Weekly Health Update

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Mental Attitude: How To Experience Positive Emotions. Just try to be happy and enthusiastic. If you enjoy reading novels, but never get around to it, commit to reading just 15 minutes or so daily. If walking or listening to music improves your mood, fit those activities in your schedule. Essentially, spending a few minutes each day truly relaxed and enjoying yourself is good for your mental health, and may improve your physical health, as well. European Heart Journal, February 17, 2010 Diet: Factors That Cause Overeating And Weight Gain:  Food Everywhere. There are constant opportunities for us to eat during the day at drive-through restaurants, vending machines, even gas stations. When food is in front of us, we tend to eat more of it. For example, when candy was accessible on workers’ desks, they ate an average of nine pieces a day. When candy was kept in their desk drawers, they ate about six pieces per day. If they had to get up from their desks to reach the candy six feet away, they only ate four pieces.  Food that’s Fast, Convenient, and Inexpensive. Fast-food restaurants on every corner offering inexpensive food also encourage us to eat more and more often. Combo meal deals sound like a bargain, but they are loaded with fat, sodium, and calories. Cornell University researcher Brian Wansink, PhD, author of Mindful Eating. Exercise: Stretching Exercises at Your Desk!  Just stand up and sit down — no hands, over and over.  Substitute exercise for sitting – while you work. Get rid of your desk chair and substitute an exercise ball.  Try to take the stairs instead of the elevator as much as you can. Chiropractic: Better Results? Use of exercise in conjunction with adjustments is likely to speed and improve results, as well as reduce the risk of recurrence. If you are unable to exercise due to an injury; sore knee, aching back, bad shoulder – check and see if your chiropractor can help.  Don’t let pain stop you from reaching your goals! Wellness/Prevention: Dying For A Good Night’s Sleep? You can survive without food but not without sleep! A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks. So get your sleep.   Guyton Physiology Quote: “A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul; a sick body is a prison.” ~Francis Bacon

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