So, how can you improve your life, reduce your stress year-round and, in the process, increase your lifespan?

Proper Fuel

You wouldn't use diesel gasoline in your automobile in place of regular unleaded gas so why fill your body with the wrong fuel? Just like your car or other machines, your body requires proper fuel for optimum performance. Sure, you're busy. Sure there's a fast food place nearby and sure it's okay to indulge ONCE in a while but, you're sludging up your body when you consume excessive amounts of sugar and high fat foods (not to mention the low or questionable nutritive values.) Diets high in veggies and fiber, and low in fat keep things cleaned out (literally), provide optimum nutrition, and help prevent obesity, high blood pressure and a host of other things that eventually may cripple or kill you.

A testa "Rossa" By Any Other Name

Exercise - the dreaded "E" word. It seems the only words that people despise more are the words "diet" and "taxes." (And the jury is still out on which is considered worst.) This is one of those things that everybody knows they should do but so many find it hard to accomplish. And yet, exercise is one of the best things that you can do for your machine. Why is it that as adults we do everything we can to avoid exercise yet, when we were kids we couldn't wait to get outside in order to run, jump, swim and climb? Because back then, it wasn't exercise - it was FUN! Stop making fitness a "dirty word" and put the fun back into it. Choose things that you're good at or that you like to do or that you'd like to learn, then do it in the way that suits you best: alone, in a group or combine it with other activities if you need to. For instance, I used to know an older gentleman who would walk for hours with his camera. In his mind he wasn't exercising but, instead, was taking photographs (which he loved to do.) Yet, when his "photography session" was over he would have walked for MILES!

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