Wellington Alcantara 903
Ms. Schlick
English 101-271
24 November 2015
How to Live a Healthier Lifestyle
Our Health plays a big part in living a happy and long life. If you’re one of the millions that struggle with weight loss, then you probably know how difficult it can be to live a healthy lifestyle. People start with a plan to lose weight and eat healthier, but easily get discouraged and consequently quit that plan. Maybe we never had a real support system or some sort of motivation, or maybe we set unrealistic goals and then get disappointed when we don’t reach them. The question stands, what will we do when we can no longer put this matter aside? When do our bad eating habits, become a risk factor to our health? I strongly believe that knowledge, motivation, and setting realistic goals are three major factors to encourage people into living a healthier life.
Knowledge has always been the foundation to execute a great plan. If we are not well educated on the tasks that we are trying to accomplish, we just may be doing it all wrong. The same goes for living healthy. We must educate ourselves so we know what foods are beneficial to our bodies and which foods are detrimental. Many people believe that fast food is cheaper than a good home cooked meal. Mark Bittman writes, “In fact it isn’t cheaper to eat highly processed food”. We must educate ourselves on effective work outs and the many different exercises that are needed to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Some of us understand the importance of exercising but some of us don’t. Doing a little research will give us the knowledge that we need in order to understand, that exercising is equally beneficial to the food we put in our bodies. According to Jordan D. Metzl: “Exercise has benefits for every body system; it is effective both as a treatment and for prevention of disease; … a factor that almost every chronic disease is reduced by regular exercise”.
Motivation is the force that drives us...