Ten Small Steps To Improve Your Health
Many of us make fitness-related resolutions, such as to lose weight, stop smoking or join the neighborhood health center. While it is conventional to set extreme goals, trainers say that making lesser resolutions might do a lot more for our health.
"Small steps are achievable and are easier to squeeze into your every day schedule," says James O. Hill, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Human Nutrition at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. "Small changes are less overwhelming than a big, sudden difference."
Here are 10 Steps to try:
1. Don't gain any more weight. Even if you gain only a pound or two every year, the extra weight adds up quickly.
2. Take more small steps. Use a pedometer to calculate your daily steps; next add 2,000, the equivalent of one additional mile. Keep adding steps, 1,000 to 2,000 each month or so, until you take 10,000 steps on the majority of days.
3. Eat breakfast. Breakfast eaters usually have healthier diets and weigh less too. If you want a healthy breakfast option, top Whole Grain Total® with fruit or raisins and low-fat or fat-free milk.
4. Switch three grain servings every day to whole grain. If you're anything like the average American, you usually eat less than one whole grain serving each day.
5. Eat at least one green salad each day. Consuming a salad (with low-fat or fat-free dressing) is filling and may perhaps help you eat a smaller amount during the mealtime. It also contributes toward your five daily cups of fruits and vegetables.
6. Trim the fat. Fat is saturated with calories, and calories make a difference. Purchase lean meats, eat poultry skinless, switch to low-fat cheeses, and a nonstick pan with just a bit of oil or butter.
7. Consider calcium by including two or three daily servings of low-fat or fat-free milk or yogurt. Dairy calcium is good for bones and might in addition help you drop weight.
8. Slim down. If the package is small, the serving size will be smaller as well.
9. Aim to drop just 5 to 10 percent of your present weight. The benefits to losing weight are great-lower blood pressure, blood sugar, cholesterol and triglycerides.
10. Keep track of your eating. Jot down what you eat and drink over the next couple of days and look for problem areas. Frequently, just recording what you eat down is able to help you eat less.
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