Human Healthy Lifestyle

                       Healthy lifestyle is a term given to a group of habits like healthy eating, being physically active, leading a smoke free and stress free life. Our motherland India is predicted to become the diabetic and cardiovascular disease capital of the world.
                 Obesity
Obesity is defined as an excessive accumulation of fat in the body that leads to increased health problems.Obesity can have its grassroots from childhood and those children are significantly much above the standard of wight for height for their age group. 
Lethargy, sluggishness and difficulty in carrying out adverse effects of obesity. The causes of obesity are unhealthy dietary habits lack of physical activity, genetic susceptibility, endocrine disorders and some medications.
Prevention of Heart Disease and Obesity
1.Dietary and lifestyle changes
Eat plenty of food rich in fibers such as fruits and green leafy vegetables as part of your diet. Intake of more amount of steamed and oil free foods like idle,idiyappam,puttu etc...,

Nuts, whole grains, seasonal fruits and vegetables can be consumed. 

Eating fish twice a week helps to prevent blood clot formation in arteries as it contains omega-3 fatty acids.

Eat less amount of red meat[mutton,beef]and fried foods[chips,etc..,] because it raises the blood cholesterol level

Though milk and milk products[Ghee,Butter, Cheese]are a good source of calcium, excessive amount leads to overweight.   

Avoid high calorie fast foods.  

Reducing dietary sugars[sweets,chocolates,etc..,]and salt[pickles,pappads,etc..,]in the diet.
Cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption should be avoided.
2 physical activity
Reduce or limit the time of watching television,using computer,playing video games,etc..,

Increase physical activity to burn out calories which in turn enhances optimal blood circulation.Eg.,Walking for an hour every day,playing games in the play ground, jogging,running,cycling,swimming,dancing,etc..,

Aim for ideal weight for[body mass index] by height following appropriate dietary habits and adequate physical activity.

Stress relieving activities

Share your feeling with family and friends, manage your time, get enough sleep,spend time in nature,listen to good music, engage yourself in gardening, painting,playing with pets,time outs for picnics with family ect.., helps in relieving stress.