10 TIPS TO MAINTAIN HEALTH & BEAUTY

Beauty, health, and nutrition are all integrated. If you eat a balanced diet you will be able to maintain your
physique and glowing beauty externally and good health internally. A balanced diet is one that provides all the
nutrients you need, the right amount of proteins, carbohydrates, and fat.

To achieve goals you need to ensure a good balance in your diet, introduce variety into your meals, and practice
moderation. The basis of nutrition lies in your height, weight, dimensions, and your daily energy needs. Once
you know this you can compute what your daily calorific needs are and set goals for weight maintenance, gain,
or loss. By regulating your diet you can be active as well as happy.

You must:

1. Eat sensibly. Include a variety of foods in your diet such that the 40 nutrients that are required by your body
are present. Make use of a food pyramid and calorie chart to prepare tasty and nutritious meals. Follow the
"Dietary Guidelines for Americans" issued each year.

2. Eat plenty of whole grains, fruits, and vegetables. They will supply you with essential vitamins, minerals, and
protection from several diseases.

3. Maintain your weight at a healthy level. Successful weight management is one of the golden keys to good
health. By doing is you will lower considerably the risk of many diseases like hypertension, diabetes, heart
diseases, cancer, and osteoporosis.

4. Learn self control, eat moderate portions. The secret lies in eating everything but in small portions. Don't give
way to gluttony or greed.

5. Make a time-table for your meals and how many calories will be in each meal. Never fast, starve yourself, or
skip a meal. Eat when your body demands sustenance but not huge quantities.

6. Practice moderation. Good health does not lie in eliminating carbohydrates or fats. Include all your favorite
foods but balance them with the rest of your diet. If you indulge your taste buds by eating pizza one day, then
try and do so at lunch time, never eat pizza late at night. Ask for low fat cheese and healthy toppings. Eat just
enough to satisfy your craving not all 12 slices. Get a few friends to share you sin. The days you indulge, eat
sensibly the rest of the day--salads and fruits will help you make up for the binge.

7. Be sure your meals each day include all the food groups.

8. Plan to exercise every day. Either walk or take up aerobics, dancercise, or join a gym. Exercise will not just
burn calories but put a glow into your skin, tone your muscles, and strengthen your bones. Exercise also
removes accumulated toxins from your body.

9. Maintain a dairy in which you record your goals, and what you eat each day. Review your week objectively
and create a table that shows at a glance what you did right and what you did wrong. This will help keep you on
the right track.

10. Celebrate each victory. Give yourself a present or take yourself out every time you achieve a goal.

By eating healthy, one can live a complete and rounded life without diseases, reduce stress greatly, look and
feel great, be happy from within and without, age well, produce healthy progeny, and live life to the fullest.