Be healthy, stay happy

When you’re healthy, you can be happy. If you’re happy, you’re probably healthy.

So be happy. But you need energy to maintain a happy and healthy life and lifestyle.

The more you think about all this, you’re wasting time and energy that should be devoted to staying happy and healthy that is maintained easily by developing a simple regimen.

You can start increasing your energy to live happier and healthier by eating properly. A well-balanced diet is a start, and we don’t mean one designed for weight loss. Eating a variety of fruit and vegetables, lean-protein, lowfat dairy and whole grains gives you an optimal level of energy to help you enjoy life and living as well as cope with unanticipated problems and activities over which you have no control.

Then get to sleep seven or eight hours every night. A good night’s sleep not only gives your body time to relax and recuperate, it also brightens your mood and lowers your risk of disease.

When you’re out and about, pick your friends. Hang around with people you enjoy rather than those you don’t relate to or who have negative outlooks, complain often, or make poor choices.

Time spent with enjoyable company will help you avoid news overdose, especially in these days of non-stop political acrimony, looming wars around the globe, and wild cultural theories taking over the telecasts.

It will also help you keep thinking good thoughts about the folks around you, even the ones you find trying. Compassion for your fellow humans helps maintain your peace of mind, which helps conserve your energy.

This might lead to another peaceful action — doing something you enjoy, such as building yourself a big salad or going roller skating. You can also bring order and peace to your life by straightening out the things around you. Just don’t try to do it all at once.

If your kitchen is in disarray. Pick one cabinet to straighten out and get it done this week. Don’t tackle the next one until next week.

And finally, but not last, get yourself some regular exercise.

The Department of Health and Human Services recommends adults complete at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity each week. Pick something you can enjoy. Swimming, hiking, biking, running, skipping rope, and tennis are just a few options. Contrary to what you might believe, this will add to your energy, not subtract from it. Mature Life Features Copyright 2023

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Before making any changes to diet or daily-living habits, always discuss your situation and plans with your primary-care physician.

Researchers also are delving into ways to revitalize one’s immune system, which diminishes over time. They’re targets are cells that can be replenished to combat everything from wrinkles to cancer.

Maintaining healthy bones slows down the aging process.

Folks past their 50s should test their bone measurement and mass regularly. Ask your doctor about dietary supplements and foods that can slow down bone loss.

As you read this, scientists, lab workers and researchers are working diligently in such exotic fields as tissue rejuvenation and cellular senescence and regeneration to keep us, as well as themselves, aging gracefully.

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