General Health Posts

Adopting a healthy lifestyle can decrease your likelihood of developing major diseases and increase your lifespan. Although not all diseases can be avoided, adopting certain behaviors, and avoiding others can prevent many serious illnesses. Being healthy not only benefits your well-being, but it also makes you feel good. Healthy living about your food and drink choices. It’s about staying active and having fun without jeopardizing your well-being. It’s related to the importance of getting a good night’s sleep. And it’s focused on achieving better physical, mental, and emotional health. Healthy living is essential, particularly as we age. Step 1: Maintain A Balanced Healthy Diet FoodRead More →

Benefits of Fiber in Your Diet Overview Fiber plays such an important part in digestion and there are many benefits of fiber in your diet. Since your body can’t digest fiber it helps to move your stool through your digestive tract and colon. read below in more detail the health benefits of high fiber intake and the best food fiber sources. Definition Dietary Fiber To recap from the section on fiber – click here. Dietary fiber, or roughage, is plant-based nutrient (carbohydrate) that you eat, and your Digestive System doesn’t absorb or digest. In other words, fiber stays mostly intact as it passes through theRead More →

This blog post covers more of the reasons why to use supplements. In the About Me section of the site I outline what motivated me to be healthy and my conclusion about supplements. Also visit the About guidehealthyliving.com. Questionable Nutritional Value of Food One of the main reasons why to use supplements, is the questionable nutritional value of my food that we eat every day. I struggle with the question: “What is the quality of our food supply?” Have you ever looked at your plate of food and wondered how good it is for you? Does it have any nutritional value? It is just logicalRead More →