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50 Ideas for a Healthy Lifestyle that take 10 Minutes or …

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What is a Healthy Lifestyle?

According to a study by Michigan State University, a healthy lifestyle is defined by four basic criteria:

Of the 153,000 respondents, only 3% participated in all four of what are termed healthy lifestyle characteristics.

We have millions of people now going through adult life leading unhealthy lifestyles and a medical system that can treat illnesses and keep you alive longer than ever before, said Mathew Reeves, a Michigan State University epidemiologist. If we dont turn this around, the costs to society are going to be crippling.

What can be done to help people change?

Everyone talks about achieving it, but most people have plenty of excuses as to why they cant, wont, or dont want to change their current status. The most common excuse people make for not trying to have a healthy lifestyle is a lack of time.

Yes Dorothy, excuses are real and they are contagious.

Time and health always seem to be at odds with each other. We have time to work, time to commute, time for our business associates, but very little time to spend on ourselves, people we love, or even random people who deserve our attention.

What can you do in 10 minutes or less? More than you think. In a brief 10 minute window you can release tension, prevent future frustrations, get your blood flowing, etc. In fact, here are 50 things you can do. With time out as an excuse, what are you going to begin doing differently tomorrow? I dont care what it is, the point is, just do something!

Here are some ideas. If you have other thoughts, leave them in the comments!

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Healthy Lifestyle Key to NCD Prevention

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BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN: Health service providers are urged to be prepared in meeting health challenges. They must not only ensure the continuous better health care and well-being of the people, but more importantly, strive to improve the services, clinical procedures and also management, said the Minister of Health yesterday during the Inaugural of the Brunei Darussalam Cardiac Society and the Cardiology Symposium.

In his address, Yang Berhormat Pehin Orang Kaya Johan Pahlawan Dato Seri Setia Awg Hj Adanan Begawan Pehin Siraja Khatib Dato Seri Setia Awg Hj Md Yusof said cardiovascular and other non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Yang Berhormat Pehin explained that most NCDs can be prevented by means of early detection of risk factors and adopting healthy lifestyle.

In this regard, he said his Ministry is working relentlessly to promote awareness and understanding about the importance of health care measures through prevention and control of chronic diseases as well as NCD's, through various healthy lifestyle programme being held from time to time.

Yang Berhormat Pehin added, the cardiology services have been expanding over the years and the quality of service has improved tremendously. Advanced cardiac procedures are already performed in the country.

Meanwhile, the Brunei Darussalam Cardiac Society was formed early this year, bringing together international speakers from across ASEAN to give lectures on various important cardiology related topics.

The objectives of the Society were to advance the science and art of cardiology in Brunei, and to achieve international standards of best practice for cardiology. It also promotes education, research and training in cardiology and related disciplines to enhance the professional status of cardiology, advocate high standards of practice and professional conduct.

The function saw the presentation of the Cardiac Society Awards to experts who have made contributions to cardiology services in the country. More than two hundred and fifty participants attended the two-day symposium.

Meanwhile in a media conference, the President of the Brunei Darussalam Cardiac Society said that the groups existence has helped to raise awareness on cardiac diseases. In the conference, Dato Dr Isham Jaafar also stressed that the cardiac society also acts as a guide in improving cardiology practises in the country and related disciplines apart from responding to the titah made by His Majesty the Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Muizzaddin Waddaulah, the Sultan and the Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam in relation to the issue.

The Brunei Darussalam Cardiac Society was endorsed by the Registrar of Associations early this year and has more than sixty members including doctors, nurses and allied professionals in the field. The association's objective is to improve cardiovascular health which can only be achieved through education, research, quality control and knowledge sharing especially among ASEAN member nations.

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Healthy Fontana program receives donation during Doctors Day presentation

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In honor of National Doctors Day, Southern California Permanente Medical Group (SCPMG) recently announced two significant donations in San Bernardino County.

The first donation is that of time -- more than 3,000 volunteer hours donated by SCPMG physicians to local community clinics since 2010. What began as a few physicians volunteering at one clinic that year has evolved into more than 30 physicians volunteering at five local safety net clinics providing free medical care to more than 2,700 underserved and uninsured patients in San Bernardino County. The physicians now regularly volunteer at Kids Come First Community Health Center in Ontario, Bloomington Community Health Center in Bloomington, and H Street Clinic and Al-Shifa Clinic in San Bernardino.

