One of the most universal means to greater health and happiness is to socialize more. Loneliness can shave years off of your life expectancy and a Harvard social scientist’s research indicates that the happiest people are also the most connected. Try to set up our daily routines to make it easier to socialize. Quality counts […]
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Make changes in your home environment to make active living easier. The Mayo clinic scientists determined that increasing simple movements such as standing and walking could help you burn an additional 350 calories each day. Bring movement back into daily life. Home and yard checklist: Place a scale in a prominent place in your bathroom […]
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A lack of sleep has been shown to increase the risk of health problems such as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and hypertension. In the Blue Zones residents follow the early to bed and early to rise routine with eight hours of sleep. In three of the Blue Zones a half-hour nap is a daily ritual. […]
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When I launched my website Well Healthy Ways and began coaching and blogging a little over a year ago, my number one category was and still is You First, since taking care of yourself first lays a strong foundation for wellness and health for life. Be bold. Live longer, look younger, but most important of all, […]
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Our day trip to visit “the lakes” could not have been more perfect. My mom and I packed our lunch and headed out to see my sister who was already there. Sister Jill standing on her dock. Wood duck lake pictured above, was one of our favorite lakes to swim in. It is small, but […]
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My mom is a DQ soft serve ice cream lover. She always gets a small swirl cone. When in town, we visit the DQ at least one time (sometimes even more than once, since you just cannot find soft serve ice cream quite like the DQ’s:). She also likes to go out for coffee when […]
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When I come to Peoria, my mom, sister and I like to take a drive up along the Illinois River, especially when the weather is so gorgeous. Growing up, my siblings and I would spend some weekends at my aunt and uncle’s “river” house. We have many happy (and some interesting:) memories of the times […]
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One of the things I try to do with my mom when I swoop in for a visit, is hang out with her at her lake cabin. Sometimes the weather just does not cooperate, but this fall has been warm and wonderful. The area deserves some relief since their summer was beastly hot and humid. […]
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