10 Surefire Tips to Add 10 Years to your Life
–By Sushma Pradhan
Looking younger is not just acting like 10 years less than your age, it is the overall condition of your body and soul.
Moreover, maintaining a good health is like standing on the edge of the sword, a condition to survive amongst the chaos of Satan’s Pandemonium.
However, maintaining a healthy living habit is difficult but certainly not impossible. The only thing that you require is a firm determination.
Here are ten ways, which will help you add more years to your healthy living. So, all the best
1. Do not carry your weight around: Obese in a layman’s term means large body fat, whereas obesity is a much complex situation.
Obesity is measured by calculating the body mass index (BMI) of an individual and it involves many serious medical conditions.
? High blood pressure
? High cholesterol
? Stroke
? Heart disease
? Gallbladder disease
? Osteoarthritis
? Menstrual problems
? Infertility
? Cancer
? Sleep apnea
In case you are overweight, it is time now for you to sweat and shed off some of that extra flab. It is the time to wage war against obesity, because if you want to enjoy long and healthy life, you better say goodbye to all those extra fats.
What say?
2. Dance with me: Dancing can create magic into your life and transform you completely. It can breathe into you a completely new life and unleash into your romance for life.
On a physical level, dancing provides a great healthy body, enhancing your brain to be as healthy as your age.
Research has also shown that some people with Alzheimer’s disease are able recall memories when they dance to the music they used to know.
Ballroom dancing at least twice a week makes people comparatively less prone to develop dementia.
There are various dance schools that hold dance classes or are open to the public few nights in a week. There are different kinds of dance forms and you can choose the dance you want to learn.
In case you feel that you are the one with two left feet or do not have adequate time to devote for a dance school, you can do your own bit of moving and shaking at your home. You just need to turn that music on and do the dancing around the house.
Just give thought who knows once the play button is on you might not want to stop.
3. Smile, it increases your face value: There may be songs that may really put the smile on your face. A smile will not only make you look cheerful and good but will make you like one from inside.
There are many health benefits behind that wondrous smile, in fact if you stretch your smile to laughter. The benefits may range from strengthening the immune system, which will in return reduce your craving for food.
On the other hand, humor therapy has many therapeutic benefits. It is believed to help people to heal quickly than other things.
So, if you want to walk that extra mile then smile a while. Let us see the milestones that you will achieve with a smile.
? It will help you control your stress
? It produces health enhancing hormones
? It enhances the T cell’s effectiveness
? It increases the anti-body producing cell
? A good laughter is a good workout
? It is a good exercise for the heart
4. Think positive: Positive thinking, optimism, and positive attitude are all the cause of not just well-being but also of a healthy long life. If you carry such positive attitude, you will be successful in every sphere and definitely live a long life.
? The first step towards positive thinking is the belief, you cannot pretend to be positive thinker.
? The second step is being objective. Do not judge your life with failures nor live life with false pride, pride mostly makes you take wrong decisions
? Prefer the company of people who have a positive attitude for life
? Be patient and pace yourself, you cannot be positive thinker overnight
? Take the first step, no matter how many inspirational books you read or motivational speeches you hear. These all show you the way, it is you, who needs to open the door.
5. Getting High! Hic!: Alcohol is the intoxicating ingredient that constitutes beer, wine, and hard liquor. Studies suggest that consuming moderate amount of alcohol is beneficial to human body. It is the excess, which causes harm to the body.
Alcohol takes no time to be absorbed by the body. The alcohol-laden blood travels through the capillaries and veins to the liver. The liver is the organ that has the highest impact of the alcohol. The metabolism changes the cell structure of the liver thus hampering its fat metabolizing capacity.
As a whole, one cannot categorize alcohol to negative side it does have many benefits provided it be taken moderately. However, over consumption for over the years may also cause one’s death.
So, if you want to enjoy a long life, remember do not get too high!
6. What is on your plate: It is not at all difficult to mind what you binge into, it just needs a right attitude to make a start. One thing that you need to keep in mind is variety. Variety is not just a spice of life but also input of various nutritional values into our body.
To choose the right nutrition for you, you need to be a smart shopper without a doubt. A smart shopper is the one, who is capable of label reading.
Every package food has nutritional facts panel, where it is mentioned the fat, cholesterol, saturated fat and protein level.
Add colors to your diet, here colors means a lots of orange, green, yellow fruits and vegetables. These could be oranges, cantaloupe, carrots, broccoli, or any other citrus fruit. These foods are rich with antioxidants and other necessary nutrients that are capable of fighting cancer and other deadly diseases.
Food plays vital role in carving your health and your age factor, therefore, why not make the right choice from today.
7. Walk yourself to glory: If walking could be prescribed as a pill, it would be the most widely prescribed in the world. It has numerous health benefits. Walking has the capacity to reduce the chances of many diseases. It has negligible side effects, prevents heart diseases, and adds numerous years to your life.
Here are five reasons why you should go for a walk.
? Derive joy out of your walking, with friend and just see how enjoyable walking can be
? You can take a walk to rediscover the nature at its best and find out how calm and stress free your mind can get
? Walking is best for fighting depression and changing your moods
? Your health and your weight will be under check, if you go for regular brisk walks
8. No ifs and Butts please: If want to bid adieu to that smoking habit of yours there definitely should be no ifs and buts in between. Many former smokers will tell you saying goodbye to that nicotine stick is the toughest. However, if you want life then you definitely let the butt drop from between your fingers forever.
According to the US Surgeon General’s Reports, it was found:
? 20 minutes after quitting cigarette your heart rate drops
? 1 to 9 months after quitting smoking, you do not experience coughing or shortness of breath
? 1 year after quitting smoking the chances of coronary heart disease becomes half than the smokers
? 5 years after quitting smoking the chances of stroke becomes negligible as a non smoker
9. Play Safe: Accident, be it home or at the road, happens to be one of the leading causes of death in the world. Life is not always risk, but a risk management and it is worth it. Therefore, prepare yourself, in fact try to avoid such risk and play safe.
? Learn swimming
? Install smoke detectors in your home
? Get your visions checked
? Wear seat belt and helmet while riding bicycle or motorcycle
? Follow the rule of the road
? Maintain hygiene
? Wash your hand regularly this will help you avoid the spread of germs
However, this does not mean that you stop enjoying your life and not be carefree. Life is too beautiful, to really take a risk of losing. Who knows whether there is life after death?
10. Be in touch: Healthy does not mean that you need not have to go to the doctor, nor does wealthy mean that you have a will written for an appropriate heir.
Health and wealth is also defined by the number of good friends you have. The number of people who love you and the one you love to have around you. It is essential that you be happy and you have enough time for yourself. Develop compassion for your life.
In case you are living away from home, try to be connected to your family members, call them occasionally, or write to them. Loneliness happens to be one the leading suicidal causes today. Therefore, involve yourself in activities you like and live yourself a life of ‘18 till I die.’
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