As we go about our lives, especially as we get older, we think about our mortality and focus more on health tips. We read glossy articles in magazines advising us on what to eat, what to drink and how much to consume. Morning and evening newscasts feature daily or weekly health tips that update us on the latest nutritional information.
Visually stunning websites blog about innovative miracle mechanisms that help us burn fat and achieve ideal abs. Mass media shaped our philosophy, which is good for us. They’ve imprinted in our minds what we should be doing for our bodies based on countless corporate-sponsored lab experiments.
But how about a more holistic approach to health tips? How about using some common sense to listen to your body and learn what it specifically needs and doesn’t need to be at its best? Sounds weird? Not if you put it in perspective.
Have you ever noticed how specifically eating fried chicken livers caused you heartburn? Do you remember feeling sickly bloated when you ate white rice instead of the healthier brown rice? Do you remember specifically eating a bunch of oysters that made you nervously scurry to the nearest bathroom?
In each of these cases, you’ve identified exactly what your body doesn’t like. You’ve listened to your body because it’s vehemently protesting the foods you’re feeding it. Now think about the last time you ate an apple or nibbled on a celery stalk. Even though it may have happened a long time ago, you don’t remember feeling anything, do you? You just got on with your day and didn’t think about how much your body appreciates a nutritious snack. Your body was silent because it was content. You’ve been feeding your body your own health tips without even realizing it!
It turns out that for a growing number of people, you don’t have to spend a lot of money to buy a lot of magazines to get a lot of health. You don’t have to spend hours clicking through website after website, staring at your monitor, trying to absorb every health tidbit you come across. You just have to listen to your body and use common sense. There is no need to join a trendy gym. Forego the constant smacks that the mainstream media, despite its good intentions, offers and be your own source of health tips.
Each day brings a whole host of new tips or old tips viewed from a different angle. You would go crazy trying to read and record them all. Then what usually happens? Fed up and reaching for a donut, tired of the incessant media barrage, they wander away seeking solace in sugar.
Take a moment and just remember that your body is your individuality. These articles you see and hear about are for the masses. Yes, they are there to help you, but only use them as a guide. Basically, the best health tips are the ones you’ve picked up over the years as you live your life.
Look, your body gives you its own fitness tips, telling you what to eat and what to avoid. You just have to listen to these health tips!
Thanks to Natali Sage
