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April 19, 2012 By 3 Comments
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Keeping Fit and Healthy on a Budget

It is said that eating healthy food and doing exercise is a privilege only the affluent can enjoy. However, this is not necessarily true. Here are some tips you can follow to keep fit and healthy on a budget.

Bring your own meals to work

At work, rarely do people order healthy food, and if they do, it is extremely expensive to eat it on a daily basis. However, you don’t want to wind up eating fatty fast food. At home, take 20 minutes to prepare something like rice with chicken breast or vegetables for lunch plus a fruit or yoghurt for dessert to bring to work. To make this job easier, check out for example  some healthly recipes or  online.

Walk or use a bicycle

A car or a bus doesn’t have to be your only means of transport, nor a gym the only place to exercise. Depending on the distance to work, see if you can walk your way there, or your way back, or ride a bicycle. This is a great way to include work out to our daily routine without taking free time to do so. Another tip is using the stairs instead of the elevator. Try stepping with your ankle first, and then with the rest of your foot to focus the exercise on your gluteus muscles.

Take off your make up before going to bed

You don’t need to buy expensive moisturizers to have a good skin at all. Remember to take your make up off before going to bed, and washing your face with a neutral soap so your skin won’t get dry. After doing this, apply any face moisturizer. More important than buying an expensive moisturizer is having your skin clean and prepared for absorbing moisturizer.

Bio: Ivana represents http://www.quorn.co.uk company and likes to write about heatlhly foods and recipes.

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  1. Beverly says:
    April 19, 2012 at 10:30 pm

    Well cooking your own healthy food isn’t that bad, buying it at a restaurant or the like can be extremely expensive! There are healthy foods you can prep in advance for several meals as well. Quiche for instance is great for this.

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  2. Mary
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    May 6, 2012 at 3:25 am

    My husband brings ingredients to make a simple lunch at work. He has a fridge available, so he keeps dressing there and brings bagged salad greens and canned beans to make a salad. And he walks to and from the bus stop, which is quite a ways, perhaps seems longer on the days he has canned food in his backpack.
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  1. Exercises to Keep Fit and Healthy | 7 Minute Workout says:
    May 4, 2012 at 11:37 am

    [...] Jogging  Nordic walking These aerobic exercises indoors and outdoors had been shown to give the following health benefits. Lowering of blood pressure, increased red blood cells number to facilitate  easy oxygen transport  inside the body, over –all mental health, reduction of stress and decrease in the incidence of depression. Benefits of exercises in keeping fit and healthy can also include: Reduction in the incidence of diabetes burning of body fat resulting leaner muscles. In addition to indoor and outdoor exercises to keep you fit and healthy, there are also aerobic exercises both applicable indoors and outdoors, such as swimming, either recreational or for competition, kickboxing, jumping rope or circuit training Either way, the exercises must be suitable to the individual capacity age and physical condition of the person. Anaerobic exercises are those physical exertions that are intense to the extent of triggering anaerobic metabolism. These exercises are those used by athletes involved in non-endurance sports. These exercises aim to promote speed, strength, power.  In special cases of body builders anaerobic exercises promotes creation of body mass. This exercise (anaerobic) differs from aerobic exercises as muscles trained in the former tends to develop different from the latter (aerobic), which promotes elevated performance  for activities of high intensity and short duration lasting from a few seconds or up to two minutes.     Generally, there are two types of exercises that can be used to keep fit and healthy….0/01/Aerobic_exercise_-_public_demonstration00.jpg/300px-Aerobic_exercise_-_public_demonstration00.jpg" alt="A public demonstration of aerobic exercises" width="300" height="183" />Generally, there are two types of exercises that can be used to keep fit and healthy. One is the so-called aerobic exercises and the other the anaerobic exercises.  Aerobic exercises used to keep fit are exercises of low intensity duration. Both exercises, aerobic and anaerobic involve exercises that targets training for speed, strength and eccentricity. Aerobic exercises used in keeping fit are called cardiovascular exercises as they generally strengthen the cardiac muscles. Examples of exercises used to keep fit and healthy can include any of the following: [...]

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