100 Simple Secrets of Healthy People
What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It
Excerpt
Chapter OneUse a Plan, Not a Piecemeal Approach
When a house is built, all the steps of the process have to be
considered
before construction starts. Otherwise, you could wind up
installing the doors and then finding out the refrigerator won't fit
through them. Similarly, your health plans have to be considered
together as a whole instead of one piece at a time. Your chances of
sticking to a health improvement plan - eating right, exercising
regularly, or quitting smoking - are higher if you focus on your
overall health rather than just the task at hand. In other words,
think about the things that you could do to improve your health
and how they fit together, and each act will reinforce everything
else you are trying to do.
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Six years ago, Lee was hobbling around with a cane. Now the
seventy-two-year-old Chicago area man pumps iron for more
than two hours a day several times a week. "I call it a lifestyle
change," he says.
"There was a time when I wa ... read full excerpt from: 100 Simple Secrets of Healthy People ebook
