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Importance of Living a Healthy Lifestyle As a Family

Family, Health, Lifestyle
Family, Health, Lifestyle

11Jul

The Importance of Living a Healthy Lifestyle As a Family

The importance of living a healthy lifestyle for maintaining general good health and preventing chronic diseases has been well established. A healthy lifestyle is quite simple to achieve – one does not need to do anything “crazy” to adopt a healthy lifestyle. I will say that a certain amount of independent thinking is required to separate truth from fiction in most modern health advice currently being delivered.

The most important thing you can do is eat well. Avoid toxins in your food as much as possible and consume plenty of fresh fruit, veggies and whole grains; exercise moderately a few times per week; avoid smoking, including secondhand smoke; and avoid gaining too much weight (which should come naturally if you eat right and exercise). While it is not always possible to eat all Organic food – the EWG recommends 12 fruits and vegetables that should be organic because of their higher levels of pesticide residue. Avoiding environmental toxins as much as you can is an important part of achieving a healthy lifestyle.

Our modern lifestyle is very convenient – but it can also be extremely unhealthy. Most of us eat too many processed foods and too few fruit and veggies; we rarely exercise; and when we develop chronic conditions such as diabetes, we rely on conventional medications to make us feel better – but these medications often have devastating side effects. Instead of accepting the importance of living a healthy lifestyle for us and for future generations, we continue with our bad habits – then take potent, toxic medication to treat our inevitable symptoms.

Of course, not all aspects of living a healthy lifestyle are in our control. We are going to be exposed to certain environmental toxins whether we like it or not. But many of these factors are absolutely in our control. Whenever we can, we should be responsible and make the right choices.

This is why it is so important to be sure you eat well as the key factor in achieving a healthy LIFESTYLE.

I say “lifestyle” because what I know is that “eating well” can sometimes be something a person does with resentment because they feel “sacrifice” is required to adopt a healthy lifestyle.

I remember when people who ate poor foods used to joke with me and say I was not really living because I chose not to eat pizza and drink beer – and I always replied “how much LIVING can you do when your body is recovering from what you put in it?

Shifting from an Unhealthy to a Healthy Lifestyle

The reason I discuss the healthy lifestyle tip of simply EATING WELL on my blog is because it has been so effective for my health.

It was not always like this though. I remember when I was addicted to a chocolate bar each day and I always had headaches or an infection or illness of some kind.

In addition to excessive sugar cravings (eating a chocolate bar each day) I also suffered from many unhealthy symptoms that were challenging to resolve through traditional medicine: Frequent headaches, Skin problems (ie. eczema, acne, hives, Bloating, Gas, Bad Breath, Weak or brittle hair and nails, Fatigue and lethargy, Excessive stress, Candida overgrowth, Yeast infections, Food or Environmental Allergies, Anxiety or depression, Diarrhea, Constipation, Memory loss, Mood swings, Frequent colds or infections, PMS or bad menstrual cramps, Bladder infection, Loss of sex drive…etc

Ughhh! No fun at all!

Years later, I LOVE good food and I am rarely sick. Eating well is the perfect way to get in tune with your body and really get back to basics of what your body needs. It challenges you to give up the vices that you take for granted, break your addictive eating habits and start again from the beginning. Eating well is a healthy lifestyle choice that gives you clarity on what your body really needs, not craves and becomes the foundation for all other healthy lifestyle choices.

An important thing to remember with eating well is to really examine your root philosophy for adapting more healthy foods into your lifestyle.

This is SO IMPORTANT!

If it’s simply to loose a few pounds – I personally feel that this is not enough of a motivator and you will set yourself up for “failure” however, if you choose to eat well to enjoy a better quality of life, to do things you have not done in years and to not get sick anymore, then this is a wonderful motivator that will likely last!

So, getting really practical, eating well obviously involves making a few changes to the foods you prepare and enjoy.

I always listen to my body when I eat. I do not calorie count, measure my fist, use ratio’s or anything that causes me to separate myself form the food I eat.

The main reason I enjoy excellent health is because I am critical of what I eat – I choose to eat REAL food.

Because of this, I do not need expensive supplements or challenging programs to maintain my weight.

Delicious menus of real, whole foods allow me to enjoy the things so many diet plans warn against.

This sounds simple enough, but what I have learned is that many people simply do not know what a healthy lifestyle consists of, especially when it comes to food!

I try to keep things as simple as possible. I shop from the perimeter of the grocery store, eat mostly wild and free range chicken, very little meat and mostly raw organic fruits and vegetables, with beans and rice. It’s not practical to list everything I eat here, but feel free to visit my blog and download your FREE Healthy Grocery List while you are here!

The Future Depends on our Health Living a healthy lifestyle, free as much as possible of toxins (in our environment and in our food) and of stress, is important to us – but it’s also important for future generations. Scientists are also now discovering the impact nutrition has on our DNA! Healthy trees bear healthy fruit. A continued lifestyle of sickness will have a lasting effect on future generations and on our planet.

