Walking and Health

Maintaining a healthy lifestyle ensures longevity and mental and physical well-being.  Eating right, exercising daily, and nurturing a positive attitude are all basic, everyday practices that really aren’t that hard to work on.  The key to a healthy lifestyle and for almost all other issues in life is balance.

Eating right is so important and yet, so many times, rushing around in our day to day busy hectic schedules, we grab something on the run from whichever fast food place is in sight.  The best thing to do is to plan ahead.  Plan your individual or family meals in advance by utilizing a slow-cooker, by cooking meals ahead of time and freezing them in small portions.  Also, read labels at the grocery store and get snacks high in fiber and low in fat.  Take along these snacks to school, work or family outings and resist the urge to grab a candy from a vending machine.  Maintain balance and portion control when it comes to eating healthy.

Making the right eating choices goes hand in hand with exercising.  Exercising is wonderful for maintaining body fitness and mental fitness.  Incorporate a variety of  exercises into your weekly routine that include flexibility exercises such as stretching, aerobic exercises such as walking, running, tennis or swimming, and anaerobic exercises such as some sort of weight training.  Rotate your exercise regimen to include all three types of exercise weekly to maintain a healthy heart, healthy body and improved immune system.

An overall healthy lifestyle includes eating properly and exercising properly and keeping a positive attitude.  Success comes with a positive outlook on life.  Remain optimistic in times of adversity, turn negatives into positives, make lemonade out of lemons, and always do your best and try your hardest.  Mind power is so important. Use it in a positive manner. 

Eating right, exercising often and maintaining a positive attitude are all basic ways to enjoy your life by keeping a healthy lifestyle.  In this day and age with all the hectic schedules and fast paced routine, it’s very easy to get off track.  Take a deep breath and remember that balance is so important in any situation. Get back on track, eat right, exercise often and keep a positive attitude.

Today is Veteran’s Day.  Remember the men and woman around the country and around the world, who stand for freedom.  They volunteered to fight for our country. Some of them fought in wars from the past and some of them are currently deployed throughout the world.  They stand for all that is right trying to protect freedom that we sometimes take for granted.  In honor of them today, let’s remember them and say a small prayer for them.  May they continue to stand firm in their commitment to protect our rights.  May God Bless them and watch over them.  May all veterans of all wars and military branches know that they are not forgotten. 

To all of our military, we salute you:

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again.  Who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause.  Who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.  So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
     — Theodore Roosevelt, The Man in the Arena