If this is your happy place, these are your health hacks. Photo: Shutterstock.
Being healthy doesn’t have to be hard. In fact, the most effective way to make sustainable lifestyle changes is to make small, achievable ones. You don’t have to be a health guru to live a better, cleaner life. If your victory for the day was just getting out of bed, these are your kind of health hacks. Here’s 5 simple tricks to make your everyday life just a little bit healthier.
Eat Fruit
Forget juicing, blending, or whatever. Just eat pieces of whole fruit. You don’t have to completely revamp your diet to increase your vitamin intake every day. Try bringing a piece of whole fruit with you on the way to or from work. Easy to eat fruits like apples, bananas, pears, and tangerines couldn’t be simpler to bring along. You’ll incorporate more fiber and vitamin C into your diet with minimal effort.
Drink Lemon Water
Let’s keep this simple. Your body is constantly on the pH spectrum balancing between two states: acidic and alkaline. Processed foods and stress can cause your body to build up an acidic internal environment. This is bad. Eating lots of fruits and veggies can help you alkalize your body, swinging it back into balance. However, another easy way to tip the scale is to drink lemon water. Although lemons themselves are not alkaline, they have a high content of alkaline minerals. When your body processes lemon water, it has an alkalizing effect, keeping your body pH balanced. Squeeze, sip, alkalize, repeat.
Cut Carbs in Half (Literally)
Looking to cut carbs? Look no further than your lunch sandwich. Dieting doesn’t work, and no one wants to eat salad day in and day out for lunch. If you’re craving a tasty sandwich, go for it. Just skip out on half the bread. Eat your sandwich open faced with just the bottom layer of bread. You’ll still get the flavors you love and some bread too without splurging too much in the carb department.
Shoes Off
To stay healthy, you have to keep your living space moderately clean. Easiest way to do that? Leave shoes at the door. It’s no surprise that from a bacterial standpoint your footwear is nasty. Shoes can track E. coli, meningitis, and so much more into your house, and that’s the last thing you want. Kick shoes off at the door to enjoy a cleaner, healthier living space.
Buy the 6-Pack
Of water bottles. So you want to stay hydrated but you’re just too lazy to carry around a big water bottle? No problem: just leave a reusable bottle wherever you go. Have a bottle at work and a bottle at home. One for the car (metal not plastic for this one) and one for the gym. Keep a bottle in each of the key places you spend your time. Is this more wasteful than having just one bottle? Absolutely. But it’s better than buying a disposable one every time you forget your bottle.