The results of years of living an unhealthy lifestyle are obvious. We are currently faced with a sharp increase in chronic illnesses such as diabetes and heart disease, with an obesity rate so high it’s considered an epidemic, and with growing rates of infertility. The number of children diagnosed with autism, Asperger’s syndrome or ADHD is alarmingly high.

We should also remember that our children carefully watch us and emulate us. If they see us act responsibly now, they will likely adopt a similar approach of taking care of themselves and of the planet when they become adults.

We must each ask ourselves if we are modeling the importance of a healthy lifestyle to our children. If we do not show them how to care for themselves, they will likely turn to the food corporations instead. How will they know the difference between real food, “food like” substances?

2Jul

4 Benefits Of Renting Storage Units

Numerous families and organizations may end up needing a free from any and all harm approach to store or ship things. However long this need is present moment, then, at that point shipping container rentals might be ideal for your motivation.

You can lease a shipping container when moving houses, moving stock, putting away gear, or setting up a far off office. With their adaptability, containers give a financially savvy, secure, and advantageous approach to address your transitory or occasional requirements for a versatile and solid design. Regardless of whether you’re intending to buy one later on, you can in any case consider leasing to more readily comprehend the best size and fundamental customization highlights prior to putting away your cash.

Contingent upon your requirement for a storage container, you may decide to lease one for the accompanying advantages:

1. Ideal for short or one-time occasions

For transitory, once, or occasional occasions, leasing storage units might be the better monetary or strategic decision. In any event, for longer-term use, as long as one year, leasing can in any case be advantageous for different reasons referenced underneath. These incorporate keeping up with income, low month to month cost, no obligation, lower charges when considered as an expense as opposed to a resource, etc.

There are distinctive transient uses for shipping container rentals, including:

Secure storage unit. In the event that you have costly devices, stock, hardware, occasional stuff, and different materials outside your home or office, putting away them in flimsy constructions builds the danger of robbery and defacement. Storage containers are secure, yet additionally very strong to withstand unforgiving breeze, hefty downpour, snow, and other extreme climate conditions. This gives you true serenity that your things are protected.
Simple and safe vehicle. Moving your assets, stock, and different things in bad quality boxes or containers can be more costly over the long haul on the off chance that they get harmed during travel. Saving your things in a container for transport will assist with limiting harm and misfortunes during travel, particularly for long excursions.
Moving. While moving, you can utilize your container to store effects until you get comfortable the new home. Since they’re compact, you can move your unit as much depending on the situation.
Occasions. You can lease an alternate size container, contingent upon the size of the occasion at various seasons.
Distant office or convenience. In the event that you have a task in a distant region for a particular period, you can think about leasing a changed container for the span of convenience, filling in as an office, or satisfying some other explicit need.

2. Supplement claimed resources

Purchasing a specially constructed container bodes well on the off chance that you plan on utilizing it’s anything but quite a while. Nonetheless, there might be a few occasions or events that require a greater impression. In such circumstances, you can enhance your current resources with a shipping container rental to satisfy the emerging brief necessities. Leased containers accompany a scope of discretionary additional items that you can use to serve your requirements almost just as your modified bought units.

3. Helpful and simple to utilize

Also, leasing a shipping container is a lot simpler interaction contrasted with getting one. You can trade the containers for various sizes, contingent upon your evolving needs. It’s quicker to lease and simple to set up. This is on the grounds that you don’t have to build up a strong establishment from the outset except if you expect to save it’s anything but a more drawn out time. At the point when you would prefer not to utilize it, there’s no issue in discovering a spot to store it during slow times of year.

4. To survey the best size and space prerequisites

Despite the fact that you can appraise the measure of room needed to do the work, numerous individuals regularly need to straighten out their things/capacities to fit the more modest or bigger container better. In case you’re purchasing a container for long haul use, this can be a significant prevention to your vision for space use later on.

There are various sizes of shipping containers, however it’s very difficult to decide the best size for your task before really using it. Shipping container rentals give you the opportunity to rethink the best size of the container after the rental time frame, so you can pick an alternate size that is more qualified for your requirements when leasing once more.

Albeit this is viewed as a benefit, we suggest that you look for proficient assistance from your shipping container rental organization to track down the right unit size the first run through, particularly while thinking about a more drawn out term rental. In the event that you misunderstand the size when leasing, your supplier can just trade them for you. Buying one would expect you to sell some unacceptable unit first prior to supplanting it, which is very problematic.

1Jul

What You Haven’t Considered About Storage Containers

Shipping container rentals have become more readily available to both consumers and commercial sectors. Their design makes them ideal for a long list of applications including the obvious – shipping and storage. Since there is a growing number of people renting storage containers, there is also a growing need to explain how shipping container rentals work.

