give at least 5 importance of an active lifestyle

The right diet will keep your body healthy, give you energy, and boost your spirits. Healthy food can be delicious, and its fun learning new recipes and healthy combinations. Eating a healthy diet means eating no processed foods, reducing sugar, fat and salt. Eat mainly fruit and vegetables, and other plant based foods, and a small amount of lean protein. For example, eating a chicken breast, salad, fresh vegetables lightly steamed and an apple. Vegetables are a great source of vitamins, minerals, and disease-fighting phytochemicals. The nutrients in vegetables can reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease, slow bone loss and decrease the risk of fractures, keep your skin healthy as you age, maintain blood pressure control, and keep you feeling full, so lots of benefits from adopting this as one of your healthy lifestyle habits.

2. EXERCISING REGULARLY

On average, people spend anywhere from 7.7 to 15 hours a day, every day just sitting. Sitting for long periods of time can cause several health issues, including obesity and metabolic syndrome and many others. Fortunately, there’s an easy solution: Walk more! That’s a great start for anyone living a very sedentary lifestyle, but in truth you need to do more. You need to engage in at least 30 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity most days of the week, including activities that strengthen muscles and bones on at least 3 days of the week. Strength training exercises are great for your health.

3. KEEPING A HEALTHY BODY WEIGHT

Maintaining a healthy body weight can protect you from a variety of illnesses. By assessing your body’s healthy weight and maintaining it as much as possible, you will be armed with an additional tool to stay in shape… and live longer! The secret to maintaining a healthy weight is to balance “energy in” and “energy out.” Energy in means the calories you get from the food and beverages you consume. Energy out means the calories you burn for basic body functions and during physical activity. Check your weight once a week. Then you’ll know whether you are balancing the calories in and calories out or whether you need to be more active. Adopting habit one and two will contribute to you achieving this habit.

4. NOT DRINKING TOO MUCH ALCOHOL

The short and long-term effects of alcohol can affect your body, lifestyle and mental health. Armed with the facts you can make an informed choice about your drinking. Consume no more than one alcoholic drink a day for women, no more than two drinks for men. Moderate alcohol intake (for example, up to about one 5-ounce glass of wine per day for women, or up to two glasses for men. The newest advice says men and women who drink regularly should consume no more than 14 units a week – equivalent to six pints of beer or seven glasses of wine. It also says if people drink, it should be moderately over three or more days and that some days should be alcohol-free.

5. NOT SMOKING

Every cigarette you smoke is harmful. Smoking is the biggest cause of preventable deaths in England, accounting for nearly 80,000 deaths each year. One in two smokers will die from a smoking-related disease. Quit smoking to live longer. Half of all long-term smokers die early from smoking-related diseases, including heart disease, lung cancer and chronic bronchitis. Being smoke-free not only adds years to your life, but also greatly improves your chances of a disease-free, mobile, happier old age.

Let me add one more

6. SLEEP

Get a good night’s sleep

A little extra sleep can drastically improve your health. Not only will it cure your under-eye circles and boost your energy, but it can improve your memory and quality of life, curb inflammation, sharpen your attention, help you maintain a healthy weight, and lower your stress.

The average adult needs between 7.5 and 8 hours of sleep per night.

Here is a simple truth for you to absorb. A 50 year old woman who drinks, smokes, is overweight, does not exercise regularly, and has a poor diet overall will die 14 years earlier than someone with none of those risk factors (and for men it is 12.2 years).