Do your kids understand how choices impact their health? Participating in regular physical activity is a great way to improve your physical health, mental health and social readiness.

But there’s more to it when it comes to making healthy decisions. Sanford Fit’s the learning platform separates the idea of ​​whole-body health into the four pillars of wellness that help your child develop lifelong healthy habits.

Body movement benefits

It’s no secret that regular physical activity is important for a healthy lifestyle and overall fitness. The benefits of movement fall under three categories:

  • Physical health
  • emotional health
  • School readiness

Physical activity improves strength, endurance, and bone and muscle health, along with many other benefits. Regular physical activity is also connected to less fatigue and better sleep.

If you’ve ever taken a walk outside when you feel stressed or anxious, you’ve likely experienced how movement boosts emotional health. Movement and physical activity

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Feeling anxious and stressed? Experts reveal which foods could make anxiety worse and what foods can help to boost your mood and relieve stress

At times, it’s normal to be feeling anxious and stressed. Life has a habit of throwing curveballs and you’d have to be pretty thick skinned to never feel any pangs of anxiety about work, health, finances, relationships, loved ones  – or, the state of the world, unpredictable as it is right now.

Anxiety can range from mild to severe and latest figures from the mental health charity Mind (mind.org.uk) show that Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD), the most common type, characterised by having regular uncontrollable worries about many different things, affects 6 in 100 people in the UK.

‘When you’re feeling anxious you go into fight or flight mode,’ says Dr Sarah Brewer, Healthspan Medical Director.

‘This is an automatic physiological response to a real or perceived

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The Aspire Center, the workforce development and community center coming to the former Emmet School building, 5500 W. Madison St., won’t open its doors until 2024. But in the meantime, residents can take advantage of an outdoor community space that is officially opened on Dec. 3 in the southwest corner of the school’s former parking lot.

The POPFit community plaza is the latest of the Public Outdoor Plaza (POP) spaces built on vacant city-owned lots thought to be a collaboration between the Westside Health Authority (WHA), Lamar Johnson Collaborative architecture firm and the Chicago Department of Planning and Development.

The POPFit plaza features a youth soccer field, a running track and outdoor fitness equipment. WHA owns the Emmet School building, and it’s currently working with the Austin Coming Together coalition and other Chicago nonprofits to turn the building into the Aspire Center for Workplace Innovation, which will have a BMO

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Hydrafacial – is it as amazing as they say? Healthista’s Ksenia Lavrentieva say’s it’s the ‘Rolls Royce of facials’ and shares her step by step review 

If you want to unclog your face, your body and your scalp – the Hydrafacial treatment is for you.

The tech infused facial that everyone is talking about, Hydrafacial has been said to take three to five years off your face, with no downtime – you can even get the treatment done on your lunch break! With lasting effects that will longer into days to come.

Not only does it cleanse and peel (exfoliating and resurfacing), extract and hydrate (removes debris and infuses skin with intense moisture to quench its thirst), detoxifies, protects and rejuvenates your skin back to life, but it also leaves all those antioxidants and peptides active on your skin for eight hours after, to maximise the glow.

Hydrafacial has been

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Worried about hair loss? Noticed post-covid hair thinning? GP and MONPURE Practitioner Dr Simmy Kaur reveals 5 ways you can keep you hair and scalp healthy – because healthy hair starts at the root

It has been reported that one in five people with Covid-19 may suffer with hair loss as a result of infection.

The hair loss tends to occur a few months after primary infection, with women being at higher risk.

This is not a symptom unique to Covid-19. After a stress or trauma to the body, it is not uncommon to experience hair shedding a few months later.

The hair’s cycle falls into three phases: The Anagen (growth), Catagen (transition) and telogen (resting) phase.

hair loss usually occurs around three months after a stressful life event

A trauma and stress to the body like Covid-19 can cause the Telogen Effluvium (TE) phase. This occurs when hair is

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