 |
Select From
|
 |
|
 |
|
Apart from helping to prevent you becoming overweight or obese, exercise (in any form) can help protect you from the cancers that being overweight can cause. Research has shown that being physically active can reduce the risk of certain cancers such as those of the colon or breast. Apart from this, changing your diet by focusing on nutritious plant-based foods, thereby maintaining a healthy weight, gives us the ability to ward of colds, flu and other mild infections. This in turn lowers the risk of more serious ailments such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes and high blood pressure.
It's not that difficult to change the way you eat or to choose the right kinds of foods. To make it easier make only one change at a time. With diet one of the most important changes is that of how much fruit and vegetables you eat, as well as any plant-based foods. The recommended minimum intake levels are 400-800g (15-30oz*) or five portions or more per day all year round, of fruit and vegetables. Of other plant-based foods - such as cereal, rice, pasta, nuts, lentils and seeds - the aim is to eat 600-800g (20-30oz*) or seven portions per day.
You are at risk of developing cancer whether you are overweight or underweight. Stocking up on plant-based foods, which are both nutritious and filling, means less room for the bad guys, such as processed foods containing large amounts of fat, salt, sugar and meat. Adding at least one hours brisk walking or other similar daily activity with at least one hour's vigorous activity per week, will mean a healthy body weight for life. A healthy body is an important part of our existence and certainly guarantees that we will feel better, be more active and be able to do all the things we want to do which, perhaps up to now, we have been prevented from doing because we have felt tired or lethargic.
* Weights refer to cooked foods e.g.50g uncooked rice is equal to 150-180 g cooked rice.
|
| |
| Back |
|
Author: Ann Brady
Copyright www.exercise.co.uk
2001
|
Copyright Exercise, Fitness & Leisure 2001
No information on this site can be used for commercial purposes without the prior approval
of E.F.L All rights reserved
www.exercise.co.uk is brought to you by the Sevens/Yasp
agency
|
|
|
| |
