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Health Tips

Six Ways to Stay Healthy

1. Exercise as often as you can.
Regular exercise can raise your resting metabolic rate (making weight control easier), lower cholesterol and blood pressure. As well, it improves the strength of your muscles and works to build strong dense bones.

2. Maintain flexibility.
Exercise is necessary, not only for building your aerobic fitness to keep heart and lungs in good working order, but to keep you flexible. The older you get, the more valuable is stretching. Yoga and stretch-and-tone classes improve flexibility and keep joints mobile and lubricated.

3. Manage stress.
Stress, tension and anxiety are implicated in a string of problems from heart disease, cancer, high blood pressure, and ulcers. Stress "damages" the immune system and drains your energy. Practice taking short two minute stress breaks during your day.

4. Think positive.
Learn to be happy with life and enjoy things more. It's much more healthy to be an optimist than a pessimist.

5. Drink water.
Keep a glass of water by your desk or on the table and sip it often so that you empty your glass every two hours.

6. Time out.
Try to spend at least 10 minutes outdoors, especially in the wintertime. The pineal gland at the base of the brain is switched off by lack of light which seems to control the mechanisms for weight gain, depression, lack of energy and poor sleep during those grey months.