Fitness Lobby

Why is a healthy diet and exercise important?  Nearly everyone places maintaining their health as a top priority, and how healthy we are depending on the decisions we make every day.  Even if we can't control everything, our habits and methods for maintaining our health frequently determine whether we are healthy or not. To further elaborate, listed below are four benefits of a healthy diet and exercise.  1. ALLEVIATION OF HEALTH ISSUES  Diet and exercise have a significant impact on your body's complex immune system. Eating a healthy diet and exercising often can help control or delay health issues like High Cholesterol  Heart attack Coronary Artery Disease Hypertension Depression Diabetes  Dementia 2. WEIGHT MAINTENANCE Performing exercises and eat a heathy diet are factors that affect your weight – you can either reduce or gain weight.   3. BETTER MOOD According to Cleveland Clinic, Endorphins are chemicals your body releases when it feels...

Nutrition and Nutrients When it comes to health and staying healthy, words such as nutrition, nutrients, vitamins, and others are thrown around in the discussion. But have you considered what they actually are and what part they have in your diet? Nutrition is providing your body the necessary food for health and growth. According to the WHO, nutrition is vital for growing up healthy and staying that way. Better health leads to better maternal health, higher infant survival rates, lower risk of diabetes and heart diseases, and a longer life. There are three kinds of nutrients your body needs: Macronutrients, micronutrients, and vitamins. Macronutrients are nutrients you have to take in large amounts. Carbohydrates include sugar, starch, and fibers. Sugar is easily broken down by the body to be used for rapid energy bursts. Sugars, however, does not make a person full. Fibers are another sort of carbohydrates that could be used for energy, metabolized by gut bacteria, while o...

 What is a diet? Often times when we hear the word ‘diet’ we think of cutting down our meals, or skipping them entirely for a few weeks. This is linked to the idea of losing weight, as well as a solution to staying fit. Truth is a diet is a set of food we regularly eat. This could be whatever we want, or whatever is available at a given meal time. But have you ever thought of what you should be eating, and what is in them that makes them so healthy? Maybe while you were in school, you’ve heard of the three basic food groups. There’s go food for energy, grow food for, well- growing, and then there’s the glow food that’s supposed to keep you healthy. They taught us should always have these three food groups in every meal, but nutrition and dieting are more than just that. According to the CDC, avoid food that has high amounts of added sugars, sodium, saturated fats, trans fats, and cholesterol. A healthy diet must have fruits, vegetables, whole grain, fat-free or low-fat milk, an...