Our mission is to encourage you
to make important changes in your everyday routine that promote better health
and more happiness.
Why bother? Research
shows that major diseases like cardiovascular, obesity, diabetes and cancer are
all lifestyle-related. But if lifestyle can kill, it's also the antidote.
Positive changes, even small ones, can bring major benefits to health, a sense
of well-being, and aging successfully.
Dr. Roger Walsh of the UC Irvine College of Medicine wrote a paper that has shaped our organization. In it, he identifies eight lifestyle areas that are essential to a healthy, balanced, fulfilling life:
• Exercise
• Nutrition/diet
• Spending time in nature
• Relationships
• Recreation
• Relaxation/stress management
• Faith or spiritual involvement
• Service to community
Take a moment
to consider one step, however small, that you could take right
now that could:
• Reduce your
stress level
• Reduce
reliance on alcohol or drugs for relaxation
• Help you
eat a balanced, healthful diet
• Get you to stretch, move,
and strengthen muscle tone
• Improve an
important relationship
• Eliminate a risky
behavior such as texting and driving, having unprotected sex, driving with a
blood alcohol level over the legal limit
• Strengthen your network
of close friends
Healthy Laguna! Needs You
This is a community blog. Please tell
us your experiences—what worked for you, what didn’t, in working toward a
lifestyle change?
We invite you to post:
• Photos
• Recipes
• Healthful Habits
• Experiences
• Solutions
• Questions
• Articles and books
• Links
• Graphics
• Cartoons
• Local Resources
We invite you to get your
neighborhood, club, PTA, family, school, exercise class, group of friends, or
organization involved with Healthy Laguna. Please join us!
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