Color Your Way to Daily Health - Page 2

Saffy · #6 01-12-2012, 08:26 AM

This is very true. Nature has provided all of what we need on the planet and it is up to us to use it. There is no better way to treat yourself and your body than to g the natural route with everything and try to stay as far away form man made or artificial things in food as possible. Drinking water instead of all the other things we do would be by far the best for us.

Doyle · #7 01-15-2012, 08:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Heiciptiobene

Color Your Way to Daily Health

It’s important that we eat plenty of different fruits and vegetables every day. Diets rich in fruits and vegetables may reduce the risk of cancer and other chronic diseases. Fruits and vegetables provide essential vitamins and minerals, fiber, and other substances that are important for good health. Most fruits and vegetables are naturally low in fat and calories and are filling.
You’ve probably heard about the 5 A Day for Better Health program. It provides easy ways to add more fruits and vegetables into your daily eating patterns. It’s vital that we eat a wide variety of colorful orange/yellow, red, green, white, and blue/purple vegetables and fruit every day. By eating vegetables and fruit from each color group, you will benefit from the essential vitamins, minerals, and fiber that each color group has to offer alone and in combination.
There’s several different yet simple ways to start incorporating vegetables and fruit into your familiar and favorite meals. You can begin your day with 100 percent fruit or vegetable juice, slice bananas or strawberries on top of your cereal, or have a salad with lunch and an apple for an afternoon snack. Include a vegetable with dinner and you already have about 5 cups of fruits and vegetables. You may even try adding a piece of fruit for a snack or an extra vegetable at dinner.
Don’t be afraid to try something new to increase your vegetable and fruit intake. There are so many choices when selecting fruits and vegetables. Kiwifruit, asparagus, and mango may become your new favorite. Keep things fresh and interesting by combining fruits and vegetables of different flavors and colors, like red grapes with pineapple chunks, or cucumbers and red peppers.
Get in the habit of keeping fruits and vegetables visible and easily accessible – you’ll tend to eat them more. Store cut and cleaned produce at eye-level in the refrigerator, or keep a big colorful bowl of fruit on the table.

Very informative information, i know fruits and vegetables are very important for health and most of the kids hate fruits and vegetables what to do for them? how can we make them to eat fruits and vegetables?

Paddy · #8 02-07-2012, 07:08 AM

That is a very good question. One thing we know is that children are attractive to bright colours so lovely red sweet peppers and bright yellow sweetcorn might be winners. I saw on Supernanny that she made a chart with all these things on and the kids got to choose what they wanted. Actually making the choice themselves seemed to encourage them. It is worth a try anyway.

shanrocks1985 · #9 02-15-2012, 12:32 PM

Here is an at-home routine that you can do for a total body and great cardio workout. Hope you like it.

RUN IN PLACE - kick heels up to buttocks

SQUATS

JUMPING JACKS

BACK LEG LIFTS - keeping the hips forward lift your left leg back - it's a small movement so don't arch your back to lift very high - do one side for half the amount of time and then switch

HEEL DIGS - press heel out in front of you and hop to switch feet

SIDE LEG RAISES - standing lift your left leg out to the side and lead with the heel (don't turn your toe up) and also don't lean over sideways as you do this - half the time and then switch sides

BURPEES - standing place hands on floor and jump feet back into pushup position and then jump feet back towards hands and stand up (that completes one burpee)

PLIE SQUAT - stand with your feet wider than should length apart and your toes turned out at a 45 degree angle, squat down and using your inner thighs press yourself back up

SPEED SKATER - leap to the right bring left leg slightly behind you and you reach towards the floor and then leap to the left bringing right leg slightly behind while reach towards the floor

PUSHUPS - can do against a wall or on the floor on your toes or knees

CROSS COUNTRY SKI - stand with legs together and jump up landing with right leg in front and left leg back then jump again switching feet in the air

BICEP CURLS - curl with weights (or whatever else you can use such as soup cans, water bottles, resistance bands) be sure not to lock out the elbow and curl for the full range of motion

DOWNHILL SKI - feet together jump to right and then the left and stay low in a little bit of a squat position

TRICEP PUSHUP - lay on your left side with your left hand on your right side and place your right hand on the floor infront of you, now press yourself up with your right hand - half the time and then switch sides

HIGH KNEES - run in place brining knees into the chest as much as you can

BACK ROW - using weights hinge forward at the hips so you are slightly bent over and knees slightly bent, let the weights hang down with palms facing each other than pull the elbows up keeping them close to the body and bring the weights up as high as you can and then lower

SQUAT THRUST - kinda like a burpee but when you come up jump

SHOULDER RAISE - with weights stand with elbows out at shoulder height then press weights up over head and lower to shoulder height (don't go below shoulder height)

POWER JACKS - like a jumping jack but when your feet go wide go down into a squat and when jumping back with feet together do two hops

LOWER ABS - laying stomach place your hands infront of you forming a triangle, lift your hips up so you are on your toes and elbows (don't lift your hips too high though - you should be in a straight line and abs pulled up in towards your spine) alternate touching your knees to the floor, but don't let them rest - they should just barley touch

JUMP ROPE - real or pretend

OBLIQUES - on your back with feet on the floor and hands behind the head crunch up and twist left elbow to right knee - half the amount of time and then switch sides

SQUAT JUMPS - in a squat position jump up and land in squat position

UPPER ABS - on your back with feet planted on floor lift your hips up and have hands behind head - keeping your hips up off the floor do a crunch

QUICK FEET - standing with feet wide run in place as fast as you can (think football)

FRONT LUNGES - lunge forward with the left foot, staying in this position lower yourself and then press back up - half the amount of time and then switch sides

SQUAT W/ FRONT KICK - feet close together squat and come up and kick with the left then squat again and come up and kick the right and keep alternating

STEP TOUCH - stay low with knees bent and step to the left bringing feet together and then step to the right, while doing so have your arms extending out to the sides with each step

SHUFFLE W/ KNEE - shuffle three times to the left and on the third one lift your right knee and then shuffle three times to the right lifting your left knee on the third one

MARCH - march in place to cool down

do each move one after the other without a rest in-between and you'll get an excellent interval workout - If you want a longer workout walk in place 3-5 minutes and then do the whole circuit again.

robT · #10 03-01-2012, 07:02 AM

Well now that is what I call really useful information and so helpful too! I am going to make this part of my daily routine now. I have had a problem finding a routine that I could really get on with but this looks like it would be great. Thanks so much for sharing that with us and giving us no excuse not to get up off our butts and do something!