Each person has their own idea of how to achieve good health. Some people think that it is enough to exercise occasionally, others think that you need to go on a diet.
Myth: A healthy lifestyle is available only to the young
Fact: Take care of your health from a young age. Of course, this saying was invented for a reason. But old age in our time is not a reason to give up on yourself. In addition, older people have a lot of free time. Living in retirement allows you to acquire new healthy habits and part with old unhealthy ones. You can walk more with your grandchildren, take care of the garden and vegetable garden, slowly cook delicious and healthy dishes, read, actively communicate and even get another education.
Myth: A healthy lifestyle is a constant diet
Fact: A diet is usually called a restriction of the diet, which is temporary. And the new way of life is forever. In addition, the diet is often dull and tasteless, and there is a danger of gaining weight again. But healthy food is delicious, varied and satisfying, otherwise there is no question of health. It’s much easier to start eating right than sitting on buckwheat with kefir for a week.
Myth: A healthy lifestyle is impossible in the rhythm of modern life
Fact: And indeed, it seems that a modern city dweller, he is an office worker, has no chance of a healthy life at all. Chronic lack of sleep, constant stress, irregular meals with semi—finished products – a typical set of conditions for the existence of a citizen. But in fact, you can make your life healthier, and having a rather busy work schedule, there would be a desire. Start small — save about an hour of working time by stopping going out for a smoke break, walk home and to work, buy frozen vegetables instead of dumplings and train yourself not to watch TV shows before going to bed.
Myth: You need to drink 2-3 liters of water a day.
Fact: Of course, water will not do you any harm, but in large quantities, as you know, anything can be harmful. Even if you exclude all other drinks, you still eat vegetables and fruits and thus get moisture. If you overdo it, the result may be hyponatremia — a lack of salts in the body. This will significantly increase the risk of cardiovascular and other serious diseases.
Myth: There is nothing useful in frozen foods.
Fact: Frozen fruits and vegetables can be no worse than fresh ones if they are properly harvested and frozen. Moreover, cold processing and sealed packaging retain much more vitamins than remains in fresh products that have lain in the sun or in the supermarket refrigerator.
Myth: If you stay outside for a long time in the cold season, you will definitely get sick.
Fact: By itself, a decrease in the external temperature does not affect the state of immunity in any way. Unless, of course, we are talking about extreme degrees of frostbite, when it is no longer necessary to worry about a cold. People get colds not because of the cold weather, but because viruses enter the body. In winter, we are more prone to colds because we spend a lot of time in poorly ventilated rooms, where viruses spread very quickly.
Myth: Morning is the best time for fitness.
Fact: When choosing the time for training, your personal rhythms play a big role. Larks are easily able to get up at 6 am for a morning jog, while for owls such a schedule will be a real test of strength. As for the objective factors affecting the effectiveness of classes, scientists believe that our body is in peak shape between 4 and 6 pm. At this time, we have a decrease in the pain threshold, and mental activity is at a height.