A Better Life

I found a website today sponsored by Prevention Magazine and it listed ways to add 10 years to your life.  These kind of things always sound so simple and easy and then you log on and it is really difficult to do the things they suggest.  In this case the list is pretty simple:

1.  Eat colorful fruits and vegetables.
2.  Eat nuts.
3.  Drink green tea.
4.  Lift weights
5.  Do cardio type exercise.
6.  Do yoga to relieve stress.

The first three are really simple all they require is a stop at Cascio's.  One of the biggest misconceptions about eating healthy is that it takes more work. I say it takes less.  Think of this way, you are making a healthy dinner for your family and you need a dessert. Instead of spending all the time you need to bake a cake and make substitutions to make the cake "healthy" (really it is still a cake...) you slice up a dish of fresh strawberries.  Honestly, just a dish of fresh strawberries.  Don't add sugar to them, they don't need it.  They are delicious and have more vitamin C then oranges, tons of fiber and you just added dessert to your dinner.  So simple.

I do this all the time.  I put simple foods on my dinner table.  It takes less time to just put a piece of salmon in a skillet with hot olive oil then it does to make Hamburger Helper.  Plus, really read the label if there are more chemicals and additives then real food stop right there do NOT eat it.

Eat simply,  eat fresh. Then use the time you are saving to go for a walk.  Here in Somerset County the temperatures are in the 50's there is no excuse to not get a quick 30 minute walk into your day.

I think too that times some of these websites are labor intensive.  But this particular link was easy.  I have tried to include the link on this blog and for some reason it isn't letting me.  But just Google Prevention Magazine and then "adding 10 years to your life."  It will get you there and it is worth your effort.

Make one change - just one and you will thank me later.