Category Archives: Healthy living

Walk Briskly to Better Health

Walk Briskly to Better Health
Reduce your risk of mortality, type 2 diabetes, depression, and bone loss Slow your rate of biological aging and reduce craving for sugary snacks Walking is one of the most accessible forms of physical activity. Be honest with yourself: Wouldn’t it be possible, and perhaps even enjoyable, to take a 22-minute walk every day? If…
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Weight Gain During Adulthood

Weight Gain During Adulthood
American adults gain lots of weight over time Weight gain predicts poor health outcomes Has the weight gain of American adults increased the prevalence of obesity over the first 18 years of the 21st Century? Researchers at the National Center for Health Statistics used data from nine waves of the nationally representative National Health and…
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Understanding and Reducing Loneliness

Understanding and Reducing Loneliness
Loneliness is feeling You can avoid loneliness with social connections Loneliness refers to the discrepancy between expected and actual social relationships. Loneliness is a subjective feeling, while social isolation reflects to objective scarcity or absence of members of a social network. While similar, loneliness and social isolation can lead to different poor health outcomes. The…
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Flourishing

Flourishing
Flourishing reflects human self-actualization Six domains of flourishing Positive psychology researcher Martin Seligman’s book, Flourish, provides a broader context for desirable outcomes such as happiness and life satisfaction. According to Seligman, people flourish when their lives have three core features (positive emotions, engagement and interest in life, and purpose and meaning in life), as well…
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