Action Items
Here are some specific action items for living a healthy lifestyle:
- Use the food pyramid as a guide to how much of what to eat
- Eat less processed foods
- Reduce your sugar intake
- Grill, boil, or bake foods rather than frying them
- Reduce the amount of meat you eat
- Eat a lot of fresh locally produced vegetables and fruits
- Avoid adding salt to your meals after they have been cooked
- Regulate your portion sizes (a portion is about the size of your fist)
- Reduce your alcohol consumption
- Reduce caffeine consumption
- Don’t eat foods that have a lifetime warranty (unless we have some sort of disaster and you have been storing them in your basement for just that case)
- Stop smoking
- Laugh a lot
- Exercise at a moderate intensity, for at least a half an hour three to five times per week.
- Find ways to eliminate stress (meditate, exercise, guided imagery, music)
- Give to others with no strings attached
- Smile at strangers
- Learn to say no
- Avoid people who put their stress on you
- Take control of your life
- Always say please and thank you
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