How to Live a Healthy Lifestyle

How to Improve Your Health Through a Healthy Lifestyle

You may wonder why America has so many obese people. Perhaps, just perhaps, there’s a small link between American’s obesity and the simple matter that we, as a people, have gone through some radical lifestyle changes the past twenty years? For example, if you glance around any American street, how many people do you see doing “hard labor?” Probably not too many, right? Most people these days sit at a desk working on computers instead of working with their bodies.

Unfortunately, this trend doesn’t extend to just adults. Children are far less active today than they were decades ago. I can remember, as a child, having to follow a strict regimen of finishing homework as soon as I got home. I had no TV, no video games. When I played with my friends, we spent time outside, not in front of a computer playing video games.

So what’s the deal with kids now days? Well the fact of the matter is that they lead much more sedentary lifestyles, due in no part to the increased emphasis on digital entertainment. With the popularity of the internet and the millions of little gadgets and gismo within hands reach – all dedicated to make you do less physical work or to entertain you – it’s tough to get children to be more active. These children tend to observe how their parents act and imitate it. It's no wonder, with this sedentary lifestyle that people are suffering more health problems like acne, migraine headaches, etc.

There is an ancient Chinese proverb that says “idle hands are the devil’s own playground. Hence, it’s easier for people to get into trouble when you have too much time on your hands. Perhaps there is a real correlations between this and obesity and drug use. We as a society have too much time on our hands. Instead of being active with our bodies and productive, you have used machines and technology to do a lot of the work for us. Now we are reaping the so called “benefits” of this technological playground we have created.

It’s unfortunate that our parents are no longer the role models for health and fitness; they work longer and longer hours and find themselves too exhausted to use the stove to cook, are often too tired to do housework, and don’t do exercise.

So, what can we do to solve these health and lifestyle problems?

Well, part of the solution is to be proactive in our fight for proper health. If you have kids, get rid of that TV, put a time limit on computer usage. Enroll your children into sports. For you own sake, change your diet and get into a gym. Follow proper nutrition. Your example will show your children how to live a healthy lifestyle. You will also be ensuring you have a much longer lasting and illness free life ahead of you.