Stodgy and starchy food was the main ingredient into diets and this has caused a lot of obesity and heart disease for these people later on in their life.

Smoking was also the latest craze in the 50’s whereby people did not have the knowledge of what powerful harm it could do to their bodies and so people smoked from early ages and normally carried on through their lives.

It was only some years later that with much research, we are now being told how much damage smoking can do to our lungs and other organs and if young children were shown photographs of how a person’s lungs can look after years of smoking then there could be a drastic reduction in the number of young people taking up smoking.

Alcohol taken in excess can also have a devastating effect on our health with some ailments caused by excessive intake of alcohol being irreversible.

It is never too late however, to change your lifestyle for a much healthier one, even if you have had 40 or 50 years of unhealthy living, there are measures you can take in order to reverse some of the damage.

What can you do to Change your Lifestyle?

  By cutting down on certain foods or even cutting them out all together will greatly benefit your health, and introducing healthier foods into your diet such as vegetables and fruit will allow you to see and feel the benefit within your body.

You may have been smoking for years but you can stop, with some willpower and of course there are medications available today that can help people who are really struggling to stop this bad habit.

Reducing your alcohol intake or even cutting it out all together will help your body repair itself, your liver is the main organ to be effected by excessive alcohol and providing it has not become too damaged there is a chance that you liver can become a lot healthier again. Also good teethcare can result in a healthy mind plus a healthy body.

Exercise is another plus and depending on your age you may wish to discuss with your doctor, especially if you have had health problems, as to which exercise he would recommend that you do, there are so many types of exercise that people with lots of health problems can still undertake safely and providing you do not over exercise in the beginning and build up sensibly then the benefits and rewards will be fantastic.

As you can see, it is never too late to change your lifestyle and no matter what age you are, you will definitely feel and see the benefits of adopting a healthier lifestyle and will more than likely add a few years on to your life.