5 Healthy Summer Habits to Maintain this Fall
Don’t let healthy summer habits fade away as you move into the fall. Fall often means shifting gears from summer activities into a more structured fall routine. How can you maintain healthy summer behaviors while stepping into fall?
#1 Complete Your Workout First
Summer is hot. You don’t want to be outside working out in hot mid-day temperatures, so you complete that workout early in the day to avoid the heat. Maintain this habit in the fall. By completing your workout first thing every day you are more likely to complete it versus waiting and having other priorities bump it off the to do list.
#2 Eat Breakfast Daily
More relaxed summer routines allow more time for a leisurely morning breakfast. Don’t push breakfast aside in the fall time crunch of getting kids out the door for school and yourself off to work. Breakfast “breaks the fast”, meaning it is the jump start your metabolism needs daily.
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Our Habits Reflect On Our Health
Our habits reflect on our health. Our habits and lifestyle determine whether we live a heart friendly life or invite disease. Heart diseases is the No.1 killer in the United States. It is our choices that impact whether or not we live with reduced risk for heart disease or not
Good Habits for keeping heart diseases at bay
Breakfast – Every Morning
The most important meal of the day. It is the recipe for a healthy heart. On the contrary a person who regularly skips breakfast faces issues, such as high cholesterol, blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, high cholesterol and stands 27% higher risk of death from coronary heart disease.
Physical Activity
A sedentary lifestyle increases your risk for heart disease.
Relax – To Beat Stress
Unmanaged can leads to complications, which include high blood pressure, irregular heartbeats, heart disease, chest pain etc.
A Healthy Heart Equals a Healthy Mind
You’ve heard or read over and over that you have to eat right and exercise to keep your heart healthy. Well, not only do unhealthy habits impact your heart they also affect your brain.
French researchers studied 5,123 men and women over a 17-year period of time. Participants with the greatest number of unhealthy behaviors were three times more likely to have poor thinking abilities and twice as likely to have memory problems compared to those living healthier lifestyles.
There are four lifestyle factors associated with negative health effects:
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