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Powerful Tips for Lifestyle Transformation Tip #3 – Improve Your Activity Hygiene with Walking

12/30/2015

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Activity hygiene refers to your structured daily activity (i.e., exercise). Ideally, you should get at least 30 minutes of exercise every day. You might be thinking you can’t do that but you can if you consider walking. Simply throw on your sneakers, open the door and off you go. You don't need a special park, a special track, a special anything.  Begin your program by walking for 10 minutes, 5-6 times weekly. Increase this by 5 minutes per week until you are walking for 30 minutes. If necessary, you can break this into two, 15 minute walks per day. After 2 months of regular walking 5-6 times per week, it’s official, you are no longer a couch potato!
 
Next Post: Wednesday, January 6, 2015: Powerful Tips for Lifestyle Transformation Tip #4 – Know Your Resting Heart Rate (A Key Activity Hygiene Measure)
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POWERFUL TIPS FOR LIFESTYLE TRANSFORMATION Tip #2 - Understand the Importance of Water Hygiene

12/23/2015

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As I discussed in my previous post, water hygiene refers to your daily water intake and maintaining proper hydration, which affects the performance of all bodily functions. Approximately 60% of our body mass consists of water and dehydration can bring about many health issues. For example, simple headaches can be caused by improper hydration. Simply stated, the better we hydrate the better our body runs and this is especially true during physical activity. On average, men require about 3 liters of water per day while women need approximately 2.2 liters daily. These numbers can vary from individual to individual based on body size, activity level and climate, but it is a good starting point in your attempt to stay properly hydrated.
 
Next Post: Wednesday, December 30, 2015: Powerful Tips For Lifestyle Transformation Tip #3 – Improve Your Activity Hygiene with Walking
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Powerful Tips for Lifestyle Transformation Tip#1 - Understand the Components of Health Hygiene

12/16/2015

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​Health hygiene is a term that defines 5 components of your lifestyle, which together influence your health destiny. These components include:
  1. Water Hygiene - Our daily water intake. Hydration is a key element in how we feel and how we perform, yet is often ignored. Many basic health issues can be addressed with proper hydration.
  2. Activity Hygiene - Your structured daily activity (i.e., exercise). More specifically, it is the extent to which you are getting the daily recommended amount of physical activity.
  3. Workplace Hygiene - Your activity within the workplace. There are many ways to integrate physical activity into the workplace, which promises to be an important aspect of your health and wellness transformation.
  4. Sleep Hygiene - Your sleep patterns. We understand more today than ever about the importance of sleep quality and quantity.
  5. Dietary Hygiene - Your everyday dietary patterns and how balancing various nutritional components contribute to your total health and wellness.

Next Post: Wednesday, December 23, 2015: 
Powerful Tips for Lifestyle Transformation
Tip #2 - Understand the Importance of Water Hygiene

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Powerful Tip #30 – Learn About the MyPlate Concept

12/7/2015

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MyPlate is a new generation app that helps consumers build a healthy plate at meal times. The MyPlate app emphasizes fruits, vegetables, grains, proteins and dairy groups, and provides a terrific means to understand and visualize appropriate portions. Applying this strategy will help you keep portions under control and also help you serve more balanced meals. Teaching children the strategy behind MyPlate helps them learn basic nutrition facts and encourages them to make better choices on their own. For more information on the MyPlate concept, visit www.choosemyplate.gov/about.html.

Please look for my next Blog Postings  which will begin shortly: Powerful Tips for Lifestyle Transformation where many topics related to making terrific lifestyle changes will be discussed.

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Powerful Tip #29 – Don’t Skip Meals

12/2/2015

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Skipping meals tends to lead to overeating at the next meal. Try to schedule three healthy meals and one to two healthy snacks throughout the day. Meal skipping is associated with a low intake of energy and essential nutrients, which decreases the nutritional adequacy of the diet. This can compromise growth and development in children, and have negative repercussions for adult health as well.
 
 Next And Final Post For This Blog Topic: Monday, December 7, 2015: Powerful Tip #30 – Learn About the MyPlate Concept
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    Dr. Kowal is a Pediatrician, author of the American Academy of Pediatrics publication, Parenting Through Puberty: Mood Swings, Acne and Growing Pains blogger, USA triathlon coach, speaker, and mom.  
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