Healthy living has become a popular trend on social media in the past couple years. Health experts tell us by eating right, dieting, exercising, taking supplements, having the right exercise equipment, and many other suggestions, we will be able to obtain the healthy life style we desire. While these suggestions are all sensible and perhaps even helpful in ways, what is not shared is that sometimes in doing these things you start to let them control your life rather than you being in control of yourself or them.
Have you seen any lasting life sustaining improvements that health experts say will happen if you follow those certain steps? Are you tired of diets, training programs, and regimentation that seem short-lived and return you back to where you started?
If you have tried all of those things and they are still not working, how about trying these three basic steps that cost you nothing, are proven to extend your life, help you think more clearly, and help you start managing a healthy life style:
- Hydrate: Water is the most important nutrient for effective weight gain and loss. Drinking more water gives you healthier skin, thinking, and energy to balance stress related issues. When you are de-hydrated, your body isn’t able to function at its fullest capacity with consumption, processing, creating, managing and balancing issues.
- Sleeping: Sleep well and long! It will benefit your heart, weight control, memory, attitude and performance at work and in play.
- Oxygenation: Fresh air and plenty of it carries life-sustaining nutrients that can help prevent cancer, improve your respiration for physical activity (i.e. walking, hiking) and helps detox your liver allowing you to eliminate wastes through perspiration and more.
While diet, exercise, supplements and advanced programs aid greatly with life balancing, it can come at a cost. Try these three steps that come at little to no cost and help you control all the above just by consistently drinking more water, sleeping longer and consuming more fresh outdoor air. It never hurts to try!