The second is a monetary donation to two local non-profit community organizations -- one for $4,000 to Healthy Fontana and the other for $2,500 to Healthy in Pomona.

Healthy Fontana will use the funds for its Lets Get Fit on the Trail program. The donation will fund outdoor physical fitness equipment to be placed along the Pacific Electric Trail in Fontana, between Sierra and Cypress avenues.

The mission of the Healthy Fontana program is to promote a healthy lifestyle, teach smart nutrition choices, and work toward the creation of an active, livable community to improve the quality of life for Fontana residents.

Healthy Fontana aims to improve the overall health of all Fontana residents; however, the program makes an effort to ensure that the city's most underserved populations, including those which are low-income and at higher risk for experiencing health problems, receive the services they need to improve their quality of life.

This donation aims to help children, adults, and seniors increase their physical activity in a fun and safe way.

Southern California Permanente Medical Group physicians are committed to creating healthier communities, said Dr. David Quam, area medical director and chief of staff. We seek ways to make a positive impact on local organizations that promote active living. These donations are gifts from all of our exceptionally caring doctors to the members of our communities.

Physician volunteers were also recognized at the Doctors Day events. The Physician Volunteer Engagement Program supports Kaiser Permanentes social mission of caring for the communities it serves, and is led by Michael Takehara, MD, assistant area medical director. It is part of the medical centers Community Benefit program, which supports the Safety Net of nonprofit community clinics throughout San Bernardino County. The Physician Volunteer Engagement Program augments the clinics primary care, and provides specialty care in the fields of dermatology, nephrology, orthopedics, rheumatology, physical medicine, facial and plastic surgery, psychiatry and neurology in addition to health education and advice.

This is the second year in a row that SCPMG physicians in San Bernardino County have made major donations on National Doctors Day. Last year, donations totaling $5,000 were made to the Ontario Wheelhouse and Redlands Bike BBQ, both non-profit organizations which support cycling.

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CADA Launches new Committed Campaign, encouraging teens to be substance free.

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March 2014 The Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse has launched a new student led campaign supporting teens committed to a healthy lifestyle by staying alcohol and drug free. The Committed Campaign replaces Free for the Weekend and signifies a shift by CADA to engage both teens and their parents in the fight against substanceabuse.

Students in CADAs Friday Night Live, a youth leadership program, came up with the Committed name and designed the wristbands, underwritten by Union Bank. Alondra Broeffle, a member of Friday Night Live, says wearing the wristbands represents, that we dont have to do drugs and alcohol to have fun. The group believes there are plenty of other options for having a good time. Breana Jimenez explains, We love going to the beach, hiking, or really just hanging with friends and doing nothing, andNetflix!

Others in the group have had personal experiences with alcohol and drug abuse. One teen says her older brother was arrested and sent to a treatment program for substance abuse. She says as a result, I learned what I didnt want to do by watching my brother. Also, I didnt want my parents toworry.

Student leaders will launch the campaign in local schools beginning April 7th and plan to distribute over five-thousand Committed wristbands to their peers. Youth-led classroom presentations will engage hundreds of students in conversation about the risks associated with underage drinking and substance use while lunchtime activities and pledging will highlight the benefits of committing to a healthy lifestyle. Parents are also encouraged to participate in the Committed Campaign by signing a parent-pledge available on the CADAwebsite.

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How IBM Is Using Nanotechnology To Tackle MRSA And HIV

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While giving a talk at a conference in Australia in the mid-2000s, IBM Research's lead scientist for the advanced organic materials group, James Hedrick, had an encounter that would make him rethink his career. At one point, Hedrick--who holds more than 100patents--took a question from a woman in the audience. It wasn't what he was expecting. "Why are you wasting your time with all this electronics stuff?" asked Dr. Yi Yan Yang, who works at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology in Singapore. "You need to work with me." That evening, Yang filled Hedrick in on how she was using high-tech nanomaterials for medical purposes. "She was absolutely right," Hedrick recalls. "I was wasting time doing just semiconductors."

