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How to Stay Healthy in Your Middle Years

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We all reach a certain age and start to wonder what the future holds for us. Where will we be in five or ten years time, and how will our lives have changed? If you’re in your middle years your life might be fairly settled and predictable, but that doesn’t mean the next life event isn’t waiting around the corner. 

Life may well have changed since your twenties and thirties and it can be easy to look back fondly and despairingly at times, in reality, your middle years are another excellent stage of life and opportunity to grow wisely and more fulfilled. Learn how to look after yourself in these decades and you will reap the rewards of a long and fruitful life

Stay active 

When you get to your middle years it can be tempting to throw in the towel. Keeping the weight down becomes harder and you’re simply set in your ways. A lot of the time this means couch sitting and inactive.

Decide to live a more healthy existence through your middle years and your body will respond. That’s how it’s built no matter what age you are. Take up an active hobby like running and risk of terminal diseases will dramatically fall. 

Eat healthy 

You’ve heard the eat healthy advice your entire life, haven’t you? If you’re like most people you’ve tested out diets here and there but never really committed to one long term. Well maybe a diet isn’t the answer, but eating healthy is. 

When you eat natural wholefoods more often you not only reduce your weight even though your middle years, you also ensure your body and brain receive the essential nutrients and minerals they need. This helps you live longer. 

Sleep soundly 

Some people have no problems sleeping and never have, others can remember the last time they slept soundly. Most of us sit somewhere in the middle, able to sleep deeply on some occasions only. 

Sleep is so important to your health and wellbeing. Like diet, it affects every system in your body including your memory, emotions, weight, and appearance. If you struggle to sleep well you could try changing your sleeping conditions or hypnotherapy. 

Improve habits 

You might be in your middle years but that doesn’t mean you can’t learn new things, for instance, you can learn how to after your vision at National Vision Administrators. In reality, a brain that’s eighteen years old isn’t much different from one that’s one hundred, so make use of it. 

Neuroscience tells us that the brain is plastic. That means it is flexible, malleable, and responsive to change. If you change a lifestyle habit it won’t be long before your brain responds and rewires itself so that new thing is pleasurable. 

Challenge yourself 

Children think that adults know everything, but that just isn’t true, is it? As someone in their middle years you’ll probably realize that the more you learn the less you know, and that’s also a good thing. 

Your brain hasn’t given up on a healthy and challenging lifestyle even if you think you have from time to time. Look for ways to continue to challenge yourself, like learning a language or taking up a new hobby. 

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I’m Marian Mitchell, Health Coach, Chronic Illness Warrior, Mom, and Food Lover. I help you navigate the food and lifestyle side of Chronic Disease Management with coaching, meal plans, recipes, podcast, and this blog. You can thrive without eating the same 4 things every day. I’m here to show you how.

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