Health and Fitness Make the Difference Between Living Well and Living

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Quality of life is what we all want. Good health helps us achieve a high quality of life. Fitness makes us want to live it every day. If you agree with these three premises, keep reading.

The Purpose of Health and Fitness Tips

To inform you of new developments in the health and fitness fields is our aim. We'll do the research; we have the resources. You get the results. The name of the game is 'current' and 'relevant' for today. Forget all the excess baggage of the so-called fitness gurus.

Become Healthier and Fitter Faster

While we know you are interested in becoming healthier and fitter or maintaining the health and fitness you have, we also know you have limited time to devote to it. We therefore pledge to you a fast, simple method to hop aboard the fitness fast train. Get on track with the facts.

Health Professionals, Medical Doctors and Health and Fitness Writers and Editors Make Up Our Staff

Our staff experience in the booming Health and Fitness field adds up to more than 100 years. Not that anyone is age 100 or even close, but we all plan to live that long. We want to make sure we have company. So we invite you along for the ride. We'll spur you on and help you over the rough spots to your own fitness destination.

Diet and Exercise are Keys to Healthy Living

But you know all this. So our aim is to give you the shortcuts, the little-known tricks and proven methods to help prevent boredom and hopelessness in your quest for good health. Our high tech world has advanced in the fitness field also. In fact, so fast that we want to get the information out to you yesterday. That's what the Health and Fitness Tips Site is all about…the latest up-to-the-minute-in-the-zone information for your health and fitness.

