Healthy Bits: Part 1/2

Greetings:

I’ve been trying to have a healthier lifestyle lately. When this is bought up, people sometimes ask what I’m doing to try to get healthy.

One of the biggest part of getting healthy is nutrition. Here’s some ground rules:

• Research!
• Learn how to read nutrition labels
• The less ingredients the better
• Carbonated drinks, refined breads, mayonnaise and lunch-meat are evil
• Flour, sugar, and high fructose corn syrup are evil

What I found to be especially disturbing is when a product tries to claim that it’s “all natural” and “vitamin enriched” when, in reality, it’s just as unhealthy as a McDonald’s happy meal.

Take vitaminwater, for example. Coca-Cola, the company that created the beverage, is being sued for deceiving customers into thinking that it’s actually healthy. Despite the heavy advertising campaign to the contrary, Coca-Cola's defense was that, to quote, "no consumer could reasonably bemisled into thinking vitaminwater was a healthy beverage." [Citation]

Sure, we lied to you, but it’s not our fault if you actually believed us.

The other big important part of health is exercising. More rules:

• Research!
• Don’t cancel out your workout by eating bad food right after
• Vary your workout to keep it more interesting
• You don’t need a lot of equipment
• Appreciate the little things. Take the stares over the elevator; park at the far end of the parking lot

I’m the type of person who needs a directive to keep up the pace on certain things. Because of this, I developed my own workout plan to help me stay focused on my workout.

I'll upload my workout in my next post.

Sincerely,

Me.


PS: This is useful.