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Staying healthy requires common sense and logic. Exercise, eating right, stop smoking, sleep right, reduce stress, take care of your teeth, and have a good attitude are just a few things that can provide health in your life. Follow the advice of your doctor and lose a few pounds if you are overweight.
It is, however, meant to bring this truth to your awareness and encourage you to seek ways to restore balance to your body so it can do what it does best - heal itself.
Begin by getting off the junk food wagon and eliminating refined carbohydrates - white bread, white pasta, white rice, white potatoes, cakes, cookies and pastry - and start eating 100% whole grain foods instead. Then start substituting broiled fish and skinless poultry Healthy living advice for burgers hot dogs and sandwich meats. Finally, include at least five and up to nine daily servings of highly nutritious fruits and vegetables to your daily menu.
Buy a good bra: you have probably heard comments about how your breasts get bigger when you are pregnant. This is true, and remains true after pregnancy during the time you are nursing. Good support for your fuller, heavier breasts is important. It helps them not get as saggy after, and relieves your upper back of the pain that comes from supporting heavier bosoms. So, go get fitted for a new bra after you get pregnant, and as your breast size increases.
ODo you manage your weight well? Overweight and obesity are linked to cardiovascular diseases as well as a host of other chronic diseases like diabetes, various types of cancer and osteoarthritis. A person having a BMI of 25 to 30 is classified as overweight, while a BMI of over 30 is considered obese.
Water - Mayo Clinic states that we lose up to 11 cups of water a day through urine, sweat, bowel movements, etc. As a minimum that amount of fluids need to be replaced daily. To keep it simple, drink a cup of water every waking hour. All fluids count toward the total, so the orange juice, the milk, and the protein shakes can all count toward that one cup an hour goal. But alcohol and sodas do not count. In fact, put Fun healthy habits coffee on the do not count list. Lastly, during my last workout, I drink about a liter of water. I sweated up a storm. During workouts, drink as much as your body demands.
I know that this article is on health and not so much on recipes and things like that, but I thought that it was important for everyone to know what their diets should look like. I always say, how the person likes to eats is how they like to cook.