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Healthy lifestyle of the body mind and spirit Latest on brain health Connection between health and rest Humour and stress Aging, sex and relationships Feeding your spirit. Today. Harvard Health Test This is this cat This is is cat

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  1. Healthy lifestyle of the body mind and spirit • Latest on brain health • Connection between • health and rest • Humour and stress • Aging, sex and relationships • Feeding your spirit Today

  2. Harvard Health TestThis is this catThis is is cat This is how cat. This is to cat.  This is keep cat. This is an cat. This is old cat. This is person cat. This is busy cat.This is for cat.This is forty cat.This is seconds cat.

  3. Wellness Wheel

  4. BodyMindSpirit

  5. “ If you could give people information and tools that would delay the onset of cognitive impairment by a few years, you would be doing much to improve individuals’ quality of life as well as improving society.” Debra Cherry, PhD Alzheimer’s Association Brain Health

  6. Healthy Lifestyle Healthy You Donna Ritch RN EPC

  7. The Healthy Brain Initiative: A National Public Health Road Map to Maintaining Cognitive Health

  8. Solutions: 10 by 20 Ontario action plan for dementia • Brain health, early diagnosis and intervention • Focus on: • Education including brain healthy lifestyle • Enable early diagnosis and intervention • Caregiver support • Introduce flexible workplace policies and income supports for family caregivers • Research • Advocacy..champions for change

  9. “ If we maintain cognitivefunction over time, thenwe are more likely to befunctionally independent.”Marilyn Albert, PhDJohns Hopkins Medical Institutions

  10. Congestion Health and Brain Function

  11. Sympathetic system reacts to stress by looking for inflammation • Glucose and cortisol activate anti inflammatory responses → dominated tissue • Sleep apnea seems to create inflammation • Link between stress, depression, PTSD , hostility and inflammation Stress Response

  12. Eat a brain healthy diet • Exercise your brain and body • Remain socially active Maintain a Healthy Brain

  13. Brain Food

  14. Fish that are low in Mercury BasaCapelinKamaboko (Fish Cake, Processed White Fish)Milk fishOctopus, OystersPollock, TilapiaSalmon, Canned high in omega-3Salmon (Chum, Coho, Pink Wild Pacific) high in omega-3Sea UrchinSilverPomfret

  15. To Sushi or Not To SushiThat isTheQuestion

  16. An ounce a day of nuts, seeds and chocolate provides Vit E and antioxidants Advocados and whole grains for circulation Caffeine Glucose Super Blueberries Ginseng and ginkgo Other BRAIN FOOD

  17. Natural antiseptic Liver detoxifier May slow Alzheimer’s disease by removing plaque Natural anti-inflammatory for arthritis Aid in weight management by helping fat metabolism May slow cancer cells Benefits of Turmeric

  18. Lower LDL cholesterol • Help regulate blood sugar • Anti-clotting effect on blood Cinnamon

  19. What else does brain need?

  20. Exercise? Chiselled Abs Are SO Last Year

  21. The Walking Brain

  22. Benefits of exercise

  23. Motivation

  24. Getting started is easier than you think: • Build just a little more physical activity into your daily routine. • Walk wherever • . • Move more • Take the stairs instead of the elevator. • . • Find activities that you enjoy. • Try out a class in your community.

  25. Other bits about your Three Pound Brain

  26. Learning and Fun for life : Games, woodworking, crafts, gardening,  whatever. Never let the brain get idle.

  27. Your Brain and Body without Sleep

  28. Restoration Mood Making memories Knowledge to form Reenergizes Brain function For life Why Sleep ?

  29. Pain • Sleep apnea • Stress at work or with relationships • Loss or grief What is underlying Problem

  30. Find your optimum sleep need and then get up and go to bed at same time each day Use a sleep mask Minimize bedroom activities to sleep and sex Respect your body`s reaction o caffeine and tobacco If overtired keep daytime nap to 20m minutes Daytime activity will tire you out for bed time 10 Tips for Healthy Sleep

  31. 7. Create personal sleep rituals ie music 8. Try progressive relaxation techniques I9. Still awake 15 mins later then get up, read 10. Winter light therapy Bonus tip Melatonin Ten tips for Healthy Sleep

  32. Mental Health an individual's sense of well-being, control over their life and ability to interact positively with others

  33. The capacity to perceive, appreciate or express what is funny, amusing, incongruous, ludicrous. The healthy way of feeling a ‘distance’ between one’s self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one’s problem with perspective. Rollo May. Humour and Mental Health

  34. Depression on …15% of population in developed countries at one time or another will have an episode Perception that we lack control over what happens to us… what we tell ourselves about events Why are we becoming humour impaired ? Robert M. Sopolsky

  35. Are you Pooh OR Eeyore Crazy-Frankenstein.com

  36. Stop Trying to Control the World and start controlling your thoughts…Replace negative self talk with constructive rational thinking

  37. How Cognitive thinking works: Prefer it had not happened but I will survive Possibilities Awful Terrible My life is a mess misery Challenge Automatic Thinking

  38. Surround yourself with like minded positive, upbeat, supportive people….those that give off energy rather than suck it out of you Avoid Stinkin’ Thinkin’ Don't take unnecessary guilt trips. .

  39. “Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.” — Albert Einstein

  40. Emotional Wellbeing Feelings are not just in your headTrying to deal with feelings through languageWe feel feelings in our bodies

  41.  Surround yourself with what you love… family, pets,  keepsakes music, plants, hobbies, whatever.

  42. Humour Bag Funny movies Jokes Charades Kids Games Tapes Funny Movies Comedies Funny Poems Cartoons Funny People Greeting Cards

  43. Sexuality and Love

  44. Don’t DismissNew Positions in Bed

  45. Sexuality: enjoying sex for the whole journey

  46. 1. Menopause results in decreased sexual desire in women 2. Impotence is a natural part of aging in men 3. Sexual interest naturally diminishes with age 4. Having sex post heart attack could result in another heart attack 5. Medication can interfere with erection and or orgasm 6. Sex in morning can be more successful than at night Myth or Fact?

  47. Lifelong Sexuality Nobody does it better Hit the Road Jack Groovin' on a Sunday afternoon Sole SoleSole love me in the sunlight. The Game of Love 98.6 Her love is the medicine that saved me

  48. Spirituality FaithReligion

  49. SPIRITUAL OR RELIGIOUS ?

  50. Is there a Relationship between GodFaith andHealth ?

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