The result was IBM's unusual nanomedicine program, an ongoing collaboration between Hedrick's team at the Almaden, Californiabased IBM Research and Yang's group of researchers in Singapore. The project is tackling a range of ambitious projects: creating better antimicrobial and antifungal agents, new methods of drug delivery, and novel ways of combating such diseases as HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis. It may seem strange that computer-hardware giant IBM is pouring resources into experimental nanomedicine, but it's part of a larger trend within the company. "There is a huge group of IBMers who think we should be using our intellectual know-how to address global problems," says Spike Narayan, director of IBM Research's science and technology group. "As we've pushed the boundaries and engaged with other disciplines, we've found that some of our capabilities in materials and nanotechnology are very relevant in addressing challenges related to water, energy, the environment, and health care. That's the motivation."

Although it has yet to yield a commercial product (Narayan says several joint ventures are in the works), the program also makes sense from a business perspective. Even as the price of computing power keeps falling for consumers, R&D and manufacturing costs are steadily increasing for semiconductor producers. That's squeezing profits: Between 2000 and 2012, IBM's hardware business went from contributing 35% of the company's pretax income to just 14%. Perhaps that's why in February 2014, Big Blue reportedly hired Goldman Sachs to explore a potential sale of its semiconductor operation. New areas such as nanomedicine could offer a way for IBM to continue profiting from its cutting-edge research in nanomaterials even if it does get out of semiconductors. "Now we have an ITcentric focus," says Narayan, "but there's no reason we couldn't be more materials-focused, providing enabling technology for other companies."

The nanomedicine group's first big breakthrough was the creation of polymer-based nanoparticles that can target and kill MRSA, a potentially deadly drug-resistant bacterium. The nanoparticles engineered by the IBMSingapore team--dubbed "ninja particles"--use electrostatic attraction to target infected cells. Because the polymers used to create ninja particles are biodegradable, they pass out of the body once they've done their job. While the particles haven't yet been submitted for FDA approval, IBM is working with pharmaceutical, consumer-products, and medical-device companies to explore applications.

In the past year, the pace of innovation has accelerated. The Hedrick-Yang group published a paper in December that describes a method for breaking down PET--the stuff plastic bottles are made of--and reconstructing it into a nanofiber that can kill fungal infections on contact. In the lab, these nanofibers were more effective in fewer doses than conventional antifungal drugs, in addition to being nontoxic and biodegradable. Since the polymers used in both chip manufacture and nanomedicine are generally derived from petroleum, the ability to instead start from recycled material could reduce industrial consumption of oil and gas while providing a new use for plastic waste.

Hedrick and his partners have also made headway in drug delivery, coaxing nanoparticles to self-assemble into a gel-like material that can encapsulate molecules of a drug and release them at a particular location in the body over an extended period of time. When the Singapore team encapsulated the breast cancer drug Herceptin into the hydrogel and injected it into animals, their tumors shrank more than 75%, and the drug remained active and effective in the bloodstream for a month after a single injection. Tumors in animals given a regular IV injection of the drug didn't shrink at all, according to results published in November 2013.

Potential medical and consumer applications for materials coming out of the nanomedicine program are practically limitless: they could be injected; applied as a topical gel to treat wounds and infections; included in products such as soap, hand sanitizer, and shampoo; or applied as a germ-fighting coating on everything from medical devices to cutting boards and toothbrushes. Before they can be commercialized, all of these products will require approval by either the EPA or FDA, so rather than bring products to market on its own, IBM will aim to collaborate with partners that have more regulatory and manufacturing expertise. "Increasingly, in these nontraditional, interdisciplinary spaces, no one has all the capabilities," says Narayan. "As we jointly develop [intellectual property], there will be all kinds of royalty and other revenue streams coming out." The first product to make it out of the lab will most likely be an antimicrobial material to clean surfaces in hospitals.

For Hedrick, pivoting from his comfort zone in silicon hardware has been a learning process. "When I first started this, we went to some major pharma companies, and I got my backside handed to me pretty quick," he says. "Now I feel very comfortable going into a room with scientists and executives and rattling off proteins and numbers and names. A lot of the time [when he's not in meetings], though--I kid you not--I have Wikipedia open on my phone."

