Healthy Living
Transcript: Living Healthy facts! Physical activity improves health and well-being. It reduces stress, strengthens the heart and lungs, increases energy levels, helps you maintain and achieve a healthy body weight and it improves your outlook on life. Healthy eating is all about choosing the foods that help your body function best. A balanced diet gives you more energy, and helps you think more clearly. So take a look at the following and learn a little about nutrition Your body needs at least 40 nutrients to work well, and you get these nutrients through food and vitamins. Food is divided into three categories: carbohydrates, protein, and fat. Each of these provides vitamins, minerals, and amino acids. Too much of anything can throw your body's balance off track. Too much protein is hard on your kidneys and can hurt them. Too many carbs (candy bars, pasta, bread) on the other hand, might make your pancreas work overtime, which can increase your chance of getting diabetes and heart disease. Physical Activities Physical activity is something that everyone can do. You don't need to run a marathon or spend hours at a gym. Look for simple ways to be physically active every day. You could: Take a walk once a day; Take the stairs instead of the elevator; Spend less time in front of the television or computer; Have fun with friends Walk, or ride your bike to places close by Find out about walking and bicycle paths nearby and use them. Beyond staying healthy with regular exercise, there are many other reasons why you should make staying fit a part of your daily routine. One of these reasons is because you can let go of the stress you have at work and at school. Physical activity helps: healthy growth and development prevent chronic diseases like cancer, and heart disease make us stronger give us energy decrease stress, and stay independence as we get older. Exercise can help prevent extra weight gain or help maintain weight loss. When you do physical activity, you burn calories. The more intense the activity, the more calories you burn. You don't need to set aside large chunks of time for exercise get weight-loss benefits. If you can't do an actual workout, get more active throughout the day in simple ways Eating Disorders People with anorexia have a large fear of gaining weight and a unrealistic view of their body size and shape. As a result, they strive to keep a very low body weight. Some cut down on what they eat by dieting, fasting, or a lot of exercise. People with anorexia try to eat as little as possible, and take in as few calories as they can, always obsessing over how much food they eat. Bulimia happens by a lot of binge eating and not exercising. Someone with bulimia may go through weight changes, but barely experiences the low weight thatgoes with anorexia. Both disorders can involve compulsive exercise or other forms of eating too much food and then self-induced vomiting or taking pills. Healthy Eating there are many diets out there that they advertise on tv that say that you can loose weight in a certain amount of time. these diets are called fad diets. They say to use methods such as mixing different foods and spices together to make a colon cleanse. also the "cookie diet" where you can eat 3 cookies 3 times a day till dinner where you then eat a full meal. these diets do help you loose weight fast but once you go back to your old ways the weight comes back too. most of the weight that is lost from these fad diets at first is from water you retain in your body. if you just use fad diets your weight will just fluxuate. to loose weight you need to eat healthy and exercise. (cc) photo by Metro Centric on Flickr doodles notes Budapest San Francisco By: Stephanie & Angel !!! Notes Stockholm (cc) photo by jimmyharris on Flickr (cc) photo by Franco Folini on Flickr Double click to crop it if necessary Generally, eating disorders involve self-critical, negative thoughts and feelings about body weight and food, and eating habits that disrupt normal body function and daily activities. While more common among girls, eating disorders can affect boys, too. They're so common in the U.S. that 1 or 2 out of every 100 kids will have a problem with one, most commonly anorexia or bulimia. sadly, many kids and teens can hide eating disorders from their families for months or even years. outlook photo frame Place your own picture behind this frame! (cc) photo by Metro Centric on Flickr details Assets map Important Details
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