The Importance of a Healthy Mind for a Healthy Body

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The Importance of a Healthy Mind for a Healthy
Body
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• Eating our five a day is something that is
  drummed into us from childhood, and most of us
  are familiar with the premise that eating at
  least five pieces of fruit or vegetable every
  day, helps to keep us in good shape. While the
  exact number of fruits and vegetables we should
  consume daily may be difficult to prove
  scientifically, it cannot be disputed that eating
  healthily helps to minimise our trips to the
  doctor.
• But what about keeping a healthy mind? Is that as
  important, and if so, how do we achieve this?

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• Eating healthily to think healthily
• The Mental Health Foundation suggests that a good
  diet is vital for our mental health, and that
  diet can play a significant role in the
  development, management and prevention, of many
  conditions, such as Schizophrenia, depression,
  ADHD and Alzheimers disease.
• A healthy and balanced diet may not necessarily
  be able to control these conditions, or cure
  them, but managing them may well be made easier.
  Consuming a good balance of fats, carbohydrates,
  proteins, vitamins and minerals, is giving your
  mind the best chance to be healthy, and the rest
  is up to you.

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• An active mind
• Brain degeneration is a hot potato in the medical
  and scientific world, and there have been many
  discussions and scientific experiments conducted
  to try and see if its at all possible to
  overcome conditions like Alzheimers disease and
  Dementia. Research is ongoing, and the results
  are inconclusive, but there are other reasons to
  try and keep your mind active.
• As our minds are shaped by everything that we
  see, hear, feel and think, we can choose what we
  feed into our mind, in the same way that we
  choose what to feed our stomachs.

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• Choosing what your mind consumes is sometimes
  referred to as a mind diet, and certain diets
  can help to keep your mind healthy and avoid
  negative thoughts and feelings, that often have
  an impact on our physical health, too.
• There are some questions that we should ask
  ourselves regularly, to establish just how
  healthy our minds are keeping, and some of these
  include the following
• Is my mind diet good enough? Am I balancing my
  thoughts or are they tending towards negativity?
  Do I need to focus more on what I feed my mind?

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• Can I distinguish between feeding junk food to
  my mind, and feeding it healthy food?
• Is my mind and the way I think about things,
  having a negative effect on me as a person? This
  may be a good time to speak to friends and family
  members that you trust, and ask them if your
  behaviour and reactions appear balanced to them.
• Maintaining your mental health
• There are many things we can do ourselves to help
  prevent our minds from becoming sick though, just
  as there are best practices for maintaining a
  healthy mind, such as the points mentioned above.

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• Eating healthily, taking regular physical
  exercise and mental exercise, are all simple
  things that we can all do to stay in good shape
  mentally and physically.
• Many of us suffer from poor physical health at
  some point in our lives, and the same can
  probably be said for poor mental health, too.
  Consulting a doctor when you are physically sick
  or injured is automatic, but we are often not so
  quick to seek medical help if we feel that our
  minds are suffering in some way. But, we should
  be.

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