Inspired in part by the recent launch of an IBM Research lab in Africa, Hedrick is excited about deploying nanomaterials to fight illnesses that disproportionately afflict the region, including tuberculosis, dengue fever, and HIV. He also hopes to look at ways to use nanocontainers to deliver drugs across the blood-brain barrier--a major challenge in treating conditions such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. "Even three years ago, I would have been surprised by what we've been able to accomplish so far," he says. "IBM Research has given us significant latitude and freedom. Because they've always kept the lights on, we're able to address these grand challenges in a unique way."

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A Good Dose Of Morning Sunlight Keeps Off The Pounds: Study

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April 3, 2014

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com Your Universe Online

By most accounts, a healthy lifestyle should include a balanced diet, regular exercise, and according to a new study published in the journal PLOS ONE a long dose of bright light in the morning.

In the study, researchers from Northwestern University found that the time, strength and duration of light exposure is directly linked to body mass index (BMI), even after considering confounding factors.

The earlier this light exposure occurred during the day, the lower individuals body mass index, said study author Kathryn Reid, professor of neurology at Northwestern University. The later the hour of moderately bright light exposure, the higher a persons BMI.

Light exposure accounted for approximately 20 percent of a persons BMI. The impact of morning light exposure was found to be separate from a persons physical activity level, caloric consumption, sleep habits, age or time of year.

Light is the most potent agent to synchronize your internal body clock that regulates circadian rhythms, which in turn also regulate energy balance, said senior author Dr. Phyllis C. Zee, a professor of neurology at Northwestern University. The message is that you should get more bright light between 8 a.m. and noon.

If a person doesnt get sufficient light at the appropriate time of day, it could de-synchronize your internal body clock, which is known to alter metabolism and can lead to weight gain, she added.

According to the study team, the predominantly indoor lifestyle of the typical American means they do not get enough normal light in the morning to have a decreasing influence on BMI, which they said was between 20 and 30 minutes of exposure. Americans also work in poorly lit environments, usually about 200 to 300 lux much less than the magic number of 500 lux discovered to lower BMI in the study. On a cloudy day, outdoor light is greater than 1,000 lux. The study team said it is difficult to achieve even this level of light intensity with typical indoor lighting.

Light is a modifiable factor with the potential to be used in weight management programs, Reid said. Just like people are trying to get more sleep to help them lose weight, perhaps manipulating light is another way to lose weight.

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Simple Ways to Live a Healthy Lifestyle – Exercise – Get …

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You hear a lot about living a healthy lifestyle, enough that the phrase 'healthy lifestyle' may be one we'd like to permanently retire. The problem is, that phrase describes the life we need to live if we want to feel good and look good. So, what does it actually mean? Well, there are the obvious things that describe a healthy person: He or she doesn't smoke, is at a healthy weight, eats healthy foods and exercises on a regular basis. It sounds so simple, it's funny just how hard it is to do all of those things in our current world.

The good news is, you don't have to change everything at the same time. In fact, the trick to healthy living is making small changes. Take more steps each day, adding fruit to your cereal, having an extra glass of water or saying no to that second helping of buttery mashed potatoes. So, what else can you be doing to live healthy? Your first order of business is to start exercising.

Exercise

One of the biggest reasons we're have a weight problem these days is because we sit around too much. We know we need to exercise, but we have so many excuses not to do it. We're too busy, don't know where to start, we're not motivated or we're afraid we'll injure ourselves or we're afraid that exercise has to be vigorous for what our bodies can handle. The truth is, everything counts and the more you move, the healthier you'll be.

It's great if you can spend time exercising - Meaning you're sweating, working in your target heart rate zone and/or doing something to strengthen your body. But it doesn't always have to be that way. Moderate activities like chores, gardening and walking can make a difference.

Just adding a little movement to your life can:

So, even if you opt for small changes and a more modest weight loss, you can see the benefits are still pretty good. One study has found that just a 10% weight reduction helped obese patients reduce blood pressure, cholesterol and increase longevity. In fact, you don't even have to have a goal to lose weight, especially if you have trouble stick to a program. Why not focus on being healthy to start and worry about the weight loss once you've got some healthy habits under your belt?

Simple Ways to Move Your Body

You can start the process of being healthy and weight loss now by adding a little more activity to your life. If you're not ready for a structured program, start small. Every little bit counts and it all adds up to burning more calories.

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