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It’s Monday morning, you feel restless and not in the mood to go to work. You have been watching TV shows and films for the past two days. Your mother found out that you have been eating junk foods everyday. Your room is filthy with candy wrappers and cans of soft drinks. Your kid sister is holding a pack of empty cigarettes from your backpack. You look into the mirror. Will you reach the age 60 in your current situation right now?
As the world continues to develop, people tend to live forward. From modern technology to practical ideas, we cope up for it. But we didn’t notice that the life span of a person is declining as the years passed by. Half of a century ago, a person can live double as he is right now.
Here are some tips that we can use to live longer in this world.
 

Mind over Body

Do you really want to stay longer? If yes, start focusing your mind and body to do things that will make you healthy. According to Nordine Zouareg of Mind Over Body: The Key to Lasting Weight Loss Is All in Your Head, through meditation, visualization and affirmation, we can facilitate to discover the core desire, tap into the power of intention and find the energy needed to achieve goals in every area of our lives.

Have a healthy meal

Bear in mind the 3Gs: Go foods consist of carbohydrates, fats and B Vitamins. These will aid us to swim, dance, run, jump etc. It assists our muscles to stay strong. Examples Go foods are rice, bread, wheat, corns etc. Grow foods are called building foods. Strong bones and repairs wounds and injury are the attribute of its nutrients like protein, iron and calcium. Grow foods can be found in Milk, cheese, yoghurt, chicken, fish, eggs and baked beans. Lastly is the Glow Foods. Apples, bananas, grapes, pure fruit juice, raisins, broccoli, carrots, peas, sweet corns and tomatoes are common example of these foods. It helps us prevent illness and stay fit. Mostly vitamins can be found on this third group of basic food. Always maintain you balance by adding each food from these three basic groups of food in your daily meal.

Quit excessive drinking and smoking

  According to the researched made by Terry Martin, every eight seconds, a human life is lost to tobacco use somewhere in the world. That translates to approximately 5 million deaths annually. This and the other 19 facts can be found on her column, 20 Shocking Smoking Facts. And mostly, a secondhand smoke is more dangerous and can easily be spread.

Do you always be present at a party? How many glasses did you consume all throughout the night? Alcoholism is an excessive drinking of alcoholic drinks. It can cause severe anxiety, tremors, hallucinations and convulsions. This may lead to permanent damage of vital organs such as brain and liver.

Burn your fats

  Try to jump thrice. How do you feel? Tired? Well, it is the effect of lack of exercise. Our body contains fats that need to be released. You don’t have to attend gym sessions just to lessen the fats in your body. A 10- minute walk can burn the metabolism. Dancing is also a good form of exercise. So, put on your shoes and let’s go rock’n roll.

Always catch good sleep

  Do you love to watch television? Enough sleep is relevant not only to a growing child but also for adults. Seven to eight hours is the recommended sleeping hours for better health. For children, 10-12 hours is needed for them body to grow.

Frequently visit the doctor

  Set an appointment to your physician. Yearly examination will avoid serious illness and diseases.

Clean your surroundings

  How’s your environment? Do you live in clean surroundings? Learn to maintain proper hygiene not only to our body but to our place. This will put off communicable disease and other infections.

Be positive

  Always remember that everything you do will benefit you. It maybe hard at the beginning of the process but it will become easier in the long run. So, the next time you face the mirror. You can say to yourself…”I’ll definitely reach the age 60.”