Health: Eating Properly and Exercise

The topic of health has a great hold on my life. I myself have seen the consequences of having a substandard lifestyle. For, almost all my life I was classified as healthy. I soon decided at a young age to be active, eat right, and stay healthy, because of the pain I have seen it bring to those who are unhealthy. I decided because I did not want poor health decisions to affect me or anyone I cared about. So leading a healthy lifestyle is extremely important to me. After the Lord himself, my health is our number one priority. So far I have been able to live a good, long, healthy life. I achieved this by placing my everyday duties and responsibilities on three fundamental principles to living: eating right, exercising properly, and enjoying life. Currently we live in a world where the decision between want and need is applied to everything, and health is a prime example of that. We sometimes struggle between receiving adequate amounts of exercise, and eating food that is good for us. Being healthy is a constant balancing act, and as we all can get healthy through a plenitude methods trace back to three basic principles. As I call them the three "E's": eating, exercise, and enjoyment, is what has paved the way for a newer, better me.

This is a subject I rarely speak of, due to the fact that my advice in never truly taken. Unless I am a person who is currently facing health issues, or someone who has had issues in the past, and is recollecting their stories; my input on such topics is often neglected. I feel it though that my input is just as good, if not better than theirs. I see I provide a different perspective, of the stories of someone who has faced the temptations of being overweight, yet always withstood such temptations. For s...

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