8 Healthy Habits to Adopt

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By Marcia Sirota MD

Most of us want to be happier and healthier. There are some good, healthy habits we can easily adopt right now that will see us through the coming months in the best shape ever.

The most important thing to remember about adopting healthy habits is to add in one at a time, so as not to become overwhelmed and make it that much harder to do.

Here’s my list of eight healthy habits that you can add to your day-to-day life and that will make a big difference in your physical and emotional well-being.

Check out These Eight, Great Healthy Habits

1: Make sure to get a good night’s sleep.

Studies are showing how important it is to get enough sleep every night. Seven to eight hours is ideal. During sleep, your brain is literally washed with cerebral-spinal fluid, which detoxifies and renews this vital organ and may ward off neuro-degenerative diseases, like Alzheimer’s.

2: Add some exercise into your daily routine.

Walk or bike to work; do some stretches before bed; play tennis, badminton or softball on the weekends; use that apartment/condo pool and go swimming when you get home from work; take a Zumba, salsa, or hip-hop class on the weekends.

Try to add 30-60 minutes of exercise into each day and watch how your energy, strength, flexibility, and mood begin to improve with your new healthy habits.

3: Add more fresh foods into your daily diet.

Eat more salad, steamed veggies, legumes, and fresh fruit in your daily meals and snacks. These foods will stabilize your blood sugar, ward off cancer, prevent heart disease, regulate your weight, and improve your mood.

4: Cut out the “foods” known to be really bad for your health.

These include white sugar, foods containing high-fructose corn syrup, deep fried foods, regular and diet soda, margarine, and other saturated fats, processed meats that contain nitrites and nitrates, and white bread and pasta.