Ways to Maintain Healthy Lifestyle

Health is the greatest wealth of humans. If we do not have a healthy body, we cannot even enjoy the wealth that we had achieved. Therefore, it is important to have a healthy lifestyle. There are several ways to maintain a healthy lifestyle as follows:

   1. Having regular exercise. Having regular physical activities will help to burn our body fats and calories. Exercises such as swimming, running, jumping rope, biking and so on will help to increase our metabolic rate and increase our cardiovascular systems' function. Those exercise will also strength our muscles and shape our body. Regular exercise is also one of the way to reduce the risk for getting chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, cancer and so on. One person should have regular exercise at least three times a week to maintain a healthy body. Besides, having physical activities will also help to relax our mind and reduce the tension and stress. When we are having exercise, we will forget those trouble and tension but enjoy on our activities. This is also one of the benefit to have regular exercise. 

   2. Having a balance diet. Having a balance diet is important to maintain a healthy body. It is because what food we consume will affect our body function. We should have regular meals each day with regular eating time. Most of the people like to skip their breakfast because running of time but this will affect our body function and result to unhealthy body. People who always skip their breakfast will will hungry afterwards and this will make them consume more food later on. They will get more calories which will burdened their own body. Therefore, having regular meals in the regular time is important. In addition, we should consume our meals according to the portion of food pyramid-there is, consume much on vegetables and fruits while reduce the consumption of oil, meat and other junk foods. It is because the vegetables and fruits will provide us vitamins, minerals and fiber which will supply the nutrition we need to our body. Over consume of food such as meat, oil and junk food will increase the burden of our body because those foods contain a lot of fat. Those fat are not good to our body. Too much of fat will result to many diseases such as heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and cancer. Hence, we should reduce the consumption of such unhealthy food in order to maintain our health. 

   3. Reduce screen time. Spending too much of the time in front of the screen such as TV and computer will reduce our time on exercise and outdoor activities. This will makes our body fat being accumulated in our body because we did not move our body and burn our body fat and calories. Day by day, these fat will result to chronic diseases. Therefore, we should limit our time in front of our computer and TV and spend more time on exercise and other outdoor activities in order to reduce our fat and calories in our body. Spending too much time in front of the screen will also affect our body function as our eyes will be easily being dry and tired and our body muscles will become pain and strained. These symptoms are normally found on the office workers because they spend too much time in front of their computers. Hence, we should always move our body or having some little exercises when we are working in order to avoid tiredness. Always find time to leave your computer and TV screen and do something else which will relax your mind and body.