In this article today I'd like to give you several tips, tricks, and tactics to help you get a handle on and control the rising costs of health care.
No matter which side of the aisle you fall under when it comes to the President and Congress's recent battle over health care reform, one thing is absolutely for sure...
health care costs are spiraling out of control in this country and many of us can no longer afford to pay for it.
In this article today I'm going to give you several tips that you can use to keep your health care costs under control so that you can continue to provide adequate healthcare for yourself and your family.
There are no simple solutions unfortunately.
The best solution is simply prevention.
Anything you can do to make yourself healthier can only lower your health care costs for today as well as the future.
Luckily there are some very simple tried and true strategies that can help in the fight for prevention.
The first thing is to not smoke.
But besides that you should also avoid every major form of tobacco including secondhand smoke and smokeless tobacco.
This one was especially hard for me because I smoked like a chimney when I was younger, but once I broke the habit I never looked back and I'm happy that I did it.
The next thing that you should do is exercise moderately.
You don't have to be an exercise junkie, but try to get at least 30 minutes of exercise every day and if you can't manage that then at least get 30 minutes every other day.
Physical activity is by far the most important thing anyone can do to help preserve their own health.
Even something as simple as walking for half an hour can have a profound effect on your health well into the future.
The next thing you can do is eat a balanced plant-based diet.
I am not a vegetarian and I don't necessarily believe in vegetarian diets but what I do believe in is that everybody should base their diet around vegetables.
By that I mean that vegetables should be the primary portion of every meal you eat.
In America these days the meat becomes the main item of most of our meals and in some cases that's all that people eat.
The fact of the matter is that meat should be a minor portion of every meal that you eat.
In fact many dietitians suggest that you should eat a portion of meat roughly the size of a deck of cards and no more in every meal.
The rest of your meal should consist of vegetables that have been cooked as little as possible.
For me that means steaming them lightly.
You should also add whole grains and fruit to your diet as well.
And did I mention processed foods? These should be removed from your diet completely if at all possible in all shapes and forms.
It seems like a ridiculous argument to make to lower healthcare costs but that's really all it comes down to.
Avoiding smoking, getting moderate exercise, and eating a balanced diet high in fruits and vegetables and low in processed foods and meat can add years to your life and drastically reduce your health care costs forever and maybe at the end of the day this is the only real way to lower our health care costs once and for all.
No matter which side of the aisle you fall under when it comes to the President and Congress's recent battle over health care reform, one thing is absolutely for sure...
health care costs are spiraling out of control in this country and many of us can no longer afford to pay for it.
In this article today I'm going to give you several tips that you can use to keep your health care costs under control so that you can continue to provide adequate healthcare for yourself and your family.
There are no simple solutions unfortunately.
The best solution is simply prevention.
Anything you can do to make yourself healthier can only lower your health care costs for today as well as the future.
Luckily there are some very simple tried and true strategies that can help in the fight for prevention.
The first thing is to not smoke.
But besides that you should also avoid every major form of tobacco including secondhand smoke and smokeless tobacco.
This one was especially hard for me because I smoked like a chimney when I was younger, but once I broke the habit I never looked back and I'm happy that I did it.
The next thing that you should do is exercise moderately.
You don't have to be an exercise junkie, but try to get at least 30 minutes of exercise every day and if you can't manage that then at least get 30 minutes every other day.
Physical activity is by far the most important thing anyone can do to help preserve their own health.
Even something as simple as walking for half an hour can have a profound effect on your health well into the future.
The next thing you can do is eat a balanced plant-based diet.
I am not a vegetarian and I don't necessarily believe in vegetarian diets but what I do believe in is that everybody should base their diet around vegetables.
By that I mean that vegetables should be the primary portion of every meal you eat.
In America these days the meat becomes the main item of most of our meals and in some cases that's all that people eat.
The fact of the matter is that meat should be a minor portion of every meal that you eat.
In fact many dietitians suggest that you should eat a portion of meat roughly the size of a deck of cards and no more in every meal.
The rest of your meal should consist of vegetables that have been cooked as little as possible.
For me that means steaming them lightly.
You should also add whole grains and fruit to your diet as well.
And did I mention processed foods? These should be removed from your diet completely if at all possible in all shapes and forms.
It seems like a ridiculous argument to make to lower healthcare costs but that's really all it comes down to.
Avoiding smoking, getting moderate exercise, and eating a balanced diet high in fruits and vegetables and low in processed foods and meat can add years to your life and drastically reduce your health care costs forever and maybe at the end of the day this is the only real way to lower our health care costs once and for all.
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