Thursday 24 January 2008

Healthy Living And Exercise

To be healthy, you have to do more than just eat healthy. A balanced lifestyle requires regular physical activity, stress management and personal time-in addition to a flavorful and nutritious diet.


Why It’s Important?
Healthful life choices do more than manage your weight: they can reduce stress and risks to various diseases, including cardiovascular disease.
You have a busy life: balancing work, family and friends fills up the calendar quickly. In our fast-paced world, we frequently forget to add time for ourselves to that jam-packed calendar or ever-growing To-Do list. More often than not, it’s our personal eating and exercise plan that suffers.

As you’ve seen in countless studies, a healthy eating plan and regular exercise have been shown to help manage the effects of stress caused by our busy lives. When we’re stressed, we tend to over-eat or choose high-fat foods: which only leads to more stress about what we’re eating.

Choosing the right foods, ones that are low in fat AND full of flavor, helps maintain your current weight or start you on a path toward weight loss. Eating right also reduces your risk of most diseases, including cardiovascular disease.

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