Top tips for health and fitness

1. Start every day with breakfast - it will give you steady energy.
2. Eat five portions of fruit and/or vegetables each day.
3. Eat healthy snacks throughout the day, little and often is better than two huge meals.
4. Find an aerobic activity that you really enjoy!
5. Add physical activities to your daily routine. Walk short distances rather than take the car of bus, use the stairs instead of the lift. The possibilities are endless.
6. A balanced diet is key to healthy living.
7. Drink two litres of water each day
8. Exercise with family and friends. Find an activity that everyone enjoys and do it together, it makes for much more fun.
9. Losing weight gradually is the key for keeping it off.
10. Everyone, no matter what age, needs some calcium every day.

Walking is one of the most effective ways to get fit...

Why...

A good brisk walk will give your heart and lungs a terrific workout, enabling life giving oxygen to get to all your bodies cells and boost the efficiency of your circulation.

Weight control...

Walking is also one of the best ways to control your weight!!

• Brisk walking can burn 100 calories or more a mile
• That’s 300 calories an hour
• Walking uphill can increase this by 50%

Walking is low impact so there is little stress on your joints.

Stress relief...

Walking is also good for your emotional health, a walk of 45 minutes or more triggers the production of the body’s own feel good hormones, endorphins, which in turn create feelings of well being and relieve anxiety and stress.

Live longer...

Regular brisk walking could even help you live longer, according to research. In one study which tracked 16,000 healthy men and women on a twin register for 19 years, showed that brisk walks of just half an hour six times a month reduced the risk of dying prematurely by 44 percent!!!!