Health is Wealth. Most of us know and heard this saying, right?
Continue reading, and I will walk you through some easy health and fitness tips that you can take to improve your health and become physically and mentally fit.
Obesity problem that affects the health of many people and not doing anything to do some fitness activity
The world has seen a huge increase in the number of people weighed obese by the medical community. In fact, several call it an obesity epidemic.
To combat the obesity epidemic, we find all sorts of pharmaceutical products and companies that sell the “quick fix” alternatives to the natural way of reducing and eliminating obesity in our society.
People look on through pills, capsules, powders, and lotions that do nothing and sometimes had bad side effects on our health by taking this “quick fix” fat and weight cure.
Many believe that those products are the solution for these growing improper health conditions. Still, as a matter of fact, it only makes us lazy and discourages many people on how to do it correctly and naturally to actually help people take the fat off and keep it off.
So, how do we get rid of that stubborn fat on our belly?
Of course, measuring and choosing healthy food could be said of the diet industry as well. There are so many different diets going around that suits your taste and lifestyle now you could pick one a month and in a year still have more to choose from.
According to the research of Ali Webster Ph. D., R.D., Director and registered dietician from the research and nutrition and communications at the IFIC, the topmost followed-eating plans are:
The Most Popular Diets Of 2021 for Fitness and Health
- Intermittent Fasting – 10%
- Clean Eating Diet – 9%
- Ketogenic or High-Fat Diet – 8%
- Low-Carb Diet – 7%
The meal-eating plan or diets by the International Food Information Council or the IFIC who surveys 1,011 Americans who eat, drink, and shop in this very changing year.
source: eatingwell.com
if you want to start now, which meal plan you want to choose?
Let’s take a look at how these most popular diets work to become healthy and physically fit.
#1. Intermittent Fasting
One of the most popular meal-eating plans in the world helps people lose weight, improve health conditions, and change to simplify their lifestyles.
Many scientific studies believe that intermittent fasting (IF) has a powerful effect on the body and brain and may increase human life or live longer.
source: intermittent fasting
#2. Clean Eating Diet
Clean eating is simple as avoiding eating processed and refined foods. In short, without artificial flavor, additives and preservatives.
Clean eating is taking food without preservatives and additives. The main goal is eating natural foods or eating whole food.
#3. Ketogenic or High-Fat Diet
This diet s all about eating a very low-carb but high in fat. a ketogenic or high-fat diet has similarities with Atkins and low-carb diets in terms of process.
The ketogenic diet involves eating minimal carbohydrate intake and replace it with fats. And this process puts your body in a metabolic state called ketosis.
#4. Low-Carb Diet
A low carb diet does limiting carbohydrates that found primarily in pasta, sugary products, and bread.
Like the ketogenic diet, a low-carb diet is eating whole foods.
Is there are no alternatives to diets to lose weight?
Now, what is truly needed to keep ourselves motivated to lose weight and be healthy are some sensible, proven weight loss tips that people can implement to their day to day lifestyle no matter what their present physical condition is. That said, let’s dive right in.
4 easy health and fitness tips
#1 Drink more water. Keep a minimum water intake to 8 cups a day; as a rule of thumb, drink more water.
Water replenished all the liquid that comes out of your body through sweating and perspiration, and water will flush out toxins from your body.
See more drink more water and make it a habit
#2 Eat more often. Yes! You hear it right, and I bet you thought I was going to say eat less. While it is true that to lose weight, you necessitate eating fewer calories than you consume …you need to eat more often at the minimum to get the metabolic furnace stoked up and burning right. Get it out of starvation mode. It’s always good to start the day off with breakfast. Even an instant breakfast drink and a piece of fruit will fuel our bodies as we head out the door in the morning.
#3 Move more. Depending on your physical condition, do some light exercises in the comfort of your home. If you cannot go to a gym, you need to flex your muscle.
You have to move more! Exercise.
Use the stairs rather than the elevator when heading out or going in the office or building, park farther out from the office or the store to have a light walk, go for a walk around the block for 15-30 minutes, go dancing, play with your kids and your pets.
Make it fun doing those movements. Running is not the only way to burn more calories; you can warm-up after getting up from your bed or before going to work.
#4 Finally, determine you’re “Why.” Tell yourself about the benefits of losing fats and Decide why you want to discard fat. Make your reason big enough to motivate and encourage you through the slumps that invariably happen.
Say, for example, my reason was to live to see my great-grandkids graduate college. My youngest kids are 4 and 6 now. Besides, I wanted to get out and play with them until they get tired without being out of breath all the time.
Start today to lose weight, be mentally and physically fit.
Living in Qatar and being busy in the day to day activity we should not forget that body is important, so we have to engage in some fitness activities, eating a balanced food to become healthy.
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There’s nothing in this world that can replace ourselves and our family’s happiness if we are taking care of our health.
