Four Healthy Holiday Tips

 

If you, your family, and your friends are healthy, consider it a blessing. The opportunity to gather and enjoy each other’s company without the worry or burden of suffering loved ones contributes greatly to a healthier holiday season. This year, consider taking your health to new levels.

Healthy Activity

When faced with choices between healthy foods and unhealthy foods, choose the healthy ones. Make exercise your first priority. By exercising first thing in the morning you will not get swept away by holiday activities. You do not want to miss out on your workout! Schedule your chiropractic adjustments in advance so your nervous system stays healthy and your body is more resistant to stress.

Healthy Planning

Making plans to gather with family and friends? Do not just make appointments to gather around food and drink. Gather around going for walks in the woods or hikes in the mountains or on the trails. Gather around fresh air and sunshine. If the sun is not out or the weather is bad in your area, take a fitness class together. If you have young children, this will help them to build healthy habits and values that can last a lifetime. Encourage house guests to pack clothing and shoes for these kinds of activities.

Healthy Eating

When planning your holiday meals, experiment with healthy recipes. Look for dishes that call for fresh ingredients. Download five or six recipes from this website. Ask the people you will be gathering with to do the same. Talk about them and decide which ones to experiment with. Each year you can experiment with new recipes.

Mix in a new, fresh, healthy recipe with the other foods that you like to eat and bring balance to your holiday meals, making them less destructive to your body. Before you know it, your holiday meals will become both delicious and healthy while helping you get off the weight loss/weight gain rollercoaster ride that has been a plague for so many people. You will leave your holiday table guilt-free and empowered.

Healthy Gift Giving

Healthy gift giving can change a life. Many people are turning to healthy gift giving as a way to say, “I love you, I care about you, your health is important to me.” Your willingness to invest in the well-being of those that you love can go a long way to inspiring them to choose to invest in it. This action on your part can even act as an intervention to someone who is really in trouble and in denial about their health.

Healthy gifts can include a gym membership, exercise shoes, a heart monitor, a chiropractic examination, or a series of chiropractic adjustments. While so many gifts are forgotten within 30 days, healthy gifts can be life-changing and may be remembered for a lifetime.

If you or any of your friends or family members are experiencing pain or ill health of any kind this holiday season, this is all the more reason to make healthy choices a priority. By following these guidelines and removing pressure from the spine and nervous system with chiropractic care, this holiday season can become an opportunity to embrace a healing path and a healthier New Year. A 100 Year Lifestyle provider near you is waiting to help!

Everyone deserves to be healthy and express their full potential from the time they are born through their last breath of life. This includes you and your loved ones. We hope that you enjoy the healthiest, happiest holiday season ever.