Low Price Health Care - Everday Preventative Action

by: Troy Smith
Low cost health care involves the practice of everyday action and simple yet vital preventative measures. Maintaining a healthy diet of vegetables and fruits, drinking herbal teas, and getting good rest is crucial. Monitoring your food intake and nutrition constantly is the key to keeping your body healthy. Pick up some good tea, fruits, and vegetables today and start taking care of yourself with little money and almost no effort. Do this everyday over your lifetime and you'll spend a lot less time suffering from pain in the hospital or nursing home.Let's start with what you should do in the morning. Get up and gostraight to the kitchen. It's very important that you eat or drinksomething in the morning to get your metabolism going. The earlieryou get your metabolism going, the more calories your will burn. Itwill also help your circadian rhythm stay in balance. Get out abanana, pineapple, strawberries, blueberries, and a cup of yogurt andstart blending them in your blender or better yet, your smoothiemaker. Get that smoothie in your stomach and you'll be doing yourintestines a favor the later morning. Bacon and eggs might be yourprefered choice when it comes to taste and satisfaction, but you'llfind that your tastes will change overtime and your body will start toappreciate and crave this new diet of fruit and yogurt. When lunchtime comes around go to your grocery store and browse theproduce section for whatever is on sale and in season. Not only dovegetables taste better when they are in season, they can actually bemore healthy for you at the same time as they can contain moreantioxidants, minerals and vitamins when they are in season. Inaddition, people often have bad associations with fruits or vegetablesjust because they once ate something that was unripe or rotten and didnot realize that that was not a good representation of what it wassupposed to taste like. If you have a bad association with a fruit orvegetable learn how to tell when they are ripe and never leave them onthe counter for too long and expect them to stay fresh and taste thesame. I always examine my vegetable rigorously for this very reasonand I have found that I can take a liking to almost anything in theproduce section. Take your vegetables home and give them a good washing. Put them in amicrowave safe dish and set your microwave setting to freshvegetables. If you don't have a microwave with this setting, I highlyrecomend you go out shopping for a microwave that does. It is a hugetime saver and I love being able to just press a button and getperfectly steamed vegeables everytime. Eat your vegetables up and geton back to work. But take with you your favorite tea. Green tea,black tea, spice tea whatever. As long as your tea makes you happy, Idon't care what kind it is. The important thing is that you drink teainstead of something that will give you heartburn like soda pop. Drink your tea throughout the afternoon as you desire. I find it's anice break time activity that generates good conversation with mycoworkers. I like to talk about the benefits of drinking tea and I amfortunate that my coworkers do as well. If your tea has ginger in it,it is even thought to aid in digestion. You might think that you haveno digestive problems, and that is great, drinking tea may justprevent you from ever having them in the future. It 's so much easierand less expensive to keep your body in good working order by takingsimple preventative steps that are as easy as drinking tea. I can'tstress this enought.Speaking of stress, when you get home at night and finish your dinnerthere is another tea that I like to drink. Before we get to that,let's talk about dinner. Dinner should not be the largest meal of theday as contrary to popular practice that may be. However, this istime for your body to slow down and get ready for a good nights sleep.Have a small portion of chicken or your favorite cut of meat withsome good whole grains and vegetables on the side. If you can boilyour chicken instead of fry it to reduce your fat intake. Once dinneris over, I like to drink some chamolile tea and listen to the radio inbed. The radio? Yes, the radio helps to calm my body down much morethan the T.V. does. This might not be your idea of an exciting night,but it can really pay off in your long term health if you get to bedat a reasonable time and get your sleep started off early. Today, itis all to common for people to get in a bad habit of going to bed lateand getting up feeling groogy and tired. This is not only a bad ideafor your body's health, it is also a bad idea if you intend onperforming well at work. Please don't put your health care on the backburner. If you do,you're just asking for high price emergency health care at some pointin the future. Doctors then must resort to powerful medicines withnegative side effects and surgery to treat aliments that could havebeen prevented. Keep your body healthy and strong and empower yournatural ability to fight off diseases.