improving your health

Forget the excuses, just for today, focus on the many ways you can improve your health. This list is by no means complete but a starting point to making your physical, emotional and spiritual health a priority in your busy schedules of life. Once you do these health tips and upgrades today, and do them tomorrow, and before you know it, you will be living a healthy lifestyle, with virtually no effort. • Drink more water. Your body is 90 per cent water and needs water for almost every function. Many of the aches and pains, headaches and other symptoms we experience would just ease away if we take in more water. • Go for a brisk walk... Your body was made to move. Your heart is a muscle that needs movement to function optimally. We know this but we definitely and often need a reminder to just do it. • Better still take your brisk walk in nature. Trees and other plants are regularly turning our carbon dioxide into rich oxygen that we can breathe. Getting rich oxygenated air helps kill bacteria and viruses, improves breathing, and may even help prevent cancer. • Hug someone you love. When you hug someone you love (someone who actually wants to be hugged), your body releases feel- good hormones like oxytocin that ward off depression. • Eat fruit. Brilliantly coloured fruit is packed with disease-fighting phytonutrients like proanthoycyaints that protect against brain disease; and quercetin, which helps alleviate allergies and breathing problems. • Drink a freshly made juice-preferably with green veggies. Green juices are Mother Nature’s healing nectar. They are powerhouse of nutrients that help your body heal and energise you all at once. • Stop and smell the flowers, literally. Not only will slowing down make you feel great, you will be exposed to therapeutics effects. The fact that you can smell the flowers means molecules of their essential oils are coming into contact with your sensory systems –one of the fastest ways to balance hormones.