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7 Healthy Lifestyle Tips to Kickstart 2020

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This time of year is when we focus on making changes to better ourselves. Think about the areas you would like to improve and envision the goals you want to achieve as the New Year gets started. You can start with one goal or a list of goals that include healthy lifestyle tips, it doesn’t matter. Making healthy lifestyle changes is a personal process that can have long-lasting positive effects on your life.

Setting healthy lifestyle goals for the New Year is a great way to focus yourself on what’s important to you. To help you reach these new goals, it is essential to identify your goal, list the steps that you’ll take to reach that goal, and also record your progress.

Here are 7 healthy lifestyle tips that are perfect for you to kick start your New Year’s Resolutions. Incorporating items such as hemp-derived CBD, relaxation and diet changes can help you get 2020 off to a great start!

1. Engage in Daily Physical Activity

By making a resolution to move more, you can make huge changes to your body and wellbeing. This doesn’t have to be about losing weight. Increased exercise helps with weight loss and also increases heart health, lowers stress, and helps your mental focus. The World Health Organization recommends that adults 18-64 years of age participate in over 150 minutes of physical activity weekly.

Start with a daily walk and work up to higher amounts of exercise and intensity. Moderate cardiovascular activity is essential to your heart health and requires you to consistently get your heart rate up to 60 – 80% of your maximum rate. If you are new to exercising, don’t stress, simply walking at a brisk rate should be enough for you to see the benefits.

The easiest way to determine your maximum heart rate is to subtract your current age from the number 220. Then, you can figure out your fat-burning zone from 60% to 80% of that maximum heart rate. 

After your workout, use our full spectrum anti-inflammatory oils or creams to help reduce soreness. Their anti-inflammatory properties can help shorten the recovery time following a workout. You’ll be ready to get back to the gym in no time!

2. Reduce Harmful Aspects of Your Diet

There are dozens of diet trends, and they change from year to year. You don’t have to get on board with anything drastic to make a healthy change in the New Year. Simply cutting down on sugar and salt can make a huge difference in your blood glucose levels and blood pressure. Minimizing your intake of processed foods and reducing saturated fats are also useful.

The most common foods that experts suggest to eliminate from your diet are:

• Refined Sugars/Candy – includes sugary drinks
• Salt
• Processed Foods/Prepackaged foods
• Dairy
• Fried Foods 

Whole grains are a higher quality carbohydrate that can replace low-quality carbohydrates like refined grains and potatoes. The increase in fiber that you get from whole grains helps you feel full and increases your metabolism. Increasing fruit and vegetable intake will also help reduce urges to eat other unhealthy food choices. 

In addition, preliminary research suggests that CBD may reduce food intake and boost metabolism, which promotes weight loss. Take a look at our kombucha, chemist formulated oils.

3. Sleep at Least 7 Hours a Day

Sleep is essential to allowing your body to repair and properly do the job it needs to do on a daily basis. Adequate sleep can help prevent excess weight gain, decrease heart disease risk factors and enable you to better deal with the stressors you face every day. The National Sleep Foundation recommends that adults get 7 – 9 hours of sleep. Going to sleep at the same time each evening and waking up at the same time every morning is also recommended.

Healthy brain function requires you to sleep, so if you struggle in this area it would be very beneficial to work on this in the New Year. CBD is the perfect addition to your nightly routine if you want to increase your sleep and are concerned about only using natural products. Here, at The Hemp Philosophy, we’ve curated specially formulated melatonin hybrid tinctures and gummies, to help you get a quality, deep sleep.

4. Practice Mindfulness

Mindfulness is a practice that helps to regulate your emotions. The individual focuses their attention on the present, muting inner thoughts about the past and future. 

This process can decrease stress, anxiety, and depression, as well as increase your focus and attention. The American Psychological Association even associates practicing mindfulness with boosting your working memory. Mindfulness helps reduce reactive emotions and enhances your overall wellness.

One of the most well-known ways to become more mindful is through meditation. Yet, you can also increase your mindfulness by practicing being fully present in situations, scheduling quiet time for yourself or simply journaling your thoughts. 

Additionally, CBD helps reduce anxiety and has calming effects, helping to put you into a meditative state. For your healthy lifestyle in 2020, find a way to practice mindfulness that benefits you. THP’s full spectrum oils, gummies, and smokables are the sure-fire solutions to all your worries. Try our products, and let us know how they helped you. We love hearing from our friends about all the ways that CBD has helped them.

5. Moderate Your Alcohol Consumption

High levels of alcohol use are associated with increased deaths around the world. Consumption of large amounts of alcohol increases the risk of disease, injuries, and can contribute to the cause of death for many people.

The Dietary Guidelines recommend that if alcohol is consumed, it should be in moderation—up to 1 drink per day for women and up to 2 drinks per day for men—and only by adults of legal drinking age. One alcohol unit is measured as 10ml or 8g of pure alcohol.

Substance abuse is a global epidemic, and the harmful use of alcohol is reported to lead to 3.3 million deaths per year. Reducing alcohol use to a moderate level is a healthy lifestyle tip that should be considered for the New Year.

6. Use Hemp-Infused Creams for Healthy Skin

The skin is the largest organ of your body, and it’s essential to take care of your skin.

Moisturizing with a hemp or CBD skincare product helps reduce the clogging of pores and minimizes fine lines. Because hemp oil contains gamma-linolenic acid (GLA), it also acts as an anti-inflammatory, which reduces puffiness and irritation in the skin. To maximize your skin appearance, you should also apply sunscreen daily.

7. Design Your Personal Diet

Take your health into your own hands this year and design the diet and fitness plan that’s right for you and your values.

Practice increasing your protein intake by adding hemp seeds to your smoothie. Decrease your carbon impact by switching to a vegetarian diet. Add more natural vitamins into your supplement regimen to feel healthier and more energized. This year is the time to design your health and diet plan to fit the positive goals you have for your year.

The Hemp Philosophy is here to help you transform your new year and fully immerse yourself in what is important to you. Using hemp-based supplements, oils and seeds is a natural way to boost your health this year. CBD-infused edibles such as health bars are also a great way to supplement your diet.

What matters to you in 2020 is what is most important when developing your New Year’s Resolutions. Use products that align with your vision and have a positive impact on the world. This is what The Hemp Philosophy is all about. 

Take a look at how you can incorporate our top-shelf CBD products into your everyday life and take the next step towards better health and wellness.