Erma Bombeck once said, "The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again."
Exercise is important in our daily lives especially during our later years. Walking, jogging, swimming, dancing, cycling are all considered aerobic exercies that help you slim down, elevate your mood, and decrease your chances of heart disease.
It is important to pick an exercise that you can do for at least 30 minutes a day, three to four times a week. People who get hooked on moderate amounts of exercise will find it changes their life.
Nutrition and exercise are things everyone talks about and reads about but too few people take it seriously. If you are typical, you watch your diet when you are pregnant or trying to lose weight. If you are married you probably eat well as there are two of you to cook for. If you are single you may tend to skip meals or not eat a balanced diet as it is hard to cook for one person.
Women tend to take care of everyone else but themselves. Neglecting your own nutritional needs may contribue to short-term depression and long-term fatigue. Over time this neglect can even set the stage for more diseases.
A proper diet can help you control your weight, ease he symptoms of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and prevent osteoporosis (brittle bone disease), heart disease and cancer. Good food is good for everyone in the family.
There are many people who follow fad diets. The problem with most of these diets don't really work for long because the human body is clever in adjusting to different amounts and types of foods. For instance: if you go on a diet that drastically reduces your calorie intake, then within a few days your body gets the message from your brain that it must slow down the rate at which it burns calories (metabolism) in order to survive. Lowered metabolism makes it more difficult to burn off fat tissue and then you feel too tired to exercise, so there are is no reason to burn off the extra calories. It is a cycle we all experience at different times in our lives. Disappointed, you now return to your old eating habits and with your slowed metabolism, you actually gain more weight than you had before you began to diet.
Diets that are designed to keep you fit and deliver the appropriate number of calories have several recommendations in common:
1. Lots of complex carbohydrates
2. Less sugar and fat
3. Very little caffeine and alcohol
4. Small amounts of protein.
An ideal weight depends on your build but an easy to remember rule is 100 pounds for your first 60 inches of height and 5 pounds per inch after. So if you are 5' 4" your ideal weight would be 120 pounds. If you are not at your ideal weight, eating a moderate diet with the right kinds of foods combined with exercise will help get you there.
Perhaps nothing you can do will affect your physical and psychological health as much as regular exercise. Unlike your car, your body won't wear out with use. Quite the opposite is true. Stop using your muscles and they become weak. Stop moving and buring calories and you become overweight and flabby. You don't have to be a marathon runner or a weight-lifter to benefit from exercise. You don't have to buy tapes or join a club. Just get moving! You will feel better mentally and physically.
Exercise is important in our daily lives especially during our later years. Walking, jogging, swimming, dancing, cycling are all considered aerobic exercies that help you slim down, elevate your mood, and decrease your chances of heart disease.
It is important to pick an exercise that you can do for at least 30 minutes a day, three to four times a week. People who get hooked on moderate amounts of exercise will find it changes their life.
Nutrition and exercise are things everyone talks about and reads about but too few people take it seriously. If you are typical, you watch your diet when you are pregnant or trying to lose weight. If you are married you probably eat well as there are two of you to cook for. If you are single you may tend to skip meals or not eat a balanced diet as it is hard to cook for one person.
Women tend to take care of everyone else but themselves. Neglecting your own nutritional needs may contribue to short-term depression and long-term fatigue. Over time this neglect can even set the stage for more diseases.
A proper diet can help you control your weight, ease he symptoms of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and prevent osteoporosis (brittle bone disease), heart disease and cancer. Good food is good for everyone in the family.
There are many people who follow fad diets. The problem with most of these diets don't really work for long because the human body is clever in adjusting to different amounts and types of foods. For instance: if you go on a diet that drastically reduces your calorie intake, then within a few days your body gets the message from your brain that it must slow down the rate at which it burns calories (metabolism) in order to survive. Lowered metabolism makes it more difficult to burn off fat tissue and then you feel too tired to exercise, so there are is no reason to burn off the extra calories. It is a cycle we all experience at different times in our lives. Disappointed, you now return to your old eating habits and with your slowed metabolism, you actually gain more weight than you had before you began to diet.
Diets that are designed to keep you fit and deliver the appropriate number of calories have several recommendations in common:
1. Lots of complex carbohydrates
2. Less sugar and fat
3. Very little caffeine and alcohol
4. Small amounts of protein.
An ideal weight depends on your build but an easy to remember rule is 100 pounds for your first 60 inches of height and 5 pounds per inch after. So if you are 5' 4" your ideal weight would be 120 pounds. If you are not at your ideal weight, eating a moderate diet with the right kinds of foods combined with exercise will help get you there.
Perhaps nothing you can do will affect your physical and psychological health as much as regular exercise. Unlike your car, your body won't wear out with use. Quite the opposite is true. Stop using your muscles and they become weak. Stop moving and buring calories and you become overweight and flabby. You don't have to be a marathon runner or a weight-lifter to benefit from exercise. You don't have to buy tapes or join a club. Just get moving! You will feel better mentally and physically.
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