Five Healthy Life Styles to Quality Life
Are you living gloomy days wondering when this will end? Want to life a joyful life? Wish to see, feel and live an enticing – actually thrilling – life filled with moments to treasure? Continue reading to get a taste of 5 lifestyle tips and tricks we have for you and which are bound to improve the quality of your life!
Eat Healthily
Eating healthily does indeed dramatically impact your life. According to much research conducted in many places around the world, continuous intake of junk food will not only raise your cholesterol and fat levels to over health threshold levels which will lead you to obesity, but it also ultimately leads you to a life style of laziness and carelessness.
To eat healthily, try to follow these pointers which will take you up the first couple of steps on the proper nutrition ladder:
- Eat 3 times a day.
- The last meal (dinner or supper) has to be taken at least 3 hours before you go to sleep.
- Avoid junk food
- Eat fruits as part of your meals but after 1 hour from the main course – not to bloat your stomach.
- Avoid much sweets and chocolates. Although a portion of chocolate per day (0.5 ounces or so) are said to be good for one’s health.
- Drink at least 1.5 to 2 liters of water (not juice, coffee of any other liquid) per day – this will help your kidneys function well and prolong their activity (and hence your life)
Practice Sports
Walking for at least 30 minutes a day helps regulating your blood circulation and general health. Try to avoid walking or practicing sports right after a meal as this hinders the process of digestion, massively reduces the benefits of the sport as well as causes joint and/or stitches pain.
Listen to Music
Music has been nominated as one of the most relaxing and spiritually boasting factors of life. Of course the taste of music is different from a person to another, but the generally relaxing music is agreed to be the soft or classic genre.
Take at least 5-10 minutes of meditation per day. To help you get in the mood of thinking about nothing, you might as well listen to relaxing music. This is bound to calm you down after a storming day.
Have a Goal
Rather have an ultimate goal (like an eternal life you’re working towards or a humanitarian goal) and work your way towards it using milestones of goals that may or may not have something to do with the ultimate goal but do fulfill some need or aspiration in you.
There are quite a number of books, articles, research papers and statistics that have been written, made and conducted about the goal-oriented life style and its benefits. As a matter of fact, the current best seller in the US is Reveren Rick Warren’s “Purpose Driven Life”. This book leads you through a series of brainstorming sessions, out of which you will work your way (yourself) to acknowledging the presence of God, His love to you and then you will also discover the purpose of your creation. This purpose need not be evangelical on the surface, but rather through one’s own work, family and surroundings, one may be serving his/her purpose of existence once the goal is placed in front of oneself.
Smile
As simple as it may sound, many people tend to miss it and frown instead. It takes about 17 facial muscles to smile, while it takes about 41 facial muscles to frown. Regardless of the exact number (which is indeed subject to much controversy between scientists, researchers and other experts), no one has ever denied the fact that it takes more effort to frown – let alone the tense mood one’s put in – in turn.
Have you ever heard the saying “A smile is contagious”? Well, this is quite true as most research illustrate.
Life elongating – A smile can indeed help in elongating your life (or at least not reducing it like many other factors of our life). The benefit increases if your smile actually turns into a laugh, but anyhow, the benefit remains an issue to consider.
Wrinkles avoidance/reduction – This is definitely good news for advocates of keeping the young look and feel throughout the years. Since smiling uses less number of muscles than frowning, you tend to reduce the facial tension which is one of the factors leading to wrinkles.
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Arafat Mohamed says on December 10th, 2005 at 3:56 am
Nice article, but I don’t see why the acknowledgment God is in any way relevant. Does this author mean to imply that those that don’t believe in God are doomed to an unhealthy life?
Joej phillips says on December 10th, 2005 at 8:39 am
Replying to: Arafat Mohamed
Statistical studies show that people with some form of faith have lower stress levels and lower incidence of stress related medical problems.
So…. believing in is good for your health.
My personal choice? FSM! (The Flying Spaghetti Monster) AKA Pastafarianism
“A man’s got to believe in something. I believe I’ll have another drink.”
Benjamin Sanford says on December 10th, 2005 at 8:41 am
Leon: Great list. Can you provide downloads or links to the meditation music you listen to? Or alternatively, it could be a seed for a separate post on that topic.
Ben
Joej phillips says on December 10th, 2005 at 8:43 am
prior post correction,The line reading:
believing in is good for your health.
Was supposed to read :
believing in “[" insert diety of your choice here "]” is good for your health.
Apparently the angle brackets used in the first attempt got eaten by whatever is being used to keep people from using html on this web page.
Jim C. says on December 10th, 2005 at 1:25 pm
There is absolutely no scientific support for the water recommendation. In fact, you actually get the bare minimum for survival on this diet (or any developed country’s) without any additional fluid because there’s sufficient water in the food. The real guideline for fluids is to drink when you’re thirsty. A little extra is good, but the recommended amount is much more than necessary for healthy people.
Tarun says on December 10th, 2005 at 2:57 pm
Its recommended that you eat fruits before a meal because otherwise the fruit gets partially decomposed (it digests faster than other foods) before the rest of your food causing halitosis.
Michael Martine says on December 11th, 2005 at 11:59 pm
This is a shallow and almost worthless list. Who doesn’t already know this stuff? And besides, listening to music isn’t the same thing as meditation. It’s not even close. Playing music is probably more therapeutic than listening to it. Believing in imaginary beings is insanity, not health, and just because most people do it that doesn’t make it any healthier or saner. I’d like to suggest an alternative list:
Eat organic.
Seek truth.
Strive to eliminate the gap between what you know you should do and what you are doing in all areas of your life.
Be as good as your word.
These things cover a lot more territory than you might first suppose, and are far more difficult than the post’s list.
Dean Johnson says on December 12th, 2005 at 3:59 am
Wow, I do one of the list and think about a couple others. Does thinking about them count? After all, studies have show that the body can’t really distinguish between a deep thought and reality. If that were not the case then “going to your happy place” would not work and really thinking about eating citrus fruits would not make your mouth water.
Bob says on December 13th, 2005 at 6:50 am
…but it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and smack the crap of the guy making you frown…
Ron says on December 14th, 2005 at 7:09 am
Believing in MY God is the key. All the other gods are false and only serve to make your life less healthy and more miserable.
Timmy says on December 15th, 2005 at 2:02 am
“Was supposed to read :
believing in “[” insert diety of your choice here “]” is good for your health.”
But it’s not good for your soul, there’s only one true diety, sorry folks.
Arafat says on December 21st, 2005 at 4:18 pm
Reply to: Joej Phillips
You know, my wife tried to tell me about some Harvard study that showed that people with faith are generally happier than those without. Thing is, when pressed she admitted that she hadn’t actually seen the study but that she heard about it somewhere (yes, I sometimes wonder if she hears voices). Nowhere can I find a citation to this supposed famous study or anything similar. And yes, before you point to some idiotic article, a study funded by biased sources, and not verified by independent scientists, does not count.
Furthermore, does my Faith in the non-existence of God/Deities/FSM count, or do I actually need to have an imaginary friend to benefit?
rachel says on January 24th, 2007 at 12:01 am
the smile this is so true that is how i get through my day im 16 and i have been through more than most adults have i have a recovering drug addict as a mother a sadistic step-dad and i was beat my my ex step-dad and raped by my uncle and beliveing in god also helps a lot without a smile i would be in the corner crying all the time