Get, Set and Goal Your Fitness Resolution

Make health your no.1 priority this year. Make a few lifestyle changes to bring desired results in fitness this year.

A healthy lifestyle routine plays an important role in improving the overall health. Follow these lifestyle changes to lead a healthy life.

Saumya Satakshi, Senior Wellness Consultant, Healthians, shared the following tips:

Young Fitness Tracker Users Keep It for at Least 6 Months
Nearly 80 percent of fitness tracker users, especially younger individuals, keep at it for at least six months.

‘It is important to have routine preventive health check-ups done so that we can predict our problems and can manage them in time.’

Eat a rainbow everyday: Opt for colors. Make sure you eat your greens, reds, whites, purples, and oranges because these colored fruits and vegetables contain key chemicals. These help us to fight off diseases and strengthen the immune system and keep us in good shape.

Go vegetarian once a week: Going vegetarian for one day a week for dietary or religious reasons is a small change in the diet that can improve your health. This extra fiber will improve bowel function and contribute to the nutritional value of your diet.

Limit alcohol and smoking consumption: Limit your levels of indulgence. The combination of alcohol and smoking not only affects liver and lungs, as well as increases cholesterol levels; it also has a negative impact on memory.

If You are a Fitness Addict, Try Pilates At Home
Physiotherapist at Prohealth Asia Physiotherapy and Rehab Centre, and Pilates trainer from The Pilate Studio, dole out tips to get your Pilates right at home.

Asha Bhatnagar, Co-Founder, Lifeline Laboratory, says it's important for people to have a balanced lifestyle -- neither too sedentary nor too stressful.

Physical health and weight management: It is important to have routine preventive health check-ups done so that one can predict the problems in health and can manage them and prevent them. Weight management seems to be the centre of good health. Maintaining normal weight not only reduces heart disease, but also prevents certain cancers like breast cancer and endometrial cancer.

Physical Fitness Can Improve Your Child�s Academic Performance
Regular physical fitness in children can increase the volume of grey matter in two specific regions of the brain - the cortical and subcortical regions.

Keep abreast with social activities but don't overdo: Meeting people socially is an extremely important human behaviour and one must always enjoy being a part of the society. However, it is best to avoid late nights as this can affect both the mental and the physical health

Balance, balance, balance: Live a balanced life. Practice this philosophy of balance in everything? in what your daily routine is, what you eat, who you meet, what is your activity level, how much you sleep and how much you eat.

Teen Fitness Need Not Be Influence By Parents' Physical Activity: Study
While teens with normal weight parents tended to be more fit, having physically active parents didn't affect teens' level of fitness, finds new study.

Source-Medindia