Your health: A few good habits
Seven healthy habits
Lasting weight loss demands that you transform your eating and exercise habits. But many other choices you make each day, such as how much time you spend sleeping or surfing the Internet, can also make a difference. The seven habits, according to Havard Medical School, can help you move toward your weight-loss goal. Most target the common reasons people are overweight.
Ÿ Set small, specific and realistic goals.
Ÿ Start self-monitoring.
Ÿ Find a support network.
Ÿ Energize your exercise.
Ÿ Make sure you're getting enough sleep.
Ÿ Eat breakfast — slowly and mindfully — every morning.
Ÿ Monitor and modify your time in front of the TV and computer screens.
Don't do all of these at once. Choose the one that seems the most feasible for you, and try to stick with it for a week or so. Once you're doing it fairly consistently, add another one. Over time, you will realize that many of these habits can be interconnected.
What a pain!
Headaches are familiar to nearly everyone. In any given year, almost 90 percent of men and 95 percent of women have at least one, according to Harvard Medical School. In the vast majority of cases, however, the pain isn't an omen of some terrible disease.
About 95 percent of headaches are caused by such common conditions as stress, fatigue, lack of sleep, hunger, changes in estrogen level, weather changes or caffeine withdrawal.
The three most common types of headache are tension, sinus and migraine.
Tension: Mild to moderate steady pain throughout the head, but commonly felt across the forehead or in the back of the head. Generally not accompanied by other symptoms.
Sinus: Mild to moderate steady pain that typically occurs in the face, at the bridge of the nose or in the cheeks. May be accompanied by nasal congestion and postnasal drip.
Migraine: Moderate to severe throbbing pain, often accompanied by nausea and sensitivity to light and sound. The pain may be localized to the temple, eye or back of the head, often on one side only. In migraine with aura, visual disturbance precedes the pain.