Refresh Your Fitness and Nutrition Goals For the Spring

      The value and importance of a healthy, lifestyle through good nutrition and supplementation. It is very important to have a healthy diet that consists of good foods that provide a combination of vitamins, minerals, healthy fats, complex carbohydrates, and protein in order to maintain a healthy lifestyle.  A healthy diet that consists of all of these key elements is essential in order to live and maintain a healthier lifestyle and to also help to minimize diseases in our bodies and in our minds as well. When you combine healthy eating habits along with exercise and proper rest for recovery it will help us to maintain your health and well being.  

     Here is a list of healthy foods that will help you to achieve a healthier lifestyle. Lets start with vegetables green leafy vegetables such as spinach, kale, arugula, mustard greens, and romaine lettuce are all healthy vegetables that provide adequate amounts of vitamin C vitamin A iron, folate, and chlorophyll which helps to maintain a healthy alkaline environment for your body and also aids in the proper digestion and absorption of  foods in our bodies and helps is to absorb and eliminate our waste as well. Other vegetables that help to maintain our health and well being are carrots they contain high levels of vitamin A and  beta carotene and also are essential to helping us to maintain healthy eye site which is very important to our health as well. Other vegetables that are also good for us our beets, cucumbers, broccoli, cauliflower, and cabbage. There are also a lot of good fruits that are god for us to consume as well such as oranges, strawberries, blueberries, melons, pineapples and mangos. All of these fruits contain considerable amounts of both vitamin A and C and potassium as well as other vitamins and minerals. Another good thing about these fruits is that they are water soluble and help us to maintain proper hydration throughout the body. They are also essential in many ways because they also provide many healthy benefits to our health and well being. 

     Healthy fats are also essential in maintaining a healthy lifestyle as well. Healthy fats such as olive oil, hemp seed oil, flax seed oil, and fish oil and various nuts  as well as avocadoes that are all essential and healthy fats that our bodies need in order to maintain our health and well being. Health fats are another key element and component in helping us to maintain our heart health as well as healthy joints brain health and also to keep our skin healthy as well. In addition to this there are also other healthy fats such as wild caught fish salmon, tuna, sardines, and maceral which are all  good for our health and well being. These fats also contain considerable amounts of sustainable protein as well. When you combine healthy fats with vitamins and minerals it will help us to improve our health and well being and reduce our chances of becoming sick. Other sources of health fats include lean beef, chicken, turkey, and bison all of these contain very high amounts of protein. There are also some plant based alternatives for those that choose to not eat meat or are vegans tempeh, tofu, rice and beans and also hearty whole grains such as wheat and oats  are all good choices for people that want to live a healthier lifestyle as well. 

     There are also foods that help us to fight inflammation and that are also good for our gut health as well such as ginger, turmeric, cinnamon, cumin,  garlic, mushrooms, and both bone broth collagen and multi collagen as well. These are all essentially important because they help us to reduce inflammation in our bodies and help us to recover faster as well. These foods can easily be added into one's diet through these foods help us to maintain healthy joints, healthy skin, and healthy a healthy gut and also help us to reduce soreness in our bodies as well.

     These foods can also be combined with fruits, vegetables, healthy fats, and protein and can be used into smoothies and shakes which makes it easier to consume and digest for our bodies and helps to provide more natural immunity for our health. Smoothies are a great in many ways they can be used as a healthy meal replacement. They can be taken on the go when you don't have the time for a real meal and can be basically taken at any time during the day as well. In addition to all of these benefits smoothies weather you use a blender, Nutra bullet or ninja to make your smoothies all of the essential fats fruits and vegetables are all broken down and pulverized so that it makes it easier for us to consume and digest for our bodies while providing us with all of the healthy benefits in order for us to maintain a healthier lifestyle. 

     Everything that I have mentioned in this article  are all very important elements and are also essential in helping us to maintain optimum health and well being. Supplementation is also a very key factor as well because we cant always get everything that we need from our foods 

     Here is a list of foods that you either want to eliminate or minimize your intake of them in your diet. Foods such as cheese, fatty meats, and highly processed foods such as cake, cookies, ice cream, candy and gum as well as commercial drinks such as Snaples because they can cause a variety of health issues in our bodies such as high cholesterol, heart disease, diabetes, obesity and many other types of cancer which contribute to poor health and illness in our bodies. Foods like this that contain to much sugar as well as other chemicals can cause joint pain and inflammation which can also cause a lot of pain and discomfort in our bodies. 

     In conclusion it is better to try our best to live in moderation and try to make healthier choices in our lives in order to maintain our health and well being. In addition to this when you can combine healthy nutrition with sufficient exercise and also minimize the bad foods and the bad vices such as smoking, drinking and drug abuse it will help you to live a more healthier lifestyle and live a much more productive healthier life and it will also help you be a happier person inside and out.