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Increase Your Chance of Living Longer

Staying healthy is essential in order to live out a long, productive and enjoyable life. With aging and rising rates of chronic diseases, obesity, infections, nutrient deficiencies, mental problems, pollution, stress levels, problems in personal and social relationships, and many other factors that influence our wellness, it is very hard to stay healthy and live productive and enjoyable life. The good news is you are in charge of your health and your wellness. By making positive choices, large and small, you help ensure a lifetime of wellness. Health related quality of life reflects your personal sense of physical and mental health and the ability to react to factors in the physical and social environments.

YOU HAVE ABILITY TO ACHIEVE A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE AND INCREASE OUR CHANCE OF LIVING LONGER.

Although heredity, environment, and health care all play important roles in wellness and disease, your behavior can mitigate their effects.

Take an Active Responsible Role in Your Health and Wellness

Try to increase your motivation for lifestyle and behavior changes by examining the benefits and cost of change, boosting self-efficiacy, and identifying and overcoming key barriers to change.

For example:

If you want to make lifestyle changes you need information about yourself, your health situation and health habits, and resources available to help you change.

To start and maintain a behavior change you need commitment, a well-developed plan, social support, and a system of rewards.

Start a health journal and use it to track your behavior, your emotions, and other factors related to your wellness.

Create a family health history to help you identify common diseases that may run in your family. Once developed, you can share information with your health care provider.

Locate local community resources to help you support your efforts at change (like stress management workshops, stop-smoking programs, free fitness facilities etc).


Did You Know?

BREAKFAST IS IMPORTANT - Make breakfast your power booster, it really is the most important meal of the day. Breakfast boost your brain power, lifts your mood, keeps you slim and takes only ten minutes a day. Researchers have found that the overnight fast leaves your brain starved. If your glucose levels are not boosted in the morning by an intake of food, certain brain functions can be adversely affected, most notably your memory. Breakfast eaters are greater in verbal fluency, are better able to recall and use new information. They are more sociable, outgoing and alert. Children should be encouraged to eat something before leaving home in the morning, even something as simple as a glass of orange juice or fruit shake.
HEALTFUL DIET - A healthful diet rich in fruits and vegetables, might prevent high blood pressure in the first place and thus avoid the need to take medication.
DON'T FEEL GUILTY - According to the conclusion of a study conducted in London England, people who felt guilty about eating a given food were more likely to eat more of that food than those who ate what they liked. It also showed that people who get great pleasure from food and love to eat appear to have a higher sex drive than those who pick at their food and feel guilty about eating too much.
DEHYDRATION - Make sure you drink eight to ten glasses of water a day, more if you exercise heavily. Don't wait until you feel thirsty. Once you feel thirsty, you've already begun to lose a significant amount of fluid. As your fluid level decreases, you'll start to notice a decline in physical performance.
TOO MANY CARBOHYDRATES - Try to make sure your meals contain a balance of carbohydrates and protein. If you eat lunches that are high in carbohydrates but low in protein, you may find yourself feeling tired in the afternoon.That is because carbohydrates increase the brain's production of the calming chemical serotonin. Research suggests that protein, by limiting serotonin production, can offset carbohydrate induced sleepiness and help you to avoid those mid afternoon slumps.
BIOLOGICAL CLOCK - Don't try to catch up on your sleep during the weekends by sleeping late. Instead catch up on weekends by going to bed early. We all have a biological clock that determines when we are alert and when we are sleepy. When you wake up every morning at six or seven but sleep until noon on weekends, you can upset your biological clock and end up feeling even more fatigued.
COLORS - To feel better and stimulated add warm colours to your environment such as orange, yellow or red. Surrounding yourself with nothing but sombre colours can make you feel depressed and fatigued.
VISION - Vision problems can hamper concentration and may cause fatigue. If you are having a hard time focusing, leaning forward into the computer screen or hunching over your desk, have your vision checked.
TASTE BUDS - Contrary to previously held beliefs, the number of taste buds does not decrease in old age. Desensitivity, however, can occur as a result of illness, medication, or zinc deficiency, but it is reversible.

Learn More:

Protect Your Health
Feel Better & Stay Healthy
Proper Nutrition
Cholesterol and You
About Fats
Arthritis
Diabetes
Coenzyme Q10
CVD Disease Risk Factors
Alcoholism & Treatments


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