Personal Fitness Tips that Cost You No Money

There's nothing new or trendy in the basics of fitness - consuming balanced food in moderate quantities, exercising adequately and regularly, keeping away from habits like smoking, drugs and alcoholism and maintaining a healthy state of mind.

But from time to time, new and trendy equipment for exercising arrive at the market; some new discoveries are made as to what constitutes good eating, particularly in relation to food items that have potential to cause risks of heart ailments or cancer.

On another side, we encounter new trends in eating habits which are primarily intended to pamper the taste buds but affect the health and fitness of the consumers. Junk foods are standing testimonies to the trend that started a couple of decades ago but still going strong despite their evil influence on our physical well-being.

As for as healthy eating is concerned, I strongly feel there is nothing more "trendy" than the ancient wisdom about eating habits available in India. Some of the eating guidelines available in the ancient wisdom are:

(1) Eat moderately:

Never eat to your stomach's full. The Indian system of healthy eating recommends that you eat only to about half to two thirds of your stomach's capacity. The rest of the space in the stomach is to be left for consuming water and to allow the gases released in the process of digestion to find space and escape comfortably.

Where one is used to eating heavily all along, one may initially find it very difficult to curtail eating to this specification. But if one persists, one will find that the stomach shrinks to lesser size over a period of time and the body gets tuned to this healthy habit.

Make sure that your food intake is well balanced with cereals, pulses, vegetables, fruits, greens, moderate amounts of fat, sweets, milk and milk-products. Personally, I go by the traditional eating habits of the family followed over generations. I profess vegetarianism as the best, if one really can manage it.

(2) Eat in time, in right proportions: