Make lifestyle changes – one small bite at a time ...
At Inspired Training we believe in sustainable lifestyle change.
We understand that results don't happen overnight, it takes time doing the small things to make the big things happen!
Making small, healthy changes can have a domino effect on other health habits, leading to long-term change in your wellbeing, according to a new study from Northwestern University, Illinois, USA.
Researchers recruited 204 adults who engaged in four unhealthy diet and activity-related behaviours, including consuming too much saturated fat, inadequate exercise, not eating enough fruits and vegetables, and spending too much time being sedentary during leisure time.
Please see our website shop for full details. Hurry while stocks last.
Contact: 01652 638079
Valid until: Tuesday, May 28 2013
Participants were divided into four groups and assigned two lifestyle changes for three weeks to address their unhealthy habits.
The study found that focusing on two behaviours at a time, particularly increasing fruit and veggie intake and decreasing TV time, resulted in a healthier overall lifestyle.
Cutting back on TV time helped decrease mindless eating, and eating more fruits and veggies helped decrease saturated fat intake.
Researchers found that people only increased physical activity, however, when it was one of the healthy changes that they were assigned to focus on.
In other words, eating more fruits and veggies, decreasing TV time, and eating less saturated fat didn't have a domino effect towards increasing physical activity.
At the end of the study, 86 per cent of participants said that once they made lifestyle changes, they tried to keep them.
"Fad diets and trendy exercise programmes fail because they expect individuals to make drastic lifestyle changes in a short period of time, and then expect them to sustain these changes long-term," says Dr Roy Sugarman, director of applied neuroscience at Core Performance.
"A few behavioural tweaks at a time are key to building mastery with a habit.
"This not only builds confidence and leads to other healthy behaviours, but creates meaningful lifestyle changes."
Comments