4 Simple Tips To Improve Your Health
If you could objectively assess your health on a scale of 1-10, what score would you give yourself? Chances are that you think there is at least some room for improvement.
Living a healthy life doesn't have to be difficult. In fact, improving your health is often just a matter of daring to make small adjustments to your daily routine and, above all, learning to hold onto them.
Very often our prejudices about health and failures in the past obscure our perspective, and making changes seems harder than they really are. Try to drop all of that for a minute and then simply continue reading this contribution to take advantage of it.
Who knows? You can simply spoil yourself with a nice health upgrade that costs nothing and can only benefit you.
1. Take a nap often
If you have ever been to Latin America, you will find that many people go home during their lunch break. They take a short siesta. People who often take a so-called nap can live even longer.
According to a study of Greek adults who systematically take a nap during the day, they had a 37% lower risk of heart-related deaths. These participants slept at least 30 minutes three times a week or more.
Taking a nap lowers blood pressure and cortisol, a hormone that modulates stress and is involved in various diseases. Taking a nap also helps your brain to store new memories, and that's always a good thing.
2. Put your brain to work often
Contrary to what many people think, your brain does NOT follow age at the same pace as the rest of your body. In fact, research shows "super agers" (80 and 90 year olds who are very good for their age) have a younger looking "brain."
They also score just as well (or even better) than middle-aged people on cognitive tests. Reading, taking lessons, and picking up new hobbies can all help keep your brain young and healthy.
Video games can also help, it turns out. To top it all off: a recent study showed that older people who had played video games were better at forming memories, attention and multi-tasking.
3. Walk and walk a lot
We all know that exercise is an important ingredient for achieving and maintaining good health. But contrary to what you may think, you don't have to force yourself. All you have to do is walk regularly.
In fact, a recent study has shown that walking was as good as intensive exercise in the prevention of high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes and coronary heart disease.
Compared to other forms of exercise, walking is safe and there is no great pressure on your body.
And let's not forget all the other benefits associated with it, such as lowering blood sugar, improving digestion, relieving fatigue, stimulating mood, and improving sleep.
4. Eat food based on plants
Eating a plant-based diet can even help prevent a large number of diseases from occurring. It is what our body has just meant to eat. Now, we are not going to suggest that you should avoid all meat, that is a personal matter.
We just want to emphasize the importance of eating lots of fruit and vegetables. Why? Because a plant-based diet is associated with less occurrence of all kinds of health problems.
