Submitted by englishsux on 05/26/2008 03:21 PM Flag This Paper
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How to Live a Healthy Life
Throughout the years millions of Americans have been living very unhealthy lives. This is all caused by lack of exercise, use of tobacco, alcohol consumption, and poor diets. Most of these people have poor diets and don’t do enough exercise because it takes time away from work, family, and their lives. Some of them try to do exercise and eat healthy, but give up after not seeing results fast enough or because it’s too much work. A lot of people are just completely lazy and don’t do anything to be healthy. Usually this type of behavior leads to obesity and other serious health problems. It’s amazing to know how many of these people would like to live until they’re at least 80 or 90 years old. As knowledge about health and medication improves, people have been known to live longer, but if they don’t take care of themselves that will never happen.
The only way to change these unhealthy habits is to change your lifestyle. This includes eating right, getting enough exercise, not smoking, not drinking, and reducing stress. Simple things like not watching much TV, riding your bicycle or walking to a destination, taking stairs instead of an elevator, or parking farther away from an entrance makes a big difference in any lifestyle. Avoiding fad diets is also a way to stay healthy. Many people think that dieting is something that’s very hard to do so they turn to fad diets. This should be definitely be avoided, eating healthy isn’t rocket science and fad diets could really mess up your digestive system.
Another way to better your lifestyle is by not buying foods you know you shouldn’t eat such as fast food, processed foods, and soda. These foods are swimming with saturated fat. A good way to keep track of this is by keeping a food diary. This should help keep track of what you eat and why you eat. Sometimes people eat for comfort and not because of hunger, this can help that problem.
Being physically fit is also an...