Happy Days are Here again, for Twin Cities

                           The willpower to attain success can turn the world upside down. The latest example is of Minneapolis-St. Paul, the top ranking healthy living city in US. This is a remarkable achievement, and it’s not a mere one or two, it’s a complete city effort. Fitness index are of the opinion that residents have made it possible with increased exercises and less smoking, compared to other US cities.

                           This secret was evaluated by the American College of Sports medicine (ACSM) wherein, every year they make an attempt by ranking 50 healthiest and fittest metropolitan cities within US. This survey is carried out on the basis of American Fitness Index (AFI). Anti-smoking approach contributes a big way in grabbing the seats by Twin cities overcoming Washington DC, in the 2011. However, the high scores of cities are also majorly impacted by the rates of people suffering from chronic illnesses like diabetes, heart disease, asthma, obesity etc.

                           When Minneapolis-St. Paul is concerned, the area of the city in more accumulated by parks and gardens, which was a major element benefitting the city to speed up the scores. In the past years, majority of the market share was accumulated by farmers. This trend have shifted people’s attitude towards healthy living with a positive approach or involving in organics. However, cities like Tenn., Oklahoma, Louisville, Memphis and Ken. ranked amongst the lowest. However, when it is area oriented, every city has is strengths and weaknesses that would contribute a major share in getting or diminishing the numbers.

To Attain Healthy Lifestyle is Simpler

                                                            Healthy lifestyle can be attained with a proper living, healthy eating and proper exercise is the basic requirement to experience a rejuvenated and complete life. Also, a healthy living is categorized by maintaining a complete Healthy Diet that includes the essential foods and nutrients. It is also important to make life much easier, by warding off the unhealthy habits of smoking and addiction to alcoholic beverages and hallucinating drugs. Adding huge number of healthy servings with including fruits, salads, cereals, and fibrous foods would make you stronger and healthier. 

                                                            Drinking adequate amount of water is very essential. This helps in avoided dehydration and maintaining moisture levels in the body. However, lack of physical activities is also the basic thing that would leave a major impact on the overall health. Exercising keeps us flexible and also helps in maintaining complete body temperature. Just gardening, brisk walking, dancing and normal stretches would do a major difference. By simply adding a little movement in your life, you get the powers to reduce the risks of heart diseases, stroke, and diabetes, improve joint stability, and help maintain flexibility, prevent the consequences of fractures and osteoporosis, reduce the symptoms of anxiety and depression and will also help in boosting your self esteem.

                                                            These physical exertions will not only help in reducing stress but will also improve your approach towards healthy living. When eating healthy food is concerned, major alteration should be switching to healthy living. Junk, canned and preserved foods should be avoided. Also, major emphasis should be on consuming salads and fruits that give you raw nutrition.

Drugstores Affected by Health Care Cost Cutting

                                 The Health care industry has not been making any progress and there seems to be a sense of stagnancy around. Medical experts and researchers have forecasted that the consumption levels of prescription drugs are likely to rise in the coming few years because of rapid popularization and smart marketing and advertising. But more and more number of people are now becoming skeptic to use drugs for their problems and they don’t even want to visit a hospital anymore. They would wish to go for either alternative treatment or home care, which they feel is much better.

                                 Besides that, the government wants to cut costs for the health care in a big way and this is affecting the pharmacists as well as the consumers. The insurance companies are trying their level best to control these new moves made by the government. Due to this, the overall turnover the large pharmacies are reducing and their profits are also dwindling. The medicine world is very competitive right now and the overall sales are not looking very good. The price of the Generic drugs has already fallen and now it has been estimated that by next year, the prices of branded drugs will also see a downfall. People now tend to buy more over-the-counter medicines and the branded drug preference is reducing. Cutting health care costs is not the solution.