Fitness and Exercise Should Be Adopted In Combination with a Suitable Diet

It is a known fact that better, healthier lives come from no single obsessive act alone, but from a whole combination of beneficial factors all working harmoniously alongside each other. When seeking to improve our health diet is as important as exercise.

Tips on how to eat healthily:

• Eat in moderation. This is very important. You will be able to eat a huge variety of foods as long as you moderate your consumption of them.


• Take time to chew and taste your food properly. Chewing food better not only aids the digestive process but also helps your brain determine when you are actually full. Eating your food consciously tends to make you consume less quantity also.


• Each a little, often. Breaking your food intake up into smaller meals aids the nutrient digestion and assimilation into your body. Too much food in one sitting generally means food passes straight through your body, or worse still, gets stored as fat. Endurance will be promoted whilst at the same time fatigue will be less likely to set in. Glucose will be processed by liver at a more reasonable rate, your blood containing more of a natural level of sugar.


• Try not to eat late at night 3-4 hours before you get some sleep since a large percentage of this food will be stored immediately as fat once you are asleep. Eating late may well keep your digestive system working later than you would like, keeping you awake. If hungry think about the great breakfast you will have the next morning.


• Never skip breakfast. Your brain and muscles require the necessary energy and other nutrients to function properly. Breakfast gets your body revved up making you more alert. If you choose not to have any breakfast you will get very hungry later on and will be more likely not to eat the right sorts of food. High carbohydrate breakfasts will ensure you have more energy throughout the day as they get absorbed slowly.

To eat healthily you will need to consume a very wide range of foods, some say ‘variety is the spice of life’. Try to use fresh ingredients, this will limit the nutrient loss that occurs over time from harvest. Remember that starving yourself is not recommended and that fats are essential in reduced quantities in your diet, they are vital for the correct functioning of you cell membranes, aid in the absorption of fat soluble vitamins A and D as well as being an energy resource. Fats can be reduced through:

• Cooking more healthily. Try to reduce frying in or coating food with oils/ fats.


• Eat more fruit and fiber whilst distancing yourself more from dairy products.


• Avoid binge drinking. Alcohol, as well as the sugar, is highly fattening, not to mention damaging to your liver and other organs such as the kidney. Enjoy alcohol in moderation, e.g. one pint of beer or 1-2 glasses of red wine a day, which is actually beneficial at this level of consumption.

Following these steps allows you to loose weight whilst not feeling so miserable and hungry. You should find that adhering strictly to this advice enables you to last longer in the day and during workouts.