Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle

One great thing that you can do for others is to influence their healthy lifestyle. This can be very helpful especially if that person's lifestyle is not healthy. One example of this would be trying to get your family to make sure they use small dinner plates and eat their Thanksgiving meal over the course of 20 minutes. Another example would be to give your friends healthy alternatives to their favorite snacks. As a future Health and Wellness teacher, it is my job to promote a healthy lifestyle to everyone around me and hopefully some people can take this great advice.

Eating healthy

The most important thing to do to become a healthy person is to eat healthy. Eating healthy seems easy but it is actually really hard, especially when there are so many unhealthy options that surround you. Another thing that makes eating healthy hard is that a lot of people are uneducated about what foods are healthy and what are unhealthy. Some tips for eating healthy are to avoid food dyes and drink mixes, eat more nutrient dense foods, try making each meal last 20 minutes and avoid dried fruits. These tips are just to name a few, for more helpful tips look into the book Eat Move Sleep by Tom Rath. Following these tips will make it easier for you to be a healthy eater and increase you chances of becoming a healthy individual.

Importance of Sleep

You might not know it but sleep is one of the most important things in your life. It can effect you day in a really good way or really bad way, depending on how you sleep that previous night. You are less productive when you go to work/school after a night were you get barely any sleep. In the book Eat. Move. Sleep, we learned how to increase the chances of getting a good night sleep. Some ways you can increase you sleep efficiency are sleeping with a warm light next to you and keeping your room at a cool temperature throughout the night.

Be Active

Every person in the world should try to be physically active each day. Everyday you are not physically active, you choose to be an unhealthy individual. An easy way to get physical activity each day is to simply walk. Walking 10,000 steps a day is enough physical activity to be healthy. Some forms of physical activity are not hard to achieve, all people need is motivation and the physical drive to get that physical activity each day.