6 Benefits Of A Healthy Lifestyle!
Living a healthy lifestyle isn’t always an easy thing to do. You may feel like a healthy lifestyle is a boring option: you don’t smoke, you barely drink, you don’t eat out often, you stick with foods that are more nutritious than delicious, you get a good night’s sleep, and you spend a lot of your free time being active. With all that, there’s less time for relaxing with friends and engaging in social activities. Do you know the true rewards that come from a healthy lifestyle? Check out these 6 Benefits Of A Healthy Lifestyle and see how you can radically improve your standard of living!
Here’s the thing: a healthy lifestyle is worth the sacrifice! Yes, you may party less, but a healthy lifestyle brings with it A LOT of incredible benefits. As you’ll see below, there are plentiful reasons for you to make the effort to live healthy:
Longer Life
Do you have any idea how many health problems can kill you? Heart disease may be the #1 cause of death in the world, but cancer, high blood pressure, and diabetes are not too far behind.
Here’s the truth: many diseases are avoidable by following a healthy lifestyle. You may be genetically predisposed to certain conditions, however, living healthy reduces the risk of a wide range of diseases:
- Heart disease
- High cholesterol
- Stroke
- Heart attack
- High blood pressure/hypertension
- Cancer
- Diabetes
- Osteoporosis
These are just the diseases that a healthy diet, workout program and lifestyle directly affects.
The truth is that exercise extends your lifespan significantly. Countless studies prove that exercise reduces mortality risk, prevents cancer, and stops metabolic diseases in their tracks. The more you exercise, the longer your lifespan increases.
Proper dieting helps in extending your lifespan as well. Eating clean, raw, and natural food prevents a wide range of problems: from cancer to liver failure, kidney disorders to hormone dysfunction. Your diet has the incredible power to prevent heart disease and diabetes.
Add to that a no-smoking and a limited-drinking lifestyle, and you have a recipe for improved health. The healthier you are, the greater your chance of living longer is!
Better Movement
There are two ways a healthy lifestyle can encourage better movement:
- Less Weight To Carry Around. When you gain a lot of weight, the excess weight places a strain on your joints. This potentially leads to a broad range of musculoskeletal problems, which in turn reduces your desire to exercise. The more weight you gain, the more likely you are to stop moving because movement leads to fatigue. With a healthy lifestyle, you are able to properly maintain or decrease your weight, giving you a body that is streamline and built to move naturally. The result: better movement overall!
- More Mobility And Strength. The more you move, the easier it is to move. Your body is designed to adapt to the demands you place upon it, meaning the more you require from your body, the more it’s capable of producing. A healthy lifestyle includes plenty of exercise and stretching, which will keep your muscles and joints working well.
More Energy
Remember how “your body is designed to adapt to the demands you place upon it”? If you are spending all day sitting down, you are signalling to your body that less energy is needed, so less energy is produced. If you spend all day moving and burning energy, it indicates that more energy is needed, so more energy is produced. The more energy you need, the more you have!
It may sound counter-intuitive, but that’s the way the human body works. Your body is always trying to adapt to meet demands. When you push it harder to do more, it will adapt by building muscle, increasing red blood cells to transport oxygen, and speed up the fat-burning metabolism. Regular exercise increases the amount of energy you have readily available.
Exercise is not the only thing that increases energy. Many diseases cause fatigue and take their toll on your body. A body free of disease is one that is running at optimum capacity whilst not “wasting” energy. Allowing your body to use everything it produces.
Less Sickness
Everything you do contributes to your health. Certain things—like smoking, over-drinking, and spending too much time sitting down—decreases your immunity and increases the chances of you becoming ill. Other things—like eating right, sleeping well, and exercising—boost your resistance to disease and fight sickness.
The healthier your lifestyle, the healthier you will be. People who make smart lifestyle choices end up sick far less often!
Happier You
Your mood is controlled by chemicals produced in your brain. Do you know how those chemicals are regulated? That’s right: via the food you eat, the amount of sleep you get, and the exercise you partake in.
People who are often stressed or depressed will have less energy, this is the result of overworking, improper diet, insufficient sleep, and a lack of exercise. Those who eat right, sleep enough, and exercise every day are far less prone to depression, anxiety, and other disorders that result from neurochemical imbalances.
Feel Better
Have you ever noticed that you “feel better” after eating a healthy meal? When you enjoy a delicious salad, you feel a lot better than you do after eating a cheese pizza or a burger and fries. This is a psychological thing: you know you’re doing the “right” thing, so it feels satisfying.
When you are leading a healthy lifestyle, you feel better because you know you’re treating your body right. You may not always love what you are doing, but there’s a deep-seated contentment that results from giving your body the right nourishment, rest, and exercise it needs in order to be healthy.
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