Shipping containers are the perfect moving solution

Since storage containers are designed for shipping, they are ideal for moving. They can be delivered to your site, allowing you to pack your belongings and then when you are ready, we pick them up and move them to your new site. This allows you to pack at your own pace.

It’s also an excellent compromise between renting a moving van and hiring professional movers. You can load your own items easily as the container has doors and is at ground level to reduce back strain. You then have dependable drivers pick up the container, so you don’t have to contend with driving an unfamiliar vehicle. It works for both commercial and residential moves.

Shipping containers are a green storage solution

With more and more companies and consumers looking for eco-friendly options that won’t harm the planet, even the moving and storage industry is feeling the pressure. Storage containers are now being repurposed for multiple uses including as sustainable building material.

Instead of old storage containers ending up in landfill sites, they are being made into affordable housing, schools, homes, offices, swimming pools, restaurants, shops and more. So when you rent shipping containers you are actually using something that will contribute to a healthier planet.

Shipping containers are customizable

Shipping containers can be modified to suit storage needs. This includes ventilation, heating and/or cooling and more. This makes it an excellent option for a wide range of uses, whether you need to ship and store, just store or just ship.

Shipping containers are affordable

Shipping container rentals are the most affordable way to increase on-site storage for both businesses and homeowners. As long as you have the space, you can choose the size to suit your needs, and continue to add (or take away) containers as your needs change. You then have access to everything you need on-site, without costly construction or installation for expansions.

This can work for a long list of applications from farms to construction sites and large residential properties to storage facilities. It can be on a large scale or simply involve a single shipping container. They are very flexible allowing you to use them as required.

Containers are very secure

Storage containers are designed to travel long distances under extreme weather conditions. As a result, they are made with sturdy corten steel and impenetrable walls and doors to protect the items during shipping. What’s more, since they often sit at poorly lit ports where security can be tricky, they have to withstand the force of the tools commonly used by thieves.

This makes them an excellent option for storing expensive equipment at job sites, but also for residential applications during a move to ensure your belongings cannot be accessed easily.

1Jul

Installing a Bakkie Canopy or Camper Shell on Your Bakkie

Camper shells, or canopies, aren’t just for sporting purposes, they are additionally exceptionally practical when you are shipping significant loads or materials. It guards them dry and from the erratic climate changes. It is additionally eco-friendly. Late examination says that with the “wind drag” that the bakkie bed and rear end makes, more fuel is burned-through than when driving a similar distance with a bakkie that has a Camper shell. More distance can be covered and less fuel required.

Numerous choices of these are accessible for your bakkie, from the value reach, quality, and materials utilized. The thermoplastic material utilized for that is extremely famous on the grounds that it is astoundingly light and solid while others incline toward aluminum or steel camper shells. This would rely upon your financial plan and the sort of endeavor you frequently do.

Whenever you have settled on the sort of camper shell you need, the lone obstruction you have from that fuel-saving excursion is its establishment. Appropriate guidance ought to be done, particularly when you are doing it without anyone else. On the off chance that you are not very certain about your jack of all trades abilities, feel free to employ somebody to do the work for you. The least you need is your new camper shell destroyed.

Take appropriate estimations

Guaranteeing that the camper shell estimation is actually something similar with your bakkie bed is an absolute necessity. Have an amigo loan you a hand for this requires a lot lifting. Lower down the rear end for additional room and spot the shell on the bakkie bed. Check twice if the shell lines up with the bed. No covering ought to happen. Have your pal check it for you too in the event that you don’t know.

Legitimate bracing

Clasp the top piece of the bakkie bed with the shell’s level edge. There will be a C-brace holder or a lip that you can use to affix the clip into. Assuming you need the camper shell to be a removable component of your bakkie, bracing it is sufficient. A solid and more perpetual alternative is to sink it your bakkie for secure connection.

Extra cinching

For the individuals who lean toward clasping the shells, vital c-braces are added to a few corners and sides for a more grounded hold. About six cinches are included four the corners and two on the sides. Extra clipping will keep the shell from sneaking off.

Fix the clasps

Fix them down utilizing forceps. Guarantee that they are firmly clasped to your bakkie beds. Also, presently, for a strength test; make a solid push on the camper shell. In the event that it doesn’t move when you push it implies that the camper shell is clasped safely. You can raise the back end and begin driving!

Once more, the length and width of both the bakkie’s taxi and the camper shell should coordinate. Covering isn’t a choice – it will sneak off over the long haul and dependability issues will happen. Taking careful estimations ought to be made prior to buying a camper shell and don’t depend on sheer gauges alone in light of the fact that each bakkie has diverse extent and size paying little mind to the vehicle model. What’s more, regardless of whether it’s utilized or fresh out of the plastic new, check the sort of vehicle it was made for. Adhering to these directions accurately will guarantee a wellbeing ride.