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Liu Foundation Launches New Lively Habits Short Video Series To Educate The Benefits From Preventing Chronic Diseases

Lively Habits intends to educate, motivate, and condition personal behavior change with ten integrated lifestyle habits from Harvard and Stanford's evidence-proven to prevent chronic disease.

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How Can Healthy Habits Prevent Chronic Diseases?

Practicing and building healthy habits can help reduce the risk of heart attack by 80%, stroke by 70%, type 2 diabetes by 90%, and cancer by 50%.

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Why Do We Struggle With Routines?

Routines can be hard to stick to because we do not practice them enough for it to become ingrained in our memories.

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Why Should We Build Healthy Habits?

Healthy habits allow us to have good health and a healthy lifestyle. Keeping up with your healthy habits can enhance your well-being, prolong longevity, and boost your self-esteem.

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How To Build a Healthy Relationship With Exercise?

Exercise can be an addiction to some. Statistics show that 4% of school athletes, 8-9% of fitness enthusiasts, and 21% of those with eating disorders are affected by exercise addiction.

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Why Are New Habits Hard to Stick

44% of people in the United States typically make New Year resolutions to improve their physical or mental health, to eat better, or to spend less time on TikTok.

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Meditation Leads To Health Benefits

Meditation may not sound interesting to most of us, but did you know that meditation can help with your mental health and stress?

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Controlling Your Weight Can Help Prevent Chronic Diseases

Did you know that 47% of adults in America have hypertension also known as high blood pressure?

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What Does Chronic Conditions Look Like?

The World Health Organization estimates that 35 million deaths are caused by chronic diseases and rising chronic diseases are difficult if not impossible to cure.

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How To Save Money During The Holidays?

In 2020, Americans spent a record $789.4 billion in November and December, an 8.3% gain over 2019.

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Popular Christmas Food and Calorie Intakes

Adults who eat a healthy diet live longer and have a lower risk of obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and certain cancers.

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How To Be Alone?

Being alone vs lonely is not the same. Lonely is an emotional state where you are feeling alone or disconnected from others. Alone is a physical state where you are physically by yourself.

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How to Have a Faster Metabolism?

Metabolism describes all the chemical processes continuously inside your body to keep you alive and your organs functioning normally, such as breathing, repairing cells, and digesting food.

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Small Decisions Fuel Bad Habits

Bad habits can interrupt your life and prevent you from accomplishing your goals. It can also jeopardize your health both mentally and physically which can lead to multiple chronic conditions.

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Want to Lower Your Blood Pressure with Garlic?

High blood pressure, also known as hypertension, is when the long-term force of blood against your artery walls is high enough that it may eventually cause chronic conditions like heart disease.

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What are the Benefits of Bulk Shopping

By buying groceries in bulk, you are able to plan what you need to buy beforehand and use that knowledge to prepare a healthy meal schedule for the following week.

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The Link Between Nutrition and Sleep

Recent studies find that at least 18 percent of adults report receiving insufficient sleep.

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Strenuous vs. Moderate Exercise

Globally, 1 in 4 adults does not meet the global recommended levels of physical activity. Up to 5 million deaths, a year could be averted if the global population was more active.

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Why Should You Meditate?

Meditation is a mind and body practice that increases calmness and physical relaxation, improves psychological balance, copes with illness, and enhances overall health and well-being.

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Is Addiction a Chronic Illness?

Substance abuse and addiction typically start by using addictive drugs for recreational purposes, whether they are over-the-counter or prescribed; abusing prescription medication; seeking out intoxication every time you use them.

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Rising Obesity in the United States Is a Public Health Crisis

In the United States, more than one-third of the adults are obese and obesity is linked to more than 60 chronic conditions.

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Exercises You Could Be Doing

Exercising regularly can lower your risk of developing chronic conditions like obesity, type 2 diabetes, and high blood pressure.

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What Should You Eat On a Daily Basis

Thinking about what we should eat for our next meal can be a difficult decision because we have to consider what we should eat on a daily basis for a balanced diet.

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Types of Mood Disorder: Depression

If you are constantly feeling down or hopeless, having difficulty sleeping at night, and thinking or talking slower than usual, then you may have depression.

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Reverse Your Chronic Illness with 10 Lifestyle Habits

In the United States, 90% of healthcare spending goes to chronic conditions treatment. And most conditions are caused by unhealthy lifestyle choices.