{"id":29102,"date":"2020-06-04T08:52:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T08:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/healthandfitness\/?p=29102"},"modified":"2020-06-04T08:54:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T08:54:43","slug":"quick-and-easy-ways-to-improve-your-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/healthandfitness\/quick-and-easy-ways-to-improve-your-health\/healthy-eating\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick And Easy Ways To Improve Your Health"},"content":{"rendered":"

Staying healthy is obviously very important, there\u2019s no doubt about it. <\/strong><\/p>\n

However, some people just find it easier to be unhealthy, and you can sort of see why. Junk food is much cheaper than healthy food, and lets be honest, it\u2019s often tastier too.<\/p>\n

But it doesn\u2019t have to be hard to be healthy, I\u2019m going to tell you how you can improve your health in a few simple ways.<\/p>\n

Get more sleep.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

An easy one to start right? And its a nice one too; who doesn\u2019t love sleep? Sleep is important, as it gives your brain and rest and some time to repair itself and the body. Well rested people often are happier, fitter, and get ill less often. This is no coincidence! It\u2019s recommended you get around 8 hours of sleep a night, and around 7 is the minimum recommend figure. If you don\u2019t mange these numbers, then do your best to start hitting them, as you\u2019ll see differences in your health and just overall life.<\/p>\n

Implement fruit & veg into your life.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

This doesn\u2019t mean go out of your way to buy the freshest apple possible every morning. The point here is to try and make it seem like the least amount of effort possible. Casually swap out an unhealthy breakfast for a banana example, make it normal and easy to just have more fruit in your life because you\u2019ll feel better for it, and your body will think you for it too.<\/p>\n

Exercise.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Obviously this has to be on here! If you\u2019re not massive exercise fan, that\u2019s fine. If you\u2019ve got some spare time during the day, just go for a long walk. And if you have have to go somewhere, if possible, walk or bike instead of driving. Even just walking increases your health, as it is a form of exercise even though it may not be the most strenuous. Some people recommend 10,000 steps a day, but if you\u2019re a busy person this isn\u2019t always attainable. Just make sure you\u2019re doing\u00a0something\u00a0<\/em>at least, even if it\u2019s not walking.<\/p>\n

Bonus: Stop smoking.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

I know I said these would be easy, and I know this might not be. But it can\u2019t be left out. Smoking is such a self destructive habit, and damages your heart and lungs often to irreversible points if you smoke enough and for long enough. But in terms of your overall health, if you have the option, it\u2019ll be the best thing you ever do. Within a few days your body will start to heal itself and things will begin to return to normal, and within a year a lot of the smoking damage will be undone. So it\u2019s better to quit sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n

Obviously I\u2019m no doctor, I\u2019m just writing about common knowledge and how being a bit healthier doesn\u2019t have to be that hard. If you\u2019re really unhealthy, or have any doubts or issues with your health, obviously go to the doctors, they\u2019ll give better help and advice than someone on the Internet ever could!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Staying healthy is obviously very important, there\u2019s no doubt about it. However, some people just find it easier to be unhealthy, and you can sort of see why. Junk food is much cheaper than healthy food, and lets be honest, it\u2019s often tastier too. But it doesn\u2019t have to be hard to be healthy, I\u2019m…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[11,10,56,66,76,72],"class_list":["post-29102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-well-being","category-healthy-eating","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-health-and-fitness","tag-health-news","tag-healthy-news","tag-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/healthandfitness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/healthandfitness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/healthandfitness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/healthandfitness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/healthandfitness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/healthandfitness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29103,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/healthandfitness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29102\/revisions\/29103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/healthandfitness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/healthandfitness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/healthandfitness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/healthandfitness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}