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You can improve your life when you give up some of your old habits, such as being a total couch potato, and replace them with some healthy habits. Let’s face it, you go through half of the day in a mindless blur, doing the same old thing. It’s time to change that and add a new dimension in your life. Maybe it’s just as simple as climbing the stairs at work rather than taking the elevator or parking in the first parking spot you see and walking into the building rather than driving around the lot for a half hour trying to find a closer place. That small change can help you become fitter.

Be healthier by being more adventurous at mealtime.

Shun the fast foods and start being creative in the kitchen. You don’t have to work hard to achieve healthier. For instance, you can make delicious spaghetti with a squash. Just cut the spaghetti squash in half, rub a little olive oil on it and season it with garlic, salt and pepper. Bake it cut side down and when you take it, it shreds with a fork into yummy spaghetti style strings you can eat plain or with other ingredients. It’s healthier and a lot of fun to introduce to your family. They’ll love it. Eating healthy is an adventure.

Start making movement a goal.

No matter what you do for a living, adding a little more movement to your day can reap rewards. If you work at a desk, try some isometrics to tighten your stomach or just stretch when you get a chance. There are plenty of ways to add more exercise to your day. It doesn’t have to be formal exercise to benefit you. It makes adding a formal exercise program even easier.

Regular exercise becomes addictive. Part of the reason is the hormones the brain sends when you do it. Endorphins and dopamine are two of the feel good hormones that will make you want to go back and exercise more.

When you start healthier habits, you’ll find them so rewarding you’ll start dropping old unhealthy habits and search for more ways to improve your life.

You can prevent serious conditions or make them more manageable when you adopt a healthier lifestyle. High blood pressure, osteoporosis, diabetes and even depression are more easily controlled when you exercise regularly.

Living healthier can help you burn off hormones created by stress and build your self confidence. You’ll walk taller and have more presence. Others will notice and treat you with more respect.

If your goal is to lose weight, then a diet might be right for you. Unfortunately, all diets end, either in successful weight loss or in a chocolate cheesecake at two in the morning and then the weight you lost returns and brings friends with it. Permanent weight loss doesn’t involve dieting, since dieting doesn’t work because they’re restrictive and when they end, you return to your previous pattern of eating that put weight on in the first place. Permanent weight loss comes from making lifestyle changes rather than dieting. The lifestyle changes you make include regularly scheduled exercise, healthier eating habits, plenty of hydration and even adequate sleep. Not only will you lose weight, you’ll be healthier.

Changing eating habits isn’t dieting.

Dieting is restrictive. You have to eat specific foods, such as cabbage soup or starve until even the cat starts looking like a tasty morsel. Eating healthier means making small changing in your eating habits to add up to huge calorie savings and more nutrients. You might even be eating more food more frequently when you eat a healthier diet, so you’ll never feel hungry or deprived. Sometimes the changes are small, like using Greek yogurt to top that baked potato instead of sour cream, sometimes they involve the way you cook—-steamed not fried, please. Eating healthier adds more nutrients to your diet so you’ll be healthier, but cuts back on calories so you’ll be thinner.

Start exercising and make weight loss easier.

Exercise does so many great things for your body. It actually lengthens the ends of the DNA, the telomeres to protect chromosomes and prevent cell death, the cause of disease and signs of aging. It also increases circulation to improve the flow of blood to all parts of the body, including the skin, giving you a healthy glow. It has many more health benefits, but for those trying to lose weight, the main benefit is that it burns calories, while also increasing muscle tissue. Muscle tissue burns more calories than fat tissue does, so in effect, once you develop it, you’ll be boosting your metabolism.

Combine diet and exercise and you have an arsenal against fat.

Losing weight isn’t a challenging concept, even though actually losing it may be a challenge. You simply burn more calories than you consume. Healthy eating lowers your caloric intake, while exercise burns more calories. You’ll be attacking weight loss on all fronts when you combine these two lifestyle changes.

Not only does healthy eating help you lower your caloric intake, it also helps stabilize blood sugar levels, just as regular exercise does. That means you won’t suffer from sugar peaks and valleys that can cause you to consume anything sweet, from a bowl of ice cream to an entire cake.

Getting adequate sleep is also important when you want to lose weight permanently. Adequate sleep means you won’t be grabbing a candy bar to help keep you awake through the next boring business meeting or keep you going just until the kids get in bed.

Regular exercise can lift your spirits. Often people overeat when they’re depressed and exercise can help lift that depression by stimulating the body to create hormones that make you feel good.

