Health: 8 Habits To Make You Feel Better NOW!

Health:

8 Habits To

Make You Feel

Better NOW!

by Sierra Silverspoon

According to recent studies, the incidence of fatal heart attacks among African-American women between the ages of 28 and 54 is at an all-time high.  Yet, obesity and poor diet habits prevail among urban black females because of a cultural diet rich in saturated fats.

Therefore, it’s important to note that the right food is the best medicine for a healthy heart and this especially rings true when it comes to conquering cholesterol, which is the major cause of heart attack deaths.  According to Dr. Nicholas Perricone’s popular book, The Perricone Prescription, there are two lists of foods, to avoid and foods to enjoy, for a healthy body.  Here are foods that can put you at risk for a heart attack

Foods To Avoid: Bacon, Bananas, Bread, Bagels, Beef, Butter, Carrots, Cream cheese, Candy, Cake, Chocolate, Coffee, Cookies, Cereals (except non-instant oatmeal), Cornstarch, Corn, corn syrup, Croissants, Dried fruit, Duck, Doughnuts, Fruit juice, Fried foods, Flour, Grapes, Granola, Half and half, Hard cheese (except feta, Parmesan, and Romano), Heavy cream, Honey, Hot dogs, Ice cream, Jams and jellies, Mango, Margarine, Molasses, Muffins, Noodles, Pancakes, Papaya, Pastry, Pie, Pizza, Pasta, Pickles, Popcorn, Potatoes, Pudding, Pumpkin, Raisins, Relish, Rice, Sherbet, Soda (including diet), Scones, Sugar, Tacos, Waffles, Watermelon, Whole milk.  Of course, these foods can be eaten occasionally, but not in excess.  (occasionally is defined as once a month)

Foods To Enjoy:  Almonds, Apples, Asparagus, Avocado, Beans (black, kidney, lima), Bell peppers (green, orange, purple, red, yellow), Blackberries, Blueberries, Broccoli, Brussell sprouts, Cabbage, Cantaloupe, Capon, Cauliflower, Celery, Chicken (white meat), Chilean sea bass, Clams, Cod, Coriander, Cottage cheese, low-fat, Crab meat, Cucumbers, Dill, Egg whites, Eggplant, Endive, Escarole, Low-fat milk, Fennel, Feta cheese, Filet of sole, Flounder, Garlic, Ginger (fresh), Grapefruit, Halibut, Hazelnuts, Honeydew melon, Kale, Kiwi, Leafy greens, Legumes, Lemons, Lentil soup, Lettuce, Lobster, Monkfish, Mushrooms, Mussels, Nectarines, Nuts, Oatmeal (not instant), Olive oil, Olives, Onions (red and white), Oranges, Oysters, Parmesan cheese, Parsley, Peaches, Pears, Pecans, Plums, Radishes, Raspberries, Salmon, Sardines, Scallions, Scallops, Shrimp, Smoked salmon, Snow peas, Sour cream, Soybeans, Spinach, Swiss chard, Swordfish, Tea, Tofu, Tomatoes, Tomato juice, Trout, Turkey, Walnuts, Yogurt, Zucchini.

Here are 8 great health habits that will make you feel better instantly.

• If you don’t have time for exercise, do twenty jumping jacks in the morning to get your heart rate up, and try to walk up as many stairs as possible during the course of the day. Learn to stretch yourself.  I learned the hard way that a sedentary lifestyle of no exercise can have devastating results if you ever have to call upon your body to perform outside of its usual routine…like running for the bus or from an attacker.
• Try to eat at least three helpings of fish a week. Healthy consumption of fish lowers your cholesterol and has little saturated fat.  A fish diet is also very high in omega-3 fatty acids, which is a great fighter against high cholesterol.
  However, this fish diet would have you eating more salmon, tuna, mackerel, shrimp, whitefish, crab, and bass than catfish and buffalo.
• Start incorporating extra virgin olive oil into your daily diet, and substitute it for butter, margarine, and corn oil.
• Drink at least 8 to 10 8 oz. glasses of water a day. Try doing it with a straw.  It makes it easier.  Water is invaluable for flushing all the toxins out of your body.  But the way, we’re talking pure water, not water with any kind of sweetener added.
• Eat at three servings of vegetables a day and two servings of fruit. Force yourself.  You’ll notice the difference immediately in the way you feel and look.
• Go to bed when you feel tired.
• Take at least two multivitamins a day and two capsules of Omega 3 capsules 1000 mg. each.
• Limit your sugar intake to once a week.

You’ll find that if you treat your body better, it will treat you better!