You probably already have quite a few good habits. But with a small upgrade, your lifestyle will get an extra boost.
You can do this extra:Walk to a nice beat
With the Bee Gee's hit Stayin Alive, for example, you walk 102 steps per minute. That's the ideal pace to get your heart rate up and improve your heart condition. That is, if you walk briskly for at least ten minutes, according to research from the University of San Diego.
You can do this extra:Turn off that hot tap
Closing your shower with 30 seconds of cold water is super healthy, according to a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine. This activates brown fat, which is the type of fat you want. Your body has two types of adipose tissues:white and brown. The white fat is intended as storage for body fat. And brown fat keeps your body warm by burning glucose and yes:white body fat. In other words, the more brown fat, the higher the metabolism. A 'cold attack' from your shower activates the brown adipose tissue. So go, turn off that hot tap and take an ice cold shower! Focus the shower spray mainly on your neck and upper body.
You can do this extra:Exercise during work
Avoid sitting for more than three hours in a row. That is the advice of Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology and Movement Sciences Erik Scherder:'Anyone who does sit longer will sooner or later experience the disadvantages, such as cardiovascular disease, insulin resistance, back problems, type 2 diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, unhealthy cholesterol levels. .” Do a standing meeting. Step away from your desk every hour to stretch and stretch. From now on, ignore the elevator and walk during your lunch break. It's small changes that improve your health. What really helps is breaking through the amount of sitting hours you make. Better than exercising for two hours in a day is splitting those two hours into blocks of thirty minutes, with a maximum of three hours in between.
You can do this extra:Change your ideas about stress
American research from Harvard University among 30,000 adults shows that stress is especially unhealthy if you think it is dangerous. People who believe that stress is destroying their health are 43 percent more likely to die prematurely. Anyone who believes that the body's stress reactions (trembling, breathing faster, clammy hands and sweating) are not bad, but that they are a good preparation to deal with the challenge, will experience no negative consequences for health. So don't ban stress from your life, but above all adjust your vision of stress.
