Stay Fit and Healthy

STAY FIT AND HEALTHY

Staying healthy physically can help you stay healthy emotionally too. If you're eating the right food and keeping fit, your body will be strong and help you to cope with stress and also fight illness.

Eating well and exercising often when you're a teenager will also help you stay in good health later in life.

Getting regular sleep is another really important way to stay healthy. Having late nights can leave you feeling tired the next day. It can be difficult, but try to have at least 8 hours sleep each night.

Top tips to remember:

• eat a varied and balanced diet
• drink plenty of water
• get lots of sleep
• get regular exercise
• avoid drinking alcohol and smoking.

• Plenty of ways to keep fitExercise doesn't have to mean taking part in a team sport or spending lots of money on expensive equipment. Try doing something you enjoy. It could be:

  • walking
  • swimming
  • jogging
  • ice skating
  • skipping
  • dancing
  • yoga.

  • Survival of the Fittest

    Unless you regularly engage in dangerous activities, the best thing you can do to increase your chance of a long life is to remain fit and healthy. The Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans reports that the mortality rate for people who sit most of the day skyrockets over someone who is physically active.

    Remaining fit reduces your risk of suffering from heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, Type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis and many types of cancer. The guidelines recommend that you get 150 to 300 minutes of moderately intense cardio activity a week to maintain or improve your overall health and fitness.

  • The Importance of Physical Fitness

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  • According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, chronic diseases cause 7 out of 10 deaths in the U.S., and treating chronic diseases accounts for 86% of U.S. healthcare costs. While some diseases cannot be prevented, you can reduce your risk for certain disease – such as heart disease and diabetes – through reducing risky behaviors and living a healthy lifestyle.

    Making healthy choices, such as engaging in regular physical activity, can reduce your risk for many health issues and complications that can result in expensive medical care.

  • Increase your life expectancy

    Numerous studies have shown that regular physical activity increases life expectancy and reduces the risk of premature mortality. There’s not a magic formula that translates hours of physical activity into hours of life gained, but research suggests that people who are more active tend to be healthier and tend to live longer.

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  • If you do less exercise or activity you will become deconditioned. Your muscles weaken and lose bulk including the muscles you need for breathing and the large muscles in your legs and arms.

    You will become more breathless as you do less activity.

    If you continue to be inactive you will feel worse, need more help and eventually even simple daily tasks will be difficult.

  • According to a January 2020 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 15 percent of Americans are physically inactive. The problem is that living like this has a long list of negative health effects.

    "There are many types of exercise, and all of them have benefits for your health, and conversely, the lack of each type can have a different negative impact if someone neglects that type," says Lynn Marie Morski, MD, board-certified family medicine and sports medicine physician.

    The combination of no exercise and a sedentary lifestyle significantly increases your risk of developing a long-list of life-threatening conditions. "Evidence suggests that a sedentary lifestyle may even more strongly predict mortality than some of the causes with well-known associations to mortality, like smoking and high blood pressure," Dr. Morski says.

    Here's exactly what happens to your body when you don't exercise.

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