Am I Healthy
Well Are You?
Health is more than simply being alive. And health includes a lot more than what your general practitioner tells you. After all, they get "perhaps" 2 weeks of training in nutrition during their entire medical education. Your health is directly related to your quality of life.
- What's your blood pressure?
- What's your resting heart rate?
- How long after exerting yourself does it take for your heart rate to return to a resting rate?
- What's your Cholesterol level?
- How many Calories do you eat daily?
- How many Calories do you burn daily?
Those are just a few questions that need to be addressed in order to know if you are healthy. So if you don't know those things, find out!
Regardless of your age, you would be healthy if it were easy to bend down and tie your shoes, for instance, or standing up from most any chair or sofa without assistance of some sort without getting dizzy.
You could consider yourself healthy if breathing were easy, walking a couple of miles was not an effort, and most importantly, your stomach doesn't bulge and your sides don't hang over your belt. You could consider yourself healthy if you are in at least the "good" range of a "body fat chart".
If you don't know your body fat percentage, then you really need to read further.
Health is a matter of eating a balanced diet (at least 300 out of 365 days a year), doing some sort of at least moderate exercise, eating no more than what your body needs based on how many Calories you burn daily. and making sure the foods you eat are good for you. Of course, that's sort of redundant with "a balanced diet". But a lot of people think if they eat the correct number of foods from all the right food groups daily that the quality of those choices doesn't have to be great. Most people also believe they are eating the right amount of food daily. You're probably wrong about that!
Sick or Well Most of the Year?
That would certainly indicate if you were healthy or not. Do you get sick more than 3 or 4 times a year? Do you feel "under the weather" often? Or are you the person others say they never see sick? Or you're like the "energizer bunny" who keeps going, and going, and going...
If you're sick often, then you are not really healthy. For the general population, if there is no medical reason you are unhealthy other than for lack of desire, then simply changing your diet and getting just a little exercise can:
- boost your immune system (and include high quality supplements from Trader Joe's - NOT the typical stuff you see advertised)
- increase your blood flow
- prevent high cholesterol
- lower your bad cholesterol
- prevent and reduce the risk of heart problems
- help prevent or deter Alzheimer's
- make your moods more positive
- give you more energy to do the things you enjoy
For only a little work, all of the above is a pretty nice list of positive results. Wouldn't you agree? And that list is only a short list of what positive changes you may achieve with a change in your diet and daily routine.
How Much Work to Better Health?
It's not difficult to perform many valuable exercises, and it's not difficult to eat the right foods.
It's just difficult making the habit changes to better health!
QUOTE: "It takes 21 days to make or break a habit."
That's right! Take only 21 days - 3 weeks - of concentrated effort and make the necessary changes to feel better for the rest of your life.
You can do 3 weeks...anybody can do 3 weeks. There are 52 weeks in a year. 3 weeks is nothing! In that 3 weeks you need to do the following:
- buy healthy food
- calculate the number of Calories you burn daily
- document the number of Calories you consume daily
- start walking for 20 minutes 3 times weekly and build up to 40 minutes
If you want to do more that's great! But don't push yourself initially. The easiest way to fail is to make too many new changes at once.
If you would like to have Garrison Body assess your health and prepare a list of healthy options based upon the foods you currently eat, use our "Meal Plan" service to get started today.
Where Do You Start?
We thought you'd never ask.