Check your biggest muscle – your brain
AYOUB ANSARI
Sun Media
Signed up at the local gym for the year-long membership as a way of insuring a healthy lifestyle?
But still no hope. No change in your BMI. The played-out excuse: Too busy.
Researchers released a report stating that the main obstacle in living a healthy lifestyle is not time: It is perception.
If you believe you can live an active lifestyle, you will certainly do.
“People who have higher physical activity self-efficacy will perceive fewer barriers to physical acivity, or be less influenced by them, and will be more likely to enjoy physical activity,” the report states. The data was collected through a national telephone interview of 5,167 Canadians randomly selected between the ages of 15 and 79.
BMC Public Health released the report this month.
