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DO THINGS
that you enjoy congestive cardiac failure and chronic obstructive
Get moving
Your health depends on it... Tips So how do you kick-start your journey to a
to pick up your heart rate.
healthy lifestyle without taking on extreme exercises that you are not in the mood for
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light
walk
or
jog
around
the
or without bursting your bank account?
neighbourhood, sweeping the patio and
Behrmann offers the following advice:
mowing the lawn are guaranteed to raise your heart rate. Anything that exerts the
situations,” he said. •
pulmonary disease. It usually starts with gaining some extra
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A cheap way to keep fit is to take the
body and allows you to break a sweat.
Diet
stairs instead of the lifts at work. Park a bit
lifestyle makes it a lot more difficult for the body to get
Behrmann said there is a misconception that sudden
safe to do so take a 30 to 45 minute walk/
they do things that are group focused. If
better and healthy easily,” he said.
dieting and excluding certain things will make a person
jog around your area. Join the park runs
you are around people who are looking for
healthy. “The saying ‘slow and steady wins the race’ is
in your area. It is fun and done by like-
the same results then you may be more
Behrmann, who has been a paramedic for the past 12
definitely a suitable saying when it comes to dieting. The
minded people.
inclined to exercise. Do things that you
years, said he treats patients on a daily basis who could
key is to eat healthy and gradually cut out the unhealthy
have changed their medical outcomes by adjusting their
foods. You should not hate that you have to eat healthy.
lifestyles and eating habits. “A lifestyle adjustment could potentially change deadly illnesses into controllable
kilogrammes and then the unhealthy lifestyle compacts on previously acquired illnesses and diseases. This unhealthy
further when parking at a shopping mall. If
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Most people become more motivated if
will enjoy doing. The moment you do not •
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enjoy it you will start finding ways not to
You should enjoy eating healthy. Everything in moderation
“own body weight exercises”. General
do it. §
is what I always say,” he said.
housework and cleaning is a simple way