Healthy Life Styles

Dear Driver,
The key to enjoying a healthy lifestyle involves proper nutrition and exercise. Healthy food choices, along with exercise, can help you get in shape and improve the ability of your immune system to fight illness. A human body requires over 40 nutrients in order to meet its physical needs. By eating a variety of healthy foods, the necessary nutrients can be absorbed. the food guide pyramid is an excellent source for determining proper nutrition. Following the pyramid will allow a choice of food groups to consume and how many servings of each should be eaten on a daily basis.

Maintaining a regular healthy diet is extremely beneficial to your everyday performance. Good health meals assist you in becoming an active and energetic person. Therefore, it is important that all of the three major meals of the day are consumed on a regular basis. By eating all three meals and snacks, your body receives many functioning nutrients that are required to live a healthy and active lifestyle.

Fitness is essential for everyone, no matter what physical condition they are in. Fitness should be incorporated into everyone's lifestyle. Exercising has many benefits for your body such as:

• Exercise relieves depression
• Exercise is nature's best tranquilizer
• Exercising 15 to 30 minutes every other day will typically cause a positive mood swing
• Exercise prevents disease
• You are 20% less likely to suffer a fatal heart attack
• Exercise relieves stress and anxiety
• Exercise can slow the aging process
• Exercise increases the good cholesterol and lowers harmful cholesterol
• Exercise improves the quality of sleep: go to sleep more quickly, sleep more soundly, and wake up refreshed
• Exercise improves mental sharpness: improves memory, reaction time and concentration.

REMEMBER ... REPORT ALL ACCIDENTS TO THE SAFETY DEPARTMENT IMMEDIATELY!