Exercise is crucial to take years off your age and to improve your health.If we do not move around, then our entire body physiology changes for the worse. This is due to the fact that our entire body runs on motion. We are creatures designed to move.Exercise increases weight loss by building muscle thus stimulating your metabolism.

Muscle is the most metabolically active tissue in your body.Increasing the number of active muscle cells improves your ability to burn up that unwanted fat. We are not designed to just sit around being couch potatoes. On average, our ancestors walked 9 miles a day. Their physical fitness was the equivalent to today’s Olympic athletes. They had no choice. It was be fit or die!

We have a different choice now: Be fit or be fat, and die a painful slow death filled with disease.Statistics show that 50% of people in the U.S. have heart attacks. By following a holistic weight loss program, you are able to lose weight naturally and permanently. Exercise is a crucial part of living a “green” lifestyle. When exercising, there should be a variety of activities that you do. Some aerobic, some muscle building, some for fun.Studies have been done where the heart was worked at a variety of intervals. Not just long distance running, not just sprinting, but a combination. Here are three simple strategies to use exercise while working to enhance your metabolism:

• Take a half an hour walk every day.

• Try using the stairs at work instead of taking the elevator.

• Push mow your yard.

• When doing cardio, try running in intervals. Go fast for minute and then slow for two minutes then fast for thirty seconds then slow for one minute and so forth.

Following a holistic weight loss program will not only melt fat away, but your health will improve.

Dr Charles Livingston is a structure/function doctor who specializes in advanced nutrition and weight loss. He is also the author and creator of http://www.greenlifeweightloss.com which teaches healthy “green” principles for shedding weight fast naturally.

There is a huge variety of fruits and vegetables to choose from.Which ones are the best?It’s actually not that complicated.I’ve come up with 3 easy to follow steps to ensure that the best fruit or vegetable has been picked.Side note: people have a tendency to eat 2 or 3 different vegetables and fruits all the time. Make sure that you are always eating a variety and trying new things.This will ensure that you can obtain the widest variety of vitamins and minerals. Eating raw fruits and vegetables are a core foundation for holistic weight loss and living a healthy lifestyle. When choosing your fruit or vegetable look for these three things:

1.Vine ripened50% of the vitamins and minerals go into the fruit or vegetable when it ripens on the vine or tree.Fruits and Vegetables are picked early when they are still green. They then get sprayed with chemicals so that they will ripen as they are shipped.
2. Organic:Research shows that organic fruits and vegetables have thirteen times more vitamins and minerals than conventional produce.In addition, organic produce isn’t sprayed with dangerous insecticides and herbicides. Studies actually show that these chemicals leach into the skin and flesh of conventional fruits and vegetables.
3. Local:Produce that is local to your region will have an amazing benefit on your body.Local produce contain nutrition, bacteria and minerals local to your region that your body needs to have tolerance to.If you go to Mexico and wind up with “Montezuma’s revenge” then you understand what I’m talking about. Your body isn’t used to the local bacteria.

By understanding these three key points, you can get the most nutrition out of your produce which directly helps you in your anti-aging process and indirectly helps with your holistic weight loss efforts.

Dr Charles Livingston is a structure/function doctor who specializes in advanced nutrition and weight loss. He is also the author and creator of http://www.greenlifeweightloss.com which teaches healthy “green” principles for shedding weight fast naturally.