Keeping Healthy - Looking After Your Body

When you think about what your body does for you every single day of your life, the least you can is look after it. By using natural health techniques that have almost been lost over time it is possible to improve our overall health and efficiency by using natural products, which do not upset our body's equilibrium. It is about taking charge of your life and placing yourself in the position where you actively prevent damage rather than wait for it to happen so you can cure it.

Keeping healthy is a serious undertaking and requires a level of dedication that you may not have had previously. You do not have to be a health nut to believe this, just someone who desires to look after their body and not go out of their way to harm it. Everything is considered when planning to improve your health with natural methods; things like your work and living environment, social structure and even physical location.

To really get to grips with this subject will require some serious learning either with books from your local bookstore or online where there is a whole community that you can become part of to find out more. Once again this is something you are going to do for your benefit so it requires a certain dedication that can only come from within but should not be considered as something that can be given up because it needs a little discipline. Like any mechanism, our bodies require quality nutrients and not the rubbish that we consume in an effort to save time.

For those of you that this scenario relates to then either start eating better or start looking into what supplements you need to start taking to make up the deficiency your current diet is causing. There are many options available but you must first realize just what harm you are doing to yourself. So now you understand why studying the subject in greater depth is so important if you want it to work.

Living a naturally healthy life isn't just about the food you eat but about how you live your life. However, being healthy isn't just about stopping sickness as a healthy body is one that is more active and where a person enjoys increased energy and vitality levels. Ultimately, if you are truly dedicated, you will succeed because the best part is that once you start living better, you start feeling better; and that is crucial in dealing with everyday stresses and depressions.

Simple Rules For Staying Young

1.Engage in challenging exercise EVERY DAY- Look, 3 times a week just doesn't cut it when it comes to maintaining or improving your physical self.

The human body is a movement machine, so MOVE IT!... or lose it.

2.Use strength based exercises AT LEAST 3 times a week where you challenge the muscles and joints and load the bones.

With over 600 muscles in the human body it just doesn't make sense to train the way most people do by isolating different muscles and blasting them to death. Instead, use my 600 rule and try to find exercises that use as many muscles as you possibly can.

3. Drink fresh, clean water every day.

You need around a litre for every 50lbs of body weight in order to maintain a decent hydration level within the body. Less than this and your organs, your skin, your muscles and even your brain cease to operate effectively.

4. Avoid all processed food.

Another name for processed food is 'denatured' food. In other words, all of the nature has been removed from it in order to make it last longer on the shelves.

Do you really want to eat something without any 'nature' in it? Only you can decide that, but I tell you this; foods with colourings, flavourings and numbers instead of ingredients will more likely end your life early than extend it.

Opt instead for fresh produce ensuring that 80% of what you eat comes from fresh (ideally organic) sources.

5. Eat less.

People eat too much. Enough said!

6.Sleep more

The human body requires sleep of both great quality and quantity.

Getting 8 hours a night is a good start, but not enough. To truly benefit from your sleep, try to get your sleep patterns worked out so that you are asleep between the hours of 10pm and 2 am to make the most of your body's hormonal repair processes. The hours 2am to 6pm are important to countering stress.

In other words, all sleep is not the same. The timing is important too.

7. Relax more

Yep, I know I said to move more but I also want you to relax more too.

That doesn't mean watch more TV. Read a book, listen to music, take a massage or acupuncture, take more holidays, add variety to your weekends.

Studies show that people who are more aware of the need for a blanc between activity and constructive relaxation live longer, are less stressed and achieve more.

Well, there you go. My guide to looking and performing better as you age.

It may not be what you were expecting. In fact, many of you are probably thinking, 'yeah, but I know all that already, where's the new stuff?'

Sorry, not this time!

There's nothing faddy, or hi-tech about this approach.

It just works.

My challenge to you is to take everything I've just told you and use it for 30 days in its entirety. Don't skip a thing.

If you do, I GUARANTEE that no matter what your current age or physical condition is, you'll look, feel and perform better than you have in years.