifestyle.

Creating an exercise program shouldn’t be a one-size-fits-all project.

There are four types of fitness, endurance, strength, balance and flexibility. You need all four to be your fittest. Some people may be quite strong, but unable to run more than a block. Others might have great endurance when running and even be quite flexible, but don’t focus on strength building or balance. You need all four. Flexibility increases range of motion, balance helps prevent injury, endurance is good for your cardiovascular system and strength-building helps prevent injuries and reduces the risk of osteoporosis.

A healthy diet does more than just help you lose weight.

If you’re eating healthy, your plate is filled with vegetables in a rainbow of colors. Knowing the best combinations to ensure your diet contains all the nutrients your body requires can be important. If you’re under stress, part of the problem and part of the solution can be found in your diet. You may not have to lose weight, but you also may not be giving your body the nutrients it requires. Healthy eating should include foods high in nutrients, like vitamin C, which is often depleted when you’re under stress. It shouldn’t include foods high in added sugar that can actually add to your stress.

There are more factors to living a healthy lifestyle.

Lack of sleep and inadequate hydration can interfere with your good health. Too often people neglect their sleep to put more time into work, only to find that simple tasks at work take far longer than expected. Adequate hydration is so simple, you’d think it wouldn’t be a problem, yet it is for some people. Even mild dehydration can cause exhaustion, a headache, constipation and confusion, among other problems. Both ensuring adequate sleep and hydration are extremely important to good health.

  • Inadequate exposure to the sun can cause a vitamin D deficiency. Too much sun without sunblock can cause cancer, but safe sunning that’s timed can boost your health, especially since it’s hard to get vitamin D from the food you eat.
  • Friendships and a sense of community are important, according to a variety of studies. People with a good social life tend to live longer and healthier.
  • Good recovery techniques can improve your fitness level. When you recover rapidly, you’re ready for your next workout and even look forward to it.
  • Including the family in your journey can help everyone enjoy good health. It can be a bond that ties a family together. Getting children on the path to fitness with an active lifestyle, healthy diet and other good habits is important.

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