Whether it's a resolution or a goal, you can make 2010, a healthier one. The Ten Steps To A Healthy New Year are:
The First Step "A Year in Review: The first step is to take a look at what your diet and health have been like for the last 12 months. It is important to take an honest look at your health and dietary habits in order to set goals for your health and diet.
The Second Step "Setting Goals: Do you want to lose weight? Do you want to reduce cholesterol or lower your blood pressure? Decide what you really want to achieve for your health and diet over the next month and over the next year. One good goal for your first month could be to resolve to walk for 30 minutes four days per week each week this month.
The Third Step "Determining Your Dietary Needs: There are so many diets ranging from low carb to low fat to low calorie. If you have specific health concerns, you should make an appointment to see your doctor or a nutritionist to help you.
The Fourth Step "Design Your Healthy New Diet: A healthy diet should give you five to nine servings of fruits and vegetables per day, 25 grams of fiber per day, five or six ounces of protein per day and a small amount of omega-3 essential fatty acids each day.
The Fifth Step "Dietary supplements: A healthy diet should give you all of the vitamins and minerals you need, but many people take vitamins just to make sure. There are several formulations available, but all you need is a simple multivitamin and multimineral supplement.
The Sixth Step "Shopping and Cooking: When you shop for healthy foods, Choose fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grain breads, lean meats, fish and legumes. Avoid foods high in saturated fats, sodium, trans fats and sugar and also stay away from the snack food and the prepackaged foods as much as possible.
Cooking methods are also important for healthy nutrition. Steam your vegetables instead of boiling them to mush. Steaming will preserve more of the vitamins found in the vegetables. Avoid deep-frying your foods. Frying foods adds fats and calories and doesn't add any nutrition.
The Seventh Step "Getting Started With A Food Diary: If you are really serious about changing your diet, losing weight and improving your health, you can keep track of the foods you eat every day in a food diary. If you need to lose weight, decrease fewer calories each day.
The Eighth Step - Exercise Fitness And General Health Goals: Healthy nutrition is just part of a healthy lifestyle. Another component of health and fitness is exercise. Walking, running, aerobic exercise and weight lifting are all great exercises.
The Ninth Step "Reduce Stress: Stress is detrimental to your health. Stress includes daily events like constant deadlines at work, more activities that time to do them, as well as emotional traumas.
The Tenth Step "Motivation And Maintenance: Sometimes getting started with a new healthy diet and fitness plan is the easy part. Many of us hit occasional road-blocks due to busy schedules, loss of motivation and sometimes we hit weight loss plateaus. But be motivated.
If you smoke, you will really do yourself a favor by quitting as smoking has been connected to so many chronic diseases. One drink per day has been shown to be beneficial. More than one drink per day can be detrimental to your health, so you should decrease your consumption of alcohol.
Finally, make your resolutions work all year long by adjusting your attitude, changing your lifestyle and coming up with a plan for success. Remember, having the right diet and getting enough exercise will not only improve your health- IT WILL IMPROVE YOU LIFE.
Category » Editorial Posted On Friday, January 01, 2010
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