Living a healthier life is a focus for many of us, and there are many ways that you can ensure you lead the healthiest life possible. In fact, here are 5 tips to living a healthier life that you might choose to implement in your life.

1. Choose your family – You can’t control how your family acts or the baggage they come with. They might be physically dangerous, emotionally harmful, or toxic in a number of other ways. This toxicity has been shown to put you at risk of dying younger. The good news is that you can have a supportive family. You just create your own extended family through friends and older people you know that can take on the role of parents or grandparents. Rather than putting up with the negativity of your blood family, create your own family.

2. Have a person you can confide in – You do not need hundreds of friends. Research has shown you just need one friend you can trust that you can confide in if you want to recover quicker from illness or live longer. Having social support in your life is important. 

3. Take back control of your life – There are tons of things in your life that you have absolutely no control over. But the key to healthy living is to focus on how you react to what you can change and what you can’t change. Have the wherewithal to accept what you can’t change, and the courage to change what you can. It will reduce the stress in your life.

4. Make proper sleep a priority – Getting the proper sleep is very important to your physical and mental well being. A healthy number of hours to sleep is between seven and nine hours every night. Anything less puts your health at risk. 

5. Eat nutritious meals – eating healthy foods regularly is very important. Many experts believe that diets or restricting how much food you eat actually are responsible for triggering a number of eating disorders. Instead, just make healthy eating choices, eat the right amount of calories based on the calories you burn, and then stick to them every day so your body becomes accustomed to them and does not go into starvation mode, and 

There you have it – five great tips to living a healthier life and enjoying longevity. Why not implement them today?