Top 5 Quick Health Tips

These quick health tips are based on my own need for effective ways to improve my health that don't necessarily require a lot of time and energy to change the way I live.

Of course, there is your intention and resulting effort to apply these to one's lifestyle - that's vital to getting the results you want.

But these are things that I've found are easily accomplished with small improvements. They're simple to pick up and do even when first starting, or when I've gotten "out of the habit."

When that happens, I've learned not to automatically think "Oh, I've failed! Whaa whaa whaa!" but instead to tell myself "Okay - that was yesterday. Today is today and I am doing this newly" a fresh start, in a new manner.

Choosing one quick health tip at a time and doing it until it's well grooved-in is generally quite effective. It takes about 3 weeks of performing some action regularly to groove it into a habit.

These 5 quick health tips will give you the most "bang for your buck" (the best result for the smallest effort). They are very basic and essential things that the body needs in order to function well.

1. Of all quick health tips, number one is "Drink water!" Virtually every job that the body performs requires water. Unfortunately, coffee, tea, sodas and sports drinks are not handled by the body the way water is. For a better understanding of why water is essential to your health, check out this article on the health benefit of water.
2. Managing negative stress is absolutely vital for health, both physical and emotional. I say this from hard-won experience! You could do things for your body that are very healthy, but if you don't manage negative stress effectively, all your efforts are wasted.

   That is mainly because stressful situations cause your body to secrete hormones that get you to "run from danger." That's very useful when you're running away from a saber-toothed tiger - but these hormones are destructive if they are constantly being produced.

   The article on "How does stress affect health" will give you a stable understanding of stress in relation to health. Read "stress management and relaxation" and "how stress can affect your lifestyle" for a definition of stress, plus practical suggestions about ways to handle stress.

3. Move around. You don't have to join a gym or start (and stop) some intense exercise program. The body requires some physical activity each day - part of the immune system, for example, requires muscular contraction, as in walking, to be effective. As far as quick health tips go, simply look at your current level of physical activity, and then find some way that you like to get a little more.

   There is a whole section on this site about health related fitness, including a definition of physical activity and the 4 types of exercise that the body ultimately needs. If "exercise" is a "bad" word to you, have a look at this exercise information for a realistic look at the subject.

4. Food, nutrition and health go hand-in-hand. There's a lot of information about nutrition and health that once you understood and can use it, will vastly improve your health. Since this article is about quick health tips, consuming fresh vegetables and fruits is key.

   If you don't get any fresh fruits or vegetables in your diet, you might as well hang yourself by the neck now! (Just kidding.) Don't get any? Pick a fruit and/or fresh veggie each day and simply get yourself used to having some regularly.

   Check out the section about food, nutrition and health here at Improving Health and Energy which includes articles about vegetable nutrition facts and fruit nutrition facts. Yummy!

5. Last, but not least of my top 5 quick health tips: Work on improving the quality and quantity of your sleep if you don't sleep well or get enough sleep. Yes, you CAN do things to improve your sleep apart from taking sleep medication or a shot of whiskey before you go to bed!

   Drinking enough water, improving nutrition, getting some physical activity and managing stress will all lead to better quality of sleep. In addition, there are small things that you can change that will show you how to sleep better.

It's your life and your health! Take these quick health tips and use them to improve the quality of your life.

Cheers!

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