Healthy Dads is a site I've decided to create to give some advice to fathers about why they should strive to live a heathy life. Living a healthy life includes eating right to control your weight, cholesteral, and blood pressure, quitting bad habits, having a stable emotional well being and exercising properly. As fathers we owe it to our families to strive to be as healthy as possible in order to maintain our roles as head of the household. This site will be dedicated to ideas, tips and suggestions to help you along your journey to being a healthier Dad.
In order to be around for our kids when they need us the most we need to set a good example and encourage our children to live healthy lives. There are 3 basic things you should follow and teach your kids.
1. Eat Right - living healthy means eating right. insuring you get a good mix of all the required food groups. Watching what you eat and and if necessary following a wieght loss diet to get your weight under control. If you eat properly and set the example your children will follow your lead
2, Exercise on a daily basis - Keeping yourself physically fit will not only help control your weight but will improve your over all health and well being. It doesnt have to be strenous exercise but make it one that will get your heart rate pumping a bit. A good brisk walk, jog, bike ride or swim will do the trick. Take your kids along to set that desire to be physically fit in their minds. You might find this site usefule for additonal thoughts on exercise
3. Quit your bad habits. If you expect your children to live heathy lives by keeping physically fit, controlling their weight and eating right you'll need to quit smoking, dont drink excessively, stop being a coach potato and lead by example. If your having trouble quitting smoking, drinking or need tips on weight loss you should spend some time talking with your doctor and reviewing the many informative health related websites that the internet has to provide