Author of Be Ready for Anything and Build a Better Pantry on a Budget online course
Here are the small habits we’re incorporating into our daily lives.
- We’re drinking water before we drink other beverages.
- We’re adding a serving of fruit or veggies before each meal.
- We’re adding more movement to our day.
- We are performing 5 minutes of gentle stretches before we get out of bed in the morning.
- We are focusing on some rest or relaxation time on a daily basis.
- Replacing calorie-laden, nutritionally-barren snacks with fruits and veggies.
Today’s challenge
Today I want you to give some real thought to any health problems you may be facing. Is there anything you could do about them that you haven’t done already?
- If you have high blood pressure, have you cut out salt?
- If you have an obesity-related illness, have you made the necessary changes to lose weight?
- If you have mobility issues, have you seen a physical therapist or researched exercises you can do at home to improve it?
There are so many conditions that can be improved by lifestyle changes, yet we often don’t make those changes and accept the limitations instead.
Why do we do that? Why do we stubbornly refuse to make the changes that could give us a better quality of life now and potentially save our life when the SHTF?
Think deeply today about the changes you need to make that will give you physical advantages as a prepper and help you lead a healthier and more active life now.
What changes do you need to make?
What are the changes you could make to deal with pre-existing health conditions? Why haven’t you made them? What is one step you could take today toward improving your condition?
RE: “If you have high blood pressure, have you cut out salt?”
Please consider this from, Dr. Brownstein’s Blog:
“My patients always give me quizzical looks when I tell them they need to increase their salt intake. You see, I have been checking salt levels on nearly every patient that has ever seen me. My experience has clearly shown that most patients do not consume enough salt. I know you are probably thinking that you read that last sentence incorrectly. We have been conditioned to think that we should eat less salt. The powers-that-be routinely release edicts stating that we need to eat less salt in order to be healthier and have less hypertension. However, that last statement is just not true. Eating less salt will not make us healthier and no lower the risk for hypertension.
I have been writing about the importance of salt for well over fifteen years. Salt is the second major constituent in our body, next to water. We need adequate amounts of good salt in our diet to run hundreds of different biochemical pathways.
Does salt cause blood pressure problems? The vast majority of people do not see any appreciable blood pressure lowering when they lower their salt intake. I quote many studies in my salt book which show the fallacy of lowering salt intake to lower blood pressure. There are a few individuals who are salt sensitive, but they are few and far between.” …
Also, I think that by saying, “good salt” he means stuff like Himalaya pink salt and the like rather than the industrial waste product put out and labeled as white table salt.