How can you adopt the healthy lifestyle you know will help you improve your quality of life and increase your longevity?  First of all, surround yourself with health-conscious media and people. Subscribe to blogs on women’s health and diet, get a magazine subscription to your favorite fitness and health magazines, and ask your active friends if you can join them in their daily walks. You will find that the more data you learn and the more you surround yourself with positive examples of healthy women, the easier it will be for you to adopt a healthy lifestyle of your own.

     You don’t have to start putting sprouts on everything you eat or hit the gym for hour-long workouts every day. The changes you make should be gradual. Get started with one walk a week if you have to, slowly but surely increasing the frequency and speed of your walks. Start collecting healthy, yummy recipes or substituting certain items in your diet for healthier alternatives. For example, prepare turkey burgers instead of beef patties. In time, you’ll find that your diet will be largely changed for the better.

     By following these tips and changing your lifestyle for the better, you can help revert the alarming health statistics for U.S. women and improve the quality of life in the present, as well as in your later years!

Tina Turbin