Perfect body

Say hello to a perfect healthy body and say goodbye to chronic diseases the easy way – diet and nutrition!

Diet and nutrition are critical to the promotion and maintenance of good health throughout your entire life course. The burden of chronic diseases is rapidly increasing globally as such as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, osteoporosis and dental diseases. But let me ask you guys… Are you not aware that chronic diseases are largely preventable diseases?

Yup darlings they are preventable diseases. Modern dietary patterns and physical activity patterns are risk behaviors affecting one population to another and are considered as communicable at the risk factor level. You may have notice that traditional largely plant based diets are being replaced by high fat energy dense diets with a substantial content of animal based foods at fast food counters while physical inactivity proves to be increasingly affecting a lot of people because of technology and a lot of mechanical innovations to promote comfortable living.

Yesireee comfortable living is giving as an edge to win the marathon race to the doors of early onset of chronic diseases. Lifestyles should be managed and balanced in a way that we used much of our strength to strengthen our muscles and stamina and for cardio purposes. And most of all this gives us the perfect body we need when we decide to start sweating it out.

Food strategies could well be spelled in diet and nutrition. It’s repetitive but we always go back there. Food, diet, nutrition, physical inactivity could be improved by eating lots of fruits and vegetables and doing daily exercises.

The Dash diet

Make yourself younger with what you eat following the right food combination diets. Following a good diet plan can help you improve your health too and improve your skin texture. What you choose to eat affects your chances of developing long term chronic diseases. The only diet I’ve read so far that was highly recommended and promoted by the government was the DASH diet. DASH stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension. The 24 year old study pushes on the idea eating little meat and dairy but plenty of fruits and vegetables. According to a new study in the April 14, 2008 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, adherence to the diet reduces coronary heart disease and stroke in middle aged woman. The diet was said to lower blood pressure and was associated to reduction of low density lipoprotein or bad cholesterol.

Eat less salt! The combination of the diet plan and reduced sodium intake gives the greatest benefit. Remember that the lower your salt intake is the lower is your blood pressure. Your health could be a problem. Make changes in what you eat and drink, maintain a healthy weight and be moderately physically active on most days of the week. Blood pressures may be reduced with an eating plan that is low in saturated fat and cholesterol but high in fruits, vegetables and fat free or low fat milk products. DASH included whole grain products, fish, poultry and nuts. It discouraged consumption on foodstuffs with lean red meat, sweets and sugar containing beverages. The diet is practically rich in potassium, magnesium, calcium, protein and fiber.

A small weight loss already helps to lower your risk if you are over your standard weight. The best way to lose pounds is by doing it gradually in an increasing regular physical activity such as swimming or walking. The most important things is to total about 30 minutes of activity each day but to avoid weight gain it should be a total of 60 minutes per day. To get started your physical activity program can be as simple as a 15 minute walk around the block each morning and evening. Set a schedule and try to keep it.