In an effort to try and link the human life span with a green way of life prevention magazine compiled some data that correlates longevity to living green. What follows are some of the ties that were made between the two.
Based on a study of over twenty six hundred women and men who consistently walk as a form of exercise, a thirty minute a day walk will likely assist those people to live a longer life regardless of their body fat content.
In Green Terms: Purposeful walking is a great way to keep trim and fit. Getting from one place to another by walking rather than taking your car or going by bus is better for you. Keep your car at home and walk to the store, choose to walk to the bus or train platform. European society is more apt to walk to get where they are going and because of this, they are saving on burning fossil fuel for transport and staying fit and trim while doing so.
Stop drinking soda. Researchers have discovered that consuming one or more diet or original cola drinks each day will increase your risk of contracting metabolic syndrome by twofold. This condition is characterized by a number of unhealthy factors such as hypertension, increased insulin levels, obvious pot belly and fat buildup about waist. Metabolic syndrome will raise the risk of heart disease and becoming diabetic in those who have it. North America suffers from an epidemic of obesity and soda pop is only useless calories and diet soda is even worse, a phony chemical substance that is heavily flavored.
In Green Terms: Drinking soda pop is harming you and also the earth. It has no health value for the consumer and the planet will suffer due to the containers it comes in are nothing but waste. Sure, they can be recycled but the process requires energy. The best scenario is to avoid something that is bad for you to begin with. Better to drink filtered water from your tap in a washable container and eat locally grown natural foods.
Ingesting purple fruits: You are consuming dark grapes, blueberries, and imbibe in a glass or two of red wine. They all contain polyphenols – which are very helpful at lowering the chances of heart disease and they might even defend against Alzheimer’s disease based on recent research studies. If it is good for your coronary arteries, it will also aid in keeping the brain’s blood vessels healthy, according to health experts.
In Green Terms: Selecting natural as well as seasonal foods. Blueberries are a season fruit based on where you reside in the latter summer. The best option for optimal polyphenols impact is to purchase your choices locally. Blueberries will lose a good deal of their nutritional value when they a shipped on the average, fifteen hundred miles to reach your countertop. Then there is the fuel that was burned to transport the product to your area.
If you were a healthy weight teenager: Research scientists discovered that when studying men aged eighteen to twenty, the ones whose BMI or body mass index rose the highest while in teenage years seemed to experience the highest quantities of visceral fat. This is the type of fat that resides deeply within the body core and envelops organs, is associated with type 2 diabetes, hypertension and heart disease.
In Green terms: Bring up a physically fit teenager is difficult since controlling their weight is challenging if not impossible. It is recommended that you begin early instilling wellness guidelines in children. Make homemade dinners with seasonal ingredients purchased locally and do not indulge in junk food. When teens have a desire for processed junk foods, have alternative choices that are better for them such as granola bars or trail mix. Help them understand the ingredients they consume in food. Have your kids work in your garden with you. Harvesting fresh fruits and veggies leads to a better appreciation of where their food came from. When they learn that picking fresh from the garden is better for them than buying well travelled items from the stores, they will continue the fresh tradition.
Avoid eating red meats: Having occasional servings of beef, pork and maybe lamb now and then is no problem but when you ingest beyond eighteen ounces of red meat in a single week you raise the risk of colorectal cancer, the third most common.
In Green terms: Being knowledgeable regarding red meats effect on our planet earth should be no large surprise. Just think about drive thru’s and food packaging. If people were to skip red meat and milk products, eat a veggie diet alone or one with some chicken, eggs and fish, there would be a drop in greenhouse gas production that would be the equivalent of motoring 8000 less miles per person. This is like motoring from Seattle t Miami and back again. If you simply must get your red meat fix, try and at least make it the grass fed only type.
Your friends are all healthy: You are close to your friends and when they put on weight, the chances you will do the same can rise by fifty seven percent, so says a study released in the New England Journal of Medicine. A good suggestion would be to hang out with likeminded people where they have as much concern for their health as you do.
In Green terms: Be sure to associate with Green folk!
Let others know about your green leanings: Tell those around you about your green lifestyle choices. Mention that you walk wherever you need to go to keep fit and it may just catch on. Having healthy and green minded friends can reflect well on you and sway you toward their way of life.
You do not have domestic help: When you vacuum, mop the floor, wash your windows and clean your walls for about an hour, you can burn away on average roughly two hundred eighty calories and lessen your chance of mortality by thirty percent. This data was based on a study conducted on three hundred and two people who were over seventy and some into their eighties.
In Green Terms: This was how people cleaned for centuries and it does not get any greener. It is a workout no matter how you cut it and can save you the time to attend a gym always. You can also clean the way you like and utilize only environmentally friendly cleaning agents and not toxic chemicals – inside your home no less.
Some simple things that anyone can do to not only be environmentally conscious but also stay fit and actually increase your life expectancy. It is a proven fact!
Tue, Dec 15, 2009
Anti Aging, Health And Aging, Lifestyle, Longevity