You’ll look slimmer even if you never lose a pound when you exercise properly. Exercising tightens and tones the body, which is why a person who exercises may fit into a size 5/6, while someone weighing the same, but who isn’t in shape may have to buy a 9/10.

Everyone has to get older, but not necessarily look older. Making lifestyle changes can keep you looking younger than you really are. Regular exercise and a healthy diet can help you stay in amazing shape forever. You’ll have more bounce in your step and even your skin will look younger than your years say it should. It’s never too late to start either. Changing life habits can’t reverse the past, but it can help your body to do just that. You’ll be amazed at the difference a healthier lifestyle makes.

Exercise stimulates the production of longer telomeres.

You may not have ever heard of telomeres and you’ll probably never see them, but they play an important role in protecting the cells. Just like aglets—the plastic tips on shoelaces—they add protection to help prevent DNA from being damaged, which prevents cell death and damage, the cause of aging and illness. That alone is enough to keep you looking younger, but exercise helps in even more ways.

Exercise stimulates circulation and sends life giving nutrients and oxygen to all cells in the body.

As you exercise, your heart beats faster, speeding blood circulating throughout the body. The blood brings life-giving oxygen and nutrients to all parts of the body. That keeps your cells healthier and you looking great. Exercise also builds muscle tissue and burns calories to keep your body weight perfect. You’ll both build and tone muscle tissue, which makes you look marvelous.

A healthy diet provides all the nutrients to keep you in shape.

You don’t have to worry about overeating when you consume a healthy diet. Most people who opt for this lifestyle change find they always feel full and never feel deprived. Not only does a healthy diet provide valuable nutrients to help you stay in shape and younger looking and feeling, it also helps you lose weight without the pain and suffering that can come from dieting. When you combine a healthy diet with regular exercise fat doesn’t have a chance.

As you age, you lose muscle tissue faster. Regular exercise can help prevent that loss and keep you in shape longer.

Part of looking great is feeling great. Exercise stimulates the production of endorphins and burns off hormones created by stress, this can lift your spirits.

You’ll help prevent serious conditions with lifestyle changes, such as diet and a program of regular exercise. Studies show that both of these changes can help prevent heart disease, osteoporosis, diabetes, high blood pressure and even Alzheimer’s disease.

Not only will you look fantastic, you’ll feel sexier too. A program of regular exercise can boost your sex drive, while also giving you an irresistible appearance.

Safe, comfortable and effective chiropractic care can help you improve your workout by relieving pain. Even if you don’t workout, chiropractic care can help you relieve pain that you may have had for years. In fact, since many people find they no longer require pain relief after just a few treatment, you may find you can put your pain pills on the shelf, which is far healthier for you. Both upper and lower back pain are frequently relieved by the use of chiropractic care, but other types of pain can also be helped.

If an accident left you with recurring headaches, shoulder pain, sciatica or pain in your joints, you may benefit from chiropractic care.

Even though many patients who use chiropractic care have had auto or work accidents or sports injuries, the pain can be coming from years of poor posture too. Chiropractors first identify the cause of the pain with x-rays, then start on the best treatment plan that may use specialized machine or physical manipulation to provide relief.

Pain killers don’t address the issue, they simply mask the pain.

No matter how many pain killers you’ve taken, the pain always returns. The problem with most pain killers is that while they relieve pain enough to help you function, they can also can cause damage to other parts of your body when taken for long periods. Aspirin or ibuprofen may seem harmless enough, after all they’re over the counter drugs, but over long periods can eat away at your gut and create ulcerations. Depending on the medication,they even can cause changes to the small intestine that have deleterious effects on nutrient absorption, as well as kidney damage, heart disease and liver damage. Stronger medications for serious pain problems can dull your senses and leave you unable to function. A better solution is to find the cause of the problem and address it.

Many athletes use chiropractic treatments to help them overcome injuries quicker.

Athletes earn their money by being the best they can be on a physical level, so it makes sense, they use treatment that helps them feel better faster and doesn’t do damage to their body, which could affect their income. Many athletes use chiropractic care because it’s safe and yet addresses many of the problems they face quickly.

If you’ve suffered with pain for long periods, with doctors only prescribing pain medication and not doing anything about the problem, investigating chiropractic care might provide a solution.

Chiropractic care is recognized and covered by most insurance companies, as well as workman’s compensation plans.

Chiropractors are often licensed to do other types of treatments, such as Active Release Therapy—ART and Frenzian Treatments, which provide alternative treatment for long standing pain or sudden acute pain.

If you’re looking for a chiropractor for a sports injury, find one that specializes in sports medicine and therapeutic rehab.