Health Tips for Teens

Here are some Health Tips for Teens that will help you.

First of all, you want to stay active, for example going for walks after school. This will help burn the calories that you need to burn plus exercising relieves stress. Doing something you enjoy that is active could also count. By this I mean playing tennis or football or whatever sport you like to do. If you enjoy exercising in general, that's awesome.

Please don't light up, by this I mean smoking. When I look around me, it seems I see that a lot of people are smoking. This is bad for you health extremely. It can cause heart diease, lung cancer, and all sorts of diseases and cancers. I say this now because I have noticed that a lot of people start smoking in their teen years. We need to stop this, once we stop even starting up hopefully a lot more people won't smoke. It doesn't just endanger your health, it also endangers other peoples by 2nd smoke. 2nd hand smoke is acually worse, you don't want to be the one killing someone because they have experienced to much 2nd hand smoke. If your having trouble quiting smoking and you want help, their are programs like Quit Smoking Today that will help you with your goal of quitting smoking.

It is also important to eat and diet right. By this I mean that you must eat from each food group and balance it out. It is better to eat 3 smaller meals then one big one. You want to portion yourself out. You want to eat enough but not to much. Eat your veggies, they are good for you. Veggies have all kinds of health benefits, from lowering the risk of heart disease to a bunch of other health benefits. Try to eat your meals at the same time everyday and try not to eat anything before bedtime. Try to limit the amount of soda that you take in because it has so much sugar and will add a lot of unneeded weight to yourself. I quit soda on July 3rd, 2008 and it is Jan 27th, 2009 today so I have stopped for almost 7 months. The other day I wanted to try something to see if I still liked it and I drank a little bit of soda just to see, and I really don't like it anymore. Drinking soda is unhealthy anyways.

If you change your lifestyle now when it is early in your teen years, then you will be all set for life. Eating good and proper exercise will keep you healthy and you could live longer. Life is so precious so by staying healthy you will be able to enjoy more of life. Do the things you love, like fishing for an example, and it will improve the quality of life and will relieve a lot of stress. Playing video games is OK for a little while but don't spend your whole life on their. If you going to play video games, I recommend getting a Nintendo Wii because it is the most active video games sytem out there. They have things for the Wii like Unlimited Wii Downloads where you can download games, movies, TV shows, music and much more for the Wii!

Broccoli

Many people do not like to eat Broccoli. I used to be one of them. Then one day I just started to eat it more and more and now I enjoy eating Broccoli. A bunch of veggies with Broccoli and cheese is very good.

Broccoli actually is actually one of the major anti-cancer foods. People who eat broccoli have fewer cancers. Broccoli contains twice as much vitamin C as an orange. It helps reduces the risk of heart disease. It contains 2g of protein.

Don't Cook it to much, this will kill some of the anti-oxidants that Broccoli has and the anti-oxidants are good for you. Broccoli contains a good amount of calcium, this will help prevent osteoporosis. It also helps to regulate insulin and blood sugar.

I enjoy eating it and I'm sure if you start to eat it more and more you will enjoy it to. You will not only enjoy eating it but you will enjoy the health benefits that comes with eating it also.

Mom always said, Eat your Fruits and Vegetables

Mothers always say, Eat all your Fruits and Vegetables. I never could figure out why they were that important. Most of the time I would eat them but sometimes I would say forget it. Now as I grow older, I understand why it is so important.

They not only taste good, they do a whole bunch of things. They help prevent chronic diseases. They have many antioxidants,minerals and phytochemicals. These keep your blood sugar in check, create energy and strengthen the immune system.

Each color found in both fruits and vegetables, makes the immune system to stronger in different ways. This is why you want a big variety of colors in your diet.

Green foods help the circulatory system. They also have anti-cancer minerals in them. Red foods help the skin and they help prevent prostate problems. Orange foods help prevent cancer by repairing our DNA. The green/yellow foods help prevent developing cataracts and macular degeneration. Orange/Yellow foods help prevent heart disease and prevent inflammation. White/Green foods are like antibiotics, they help the body. Red/Blue/Purple foods have a lot of powerful antioxidants, and it also prevents heart disease.

They are really good for you and they will help keep you healthy. They will build your immune system strong and prevent a lot of things. These are just a few of the many things Fruits and Vegetables will do for you.

So the next time someone says, "Eat your Fruit and Vegetables", you will know exactly why.

Benefit from a Steam Room

Whenever I go to the YMCA, I like to use their steam room. When I enter the steam room, it is quite hot. Sometimes I take some cold water to drink while I am in the steam room. I start to sweat pretty good because it is hot. It relaxes my body and makes me feel refreshed. Sometimes I have to take a break, so I exit the steam room to get some fresh air. It is pretty cold outside the steam room until my body gets used to the outside temperature.

Steam rooms are good for you. They get all the toxins out of your body when you sweat. The body has 2.5 million sweat glands. The body can remove 30% of the toxins in a steam room session. Environmental chemicals and poor diet cause 95% of cancers, so a steam room is a quite health choice.

The steam room makes the skin look better and feel better. It hydrates the skin because the heat makes the heart pump faster and all the vitamins and minerals get to the tiniest places. It will strengthen the immune system. It will either kill a virus because a virus can survive only within a certain temperature or it will just hurt the virus.

It helps you breath better by opening up airways. It feels good to take a nice deep breath. It also helps people with asthma and allergies. It will get rid of that stuffed up nose.

It makes the body relax which relieves pain and stress. If you have a bad day, this could help. It relaxes the mind and the body and its muscles. This is a good way to relieve stress plus it does all this other stuff for you. When using a stream room, you should take a warm shower before entering the steam room. Do not exceed 15 minutes in the steam room. When you exit the steam room, let the body go back to room temperature before reentering.

Do not use a steam room more then 3 times in one session. Make sure you drink lots of water while using to keep yourself hydrated. If you have any medical conditions, you may want to consult a doctor.

Happy Steam Room using!!!!

Fish Oil Benefits

I started taking fish oil because I heard about my dad taking it and he told me that it was good for you. I started taking it while learning about it. Less Pain and Inflammation, Omega 3 fatty acids, particularly EPA, have a very positive effect on your inflammatory response. Through several mechanisms, they regulate your body's inflammation cycle, which prevents and relieves painful conditions like arthritis, prostatitis, cystitis. Improves Cardiovascular Health, Omega 3 fatty acids have also been proven to extremely help your heart and the miles and miles of arteries and veins that make up your cardiovascular system. They help you to lower cholesterol, triglycerides, LDLs and blood pressure, while at the same time increasing good HDL cholesterol. This adds years to your life expectancy. It Protects from Stroke and Heart Attack, When plaque builds up on arterial walls and then breaks loose, it causes a clot. If a clot gets stuck in the brain, it causes a stroke and when it plugs an artery, it causes a heart attack. Research shows omega 3 fatty acids break up clots before they can cause any damage. Fish oil makes you smarter, helps depression and other problems like bipolar. It helps ADD and ADHD improving the quality of life. It also has been proven to help types of cancer such as breast cancer, colon cancer and prostate cancer. It helps with weight lose and eye disorders. The list goes on and on. I take 2 gel capsules a day which are 1200 mg each. I would recommend taking it, it works wonders. It helps pregnancy by improving the baby's hand and eye coordination. It enhances the quality of the sperm from males. It helps your hair, acne and diabetes. As I said before, it helps tons of stuff!