All About Health April 2014 | Page 15

Our bodies are a truly miraculous machine that has been finally tuned by the mechanism of evolution and given the best fuel it will perform like a well-oiled machine allowing us to cope with a variety of challenges of everyday life. When the body is fueled with nutritious/real foods and not with highly processed food-like products, it has the means to fight disease and operate at peak performance.

Todays society is far less active due to labor-saving devices both in the workplace and at home. There has also been a tendency to pursue a life of relaxation and not one of engaging in physical activities.Modern life promotes a sedentary lifestyle that convinces the body that it is asleep. The body needs some form of regular exercise to keep up peak efficiency. For those with health issues even light exercise is helpful.

One of the most important parts of any lifestyle plan is motivation. It is easy to sit down and develop a plan and most people can jump right in and begin. However, without the proper motivation, it can be difficult to keep up the routine you developed, to succeed you need to decide what motivates you to keep going until you reach your goal. It is more a matter of behavior modification and pursuing lifestyle changes.

It may sound easy but learning to love yourself is a challenge for many. Self-improvement is all about being in love with you. How you view yourself, physically and mentally, is more important that how others see you. Most people look in a mirror and choose to have an unrealistic vision of what others see. This can lead to many complications and in order to make improvements you need to see yourself as you wish to be.