100 Healthy Living Tips - #4 Create a Vision Board

One of the best good health tips is to create a vision board. No matter what your goal, losing weight, eating more veggies, being physically fit, a vision board helps you to achieve it. The act of creating a vision board makes the goal firm in your mind and if you put it someplace where you see it many times each day, it will keep health goals fresh and help you believe you will achieve it.

Creating a vision board is easy. I purchased a cork bulletin board for a few dollars and it is on the wall directly above my computer where I look at it many times each day. I cut out pictures, wrote sayings on 3/5 cards and pinned visual aids to remind me of my goals.

To remind yourself of you own health and fitness tips, cut out pictures of whatever your goals are. Put up photos of men or women working out, glasses of water if you want to remember to drink more water, a photo of a scale at the weight you want to be, or a big delicious salad. Write down inspirational sayings to keep you motivated during your quest for better health.

John Assaraf, one of the teachers on the movie The Secret, recommends creating vision boards to achieve your goals. He even tells a story in the movie about how a vision board helped him find the home of his dreams. He's come up with a complete vision board kit to help you achieve your goals.

The Complete Vision Board Kit: Using the Power of Intention and Visualization to Achieve Your Dreams

You can use vision boards, not only for health and fitness, but for any goal you may have. My own vision board holds a picture of a log home in the country and an RV as my husband and I hope to purchase one soon and travel. One saying I have posted on my vision board is "You attract what you ARE, not what you want." So, every day I try to be all the things I want to attract for that day - prosperous, calm and positive.

For other great tips for healthy living, visit www.Path2HealthyLiving.com or 100 Healthy Living Tips.

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Healthy Living Tip - #3 Add Cinnamon to Your Daily Diet

Today's healthy living tip is to spice up your life with a little cinnamon. A multitude of health benefits can be obtained by adding the humble spice, Cinnamon, to your daily diet. Cinnamon helps balance the blood sugar, lower cholesterol, speed up metabolism, protect your body from inflammation which causes arthritis, allergies and many other health problems and increase your immunity to colds, flu and other illnesses.

This is also one of the simplest of tips for healthy living. Cinnamon costs mere pennies to use and it's easy to sprinkle a little healthy spiciness on cereal, yogurt, in your daily smoothie, or even on veggies. If you can't remember to use cinnamon powder in your daily health program, you can purchase cinnamon supplements for just a few dollars to add to your vitamin regimen.

Recent studies offer evidence that adding just 1/4 tsp of cinnamon to your daily diet can lower LDL or "bad" cholesterol by seven to 27%. People in the cinnamon study who took up to 1 3/4tsp of cinnamon for 40 days also found a 23 to 30% lowering of their triglyceride levels, which are fats in the blood.

Cinnamon was also found to enhance the effectiveness of insulin in people with Type II diabetes, helping them to lower blood sugar levels.

I have seen cinnamon work to lower cholesterol in people I know personally. Three members of my immediate family tried adding 1/4 tsp of cinnamon to their daily diet and lowered cholesterol from over 250 down to normal ranges below 200. All from sprinkling a little cinnamon on their morning cereal, or in the case of my husband, adding it to his morning smoothie.

Other reasons why Cinnamon is a great healthy living tip:

In Chinese Medicine, Cinnamon is known as a warming herb and just the aroma is believed to enhance cognitive thinking and increase metabolism.

Cinnamon is full of healthy antioxidants to increase the efficiency of the immune system. Cinnamon also contains manganese and Calcium.

Cinnamon helps prevent blood clotting and anti-inflammatory in the body. Inflammation is thought to be the underlying cause of many health problems, from arthritis to allergies to heart disease.

Cinnamon could be beneficial in fighting candida yeast because it is an anti-microbial and has been studied for its ability to stop the growth of bacteria and fungi.

The only downside of eating cinnamon is that, for some, it can cause heartburn. If this is the case for you, simply purchase cinnamon supplements in any drug store or vitamin store and take as directed.

This daily health tip is simple to implement and costs just a few pennies a day. There are no known adverse effects to enjoying the health benefits of cinnamon. Besides, cinnamon tastes delicious! Try adding cinnamon to mixed fruit, yogurt or cereal or try this delicious smoothie recipe.

For other great tips for healthy living, visit www.Path2HealthyLiving.com or 100 Healthy Living Tips.

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100 Healthy Living Tips - #1 - Spark People

Learn how to be healthy by following my daily health tips for the next 100 days. Starting today, I will add one new good health tip each day. Read along and make each of these health and fitness tips a new healthy habit. Creating a healthy living program doesn't have to be difficult or complicated. Simply by adding one new good health habit to your lifestyle each day, you'll be healthier by the New Year!

The first of my daily health tips, to get you off to a motivated start, is to join Spark People.

Spark People is a terrific FREE healthy living website that lets you create your own page, enter goals in either weightloss or fitness (or both) and track them, with help from Spark People. You'll find a daily calorie counter, a daily exercise tracker, fitness videos, daily recipes and daily exercises to keep you motivated.

You'll also find a great healthy living community and message board so you can make friends, ask questions or get motivated to live a healthier life. If you'd like a buddy to help you, so you can help each other, you can find one here.

I just signed up for Spark People today and was amazed at all the free information this website has to offer. I've been on a quest to lose that last stubborn 10 pounds and I think using the tools here will help me reach my weightloss goals.

So for the next 100 days, follow along with our health and fitness tips. Learning how to be healthy can be fun as you embrace small changes, make them part of your life and see the rewards in increased energy and vitality, a slimmer, more youthful body - no matter what your age!

Tomorrow's healthy living tip - Eat this snack to help with weightloss, lower cholesterol and add a powerhouse of nutrition to your daily diet.