Are Americans concerned about their health? Yes, they are. Are they concerned enough to be proactive about staying healthy? Not so much. In fact, not really.
Good health habits start young and we all know that children watch adults very closely. Parents can hardly expect their children to live a healthy lifestyle if they themselves don’t. Yet, despite this, the message of healthy living starts early doesn’t seem to be getting out.
According to a study done by the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association (PCNA),

Milestone birthdays can be stressful times. I find it’s always around any birthday ending in 0 that I start reaching for self-help books. This year was no different. Soon after my birthday, I started reading the following…
Change your habits, change your life (A Proven Plan for Healthy Living) by Danna Demetre. In this book, Demetere, a lifestyle coach, provides a 40 day guide to how you can make dynamic and lasting changes to your life by taking an ‘inside-out’ approach. Along the way, you will learn how to turn unhealthy thoughts healthy, stay active and maximize your energy by eating …read more

Our home is our castle. A place to feel secure and safe.
But after reading Beth Greer’s book Super Natural Home, I have to say, I’m starting to wonder exactly how safe my house really is. According to Beth Greer, probably not all that safe, especially if you start taking into account all the dangerous chemicals that we invite in and have around our house at all times.
Beth used to be just like you and me, living what she considered a healthy but busy lifestyle. But when a medical crisis (a 5-centimeter tumour in her chest) caused her to re-evaluate her …read more

I’ll let you in on a little secret.
I’ve just found my dream job – getting paid to live on an beautiful island in a luxurious villa for six months. The money’s really good, the climate is perfect, and all I’ll have to do is wander around the local area, exploring all it has to offer and report back weekly via blogs, photo diaries, video updates and media interviews. I’d also have to collect the mail, feed the fish, and clean the pool.
No, I’m not making this up. It’s ‘fair dinkum’ as the Aussies would say, aimed to promote …read more

New Year’s resolutions – so easy to come by but so hard to keep.
And that’s why, after years of failing to follow through with my New Year’s resolutions, I decided a few years ago to throw away the list and start looking at the concept in a different light.
What if, I thought, I created a list of evergreen resolutions that reflected not short term goals but a lifestyle philosophy? 
Last year I found my evergreen resolutions on some decorative tiles while at a garden center purchasing a lemon tree to replace the one I had killed (good news – one year later said …read more

Pat Ballard’s book ‘10 Steps to Loving Your Body’  offers readers a way to come to terms and accept their body the way it is rather than always aiming for the ‘perfect body’ that apparently society seems to think we should have.

 
 
The lucky winner of this book is….
Sagan

Congratulations Sagan. You’ll be receiving an email shortly explaining how to claim your prize.
 
As for everyone else, head on over to Pat’s website to find out what she considers the ‘10 Steps to Loving Your Body’ .
Don’t forget that ‘every day is a give away’ this month at Healthbolt.

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Okay, all you pessimistic poops, now there’s a reason to take that oh-so-annoying Susie Sunshine a little more seriously. A recent study published in Psychosomatic Medicine reveals that people who choose to look at the glass as half full are 33% less likely to get sick when exposed to a virus. Why? Positive emotions prompt the release of chemicals that strengthen the immune system.
So the next time you have the urge to be a nay-sayer or ignore a cloud’s silver lining, think again.
This has been your Healthbolt Happy Living Tip of the day. Have a great …read more

Everyone’s talking green this week with Earth Day (April 22) on the horizon.
So Healthbolt is going to talk green too. Green health that is.
Here’s our common sense tips to greener health…
Sleep more – not only is sleep good for your health, it’s also good for the environment. When you sleep, your energy consumption is significantly reduced.

Become a locavore – eating lots of fruit and vegetables will keep us healthy. Buying your fruit and vegetables locally will keep the planet healthy.
Cycle or walk to work – get fit and reduce vehicle emissions at the same time. Sounds like a win/win situation.
And here’s …read more

                       
February 1st is National Wear Red Day throughout America. Forget your usual working suit and dig out that red dress, shirt or tie and put it on.  Wear red to indicate your awareness that heart disease is the number one killer of women. And I’m not talking broken heart here. Believe it or not, you can recover from a broken heart (How to Get Over a Broken Heart).
I’m talking about coronary heart disease which usually develops over many years causing narrowing and blocking of the arteries. If undetected and untreated it can easily result in heart attack and death. 
Here’s some scary …read more