​Living a healthy life doesn’t mean you have to make major changes to your day to day or start drinking green smoothies or even join a CrossFit gym. Healthy living simply means incorporating healthy habits into your daily life. These will differ from person to person based on someone’s current habits. Try integrating any of the following 5 items to help you lead a more balanced energized life.

Mindful meditation is meant to help you to focus on your present setting and state of mind. Studies have shown that when you train your brain to be mindful, it reworks its physical structure resulting in improved cognitive functioning.
 
This can take as little as 5 minutes of your time, FIVE MINUTES! Here is how to start:

• Find a comfortable spot to sit, preferably in a room with no distractions, the lights on or in natural lighting.
• Straighten your upper body.
• Notice what your arms and legs are doing and don’t stiffen.
• Feel your breath.
• Notice when your mind wanders and try focusing on your breath again.

​A few years back, the World Congress of Cardiology staged a remarkable debate that illustrates the extent that expert recommendations can differ at the foremost edge of scientific research. On one side of the stage was McMaster University’s Dr. Salim Yusuf, who had co-authored a study on sodium consumption that found that too little salt can be almost as dangerous as too much. Opposing Dr. Yusuf was the University of Sydney’s Dr. Bruce Neal, a salt outlier who argued that we should all eat less than 2,300 mg of sodium per day—far below average.