15 tips to improve your health
There are many factors in today’s lifestyle and diet that can impair good health.
Read on to see how making simple changes can improve your health:
Tip one: regular consumption of “complex” carbohydrates; these provide sustainable energy that fuels all of the body’s processes. Good dietary sources are brown rice, oatmeal, whole wheat bread, whole wheat pasta, leafy green vegetables, lentils, legumes, and beans.
Tip Two: Cut back on “simple/refined” carbohydrates like white rice, white bread, white pasta, cakes, cookies, and soft drinks; regular consumption is linked to poor health. These foods provide little nutritional value and create energy swings, which can lead to blood sugar imbalance and weight gain.
Tip three: regularly consume easily digestible protein; this provides the building blocks for the body and brain. Good dietary sources are chicken (organic or free-range), tofu, game, nuts, seeds, beans, legumes, and lentils.
Tip four: Regular consumption of “good fats (essential fatty acids)” such as oily fish, avocados, green leafy vegetables, olive oil, nuts and seeds; these are necessary for brain and cell function and contain anti-inflammatory properties.
Tip Five: Eat local and seasonal foods whenever possible, as these provide higher nutritional value than foods that have been transported thousands of miles from other countries in refrigerated containers, which reduce their nutritional content. Local foods tend to cost less, and you’re also helping to support local vendors.
Tip Six: Even Better Grow your own if you can; get an allotment/join a shared garden plan if space at home is limited. You can’t get fresher food than what you grow yourself!
Tip Seven: Eat Regularly To Avoid Energy Crashes and For Efficient Brain Function: The body can only receive energy from food. The brain uses 60% of its energy from food, so it needs regular supplies to balance mood and stay focused.
Eighth tip: always have breakfast or at least a healthy snack in the morning; While you sleep, the body consumes energy to repair itself, so it needs to be replenished. If you don’t eat for long periods of time, your body thinks it’s starving. When you eat, you’ll store more food as fat for future energy stores.
Tip Nine: Vary Your Diet – Your body needs to receive a wide range of nutrients, vitamins, and minerals to maintain health. Many people eat the same foods week after week, so they can’t make it. So try new foods and recipe ideas to increase the variety of foods eaten.
Tip Ten: Chew your food well; Digestion begins in the mouth. Chewing food well helps the digestive system work more efficiently.
Tip eleven: Moderate meal sizes. Large meals are difficult to digest, consume more energy, and put undue strain on the digestive system.
Tip Twelve: Don’t eat late at night: After 8:00 pm, energy has been diverted from the digestive system to repair and replace worn-out cells. Therefore, there is simply no energy available to digest food effectively.
Tip Thirteen: Drink Enough Water! such an easy way to improve your health. The body is made up of 2/3 water and uses approximately 1.5 liters each day through breathing, digestion of food, perspiration and urine alone. This needs to be replaced. Try to gradually increase consumption to 1.5 liters per day.
Tip Fourteen: Avoid Drinking Too Much Liquid With Meals, However: Drinking a lot of liquid with food can effectively dilute digestive juices, so food is not digested effectively.
Tip Fifteen: Reduce Intake of Stimulants such as tea, coffee, sugar, “refined” carbohydrates, and smoking. These create stress in the body, cause an energy imbalance, and deplete the levels of vitamins and minerals necessary for good health. Tea, coffee, and alcohol are also diuretics, encouraging more fluid loss from the body. Caffeine-free alternatives include rooibos (red bush) tea, valerian tea, and a wide range of fruit and herbal teas.
Therefore, making small changes to your diet and lifestyle can have a beneficial impact on your health.