IMPORTANT TIPS

People who have less than 6 hours sleep a night have a 70 % higher mortality rate, according to Californian studies. I'm currently studying spending 18 hours in bed, so will hopefully live to a 130.
When sleeping in your own, or someone else's bed, make sure the mattress is firm enough to support your body weight. With sufficient material, within the mattress that will act as a cushion to allow for the contours of the body to be supported.
Have a glass of water by your bed, and attempt to drink eight 8 oz glasses of water a day.
At breakfast mix fruit juices with 50% water, to aid absorption, prevent rapid sugar levels in the blood, and to save money.
Make sure you don't skip breakfast, unless you get out of bed after 12 o'clock, then go straight for lunch.
Remember every gram of alcohol has 7 calories, so if your aim is to have a flat stomach or lose weight, practice acting drunk or simply cut back on your alcohol intake.
Alcohol is a depressant, if feeling depressed don't take a drink, try and make yourself laugh, invite your friends round, and watch them get drunk, and fall all over the place.
Remember low fat foods, are often laced with sugar, which also has calories, just look at a low fat yoghurt.
Eat a balanced diet, lower in fat, lower in sugar salt and processed foods, eat more fibre and whole food products.
When you exercise, remind yourself, "I'm building a better body to live in".
Exercise is one of the best ways to reduce stress, ask yourself how you feel, after working out.
If you get out of breath when you exercise, you're probably going too fast.
Training too hard, may lower your fitness, resting your body, allows it to recover and rebuild itself properly. Don't over train, you'll just burn-up or melt.
Researchers have suggested that people who are deficient in various vitamins and minerals may overeat in an attempt to obtain the missing nutrients. Obesity is the unfortunate outcome.
Performing cardiovascular type activities (i.e. running, cycling, swimming, etc.) five times a week decreases your risk of type II diabetes by 45%.
Exercising two to four times a week reduces your risk by 40%; once a week, 25%. Exercise decreases your risk by reducing fat tissue in the body and making cells more responsive to insulin.
Stress lowers the immune system and exercise helps to counter stress. Over exercising puts pressure on the immune system, make sure you take those vitamins and minerals, and remember get fit to play sport, not play sport to get fit.
Garlic rich diets, may be bad for your breath, but garlic causes your body to release nitric oxide, which keeps your arteries more pliable, resulting in a increase in circulation.
Diesel fumes have been found to contain 41 dangerous substances, they can give you more miles to the gallon, as well as cancer.
Chewing sugar free gum increases saliva flow which helps to neutralize plaque acidity. One unpleasant side effect is major wind, from sorbitol (sweetener) that is used in many brands. Aim for no more than a pack a day, unless you want to increase your daily farting average.
Heart disease, cancer's etc. can run in the family. Check your family history and aim to get yourself checked out for any hereditary problems.
Mobile phones increase your blood pressure if used for prolonged periods. Thought to be caused by blood vessels being constricted by radio frequency electromagnetic fields. My monthly phone bill raises my blood pressure.
Zinc gluconate lozenge's sucked every two hours have been found to help cold sufferers reduce the time of their symptoms. Unfortunately zinc causes more nausea and doesn't taste too good.
Dyslexics could improve their reading by wearing different coloured lenses. Contact lenses help by noticeably reducing visual distortion.
Forget an apple a day keeps the doctor away; try a raw carrot and a banana. The beta-carotene and potassium can reduce your risk of heart disease by preventing plaque build up on the artery walls.
Do those sit ups, it is estimated that strengthening the abdominals can prevent 75% of lower back problems.
Pressing a wet tea bag against a cold sore acts as an antiseptic. The tannin from the tea will help reduce the condition, and the tea bag will stop other people coming in contact with you.
Eating fat is not a problem; the problem lies in the type of fat you're eating. Aim to eat the essential fatty acids (EFA's) such as those found in oily fish, and avoid the so called healthier margarine's made from hydrogenated vegetable fats.
Some 25 % of adults have bad breath, normally brought on by smoking or bad foods. Avoid this by brushing your teeth twice a day, using a tongue scraper, as a significant amount of odour bacteria live on the tongue. Flossing between your teeth to remove food debris, and seeing a hygienist every three months is also advised.
Avoid negative thoughts, and don't put yourself down. Work on making your mind and body strong, remember its you inside that says you can't do something, challenge those negative thoughts and make them positive.
Breasts cancer studies have shown that fish oil and olive oil may keep breasts healthier. Linoleic acid found in sunflower or corn oil may increase the risk of tumours. What is certain is that obesity and a high alcohol level in older women are linked to a higher risk of developing breast cancer.
Remember to take a towel with you when you go to the gym. Sharing someone's towel also means you are sharing any health problems they may have, such as pubic lice or penile warts.
Don't think you can smoke and exercise. Exercise increases your lung capacity, giving carcinogenic contaminates more lung space to give you lung cancer.
Missed your workout, then think again. Research has shown that mental exercise can increase your physical strength.
Eat right with mood enhancing foods such as milk, yoghurt, tuna and chicken, which contain high levels of brain food tryptophan.
Choose cereals that contain more than 3 grams of fiber per ounce or boost fiber content by adding a few tablespoons of a fiber-rich all-bran cereal to your favorite cereal.
Choose water or unsweetened (no-calorie) beverages with meals. Sugar sweetened beverages add calories without nutrition.
These menus include servings from each food group of the USDA Food Guide Pyramid. Use these menus as a guide or model in planning your own healthful, balanced meals and snacks that include a wide variety of foods from each group of foods: grains and cereals, vegetables, fruits, lean protein sources, and low fat dairy foods.
Feel free to interchange any breakfast, lunch, dinner, or snack within these menus to suit your preferences or for convenience.
Use Smart Balance 67% Buttery Spread in your favorite recipes that call for butter or margarine, to season vegetables, cooked grains, and as a spread on your breads or rolls. Smart Balance Light Spread is best used as a spread or topping.
For very active individuals or males weighing more than approximately 160 pounds, you may require more than the 2000 calories these menus provide. Some ways to increase calorie content include: double serving sizes of at least one grain or cereal at each meal (for example, 2 pieces of toast rather than one), increase serving size of protein sources (fish, poultry, meats) by 50%, use extra teaspoon of Smart Balance Buttery Spread at each meal, have one extra snack per day, and/or increase servings of vegetables and other side dishes.
Serve an extra fish meaml per week (salmon, sardines, tuna, etc.) to increase Omega-3's.