Carlito Johnsons asked:


Taking good care of your physical and mental health can be a great challenge for anyone. There are certain things you must consider if you want to maintain good health long term and live with more energy and vitality. Proper diet and exercise are the first things to consider however one must not forget the importance of learning to manage mental stress. Here are some simple tips anyone can follow to attain better levels of health and fitness:

Tip 1: Eat more whole foods

It can be very difficult for most people to completely avoid processed and junk foods however do your best to minimize your consumption of these. Also most restaurants and fast food places have a healthy choices menu option so go for that once in a while as it is usually better in nutritional value than the other items on the menu. Bring a packed lunch to work whenever you can and use whole food ingredients that you cooked yourself that are free from preservatives and other chemicals that most processed foods come with.

Tip 2: Exercise properly

There is no doubt that exercise is critical in order to maintain optimal health. You need both cardiovascular and aerobic exercise in order to burn calories effectively and keep good muscle mass which is essential to maintain strength levels. Aerobic exercise can be done many ways including joining a gym, taking a one hour walk or using a treadmill or bike at home. It is always a good idea to have some fitness equipment at home as this will make it very easy and convenient to exercise which makes it more likely you will stick with it and see better results.

Weight training helps to build and maintain muscle mass, keep in mind that muscles are very effective at burning calories constantly so even women should weight train to add some muscle so that they can maintain a healthy weight for as long as possible. If you have never trained with weights before then it is important that you consider taking a few personal training sessions at a local gym to familiarize yourself with the exercises and the equipment so as to avoid unnecessary injury.

Tip 3: Manage Stress

Mental stress can also affect your overall health in a very negative way. Your mind can release chemicals into your body based on how you think and if you constantly worry or are always angry then your mind will release potentially harmful chemicals into your system.

Learn to control your mind through meditation and calm your thoughts as this will provide you with great stress relief and will also help you solve problems in your life faster as a calm mind can often see solutions more quickly than if you are worrying too much and have a ton of thoughts racing through your head. There are many ways to learn meditation, the simplest approach is to just get a book or take a local yoga class. Make it a habit to spend some time each day doing some meditation and apply the principles you learn even when you are not meditating. Consider applying some of these natural health tips to help you become healthier and stronger.

Esteri Maina asked:

Fine health determines whether or not we will achieve all the desires of our hearts or at least some of them to the fullest.

As well when one of the many organs deteriorates, it affects the others that are not sickly and the overall performance of the owner whether physically or emotionally declines.

This is why knowing your body more than anybody else is the first step in ensuring that you keep impeccable health all the times.

Our body functioning is dependant of so many factors and this why understanding our environment is the second best initiative that we should all take.

It is from it that we get exposed to all kinds of toxins and the source of our water, air, food; each of these posing grave health risks to us.

The foods

Nowadays, when the economy is so bad globally, many people are mindful about getting their next meal, not nutritional content in it.

Similarly, at all times, it is only a few people who constantly care about the residues in foods like excessive use of chemicals in food production such as food eaten raw like vegetables and fruits.

In addition to us buying them oblivious of such residues or bothering where they were grown, we dare to eat them dirty, and complain of stomach pains or diarrhea later.

So in conclusion, we should not only buy food, but care about its nutritional value, the residues that may harm our health in the long run and how we prepare it for cooking and eating raw.

The drinking and cooking water

Likewise, water is very essential for survival and this is why it should not be contaminated.

It is the source of the so-called water-bone diseases and is found in sources found in our surroundings.

Sometimes we hear of outbreaks of such diseases as typhoid fever caused by dirty and untreated water.

At the hospital, they told me that the reason I have unceasing problems with amoeba is because I am fond of drinking water from the taps and it is true, I once had this habit.

How are you ensuring that your family and you drink clean and unpolluted water?

In some other remotest of all places, people do not have choices, as water is scarce, and if available, it requires better treatment than just boiling, which is unaffordable.

Universally, people are advised to treat and boil their drinking water to kill germs that cause all these water bone diseases.

The air we breath

Are you breathing clean air or is it polluted? These modern times of industrialization are a widespread cause of a proportion of polluted air and the control is beyond a common citizen.

At personal level though, you have got your lungs to care for, and breathing exercises are key in keeping them in good health.

Before I listened to an expert on this speaking, I never even bothered when breathing, and this happens to most of us.

Breathing in and out is something we view as normal part of our body system and how or when it happens is never in our minds.

Find out the several methods of breathing exercises and add them up to your daily schedules and as the expert believed, it is a healer of many health problems.

I can say this because I have been trying and it is normally difficult to keep the pace steady, but as you continue, it gets better.

There is little you could do about the wind carrying germs that cause air bone diseases or dust particles such as asbestos that cause mesothelioma cancer, but your doctor is the biggest help as always.