Top 4 healthy living fitness fundamentals

1. Breathing

Deep and long breathing has always been vital with life and fitness. Good breathing exercises can be beneficial in so many ways, science has shown that people whom breath deeper and fewer breaths per minute are much healthier and tend to live  longer than people who breath more rapid and short breathes.

Exercises like yoga, Pilates, Qigong and tai chi can help you develop strong patterns of deep healthy breathing with slow movement, this combination can be very beneficial in life and may even increase your chances of living a long fulfilled life.

2. Fitness

Fitness can increase serotonin levels in your body. Serotonin is the feel good neurotransmitter that is synthesized, stored, and released from specific neurons in the brain. High levels of serotonin can be helpful fighting depression, panic attacks, insomnia, obesity and anxiety.

When you increase your fitness you use the creative area of the brai

n more. This is why often you can think things through  properly when you go for your run. Your answers will be more clear, decisive and positive.

Then by becoming fit you can feel better and lose weight. The best forms of exercising are whole body high cardiovascular exercises, like running, rowing, cycling, walking and swimming. These are proven to exercise more muscles at one time for long periods.

3.Water

Functions of water

  • Assists in detoxing removing of all the toxins in our system
  • Is the main part of spinal fluid
  • Provides body form and structure
  • Represents blood plasma
  • Transports many nutrients and gases around the body

4.Nutrition

Food is the most important part of life. We need to eat food in order for our body to function properly. Much like a car or body works in the same way, you need to put fuel in the system regularly so that the engine can keep working. Carbohydrates are the main food source with the body burns to produce energy.

Certain foods can help increase levels of 5 HTP, this is another study which has shown that food can effect your feelings also, and make you feel better .

5 HTP Its an amino acid, these food sources such like meat, brown rice, eggs & fish are  rich in nutrients and contain high levels of the 5 HTP amino acid. You can also by the amino acid as a supplement in local health food stores.

Food energy sources are  carbohydrates , proteins and fats are the only nutrients that can deliver energy.

 

 

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