The command center, your brain, is composed of 25 billion cells and contains the highest levels of innate intelligence found on the planet. Without thinking, the brain regulates your breathing, sends proper directions to muscles and nervous system, keeps body temperature steady and keeps all other organs operating exactly right.
Your heart beats 100,000 times every single day for decades, pumping blood through 96,000 miles of arteries. Your digestive system transforms the food you eat to bone, tissue, blood, teeth and muscle at the rate of 7 million new cells every second.
Are there some things we should do to help take care of this miraculous thing called our 'BODY'?
Creating Healthy Habits
Most experts look at three areas that greatly impact how we can optimize a healthy, active life.
The foods we eat give our bodies the 'information' and materials they need to function properly. If our bodies don't get the right information, our metabolic processes suffer and our health declines.
Want to feel better, have more energy and even add years to your life? Exercise! Exercise delivers oxygen and nutrients to your tissues and helps your cardiovascular system work more efficiently. When your heart and lung health improve, you have more energy to tackle daily chores.
Attitude is everything! It takes a positive attitude to achieve positive results. We all at some point encounter hard times hurt feelings, heartache and physical or emotional pain. The key is to know it's not what happens to us that matters; it's how we choose to respond that matters.
Your Body & Food
What we eat is central to our health! Food acts as medicine - to maintain, prevent and treat disease. The nutrients in food enable our cells to perform their necessary functions. "Nutrients are the nourishing substances in food that are essential for the growth, development and maintenance of body functions." When nutrient intake does not regularly meet the nutrient needs of our cell activity, the metabolic process slow down or even stop.
The question becomes, "What foods should we include in our diet?"
Protein rich foods are the building blocks of body proteins and muscle.
Protein helps satisfy hunger, maintain lean muscle mass and gives lasting energy.
Carbohydrates are a primary source of energy and fuel for the body.
Fiber helps with digestion.
Fiber foods help fill you up and support the growth of friendly bacteria.
Healthy fats are a source of energy and Omega-3 fatty acids help support cardiovascular health.
Vitamins & Minerals play a key role in cell function, help convert macro-nutrients into energy and support the immune system.
Phyto-nutrients are plant-based substances that improve health.
Water plays a big role in helping the body fight fatigue, constipation, dry skin and muscle cramps.
So what are some of these good foods? Look for lean meats, poultry, fish, eggs, fruits, vegetables, seeds, beans, whole grains, peas, lentils, nuts, olive oil, avocados, ocean-caught fish, Herbalife Nutrition Healthy Meal Shake, and water, water, water!
Your Body & Exercise
Exercise is good for you, but do you know how good? From boosting your mood, to improving your sex life, exercise can improve your life.
"Regular exercise helps prevent or manage many health problems including stroke, metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, depression, arthritis, a number of types of cancer, arthritis and falls." - Mayo Clinic
Exercise can help prevent excess weight gain too, because when you engage in physical activity, you burn calories. Being active also boosts high-density lipoprotein (HDL) or 'good' cholesterol and decreases unhealthy triglycerides. This helps keep your blood flowing smoothly to decrease your risk of cardiovascular diseases.
Physical activity stimulates various brain chemical that leave you feeling happier and more relaxed. And, you get that boost of self-esteem and confidence from your appearance when you exercise regularly.
Bottom line - exercise and physical activity are a great way to feel better, boost your health and have fun. Try for 150 minutes per week of moderate-intensity exercise, or 75 minutes per week of vigorous exercise.
Going to the gym is great, but simply changing some little habits also helps. Park your car far away from the grocery store, take the stairs instead of the elevator, play some up-tempo music while you clean your house and the mess away, go for a daily walk and smell the roses, get out an old jump-rope and be a kid again! Just get active and have fun doing it!
Your Body & Attitude
Your mind is really a computer that can be programmed. You can choose whether the software installed is positive and productive or negative and unproductive. Your inner 'chatter' is the software that programs your attitude. And guess what? You have total control over this programming.
"Your outlook - having a sense of optimism and purpose - seems to be predictive of health outcomes." (Dr. Laura Kubzansky, professor of social and behavioral sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.) Her studies found that emotional vitality, characterized by enthusiasm, hopefulness, engagement in life and the ability to face life's stresses with emotional balance, is associated with a substantially reduced risk of heart attack and stroke.
Remember, the loudest and most influential voice you hear is your own inner voice. It can work for or against you depending on the messages you allow. It can be optimistic or pessimistic. It can wear you down or cheer you on. You control the sender and the receiver, but only if you consciously take responsibility for, and control over, your inner conversation. It takes a positive attitude to achieve positive results.
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