Top 10 healthy habits to lead a better life:
1. Exercise.
Exercising has both short-term and long-term benefits. Right away, it can improve your mood, reduce stress, and even make your brain work better. Over time, exercise can prevent health problems ranging from obesity and diabetes to heart disease and even cancer.
2. Eat a healthy breakfast.
Preferably with protein, within 90 minutes of waking-up. This starts your metabolism for the day and also prevents you from getting too hungry and overeating later in the day.

3. Eat five servings of fruits and vegetables a day.
One serving equals a 1/2 cup of cooked vegetables or a full cup of raw or leafy vegetables or one small whole fruit.

4. Avoid trans fats.
Trans fats are found mostly in processed foods, so if the list of ingredients includes the word, “hydrogenated,” stay away.
5. Eat good fats.
Omega-3s are found in foods like fish, especially salmon, sardines, and fish oil supplements. Other choices include walnuts, almonds, and flaxseed. These have been shown to reduce the risk of heart disease, improve your immunity, and reduce inflammation.

6. Avoid sugar.
This is one of the toughest. Its negative laundry list runs from obesity to diabetes to heart disease and cancer.

The average American consumes 135 pounds of sugar a year, compared with 109 pounds 20 years ago and only five pounds in the late 1800s!
7. Cleanse your hands often.
Eating right and exercising aren’t the only habits that keep you healthy. Did you know the best way to avoid getting sick is to keep your hands clean?

When using hand santitizer, make sure it’s at least 60 percent alcohol, get in all those nooks and crannies, and rub your hands until they’re dry. When using soap and water, lather-up for a full 20 seconds.

8. Practice good dental health.
Believe it or not, periodontal infection contributes to heart disease, diabetes, and even premature, underweight births.

9. Get regular screening.
The type of screenings you need depend on your age and gender, so consult with your doctor about which ones you need.

Some of the most important ones include an annual physical, blood pressure, and cholesterol test, colonoscopy, mammogram, pap test, and prostate and skin cancer screening.

10. Get enough sleep.
According to Dr. James Maas, author of Sleep For Success, if you don’t get your ZZZs, you’re setting yourself up for a whole host of health problems.

“You’re going to be irritable, anxious, depressed,” he said, “You’re going to gain weight, you have a greater risk for hypertension, that’s heart attacks and strokes, type 2 diabetes, obesity, skin problems and cancer.”