Mental Stimulation and Stability
Consistent exercise can help improve your mental stability and support optimal cognitive function. Exercise can reduce such negative mental conditions as anxiety, depression and mood swings while improving self-esteem. Following the minimum recommendations for exercise can improve your alertness and performance on your job as well as your ability to perform those minor tasks around the house.
Minimum Recommendations For Exercise:
For most healthy adults:
Aerobic activity: Get at least 150 minutes a week of moderate aerobic activity or 75 minutes a week of vigorous aerobic activity. You also can do a combination of moderate and vigorous activity. The guidelines suggest that you spread out this exercise during the course of a week.
Strength training: Do strength training exercises at least twice a week, 1-hour sessions if possible.
Moderate aerobic exercise includes such activities as brisk walking, swimming and mowing the lawn.
Vigorous aerobic exercise includes such activities as running and aerobic dancing.
Strength training can include the use of weight machines or activities such as rock climbing or heavy gardening.
As a general goal, aim for at least 30 minutes of physical activity every day. If you want to lose weight or meet specific fitness goals, you may need to exercise more.
Want to aim even higher? You can achieve more health benefits, including increased weight loss if you ramp up your exercise to 300 minutes a week.
Short or long chunks of time. Even brief bouts of activity offer benefits. For instance, if you can’t fit in one 30-minute walk, try three 10-minute walks instead.
What’s most important is making regular physical activity part of your lifestyle.
Eat Well Plate Link – https://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Goodfood/Pages/the-eatwell-guide.aspx
The eat well plate shows the different types of food that we need to eat and in what proportions to have a well balanced and healthy diet.
It’s a good idea to try to get this balance right every day, but you don’t need to do it at every meal, you might find it easier to get the balance right over a longer period, say a week.
Is the eat-well plate for me?
The eat well plate applies to most people whether they eat meat or are vegetarian, and no matter what their ethnic origin.