50 Fun Ways To Stay Healthy
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To many people, thinking about how to stay healthy brings on images of sweating in a gym and eating tasteless foods. On the contrary, to be healthy is to live a fun, full and (at least sometimes) exciting life! And that’s exactly why I wrote this mini-book: to show you just how fun practicing healthy habits can be.
“50 Fun Ways To Stay Healthy” is unlike other healthy lifestyle books, which typically give you a dietary formula to follow, ten steps to ripped abs, or a fitness routine to commit to. Instead, this book provides you with a list of fifty fun healthy tips. The list is far from comprehensive, but gives you a good jumping-off point to help you reach your health-related goals.
You will get ideas on how to eat healthy (and still enjoy food), how to stay in shape (and not hate exercise), how to reduce stress (without spending hours in meditation), and more. Some of the ideas are fun in and of themselves; others are fun because they produce better health long-term. You may want to try all of them; you may want to skip some of them and turn others into regular and/or daily routines.
If you know you need to improve your health but the usually stereotypical thoughts about healthy living are overwhelming in some way, or if you have been practicing good health habits and find yourself getting bored with them, this mini-book will motivate you to take new and fun action that will help you look better, feel better and think better, both now and down the road. (over 12,000 words)
Emily Josephine
A former sugar addict, Emily is now a fervent health nut. A former schoolteacher, she is now an avid advocate of homeschooling. A former too-much-stuff-city-dweller, she is now living her dream as a semi-minimalist rural homesteader.In between planting seeds, reading to her son, and making videos of her homestead, Emily writes both non-fiction related to health and simple living, as well as inspirational novels with characters who are often as radically anti-mainstream as she is!
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50 Fun Ways To Stay Healthy - Emily Josephine
Introduction
Back in the 1960s and ‘70s, being healthy got a bad rap. The well-meaning minority of people who began to realize the health dangers of processed foods and couch-potatoism went to extremes. A healthy diet back then consisted of granola, bean sprouts and tofu, and the healthy way to fitness was to run until your lungs burned, your legs turned to jelly and your heart beat almost out of your chest.
A decade or so later, poultry and fish were acceptable, while red meat and eggs were blamed for the increase of heart disease in the American population. At the same time, all fats were demonized and the health nuts of the day declared a low-fat diet to be the sure way to a long, disease-free diet.
It went from bad to worse, as nutrition research went out of control and came back with ludicrous results. Apples suddenly were poisonous, ketchup was a vegetable and white sugar caused the body no harm.
No wonder people seeking to boost their energy, prevent illness and disease, and maintain a healthy weight are met with confusion at every turn. Even today, while the tables have turned a bit and an apple a day once again is considered helpful in keeping the doctor away, books on nutrition and fitness contradict each other – even books written by the same authors just a few years apart!
If you are one of those confused individuals, I have good news for you: there is hope! The scientific community knows more today than ever about human physiology and biochemistry. With more and more independent researchers who have nothing to gain by falsifying or grossly misinterpreting scientific data – which the food conglomerates and pharmaceutical companies do, by the way – the average layperson can more easily sift through the hype and lies to find the truth about what a healthy lifestyle looks like.
Even so, most books about healthy living weigh you down with boring scientific details and lock-step formulas that you had better follow, or else! Still other books take you by the hand and tell you exactly what to do every day for six to ten weeks, sometimes making the transition to a healthier life more laborious than you were hoping for.
Those kinds of books are certainly helpful for some people some of the time. But they get old. And often leave you with the impression that striving for optimum health means sacrifice, work and, well, no fun.
However, living healthy is fun. It consists of delicious, even rich food; exciting adventures; relaxation; and laughter. In fact, I would argue that if life feels like dull drudgery, you are risking your health.
And we don’t want that, do we? Thus this book. Rather than giving you formulas to follow, a list of recipes loaded with exotic ingredients, or pages of medical terms and descriptions, I have provided fifty ideas that give you jumping-off points for improving your overall health and well-being.
I give you a brief background and description of each idea, so that you understand why I believe the concept would be healthful, helpful, and fun. You may not agree with every point of my philosophy about healthy living, but I am confident you will have a ball exploring most of the options I set before you in this book.
You can try all of them or just a few of them. You can challenge yourself to try one idea a day, one a week, or one a month. You can work through these ideas by yourself or with a group of friends. They are in no particular order, so feel free to complete any one of them at any time.
A caution before you begin: some of them