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Often, poor lifestyle habits prevent us from achieving optimal physical, mental, and spiritual wellness. Here’s a look at adjustments you can make in your everyday living to optimize your overall health and possibly add years to your life. Get High-Quality Sleep Every Night Regular high-quality sleep is good for your overall well-being. About 7-9 hours of uninterrupted slumber allows your

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Studies show that about 80% of Americans who make New Year’s resolutions abandon their resolutions in February due to various reasons, including having unrealistic goals, loss of motivation, lack of social support, and poor implementation strategy. Achieving New Year’s resolutions generally boils down to two things. Firstly, the resolutions must be feasible. Secondly, you must be ready to pay the

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Stress emanates from your body’s reaction to real and perceived harmful situations. When you sense danger, the body enables you to react and get away from harm’s way. This reaction is referred to as the stress response or “fight or flight” response. During the stress response, the blood pressure rises, muscles tighten, breathing quickens, and heart rate increases. This is

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Breaks are essential for maximizing productivity. In simple terms, a break is when you decide to rest for a while before resuming the task at hand or when you need to pause and “regroup”. Breaks are often perceived as weakness but in reality, breaks can make you stronger, more creative, and improve overall health and mindset. Why Take Breaks? Emotional

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While bottled water is generally considered safe for drinking, plastic water bottles pose a serious threat to natural resources, including soil, air, and water. In turn, this threatens the safety of living organisms, including humans. Although recycling these bottles helps reduce their environmental toll, the world has yet to master the safest and most earth-friendly ways to recycle plastic. Recycled

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The imposed isolation, lockdowns, and quarantines resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic had pushed millions of workers to work from home. While many people are returning to their workplace as vaccines become more available and economies reopen, surveys indicate that more employees than ever before will be working, at least partially, from home. Thanks to the shift, the benefits and limitations

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The purpose of recycling plastic is to make natural resources like air, water, and soil safer for humans, animals, plants, and even microorganisms. However, the world hasn’t yet perfected the science and practice of safely managing used plastic. Plastic recycling is so flawed that used plastic bottles, trash bags, packaging for many consumer products, and many other items still pose

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Research has shown that human laughter is similar to that of certain ape species, such as chimpanzees, suggesting that the evolution of laughter in primate species predates humans. The universality of laughter across humans and ape species means that laughter is an ancient construct that’s been preserved over the years. Like most traits that evolution preserves, it must play a

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As reported by Psychology Today, lack of communication is one of the leading causes of failed relationships among couples, friends, and siblings. While many factors cause poor communication in a relationship, fear remains a significant factor that keeps one or both parties from expressing their feelings. Other factors include a lack of interest, trust issues, and mental health problems. Read

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