Stay connected with friends and family. Loneliness can have a huge detrimental impact on our health. Take advantage of technology to stay connected to friends and loved ones from a safe distance. Spend more time with nature, art, and music. Fresh air and time outside are two of the original productivity apps!
Time with art and music is a stress reliever, too. Many parks, gardens and museums are offering free virtual tours and online classes. Make full use of online exercise resources. For example, check out this excellent free online home workout resource from the American Council on Exercise.
Find movement you enjoy or at least don’t dislike. You’ll be more likely to stick with it. Often the activities we enjoyed as youngsters bring joy later in life. Both can lead to poor food choices and sub-par portion control decisions.
Fill half your plate with vegetables and fruit at every meal and snack. Create a “purpose project.”While you have more time, you may want to focus on a project that is meaningful to you. You can organize your photos, do a small home repair, tackle that book you’ve always wanted to write, help your children, or … whatever might give you a greater sense of purpose.
Keep a reusable water bottle in your purse or car so you can fill up wherever you are going. When safe drinking water is not available, quench your thirst with coffee, tea, unsweetened lower-fat milk, and previously boiled water. Avoid fruit juice, even when it is 100% fruit juice. Although fruit juice has some of the benefits of the fruit , it has more sugar than the fruit and less fiber.
Surprisingly, just exercising isn’t enough to prevent “sitting diseases.” So walk around your living space, do a chore, or meander up and down the stairs. These “exercise snacks” offer amazing health benefits.
Yoga with Adriene is another wonderful online resource with lots of variety in styles and length of practices. Get up and move around for a few minutes at least once an hour.
Fruit juice should not be consumed as alternative to fruits. Canadians should eat their fruits, not drink them.
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