Ten habits of a healthy and long-lasting person.. These are habits of people who live a very long life and are also quite healthy. If you can break them down and implement them into your own life, you can be healthier and hopefully live longer.
Number One
Is that people who move around for at least thirty minutes a day. Now physical activity has all kinds of benefits, from psychological to physiological to all kinds, even your friendships.
The quality of your friendships can increase just by moving around for 30 minutes. A day because it increases the healthiness of the neurons in the brain. Now I would suggest this 30 minutes of movement is a bare minimum, and if that bare minimum is a struggle, make it something that you enjoy doing like playing a sport. If you like, resistant training, then go do that, if you like walking then go and walk. If you like running, do not go walk. The point is move for at least 30 minutes a day, do whatever it is that’s going to motivate you to move around for 30 minutes a day.
Number Two
Is that they have a favorite sport. Now, if that is you but you can find one that can get you moving like flag football or playing basketball. When you do this in a church league or some other league maybe with friends it is more enjoyable. Not only that but soon hen you don’t even realize 30 minutes has passed, it’s usually an hour or longer.
Number Three
They educate themselves about the food that they put in their body now. This is something that a lot of people struggle with, because there’s a lot of myths and bad information on the internet, but what you can do is sort through it. So, just read as much as you can and you’ll kind of start to understand all right.. This is a myth, I don’t need to believe this, This is a bad article, This website gives out horrible information, it’s just something that you do over time. You just have to continually educate yourself about the food, about macronutrients, about calories, even technical stuff like how to build muscle, how to lose weight, those things are important to being healthy.
Number Four
Is that they have a meal plan. Now this isn’t something that I’ve really implemented in my life, but I do kind of have a schedule and what it is is I have certain meals that I go through my day and I know these are healthy enough. They don’t have any major carcinogens and so I eat them and I generally feel great afterwards. So having a meal plan or at least a meal schedule is something that a lot of healthy people have in their life.
Number Five
This is a sensitive subject but one everyone deals with. Sex, I know a lot of people might actually get offended about this, but loving intimate sex is what this means not a fling or a weekend thing. It’s just that loving intimate sex produces way more total beneficial hormones in your brain than a weekend fling does. And if you do weekend, flings one-night stands every week, you can start to form an addiction and the dopamine quality in your brain will start to reduce and that can actually become a negative habit that you’ll have to get rid of later. So be in a marriage relationship, form those loving intimate relationships within those bounds.
Number Six
Drink at least 2 liters of water a day. Carry water around with you, replace consuming pop or soda depending on the part of the Country you are in. So drinking tons of water is something that a lot of healthy people do.
Number Seven
Healthy people are outside a lot, there are different opinions on how much, it varies from two hours to eight hours of sunlight. Use common sense, but your body will begin to produce more nutrients from the sunlight, like vitamin D. Some people can actually start to get depressed if the natural sunlight is taken away from them. It’s called sad or seasonal, affective disorder, so there are proven benefits of having sunlight.
Number Eight
Is that They get at least 7 hours of quality sleep. Now there are all kinds of tips that I could name here to help. You have quality sleep and that’s what’s important because you can have sleep, but if the lights on and there’s a weird noise in the background, you’re not going to have quality sleep, try to Keep the light off, don’t have any caffeine for less than six hours before You go to sleep turn down most of the light. Turn off the TV, computer screen, even on your phone there should be a setting to turn down the brightness.
It’s not recommended to work out or eat an hour before you go to bed, there’s just tons of tips. Seven hours of quality sleep. It will help you become a more healthy plus the other benefit is you’ll probably live longer. Sleep has been correlated to health over many years in many studies, and it’s just I’m not going to doubt that I’m going to get quality sleep and I urge you to do the same.
Number Nine
They meditate frequently, there are studies and have had many testimonials of people who have meditated that it actually improves the quality of their life from handling their emotions better. To improving their sleep quality, to even feeling more peaceful throughout the day, just a couple minutes of meditation right after you, wake up or right before you go to bed can increase.. I think it’s called grey matter in your brain and I think technically it can increase your IQ over time. Now again use common sense, don’t just meditate or ponder anything, meditate on your favorite scripture verse.
Number Ten
Is that they smile a lot. I don’t know if it’s correlation or causation, but they smile a lot, maybe they’re healthy, because they smile or maybe because they smile a lot, because they are healthy.
Put yourself in a lot of situations where you can smile, where you are happy, fulfilled and joyful and just motivated to do stuff throughout the day.
Number one is to move for 30 minutes a day.
Number two is to have a favorite sport/activity.
Number three is to be educated about the food that you eat.
Number four is to have a meal plan or meal schedule.
Number five is sex in a loving and intimate relationship.
Number six is to drink at least 2 liters of water.
Number 7 is to be outside a lot now.
Number eight is to get at least seven hours of quality sleep.
Number nine is to meditate frequently.
The last habit is to smile.
I hope you learned something.. I hope you got some gold nugget of knowledge that you can use to implement in your life to become healthier and maybe even live longer.
