Do you want to treat your body better? It’s easier than you think, but the key is starting now. You can live healthier, happier, and longer with these simple ways.
Treat Your Body Better with These 10 Simple Ways
Learning how to treat your body better often takes a backseat to other activities. Life gets busy, and all your well-made plans sometimes change. However, you can incorporate treating your body better with these simple tips, which are ways to live a happy and more productive life.
Add Zest to Your Life with Daily Exercise
Walk a few more steps, get outdoors, tend to the garden, ride a bike, or visit the gym. These are quick, effortless ways to increase your heart rate, take in more oxygen, tone muscles, and boost your mood.
- Check out these amazing ways nature boosts your well-being.
Eat Less Sugar to Treat Your Body Better
Do you need that extra packet of sweetener in your coffee or tea? Try cutting back on the amount of sugar recipes call for in baking. In my experience, shaving a little sugar from baking creates no discernible taste difference, but it does make me feel good knowing I’m reducing sugar intake.
Besides, my family knows I’m a prolific baker. My gluten-free, dairy-free muffins, breads, cakes, and other desserts are considered legendary (their comments are much appreciated). You can make delicious, healthy food using less sugar and know you’re doing what’s best for your body.
Add More Leafy Greens to Meals
Nobody I know eats enough leafy greens, and that includes me. However, as I research, I realize it’s easy to consume more leafy greens without sacrificing taste or inconvenience.
Quick Tips:
- When ordering sides at a restaurant or takeout, skip the potatoes and choose a green vegetable or salad.
- At home, drop some spinach, chard, beet tops, escarole, or endive into soups and stews.
- Salads can be a visual, tasty treat with mixed baby greens, red or green leaf lettuce, or parsley.
Help Clear Toxins with Citrus to Treat Your Body Better
You may not think about your lymphatic system, but a healthy one is crucial to better health. One of the best ways to get the lymphatic system flowing optimally is with citrus, specifically lemon peel. Adding grated or curled lemon peel to salads is the quickest way to get this benefit.
However, many clever ways exist to add lemon to your daily diet. These include adding lemon to baking recipes (muffins, cakes, blueberry pie, and more), tossing it into protein shakes and slushies, and sprinkling lemon on vegetables (like broccoli, asparagus, cauliflower, and others).
Health Fact:
Clearing toxins from the lymphatic system helps promote a healthier brain and is now considered a proactive way to prevent degenerative brain diseases like Alzheimer’s.
Delegate More to Treat Your Body Better
Stress is not only physically, emotionally, and mentally debilitating but also shortens life. Many people try tackling too much alone when it makes sense to get help from others to lighten the load. However, research shows that delegation helps leaders and employees, which would also help you and those close to you.
Keep in mind that you don’t have to do everything at once. Nor is it wise to attempt to finish all your tasks when it’s the end of the day and you’re exhausted. Besides, you need downtime and time to be with family and friends. Work will be there tomorrow.
Delegating Tip:
List what takes priority and see where you may need assistance. Contact someone who can help and get it on your and their schedule.
Get a Massage
My favorite way to treat my body better is to get a professional massage. We’re extraordinarily blessed to have a certified pro in the family, and on the rare occasions when she’s around, her expert, healing hands work wonders for us.
However, this is generally unavailable to us, as it is for most people. Other alternatives include the massage you receive in physical therapy, going to a wellness spa, or booking a professional massage while on vacation (perhaps at a high-end resort or healing center).
Helpful Tip:
Invest in massage-delivering equipment, such as massage guns, power massagers, vibration plates, foam rollers, massage office chairs, massage balls, and pillows.
One Day a Week for Fun: Do What You Love
If you can, take one day out of the week to relax and have fun. Leave your schedule blank except for the giant word “fun.” However, many people don’t have the luxury of a full day, so even carving out a few hours to do an activity you love will pay off. You’ll feel less stressed, more in balance, and ready to tackle what’s next.
Helpful Hint:
I think of tranquility as a way to find Zen while doing what I love. Do these tips resonate with you as ways to do what you love?
Learn Ways to Cope with Stress
Everyone experiences stress. It’s a stressful world. Learning healthy ways to cope is the best way to minimize the harmful effects of stress. Do whatever works for you as a stress-coping method. Your body and mind will benefit from less stress.
- Learn some of my ways to cure stress in seven days.
- You could also try yoga, a proven method to treat your body better.
Empty Your Mind with Meditation
Meditation should be a requirement in schools. It’s that powerful. This ancient practice helps restore balance and well-being. Meditating takes a little time to learn but involves regular sessions to gain maximum benefits.
However, don’t let the word scare you off. Meditating can be as simple as closing your eyes, focusing on your breathing, and allowing your thoughts to come and go without clinging to them. This simple exercise releases tension, centers you, and creates space in your consciousness for something new.
Key Benefits:
- Attention and focus improve with regular meditation.
- You can better control anxiety, worry, fear, and other harmful emotions.
- Also, your self-awareness may improve.
- Finally, meditation and mindfulness are proven stress-reduction techniques.
Think ONCE to Treat Your Body Better
I constructed the acronym ONCE to represent the final way to help treat your body better. You can quickly add ONCE to your daily routine and know you’re doing what’s right for you.
ONCE stands for:
- Omega-3s – including those from fish, particularly fatty fish like salmon, tuna, trout, sardines, herring, and mackerel.
- Nuts and seeds — These tasty and nutritious additions to your daily diet pack many nutrients, including healthy fats, protein, fiber, minerals, and vitamins. They’re also a powerhouse source of selenium.
- Coffee — Before you object, coffee is an excellent way to boost your energy due to its caffeine content. Coffee is also rich in antioxidants to help moderate stress and inflammation. There’s evidence that coffee may be protective against developing Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, both neurodegenerative diseases.
- Eggs — The egg is considered a superfood and one of the best. Not only are eggs a rich source of almost every nutrient the human body needs, but they’re also low in calories, have good fiber, and may increase LDL, the good cholesterol. Eggs also contain choline, which is essential for building cell membranes.
