Want a healthy life? Want some health tips? Then here are some great health tips for a healthy life taken from the BBC health magazine:
Eat 7 Apples a Day!
For the first of our health tips: studies show that people who eat fruit tend to be healthier than those who don’t and that fruit eaters have reduced risks of cardiovascular disease and cancer. This could be because fruit contains vitamins and fibre, which are good for health, as well as antioxidants that repair cells. But how much fruit should you be eating? A study in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) found that if you can stretch to seven portions of fruit and vegetables you’re doing yourself some real favours. Risk of disease development over the course reduced by 42 percent for seven or more portions of fruit and veg. The Government’s current advice is five daily portions, but we still have problems reaching that target let alone reaching it.
Go to Work on an Egg
A few years ago we were being told by nutritionists not to eat more than a few eggs a week on the ground that they contain cholesterol, too much of which is bad for you. At the time, it was widely believed that elevated cholesterol in our blood is caused by cholesterol in our food . In fact most of the excess cholesterol in our blood is produced by the liver and is a response to eating too much saturate fat. A meta-analysis of 17 studies published in the British Medical Journal in 2013 concluded that the ‘higher consumption of eggs is not associated with coronary heart disease of stroke”
Sleep More Eat Less
More than 50 studies have looked into a possible link between sleep loss and weight gain and reviews of the evidence have concluded that there is an association both adults and children. Lack of sleep seems to disrupt the way we regulate hormones and metabolise glucose and cause increases in hormones ghrelin which stimulates appetite.
Chew Your Food
There are tangible benefits to not scoffing your food beside good table manners. A study of nearly 60,000 Japanese people showed that those who ate slowly or at normal speed were less likely to become overweight than those who gobbled. It is thought that it takes 15-20 minutes for our bodies feedback mechanisms to tell us we are full, so eating more slowly gives more of an opportunity for our brains to receive the signal.
Ditch the Diet Drinks
Even if the label on the bottle says sugar-free, research suggests you shouldn’t be fooled into thinking its any better for your waistline than a standard version. Health commentators argue that there is little evidence that diet drinks contain artificial sweeteners actually help people to lose weight and so should not be recommended as part of a healthy diet. In fact, many existing systematic reviews promoting the health benefits of diet drinks are sponsored by the soft drink industry. According to a review by the Imperial College of London, these diet drinks stimulate sweet receptors, potentially encouraging us to eat food as compensation.
Get Active!
Long-term tiredness is associated with too little activity. A University of Georgia review of research found 90 percent of studies agree that people who regularly exercise report less fatigue than people who don’t exercise.
https://www.eufic.org/en/healthy-living/article/10-healthy-lifestyle-tips-for-adults
https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/eight-tips-for-healthy-eating/
