How are Diet, Exercise, and Mental Health All Tied Together?

Diet, exercise, and mental health equally contribute to overall health, wellness, and wellbeing.

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Mental health gets too little attention.

Because we treat mental and emotional health as secondary and less important than physical health, they’re easily neglected. The irony to this, though, is the huge amount of importance mental and emotional health play in physical health.

If you break down wellness and wellbeing into physical health, mental health, emotional health, and spiritual health, it’s much easier to see the need to balance all. Why? Because the physical — which gets most of our attention when it comes to health — is only a quarter of the full picture.

Inside your physical body are your mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects. Thus, when they suffer, eventually physical suffering will result, too.

Maintaining a proper diet and sufficient exercise isn’t just a physical act. It requires will, too. Ergo — mental, emotional, and spiritual health.

Let’s explore further how they’re all tied together.

Diet and exercise aren’t just physical