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🍎 Today’s Health Tip ~ 5 Healthy Habits

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5 Healthy Habits from the Mayo Clinic

  1. Veg out — Adding vegetables and fruits to your diet boosts your heart health. Aim for five servings each day.

  2. Volunteer — Sharing your time and talents is good for your heart. Look for opportunities to get involved at your neighborhood school, place of worship or community.

  3. Give thanks — Gratitude can boost your immunity and help you sleep. Keep a gratitude journal to help the act of regularly giving thanks become second nature.

  4. Stress less — Exercising and meditation can help you manage stress. So can setting boundaries. You can’t do everything. Learn to say ‘no’ occasionally.

  5. Sleep more — Make sleep a priority. Aim for eight hours a night. Exercising during the day and avoiding heavy meals and electronics too close to bedtime may help you fall — and stay — asleep.

🍎 Today’s Health Tip ~ Help for Hand Pain

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Hand Pain: Fingertip Touch

Arthritis is the usual suspect if you have hand pain. Give this hardworking body part a break with this mini finger workout. Point your hand upward, fingers close together. Slowly touch your index finger to your thumb to make an “O.” Move your thumb on to the middle finger and do the same, and so on to your ring finger and pinkie. Smoothly repeat these motions several times with each hand.

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🍎 Health Tip ~ Add This Superfood to Your Daily Diet

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Each day I make a spinach salad with an avocado, olives, celery, and tomatoes. I mix it with EVOO and Balsamic vinegar. No wonder I’m in perpetual motion. LOL

Superfood: Spinach

You’ll find lots of nutrients in this “super food.” One of them is folate, which helps your body make new cells and repair DNA. It also boasts fiber, antioxidants such as vitamin C, and more. Eat spinach raw or lightly cooked to get the most benefit.

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🍎 Today’s Health Tip ~ Keep a Healthy Mind

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Your mind is a powerful tool in managing anxiety. By changing your thought patterns, you can shift your perspective and calm your nervous system. 

Beware of Fortune Telling

The news can often trigger terrifying thoughts and images about the future, and it can feel like these fears are sure to come true. You might even believe that something awful is likely to happen because you thought of it. Distinguish today between the mind’s fantasies and reality. When you notice you’re fearing an imagined disaster, call it what it is: “That’s a fantasy.” Take a slow breath in and out, smile, and return to reality.

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🍎 Today’s Health Tip ~ Develop a Healthy Lifestyle

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Live Well

If you’re looking for a magic bullet to boost your body’s ability to fight off bugs, you might be disappointed. But if you want added motivation to improve your overall well-being, look no further: “Healthy immune systems live in healthy bodies,” Wedner says. So think big picture – from eating right and staying active to getting enough sleep. “It’s important to recognize the things that are most supportive of a good immune system are a healthy lifestyle,” says Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford, an obesity medicine physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston.

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🍎 Today’s Health Tip ~ Be Big on Beans

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Beans Are A Winner

Beans are the most undervalued food in the supermarket. They are inexpensive, easy to store, rich in protein and fiber, and taste so good. Add some to your soup tonight.

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I’ll put beans in my slow cooker in the morning along with onions, peppers, a bit of garlic, rosemary, basil, diced tomatoes, and low sodium chicken broth. By noon, the fragrance fills the house. By dinner time, it is a healthy and tasty meal.

🍎 Today’s Health Tip ~ Exercise is an Immunity Booster

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Let’s Start Moving our Bods!

Research shows the immune system benefits from engaging in regular physical activity, says Dr. Edward Laskowski, co-director of Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine and a specialist in physical medicine and rehabilitation based in Rochester, Minnesota. Exercise boosts the production of microphages, cells that attack the bacteria that can trigger some of the upper respiratory tract infections we get, he says. And physical activity increases the circulation of many cells in our body that help fend off viruses and harmful bacteria. Just know your body’s limits, and allow adequate time for recovery between workouts to ensure you’re receiving the maximum boost from exercise.

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🍎 Today’s Health Tip ~ How Much You Drink Matters

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Drinking Wisdom

Drinking in moderation is OK. But consuming alcohol in excess can lead to the deterioration of your immune system, Stanford says. There’s evidence from both human and animal research that overconsumption of alcohol decreases immune reactivity, reducing the body’s ability to fight infection, Wedner says. The 2015-20 Dietary Guidelines for Americans advises women who choose to drink to have no more than one a day; men should consume no more than two drinks a day.

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🍎 Today’s Health Tip ~ A Safe Shopping Tip During the COVID-19 Outbreak

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Skip the Self-Checkout

Self-checkout may be super convenient, but it’s also a surefire way to make contact with meddling microbes. . . . Imagine all the grimy hands that have touched the screen throughout the day. This germy picture grows even grislier if you consider that most people don’t follow the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines for proper hand-washing practices (ICYMI, the CDC recommends scrubbing with soap and water for 20 seconds).

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🍎 Today’s Health Tip ~ Stress & COVID-19

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It’s not easy dealing with stress during COVID-19. Here’s some of my stressors: When do I go to the grocery? How are my children doing? Another day of bean soup? And, then there’s the news, yikes!!  I found the following on the CDC website. It’s lent, I think I’ll give up checking the news stories every ten minutes (LOL). Have a great day. Stay healthy. Stay strong.

4 Things to Reduce Stress during the COVID-19 Outbreak

  1. Take care of your body. Take deep breaths, stretch, or meditateexternal icon. Try to eat healthy, well-balanced meals, exercise regularly, get plenty of sleep, and avoid alcohol and drugsexternal icon.
  2. Make time to unwind. Try to do some other activities you enjoy.
  3. Connect with others. Talk with people you trust about your concerns and how you are feeling.
  4. Take breaks from watching, reading, or listening to news stories, including social media. Hearing about the pandemic repeatedly can be upsetting.

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