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How Do I Become Healthy?

By: Amy Cantwell Right first of, it may look like a simple question but it's deceptive. That's because there are so many variables to look at before an answer can be devised. Such as, who are you? How healthy are you already? What exactly do you mean by healthy? How much time do you have? What age are you? How much effort are you prepared to put in? Ok I think you get the picture. I could go on and on with these questions but I don't want to bore you. Ok let's try and make this as simple as we can. How do I become healthy? I'm going to try and answer that question for you as best I can.

How do I become healthy? The answer my friend is to look at three aspects of your life. No matter who you are or what state your health is in already if you look at these three aspects and try to improve them you will be on your way to becoming healthy. These three aspects are:

1. Fitness

2. Diet

3. Stress Level

I'm sure you're surprised at the third aspect. You could probably have guessed the first two as it is a fairly standard and well known fact that a healthy person has a good level of fitness and a decent diet. However you might not have known that a person's stress level will have a big impact on how healthy he or she is.

Ok let's go into each of these aspects a little deeper so that you can find out how to become healthier.

How do I become healthy? Firstly, your fitness and by fitness I mean you cardiovascular fitness. By this I mean the health of your heart. Right, now that we understand each other I need to tell you that your heart works extremely hard for you from the moment you are conceived to the moment you die. Every second of every day. The very least you could do to repay all that hard work is be kind to it. You don't have to run a marathon to be kind to it. All you need to do at a minimum is go for a 30 minute walk every day. If you find this hard at first take it slowly, you can start out at 5 or 10 minutes and build it up by a few minutes a day. But do do it. Remember how hard your heart is working for you and it might guilt you into it!

Secondly, your diet and by your diet what I mean is what you eat. This is a bit more complicated than telling you to go for a walk every day. But let's try and simplify it as much as possible by saying that if you want to become healthy you need to be eating a balanced diet. Start by eating more fruit and vegetables, and eat more fish. Then try and cut down on saturated fat and sugar. Eat less salt and drink more water. If you make a concerted effort to do these things it is a really good start. Don't make things overly complicated by counting calories and measuring portions. Just use your common sense and don't eat too much. By asking me "how do I become healthy?" you must have known I'd tell you to eat more fruit and veg, right?

Finally your levels of stress have a huge impact on your health. You've heard of stress-related illnesses right? Believe it or not stress can be a contributing element in everything from headaches and insomnia to cancer and chronic fatigue syndrome. When you ask "how do I become healthy?" one of the key things you need to look at is how stressed you are. There are a lot of ways you can improve your stress levels. That 30 minute walk every day that I talked about above, will do wonders for stress. There are also a lot of stress relief products available online, many of these are all natural stress relief products which I would recommend.

How do I become healthy? I have tried to make the answer as simplified as I could, now it's up to you to try and follow through. Small steps is the way to go and in no time you will look and feel healthier.