Guidelines for Healthy Living

Healthy living starts with an understanding of your life. Do you feel healthy? Are you overweight? Do you feel pain or aches in places that aren't supposed to feel that way?

It starts with identifying your reality. Spend seven straight days tracking everything that you eat. It is important that you include everything. The statement 'you are what you eat' is very accurate as it will clearly tell you what you are putting into your body. You may say to yourself that you eat healthy. If you track your consumption you might find that you don't eat healthy foods, you don't consume enough vitamins and minerals, in fact you are very far from healthy. All food companies that I am aware of are in business for a profit. They want our money. Therefore with our society's extreme obsession with beauty and the illusion of health they are inclined to advertise the health quality of their product and forget to mention the unhealthy aspects of it. Cereal is a good example of advertising many great vitamins and forgetting to mention the unhealthy aspects.

Do you ever exercise? Believe it or not stretching is one of the best ways to stay healthy for your long-term care. People that are unhealthy tend to go through 'health kicks' where occasionally they have a burst of energy and focus on getting healthy. This tends to end in soreness and a lack of consistency. For your long-term health stretching is very important to keep your body flexible and able.
Exercise should be in moderation and should be based on a progressive program. You should learn to walk long amounts of time before you run short distances. Endurance is a progressive program of discipline.

The most important aspect of Health care is not your insurance program. Your long-term health care should be a preventive program which includes a progressive discipline of eating right, stretching, and exercise and relaxation. If you are not participating in a lifestyle of preventive care your insurance has very limited options to help you. Unfortunately most American's idea of great health care is their insurance program. This is why we continue to get more overweight, more sick, and have more disease.

Take a few moments today to think about your reality and if you care enough about your health to make some changes.