Learning Package 12 - Keeping Healthy

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Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends. - Thomas Jefferson

As much as it is a challenge having our routines upended, read on to discover how it is also a chance to turn things around such as by living a healthier lifestyle.

Videos

1. How Do I Boost My Metabolism By Eating Healthier? By SingHealth

Boosting your metabolism helps to maintain a healthier weight. Ways to achieve this include drinking more water or green tea, eating more broccoli and low-fat yoghurt. Watch this video for more tips.

Source: How Do I Boost My Metabolism By Eating Healthier? (2020, May 28). SingHealth.

2. What Your Breath Could Reveal About Your Health by Julian Burschka

The early identification of unrecognized diseases in an asymptomatic person increases the success of treatment, and this can be done by means of a simple breath analysis. The speaker explains how.

Source: What your breath could reveal about your health (2019, Feb 25). TED Talks.

Stories on the Internet

1. 20 Ways to Improve Your Health in 2020
Dr Samuel Low. Published on Healthplus, on 2 Dec 2019.

There are various ways to easily improve your health. From starting your day with a stretch to eating your food more slowly and adding less sauce to your dish. Look through the list and perhaps you may apply a few to your life.

2. Unexpected Benefit of COVID-19 Lockdowns On the Environment and Health
Dr Liji Thomas. Published on News Medical, 15 April 2020.

Environmental pollution has gone down, as a result of the reduction of economic activity due to the COVID19 pandemic. This article looks at some startling data, a silver lining amidst all the doom and gloom.

3. Top 10 Health Benefits of Playing an Instrument
Health Fitness Revolution. Published on 23 December 2019.

Playing a musical instrument has various health benefits such as enhancing coordination and keeping the mind sharp. How about picking up this skill now if you have always thought about it.

Introducing music scores - now available as eBooks on OverDrive.

eBooks

How to Make Disease Disappear

Rangan Chatterjee

HarperCollins, 2018.
A healthy lifestyle and the right nutrition are the first steps to good long-term health. Learn how the four critical pillars of food, relaxation, sleep and movement are the secrets to preventing diseases and staying well.
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The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally

Jason Fung, Nina Teicholz

Greystone Books, 2018.
Type 2 diabetes is a chronic and progressive disease and Dr. Jason Fung wants readers to consider a treatment which involves a proper diet and intermittent fasting.
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The Last Diet: Discover the Secret to Losing Weight – for Good

Shahroo Izadi

Pan Macmillan, 2019.
The writer, a behavioural change specialist, uses her training in the field to advice readers how to get rid of unhealthy food-related habits by first identifying where they come from and thus how to accept and change them.
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Fitness Hacks for Over 50: 300 Easy Ways to Incorporate Exercise Into Your Life

K. Aleisha Fetters

Adams Media, 2020.
The writer introduces easy activities and movements that are suitable for all ages and abilities. Follow these exercises at home to improve your fitness.
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The Joy of Movement: How Exercise Helps Us Find Happiness, Hope, Connection, and Courage

Kelly McGonigal

Penguin Publishing Group, 2019.
Movement and activity is a way to bring joy to yourself and your community. Kelly McGonigal shares how people have used various exercises such as swimming, dancing and walking with others to find fulfilment and belonging.
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Better Stretching: 9 Minutes a Day to Greater Flexibility, Less Pain, and Enhanced Performance, the JoeTherapy Way

Joe Yoon

St. Martin’s Publishing Group, 2020.
Stretching safely is a way to become more agile and mobile. Learn various techniques by following the photographs demonstrating the exercises in just 9 minutes a day.
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Exercise is Medicine: How Physical Activity Boosts Health and Slows Aging

Judy Foreman

Oxford University Press, 2019.
Investigative health journalist, Judy Foreman, suggests that we can age well through exercise. She explains why exercise is powerful and the varied effects of exercise all over the body.
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Physical Intelligence: Harness Your Body's Untapped Intelligence to Achieve More, Stress Less and Live More Happily

Claire Dale, Patricia Peyton

Simon & Schuster UK, 2019.
Physical intelligence is understanding your body’s reaction to stress and being able to manage these emotions. Learning useful techniques to develop your strength, flexibility, resilience and endurance, will allow you to be confident in handling difficult situations that arise.
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