If you're looking for ways to promote healthy aging, remember that there's no substitute for a healthy lifestyle. Red Fox said: "you were supposed to treat your body like a Temple...I treated my body like a smoke filled, dingy Pool Hall."

Bottom line: you get what you get by adopting your lifestyle; there is reams of writings, books, blogs and newsletters on the subject of health, however 80 percent of the population in America can't lay off the fast food, sugar and excessive smoking and drinking habits picked up along the way! Why is that?

Is there anything new about this newsletter so far? I will answer that: to this point there is nothing new. So should I stop writing or muddle on with some ground breaking news that can change your life by adopting a HEALTHY LIFESTYLE!

We have to start somewhere! When we were in the womb we didn't have much choice. When we were babies we didn't have much choice. When we were in primary school unless we were Japanese who could take really healthy lunches to school we were at the mercy of our parents and school systems that tried to lead us along. Most systems failed because the parents who could waddle at the shopping centers and drive their cars as close to the shopping center as they could get were lousy leaders? They have failed the existing generation badly and need to be a leader in the HEALTHY LIFESTYLE TO OVERCOME THIS EPIDEMIC.

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The overweight kids of today are being treated for diabetes (which is a silent killer) and its all because of their unhealthy lifestyle? Remember let's start with we have a choice to have a healthy lifestyle and rob the doctors and hospitals of billions of dollars. Using the sport shoe commercial: WANT HEALTHY LIFESTYLE: JUST DO IT!

Now that's something to crow about!

5 Healthy Habits May Help You Live More Than 10 Years Longer

New research published by the American Heart Association (AHA) suggests that adults in the US who follow 5 healthy lifestyle habits may live more than a decade longer compared with people who follow none of the 5 habits. These 5 habits are:

To compare diets among the study participants, researchers created a scoring system that gave higher scores to people who reported eating more foods considered healthy and fewer foods considered unhealthy. Healthy foods included vegetables, fruits, nuts, and whole grains. Unhealthy foods included red and processed meats, sugar-sweetened beverages, trans fat, and sodium. The American Cancer Society recommends:

Eating at least 2 ½ cups of vegetables and fruits each day
Choosing whole-grain breads, pasta, and cereals (such as barley and oats) instead of breads, cereals, and pasta made from refined grains, and brown rice instead of white rice.
Choosing fish, poultry, or beans instead of red meat (beef, pork, and lamb) and instead of processed meat (bacon, sausage, lunch meats, and hot dogs).
Drinking more water and less of sugar-sweetened beverages such as soft drinks, sports drinks, and fruit-flavored drinks plus all of the zero calorie, no fat drinks and all the advertising click bait to get us hooked.
Limiting refined carbohydrate foods, including pastries, candy, sugar-sweetened breakfast cereals, and other high-sugar foods.
Avoiding calorie-dense foods such as French fries, potato and other chips, ice cream, doughnuts, pizzas, and other sweets.

Motivational Health Quotes

“It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.”
“Keep your vitality. A life without health is like a river without water.”
“Three things in life – your health, your mission, and the people you love. That’s it.
“A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought – they must be earned.”
“Happiness is the highest form of health.” – Dalai Lama
“The human body is the best picture of the human soul.” – Tony Robbins
“When the heart is at ease, the body is healthy.”
“Your health is what you make of it. Everything you do and think either adds to the vitality, energy, and spirit you possess or takes away from it.”
“I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.”
“Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos the trees, the clouds, everything.”
"You are what you eat and you are what they eat."

If these healthy living quotes have inspired you to live or maintain a healthier life style and you want to make a positive impact on other people’s lives simply help spread the word. You can use clickbait to tell your friends and relatives ITS SEXY TO HAVE A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE.

THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW: Almost 30% of People In the World Are Obese or Overweight

Getty ImagesBY ALEXANDRA SIFFERLIN JUNE 12, 2017 11:00 AM EDT

The global obesity epidemic continues, and a new report shows that about two billion people worldwide are overweight or obese. That’s about 30% of the world’s population.

The new study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that about a third of the global population—including adults and children—exceed a healthy weight. About 10% of people in the world are obese, according to the findings. Studies have linked overweight and obesity to a higher risk for health complications like type 2 diabetes, heart disease, depression, respiratory problems, major cancers and more.

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The study authors looked at data from people in 195 countries and territories from 1980 through 2015. They found that in 2015, there were 107 million children and 603 million adults with obesity. Having a high body mass index accounted for 4 million deaths in 2015, and more than two thirds of these deaths were from heart disease.

Since 1980, obesity rates in 70 countries have doubled, the study found, and the rate of childhood obesity has increased faster in many countries than the adult obesity rate. Tip don't wuff down your food... "CHEW" your stomach will like you.

As TIME recently reported, several factors have contributed to the growing obesity epidemic, including greater access to fast food, larger portion sizes and ubiquitous processed food. Emerging science also suggests that chemicals from food and household products may have an effect.

THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW: Simply by drinking more water, cutting out unnecessary sugary foods and drinks and using a simple walking plan...you are on your way to a healthy lifestyle. IF YOU SMOKE QUIT IMMEDIATELY. IF YOU ARE A BINGE OR HEAVY DRINKER USE MODERATION.

THINGS YOU MAY WANT TO SAVE: Your drinking and hunger binges... they are addictions that can easily be converted to HEALTHY LIFESTYLE.

ZENTRAVELER SAYS: This is not rocket science... so take the abovementioned proven scientific steps to adopt YOUR OWN PERSONAL HEALTHY LIFESTYLE .

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