General Health & Healthy Eating

Top Ten Tips To Keep Eating And Living Healthy

Avoid carbohydrates for breakfast and eat proteins instead. This will boost your brain's levels of dopamine and make you feel alert as well as keeping your blood sugar steady. Choose porridge, eggs, or yoghurt sprinkled with nuts and seeds

Give up caffeine - replace with water, herbal teas and juices, grain coffees, diluted fruit juice.

If you have a shower in the morning, finish with a two-minute cold burst to boost your circulation and get your scalp tingling. If you suffer from a 4pm slump in energy and concentration levels, you’re probably dehydrated: try drinking bottled mineral water steadily throughout the day.

Research shows that Vitamin C helps combat anxiety and lowers stress hormones. One orange provides your entire recommended daily intake of Vitamin C, and makes a cheap morning snack.

Walking uses virtually every muscle group in the body and burns up 520 calories an hour, and gets the cardiovascular system working, so get out and start walking!

Relax every day with 10-20 minutes of deep breathing and relaxation - this will help rejuvenate both your body and mind.

Place a plant on your study desk or in your bedroom to help absorb radioactive waves and remove toxic pollutants from the atmosphere.

If you are feeling sluggish, eat foods that cleanse your liver and eliminate toxins. Choose from bananas, grapefruit, pears, onions or garlic.

Always sleep in a room that is calm, restful, and free from dust, clutter, electronic equipment, books and telephones if you can help it. Keep fresh air circulating and never let your room become too stuffy.

Always try to reserve your bedroom for sleep, sex and perhaps building a small fort.

Fitness

Timetables for college can differ greatly compared with secondary schools, and you may find it more difficult to find time to relax, eat proper meals and get good exercise.

If you’re living away from home, making your own ready to eat meals by cooking in advance and freezing for other days can be very useful. Also if your living in digs and feel that you’re not being fed properly, remember that you’re paying for food, so let them know your feelings.

What can Physical Activity do for you?

If you think you’re too tired or busy to excise, then maybe you should think about these:

1) Regular physical activity improves your mental health. You know how you feel at the end of a long day of lectures or being in the Library. You can let all that stress and frustration by excising! When you’re done exercising you will have a sense of well-being. Better yet, you will sleep better, lower your chances of depression and anxiety your problem-solving skills.

2) Regular physical activity improves your overall health. Because you will less body fat, more muscle, and better cardiovascular health, you will be less likely to develop heart disease and some forms of cancer. You will also have a strong immune system and strong bones. This all means a longer, healthier life

3) You don’t have to be as fit as a professional athlete to benefit from physical actively. In fact, 30 minutes of moderate physical actively on most days of the week can greatly improve your health.

A few things to remember:

- Drink plenty of water, at least five glasses a day. You will notice the difference.

- Eat a variety of foods. Even your insides appreciate a change sometimes. Remember! You can’t live on noodles alone, and breakfast rolls are not a food group.

- Exercise for at least 30 minutes three times a week.

When you come to college, you tend to feel invincible, you probably won’t be worrying about your health too much, and it’s very easy to overdo it. But if you don’t take care of yourself, watch your diet, and exercise regularly, you won’t be able to keep up with the pace of college life.

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