Living a Healthy Lifestyle and a Greener One Too!

Living a healthy lifestyle is good for the planet too.

A healthy lifestyle starts with a healthy diet. And any diet worth its salt contains masses of organic fruit and vegetables - (but not too much salt!)

Most aspects of living a healthy lifestyle are quite straightforward - though perhaps not always easy.
Diet, exercise and learning how to shed stress are the main factors. These days it's also important to know how to keep the toxic load on your body within bounds.

This section of Greenfootsteps focuses on ways to be healthier and to live a healthier lifestyle; ways which are easy, do-able and, above all, sustainable.

Scroll down to the bottom of the page to see links to articles on living healthy lifestyle.

Living a healthy lifestyle:

Start with a healthy diet - it's easy if you eat organic!

Once you know about the benefits of organic food you probably won't want to eat anything less. Organic food is far better for the environment as it puts far more nutrients back into the soil and is much better for wildlife.

It's almost certainly better for us, too. Also, well produced organic food generally tastes better, having richer, denser flavours.

If you eat organic you are not exposed to a poisonous cocktail of chemical residues. Some commercial crops are sprayed and resprayed time and again against pests; traces of some pesticides have been detected in food on supermarket shelves.

Next, a healthy exercise routine helps prevent illness and stress and keeps you out of the doctor's surgery!

A healthy exercise routine can be very green too. Lots of ways of exercising do not place excessive demands upon the planet. There are literally hundreds of ways of taking exercise which do not involve jumping into a 4x4 to drive down to the gym!

Techniques to avoid and deal with stress can help keep us healthy. Stress is one of the biggest contributary causes of disease. A lot of stress comes about because of our lifestyles. I will include some relaxation techniques and stress-busting ideas.

And keeping healthy means mainly staying out of the doctor's surgery and out of hospital! When you are fit and well-nourished you just don't get ill as often and when you are ill, you heal more quickly and with less help - much less of a burden on the planet.

When you consider the thousands of journeys made each year to hospitals and doctor's surgeries, it's worth trying to reduce them, even if it's only a little bit. After all, visiting the doctor's or the hospital is quite stressful too and not much fun for most people.

I'm not saying for a moment that we can close all the hospitals down.

It's just that if we all were to take good care of our health, using ancient and well-tried techniques, as well as some modern ones, a good deal of time, money, misery and stress might be saved.

And the cost in terms of carbon-dioxide emissions would be less too.

This part of the site is devoted to exploring greener healthy living tips. Below (at the bottom of the page) are links to articles on more ways of living a healthy lifestyle.

Living a healthy lifestyle - rock climbing is healthy and quite green

Rock climbing can be quite environmentally friendly, if done carefully

There are lots of ways that you can green up your health. Here is a list of things which will help you towards living a healthy lifestyle

Eat well but not too well! Have fresh organic fruit and vegetables every day � at least five portions preferably. Eat wholegrains too...
Take some aerobic exercise every day and give yourself a thorough workout about three times a week
Practise safe stress. If your work or life situation is stressful, learn some simple de-stressing techniques...or change your situation...
Get plenty of rest and recreation. All work and no play � no way!
Make time for your family and friendships
Take a good multivitamin and multimineral supplement
Get lots of fresh air, every day if you can. Do your exercises in the fresh air if possible.
If you do get sick, use alternative medicines such as homoeopathy and herbalism as a first choice
Get enough time for relaxation and sleep - but not too much
Avoid toxic stresses such as unnecessary chemicals in the home and in your body care routines.