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Healthy Eating for Healthy Living Tips

By Joy Healey

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There's more to KEEP FIT than exercise classes. With all the modern emphasis on sports and gyms, you could be forgiven for thinking that keeping fit is all about pounding the streets jogging, or exercising to exhaustion in the gym.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Yes, exercise is important, but so is your diet. Real fitness means a healthy body...free from the problems that take all the fun out of life.

Fact: Our modern way of life contributes to a nutrient deficient diet - no matter how well fed we think we are.

Fact: Food refining strips up to 80% of minerals from food as nature intended it to be.

Fact: Air pollution, man-made pesticides and toxic chemicals damage our environment.

Simple dietary and lifestyle changes can combat these negative forces, and allow us to live full, rich, healthy lives.

But with so many fad diets, and so much conflicting information that even the experts seem unable to agree, it's no wonder you may have failed trying to improve your health and weight, by diet and/or exercise.

In fact, it's not your fault and you're not alone. The UK Government's Chief Medical Officer, Sir Liam Donaldson pulled no punches in warning that much of the British public is becoming obese at an alarming rate.

What is particularly alarming is the fact that so many children are overweight too. We live in an age where parents are, understandably, anxious about children playing out in the streets, so instead they may spend hours in front of the computer or TV.

Yet we live in an age when there has never been more information so freely available; in which case why aren't we all slim, fit and healthy?

As a qualified nutritionist, I have been seeing clients since 1999, and come to a stark conclusion. There's more to "Keep Fit" than just exercise and diet. Independent research reveals that, even after leaving a nutrition consultation (or exercise class) enthused by new knowledge, less than 20% of people will make long-term behaviour changes to incorporate what they learned. The other 80% will have wasted their time and money.

Consider two typical, but very different, clients - a busy Mum and a highly-stressed executive. Both are looking for advice on healthy eating and exercise. It is quite simple to trot out a standard "Five-a-Day" and "30 minutes on five or more days a week" formula, but one size does not fit all. For most people, this advice is totally inadequate unless motivation and lifestyle are considered.

In addition to receiving advice on diet and supplements, clients need to seriously explore the benefits they'll experience from a healthier life-style, and to consider the consequences of not following through on what they've learned. Even when health consequences are clearly understood, some clients are still unable to commit to life-style changes - as evidenced by those continuing to smoke despite the health warning on cigarette packets.

While a one-off nutrition consultation or coaching session can be useful to kick-start you into a new way of eating and living, the effect can soon fade. To be successful, your health and fitness programme must fit into your life as an on-going program, so it's helpful to source a recurring series of practical tips on incorporating healthy eating into your every-day life.

With regular reminders and new ideas, you are much more likely to stay focused on healthy eating for healthy living.

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