HEALTH and WELLNESS

MAKE A HABIT OUT OF HEALTHY

When it comes to living a healthy and active lifestyle, the math is simple: small choices add up. Eat healthy, exercise regularly and take time to rest, and you'll be:
• Stronger in spirit: People who live a healthy lifestyle report greater happiness and overall well-being compared to those who don't.
• Stronger in mind: When you improve your health through exercise and a good diet, your mind is sharper, you feel less stress and feel more relaxed (you even get a better night's sleep)
• Stronger in body: People who live healthy stay healthy throughout the course of their life. They are also generally experience less pain, fewer illnesses and can live independent lives well into their golden years.

How Healthy Is Your Home?

Information, tips and tools to support adults and families in their efforts to practice the art and science of healthy living. We invite you to join the growing communities of families working and playing their way toward a healthier tomorrow.

The ten-question HOW HEALTHY IS YOUR HOME? quiz is designated to assess how your family is doing with each of the five pillars of a healthy family home: EAT HEALTHY, PLAY EVERYDAY, GET TOGETHER, GO OUTSIDE AND SLEEP WELL.

After taking the quiz you'll see a simple bar graph that illustrates how your family is doing with some of the key healthy habits under each pillar. You can print this bar graph and use it help determine where your family could begin getting goals to improve your family's health and well-being.

http://www.ymca.net/healthy-family-home/quiz.aspx

DID YOU KNOW???? Frequent and regular physical exercise boosts the immune system, and helps prevent the " diseases of affluence" such as heart disease, cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes, and obesity. It also improves mental health, helps prevent depression, helps to promote or maintain positive self-esteem.

http://www.bmi-calculator.net/

BMI (Body Mass Index) is a measurement of body fat based on height and weight that applies to both men and women between the ages of 18 and 65 years.

BMI can be used to indicate if you are overweight, obese, underweight or normal. A healthy BMI score is between 20 and 25. A score below 20 indicates that you may be underweight; a value above 25 indicates that you may be overweight.

You can calculate your BMI by using our BMI Calculator above, or by using the BMI Formula.

Did You Know That...

Your fingernails grow four times as fast as your toenails?

And that

People are the only animals in the world who cry tears?

And that

It's totally impossible to sneeze with your eyes open?

And that

Every month you grow a brand new outer layer of skin..."a new you"?

And that

Your brain weighs about three pounds, but over two pounds of that is water?

And that

In your very own lifetime, you'll produce enough spit to fill two swimming pools?

And that

If you were freeze dried, like coffee, 90% of your weight would be the real you, and 10% would be the little critters that call your body their home?

And that

You breathe in about 7 quarts of air every minute? Good thing it's free!

And that

314 Americans had their butts lifted surgically in 1994? (Scary thought!)

And that

Your dad sweats enough each day to fill up a 6 pack of soda cans...and then some?

And that

By the time your grandmother is 72 years old, her heart will have chalked up over two-and-a-half BILLION beats!

And that

Your stomach makes a new layer of mucus every 2 weeks. Otherwise, it will digest itself.

And that

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

And that

To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs...it will let go instantly. Hey, you never know...

And that

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

And that

If you toot consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

And that

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps blood, that it could squirt blood 30 feet.

And that

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour

And that

On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

And that

Relative to its size, the strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.

And that

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

And that

Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

And that

Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?

And that

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

And that

In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

And that

If you blink one eye you move over 200 muscles.

And that

The rush of air produced by a cough moves at a speed approaching 600 miles per hour.

And that

The liver performs over 500 different functions.

And that

Platelets are manufactured at the rate of 200 billion a day.

And that

You will be totally unable to lick your elbow, and I just know you're going to try.

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The length of your foot is the same las that of your forearm between your wrist and the inside of your elbow? You're probably thinking "no way", but give it a try...you'll be amazed!