Good health is more than healthy eating and exercise, tips for healthy living & lifestyle.
How healthy are you? Do you have a healthy diet? Do you exercise regularly? Do you drink at least eight glasses of water a day? Do you get enough sleep every day? Do you live a healthy lifestyle?
Choose a few things you like from this list (Tips for healthy living) below to incorporate into your own life for Healthy Living & Healthy Lifestyle!
100 Simple Health Tips for Healthy Living & Habits Worth Adopting Into Your Life
- Establish regular exercise routines in your life.
- Continue to work on eating healthily; vigilance will always be needed to be successful.
- See your doctor regularly for wellness exams and health/disease screenings/tests.
- If you have symptoms, seek medical attention; don’t ignore warning signs of issues.
- Along with your body, make efforts to stimulate and strengthen your brain as you age.
- Maintain satisfying social relationships.
- Keep involved in activities and pursuits that interest you.
- Try to maintain a positive attitude to support your resilience when life hands you setbacks.
- Keep your body hydrated with water.
- Avoid toxins and unhealthy environments.
- Take care of your skin.
- Know your health numbers and what they mean, regardless of how healthy or unhealthy you are now.
- Get adequate sleep.
- Spend less time in front of the TV; at minimum, get up and move during commercials.
- Learn to relax more.
- Focus less on your weight, and more on your overall health.
- Find things to be grateful for in your life.
- Don’t forget to smile and laugh routinely.
- Do something fun every day.
- Have a sense of purpose in your life.
- Let go of the past, focus on what you can do to improve your present and future.
- Give your focused attention on what you can do to address your most unhealthy habit.
- Remind yourself it takes time and patience to change ingrained habits.
- Know your family health history.
- Eat a variety of foods, especially fruits and vegetables.
- Limit your use of alcohol.
- Don’t forget your dental health.
- Don’t forget your eye health.
- Continue to educate yourself about overall health and wellness, over time new findings result in updated recommendations from health experts.
- Replace bad habits with good ones.
- Learn to cook healthy foods you enjoy.
- Learn to modify recipes you love to make them more nutritious.
- Allow yourself to splurge periodically on special foods in limited quantities or frequencies.
- Slip vegetables into your favorite recipes.
- Make sure you get some good fats in your diet.
- Stretch your body every day.
- Eat more fish.
- Start each day with a healthy breakfast.
- Spend some time in solitude on a regular basis.
- Wash your hands often.
- Focus on eating whole-grains when you eat bread products.
- Make sure that the protein foods you eat are leaner versions.
- Develop a ‘gentle firmness’ with yourself; be kind but honest in your mental ‘self talk’.
- Remember that small changes can really add up and lead to big results.
- Try to eat more natural/raw/core foods, and less processed food.
- Try to eat a variety of food ‘colors’.
- Try to eat more volume and fewer calories in your diet.
- Experiment with food combinations and spices to see what you like.
- Reward yourself for your positive efforts in ways that do not involve food whenever possible.
- Enjoy your food, take time to sit down and concentrate on what you are eating.
- Watch salt, sugar, harmful fats and other additive levels in your food.
- Consider taking vitamins and other supplements as recommended by your doctor or pharmacist.
- When someone asks you what you would like for a gift, be ready with a healthy idea.
- Write down your health goals and prioritize them.
- Track your progress on health goals so you have feedback to review.
- Have realistic expectations for yourself and your body.
- Compete only with yourself, not others.
- Look for healthy role models in your life.
- Ask for tips or advice from people in your life who are healthy and/or struggling with similar challenges.
- Develop healthy rituals but be prepared to be flexible as needed.
- Plan and allow time for you to keep up with your healthy habits and routines.
- Don’t forget portion control.
- Concentrate of keeping your body strong and flexible.
- Seek to resolve nagging problems in your life.
- Accept the things in your life that you cannot change.
- Do something for others just because you can.
- Try to be spontaneous or try something new each week.
- Gravitate towards healthy people whenever possible.
- Use your support systems.
- Expect setbacks and plan for them if possible.
- Take your medications as prescribed and report side effects to your physician.
- Make sure your physician(s) have complete information about your health.
- Take breaks during your work day.
- Learn to breathe properly.
- Don’t engage in wishful thinking about your health; take action, even small steps, as soon as you can to get going towards a healthier you.
- If you are ill or have an injury, rest and/or get treatment.
- Use trusted websites for excellent health advice and/or recipes.
- Listen to your body.
- Are you already managing a specific condition, like diabetes or arthritis? Read up on what you can continue to do to mitigate progression of the condition through any lifestyle changes.
- Watch the level of over the counter medications you use.
- Make sure you understand contraindications and/or interactions for any medication you take or conditions you have, including improper mixing of meds and other meds and/or food.
- Join a health related class or program, a great way to get new ideas/tips and/or supports.
- Carry healthy snacks with you.
- Read nutrition labels regularly.
- Get rid of excess clutter in both your physical and mental world.
- Stop doing what doesn’t work for you, and keep doing what does work for you.
- Be willing to try a new sport or physical activity at least once to see if you would enjoy it.
- Develop an array of exercise and physical activity options in your life to keep active.
- Know the key nutritious healthy or ‘super’ foods and include them in your diet.
- Keep educating yourself about health update information.
- Remember that while you may have your own health challenges, you are likely someone else’s role model in some aspect of their life.
- Make yourself ‘work’ for a special food through an exercise ‘payment’ first; you may find after the exercise you really don’t want the food.
- Understand that – as with all important aspects of life – being healthy will take some work and effort on your part and it will be worth it over the long haul.
- Consider rewarding yourself with cash; save up what you would have spent on unhealthy foods or tobacco and use the money to purchase something you would really love.
- Whenever you need to do so, just start over fresh, at the next meal, the next day, the next month, the next year, whichever comes first for you.
- Understand that being healthy or unhealthy is a choice you get to make continually through many daily decisions.
- The more you develop other interests and activities in your life, the less appealing over eating or inactivity will be for you.
- The way out of any rut is simple, just do it; get started in any way that you can.
- Post reminders, incentives or inspiration for yourself to see to help support your goals.
- Don’t ever give up on efforts to improve your health.