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Those people who are continually seeking to improve our healthiness read a great deal about health optimization. Most of the things we read in the normal media revolves around treating warning signs of conditions instead of preventive maintenance actions. More of us have become perhaps more interested in maintaining a healthy lifestyle that addresses the foundational causes of ill health. The effects will be harder to see, but not getting sick in the first place is better than curing the ailment after it has taken residency in our body. Here will be 5 approaches that if we put them into our way of life that we will greatly enhance our health on a long-term basis. 1. Eat healthy fats. Fats remain a necessary part of the diet; they aren't the "four-letter" word we maybe have read about. But you have to know which fats are going to be healthy. Also, most healthy diets will try to scale back carbohydrates, and as you do this you must replace these non-vegetable carbs with healthful fats. These would be provided from foods such as olive oil and olives, nuts, avocados and cold-water fish including salmon. 2. Drink pure water. This will be without a doubt our most vital food. Toxins have to become flushed from your body constantly, and having a continuing consumption of unpolluted water does the flushing. This really is essential to cleanse the kidneys, liver and also the bloodstream. And do not forget the water you shower with. When you drink unclean water your system has a fighting chance to filter impurities when passing through the digestive system, though even that has its limitations. But skin and lungs also can absorb a great deal of toxins. 3. Quality sleep. While quantity of sleep which is needed is decidedly personal, most people require around seven to eight hours of sound sleep each night. Many times we hear of people who say they only can do with three or four hours of sleep nightly and they seem in good physical shape. We have also heard of folks that smoke a pack of cigarettes per day and seem vigorous, until their physical condition crashes. Poor sleep has been related with weight gain, diabetes and risk of heart disease as well as cancer. 4. Intermittent fasting. For help with weight loss and interrelated health issues, this may be the real up-and-coming answer. It is because it can help shift the body from burning sugar and carbohydrates as its principal fuel to burning fat as its fuel. It really isn't hard to start. You basically let more time to pass between your final food of the day and your first meal the next day. Eight hours is the absolute minimum time, but it will be more effective the longer you can go (as long as 16 hours) the more fat you will burn. 5. High intensity training. Granted, any aerobic exercise is going to be of benefit. But there are going to be limited benefits to sitting on a reclining machine peddling away hoisting donuts into your mouth. The wellbeing benefits you can acquire from high intensity training offer a great deal more than normal cardio, and you will get them with two or three 20 minute sessions a week. If you are not familiar with high intensity exercise, look into it as there is ever-increasing research as to how good it is for your physical condition. In the article we talk about intermittent fasting. Read more about this by clicking here. Also, intense aerobic training has also been talked about recently as something that can help everyone's health. Jim O'Connell is a writer and avid health advocate now living in Chicago.
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