Many people jump into a rigorous exercise routine thinking that by burning extra calories, the pounds will shed off and immediate health will ensue.
While exercise is important to maintaining your overall health, what you put into your body is just as important as what you try to work off.
Living a healthy lifestyle is easy to do, and should include a good balance of diet and exercise. Eating right can help your exercise regimen, and will give you the energy to live an active life. What’s more, exercising will help to increase your metabolism to productively utilize the food you eat.
Doing both of these regularly will not only help you to maintain a healthy weight–it also helps to ward off diseases and high risk health conditions.
Diet or Exercise?
It’s a common question that we hear day in and day out–is diet or exercise better for weight loss? When trying to lose weight, remember to think about both. Research shows that when people are focused on weight loss, they tend to focus on one aspect of it (like diet) while neglecting the other (like exercise).
When thinking about the calories you eat, try to estimate how much exercise it will take to burn the calories. And when you are thinking about how to enhance your workouts, the food you eat will surely have an impact on how much energy you will have to make it through.
Diet and Exercise?
Your diet is an important part of living a healthy lifestyle. It’s important to understand how your body uses different types of food. In order to optimize weight loss and tone your body, eat foods that will be processed more quickly and help you to recover more quickly. You’ll not only see the benefits of healthy living–you’ll feel it as well.
With a good diet and exercise routine, your life will be much more enjoyable and easy. Don’t forget to focus on both!
Our own Dr. Torpy says that regular aerobic exercise and maintenance of a healthy weight are the main things that are controllable about your health. So don’t short yourself by only focusing on one–you’ll see much better results by focusing on a well-rounded, well-thought out routine.