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Small Lifestyle Changes Improve Mental Health in Teenagers

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Judging by recent headlines and policy ideas, you might think screen time is the only lifestyle behavior influencing teen well-being. But with young people struggling to deal with mounting mental health issues, it’s crucial we don’t get tunnel vision and instead remember all the lifestyle levers that can play a role. Our research, published recently, […]

What’s The Best Diet for Healthy Sleep?

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You probably already know that how you eat before bed affects your sleep. Maybe you’ve found yourself still lying awake at 2 a.m. after enjoying a cup of coffee with dessert. But did you know that your eating choices throughout the day may also affect your sleep at night? In fact, more and more evidence […]

Live Better and Longer

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Dinner is served. Grandmother Sally, alert and happy, is facing her first meal in some time in her son’s California ranch-style home. Her son Clyde is a comfortably fixed dairy cattleman who loves his wife Lela’s cooking a bit too much -– Uncle Clyde believes in eating generously. His trim mother Sally, daughter of a […]

Benefits of Lowering Blood Pressure Naturally

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By causing a sharp increase in the risk of heart attack, heart failure, stroke, and kidney failure, high blood pressure seriously damages the heart and arteries. A blood pressure of 120/80 to 139/89 mm Hg is in the normal-to-slightly high range and should be monitored once a year to make sure that it is consistent. […]

Better Sleep Can Protect Against Dementia

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Dementia is a progressive loss of cognitive abilities, such as memory, that is significant enough to have an impact on a person’s daily activities. It can be caused by a number of different diseases, including Alzheimer’s, which is the most common form. Dementia is caused by a loss of neurons over a long period of […]

Water Helps to Relief Anxiety

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Many can feel overwhelmed at some stage of their life with feelings of tension, nervousness and fear for the worst. In a 2020 Survey, 62% reported having some degree of anxiety, and around 31% will experience an anxiety disorder in some point in their life. The growing field of nutritional psychiatry focuses on the effects […]

Healthy Weight Helps

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Cindy had many challenges in her life. She made a positive choice to quit smoking but then gained 80 pounds. “I felt miserable and had a terrible self-image. I was plagued by headaches and stomach pain. I decided that it was time to change my attitude, my thinking, and my choices to turn my life […]

Changing Bad Habits — for Good!

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Habits — we all have them.  American author Elbert Hubbard said: “Habit is the great economizer of energy.” He was exactly right.  Habits are our friends — when they’re good ones. Habits are routines that help us repeat safe and effective behaviors and build consistency and security into our lives.  But bad habits can become […]