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Top Healthy Living Tip
- It's easy to fit physical activities into your daily routine. Walk, bike or jog to see friends. After work, take a 10-minute activity break every hour while you read, do homework or watch TV. Climb stairs instead of taking an escalator or elevator. Try to do these things for a total of 30 minutes every day.
- Processed sugars are carbohydrates that have been stripped of their valuable nutrients. How can you identify these sugars? They are all white: table sugar, pasta, rice, and bread, and they're nothing but trouble, since they kick up your appetite for more of the same.
- Study after study has confirmed garlic's abilities to lower blood pressure, reduce cholesterol, strengthen heart action, increase immune response, reduce platelet clumping and clotting (thus reducing strokes) and stabilize blood sugar levels. Eat garlic raw or lightly cooked, several cloves a day.
- Dose yourself with laughter. It's a proven way to knock off the years. Make the time to have a giggle with some friends and build up a library of TV programs, movies, books and magazines that make you chuckle.
- Sleep enough. Lack of sleep slows down your metabolism and potentially increases the severity of chronic diseases such as high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity.
- As a parent, one of the most important things you can do to keep your children safe is to become trained in CPR. Baptist Health Care provides CPR classes on an ongoing basis. Call (850) 434-4080 for class times/dates.
- Constantly straining to hear other people is tiring, and tired employees are more likely to have accidents. If you can't hear properly, you might miss an important instruction or warning, resulting in a serious accident and injury. So take care of your ears! If you think you are in need of a hearing test, call Baptist HealthSource at 434-4080 to schedule an appointment today.
- Drinking water will improve your memory, help you think more sharply, ward off disease, ease joint and back pain, and enhance the health and glow of your skin.
- Set yourself goals. Make sure you stretch yourself at least once a week, whether by learning a poem or completing a crossword or walking an extra mile.
- Nearly half a million women die from cardiovascular disease daily. That's a rate of approximately 1 death every minute owing to cardiovascular disease. Women don't often associate heart disease as part of their disease spectrum and yet more women die from heart disease than the next five leading causes of death combined! Women tend to relate more to Breast Cancer which is certainly an important health consideration and yet astoundingly only one out of 30 women will die from breast cancer compared to one out of three who will die from heart disease. Be sure to tell the women you know and love the importance of understanding this significant health threat. For more information on cardiovascular health, call Baptist HealthSource at 434-4080.
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