Healthy Living Tips For Everyone

1. Think positive and focus on gratitude

Research shows a healthy positive attitude helps build a healthier immune system and boosts overall health. Your body believes what you think, so focus on the positive. Being negative can lead you to being depressed and lower your immune system so you become sick much easily so stay positive and you will be healthy

2. Eat your vegetables

Shoot for five servings of vegetables a day — raw, steamed, or stir-fried. A diet high in vegetables is associated with a reduced risk of developing cancers of the lung, colon, breast, cervix, esophagus, stomach, bladder, pancreas and ovary. And many of the most powerful phytonutrients are the ones with the boldest colors — such as broccoli, cabbage, carrots, tomatoes, grapes and leafy greens.

3. Drink Water

Water does more than just quench your thirst and regulate your body's temperature; it also keeps the tissues in your body moist. You know how it feels when your eyes, nose, or mouth gets dry? Keeping your body hydrated helps it retain optimum levels of moisture in these sensitive areas, as well as in the blood, bones, and the brain. In addition, water helps protect the spinal cord, and it acts as a lubricant and cushion for your joints. Adding an a few extra glasses of water can keep your mind focus and your overall health much better.

4. Exercise daily 

Did you know that daily exercise can reduce all of the signs of aging? This includes improving eyesight, normalizing blood pressure, improving lean muscle, lowering cholesterol and improving bone density. If you want to live well and live longer, you must exercise! Studies show that even a few minutes of exercise makes a difference so get off of your couch and do something! Crank the stereo and dance in your living room. Sign up for dancing lessons. Walk to the park with your kids or a neighbor you’d like to catch up with. Shoot some hoops or throw ball with your son. Get some of your girlfriends and sign up for Zumba. Play water volleyball. Ride a bike, Jump on a trampoline. Go for a hike.

5. Get a good night's sleep

If you have trouble sleeping, try relaxation techniques such as meditation and yoga. Or eat a small bedtime snack of foods shown to help shift the body and mind into sleep mode: whole grain cereal with milk, oatmeal, cherries or chamomile tea. Darken your room more and turn your clock away from you. Write down worries or stressful thoughts to get them out of your head and onto the page. This will help you put them into perspective so you can quit worrying about them. Just close your eyes and get that good rest that your body needs to stay rejuvenated and healthy.

Laugh and smile more, then add some of these tips into your life and you will experience a healthier and positive you and it will effect everyone around you.

Top 10 Things to Do When Your Power Is Out

So your power is out no biggie, wondering what you and your family can do with no power.  The items listed below can help you find a lot of fun things to do. Appreciate the things you have and more importantly do something you probably wouldn’t have done if your power was still on, enjoy the list.

10. Read a book

Its cliché and classic but with no power you can sit back and indulge yourself in a great book that can make you even forget your power was off in the first place

9. Write

Write anything it doesn’t have to mean anything just let your creative juices flow and just maybe you might actually have something when you’re finished.  Therefore it can be anything a poem, joke, blog, story and even a screenplay.

8. Clean your room

Need something to pass the time and make your parents proud that they didn’t have to ask a million times to do. It will be great for you because it will pass time, make your room look better and just maybe your parents will give you an “Abe” for your allowance that week.

7. Go outside

Its self-explanatory, most kids and young adults these days are all over the internet or playing video games without power you can’t do either so get off the couch and head up to the pool or go for a jog just do something to get your blood flowing.

6. Cut Local Lawns

Tight on cash, have a lawn mower? Go door to door in your neighborhood and ask others if you can cut their lawn for cheap, most of your neighbors will jump on the opportunity to not cut their own lawn because most hate cutting their own lawn and you can make some money in the process.

5. Ride a bike

Most people these days don’t really ride bikes like they used to, this is a great time for you to take a nice stroll around the neighborhood or a nature trail to get in a nice exercise.

4. Draw or Color

This is a great time if you’re an artist of any skill level; there are endless opportunities for you to do. For example, you can doodle and draw stick figures, grab a coloring book and some Crayola Crayons and color pictures in a coloring book, or work on a masterpiece you haven’t had the time to finish up until your power went out.

3. Sudoku

A great game to test your mind and mathematics out and also pass time while working the brain, Haven’t heard of Sudoku well the objective is to fill a 9x9 grid with digits so that each column, each row, and each of the nine 3x3 sub grids that compose the grid contains all the number 1 to 9. And it’s a really fun game to play and will also help pass time.

2. Play a board game/Play Cards

Grab the family and some candles and get ready for a great time that many families aren’t doing much of anymore. Grab a deck of cards and play countless amounts of game or if you can’t find your deck of cards grab your families favorite board game such as Monopoly and have a great time getting in some good ole family bonding

1. Tell a Ghost Story

Grab a flash light and think of one of the most frightening tales you can tell your pals or parents and settle in for a good time, and it will help make you a little tired and hopefully it doesn’t scare you so you can’t sleep though this brings back fond memories as a child and is my number one for no power

Hope you enjoyed the list.