Healthy Lifestyle
Living a healthy lifestyle can improve the way you feel and lead to a healthier, longer life. Healthy choices like regular exercise, balanced diet, and stress management can have a significant impact on disease prevention, increased energy, maintaining a healthy weight, mental health, and longevity.
How the Food You Eat Affects Your Brain
Have you thought about how the food you eat affect your brain and body function? This video gives a great overview of what types of foods can help to optimize your energy and support continuing brain development.
Cook Together
Ever wanted to cook alongside a professional chef? Here's a chance to learn the best techniques in a fully interactive experience that moves at your pace and adapts to your food preferences. You choose the ingredients, increase the serving sizes and get extra help whenever you need it.
USDA - Choose My Plate
MyPlate offers ideas and tips to help you create a healthier eating style that meets your individual needs and improves your health.
How to Gain Control of Your Free Time
Time management is something that a lot of us talk about. If only we could manage our time better we would get more things done! So what's the best way to manage our time? Create a schedule? Use a fancy calendar? You may have tried a lot of different things. Watch this TEDTalk and see if you have any new thoughts on time management.
Health Benefits of Exercise
Regular exercise can improve your muscle strength and boost your endurance. Physical activity delivers oxygen and nutrients to your tissues and helps your cardiovascular system work more efficiently...and when your heart and lung health improve, you have more energy to tackle daily chores.
Sleep Routines
A good sleep routine can improve your sleep health:
Go to bed at the same time each night and get up at the same time each morning, including on the weekends.
Make sure your bedroom is quiet, dark, relaxing, and at a comfortable temperature.
Remove electronic devices, such as TVs, computers, and smart phones, from the sleeping area.
Avoid large meals or caffeine before bedtime
Exercise. Being physically active during the day can help you fall asleep more easily at night.
Why Get Up Early?
Getting enough sleep can increase your blood pressure, immune system response, basic brain functions, and assist your daily moods. Waking up early will make going to bed early easier. Keeping consistent sleep and wake routines times will help regulate your circadian rhythm and lead to better overall health.