Healthy Living

Tips That Are Easy To Forget

People are always on the lookout for tips and little strategies that can help them to get and stay healthy and there are plenty of such tips out there, some of which you may have already heard but forgotten about.

One such tip is setting a strict time for doing exercise, including any workout routines you may have. You need to work out the days and times you can fit these in, and then make sure that you stick to it. Exercise – and many other things – is far more likely to get done if you know precisely where and when you are going to do it.

Another good tip is to eat healthy snacks throughout the day such as fruits and nuts. Those who do not snack regularly are more likely to get hungry and then choose inappropriate and unhealthy foods to satisfy that hunger.

Eating breakfast every morning is vital to making certain that you do not end up becoming too hungry at lunchtime and as a result again making unhealthy choices or over-indulging.

Change Your Drink

The average American drinks as much as fifty gallons of soda and similar sweetened beverages per annum. A regular twenty ounce drink of cola contains around 17 teaspoons of sugar and such drinks are the single biggest source of extra sugar in the diet of Americans. The average adolescent in California effectively consumes thirty nine pounds worth of sugar from such drinks every year, with the risk of obesity jumping by sixty percent with every extra drink consumed by a child in a day.

To avoid this health trap, you need to take action. Water should be the first choice to drink when thirsty, and should also be ordered in preference to high calorie drinks when eating out. Apart from water, drink more fat-free or low-fat milk and less sweetened drinks. You can infuse water with flavor by adding lemons, berries, mint leaves, limes, cucumbers and other natural flavors. If you drink tea or coffee, have it unsweetened and if you cannot go without a sweetened drink, make it a small instead of a large.