Exercise and Nutrition = Equally Important 50/50%

Exercise and Nutrition = Equally Important 50/50%

There are Exercise People vs Non Exercise People: A Myth

People tend to believe that sometimes all it takes to live a healthy balanced lifestyle is simply just a healthy balanced diet. However, this is far from the case. It is often thought that only professional athletes are the ones that are required to regularly workout and stay on top of their routines. They are the true exercise people and it is only that way because they&rsquore the ones who belong in the gym and who look the way they do. But if a person is truly serious about living a healthy lifestyle, regardless of their athletic status, they will want to make sure they are also incorporating a consistent workout routine into their weekly schedules It is simply good for everyone for overall health.

 

It is truly a 50/50 deal between diet and working out if you want to be where you want to be in your health goals, because one just simply will not adequately cut it without the other's assistance. While eating healthy is obviously beneficial in its own ways, working out will enhance overall health in ways that are specific to its own ways as well. Working out is good for the obvious weight loss, but it also benefits in lowering blood pressure, enhancing quality of sleep, reducing feelings of depression and anxiety, curbing cravings, maintaining even just the most basic forms of muscle strength and balance, improving memory and brain function, and even goes as far as aiding in protecting against chronic diseases for a longer lifespan. At the end of the day, you don&rsquot want to sell yourself short by labeling yourself a non exercise person just because of an image that society has for what is an exercise person. You want to give yourself the opportunity to expand your health efforts in every way that will truly excel your life.

-Mike Flemming, Owner of Healthy Meals Direct

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