Guide to a Healthy Lifestyle

By Emily Carter

This book is about lifestyle changes. It’s about a combination of healthy eating habits and exercises that will help you lose weight and stay at a healthy weight for the rest of your life. Once you are at a healthy weight, you are less likely to suffer from heart disease, high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes. This book talks about positive life changing activities that not only promote good health, but can also add years to your life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: May 11, 2020
• ISBN: 9781716941207

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GUIDE TO A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE

GUIDE TO A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE

EMILY CARTER

Copyright © 2019 by Emily Carter

All rights reserved.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

PART 1

HEALTHY EATING HABITS

CHAPTER 1

Foods to Include in Your Diet

CHAPTER 2

Foods to Avoid

CHAPTER 3

Benefits of Drinking Plenty of Water

CHAPTER 4

Advantages of Weighing Yourself Daily

PART 2

PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES

CHAPTER 5

Joining a Gym

CHAPTER 6

The Benefits of Running

CHAPTER 7

The Benefits of Walking

CHAPTER 8

Bicycling

CHAPTER 9

Staircase vs. The Elevator

PART 3

GETTING RID OF BAD HABITS

CHAPTER 10

Alcohol Use

CHAPTER 11

Cigarette smoking

CHAPTER 12

Sleep Deprivation and Obesity

CHAPTER 13

Television, the Internet & Obesity

CONCLUSION

REFERENCES

INTRODUCTION

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 39.8 percent of adults and 18.5 percent of children in the United States are either overweight or obese. The overall prevalence of obesity in the United States is highest among African Americans, followed by Hispanics and then Whites. Asians have the lowest rates of obesity.

In this book, I will share with you what I do to stay at a healthy weight. Sharing this information might help some of you in your quest to become healthier or motivate some of you to make some positive changes when it comes to your eating and exercising habits. This book is not about dieting. Diets for the most part don’t work. When we diet, we tend to lose the weight and then gain it right back. This book is about lifestyle changes. It’s about a combination of healthy eating habits and exercises that will help you lose weight and stay at a healthy weight for the rest of your life. Eating right and exercising should be part of your life. You can’t lose weight without eating right and exercising; these two things go together. I often see people at the gym who work out every day and they are still overweight. They are doing the exercise but they are most likely not watching what they eat. You have to do both in order for you to lose weight and keep it off.

I get a clean bill of health from my doctor every year. I never had high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, heart disease or any of the other ailments that inflict many people. I ran four New York City marathons and countless of other races, so I must be doing something right.

My formula for losing weight and keeping it off is simple,

Less Calorie Intake + More Exercising = Weight Loss. In another word, if you burn more calories than you take in, you will lose weight. It’s as simple as that.

Since we live in a land of plenty, food is everywhere. There are food advertisements almost everywhere we go. We cannot walk down the street without seeing some type of advertisements for hamburgers, cheeseburgers, french fries or fried chickens. Living in a land of plenty makes it very difficult to maintain a healthy weight. We are humans and we are built to eat. We can eat more food than we need to and the excess calories that cannot be used as energy will be stored as fat. That’s why we should do whatever it takes to watch what we eat so that we can maintain a healthy weight. Carrying extra weights on the body can be bothersome and it can shorten your life by many years. Obesity can decrease your energy level and increases your chances of acquiring many preventable diseases. Once your health deteriorates, your quality of life will suffer.

The key to maintaining a healthy weight is to be watchful of what you eat and to make exercising an integral part of your life. Staying at a healthy weight is a battle that you have to fight every day. When it comes to