New Year, New You? Simple Lifestyle Changes to Make This Your Best Year Ever!

Get Outside More

Reconnect with nature and your surroundings. Nature provides an abundance of benefits such as stress relief, improving short-term memory, restoring mental energy, enhanced creativity and thinking capabilities, as well as sharper concentration and vision. This is even beyond the number of nutrients the sun provides our bodies, such as vitamin D, which is essential for fighting cancer, bone health, supporting the immune system, decreasing the symptoms of asthma, and protecting the brain from dementia. So take a hike in a conservation area, ride your bicycle to work, take your kids to the park more often, or simply take a stroll around the neighborhood. As long as you turn off the television, get outside, and soak up the sun, it works!