Productive Ways to Use Your Time
Productive Ways to Use Your Time
In order to lead a healthy and positive life, one must engage in positive activities. For people struggling with the many stressors that life throws our way, there are other things to keep our positive focus. The following is a list of ways to utilize your time productively:
- Listen to music. Music can put you in a great mood. Avoid music that makes you feel sad or angry.
- Watch TV. It’s ok to be a couch potato sometimes. This is a great time to catch up on shows that you missed.
- Read. It could be the newest magazine to hit stands or a steamy romance novel. Engaging in reading not only helps pass time but it stimulates the mind and increases your vocabulary.
- Play a game. This could include a crossword puzzle, solitaire, cards, or checkers.
- Create a new recipe/cook for your family. If you like to cook this is a great for you. This is also a great time to bond with your family.
- Exercise. Exercising is good for your mind, body, and is a great way to boost energy…and pass time.
- Take a bubble bath/aroma therapy bath. This is a great way to relax.
- Call and speak to a long distance friend or family member.
- Clean up your house. This is the best time to get caught up on some house chores, such as laundry.
- Make a list of things that you want to do before you die. This may sound a little morbid, but this can be a really fun activity. Think of all the places you want to visit and different foods you want to try. Get those cognitive juices flowing!
*For more information and more ideas of ways to spend you down time go to:
http://www.danielbranch.com/50-things-to-do-on-a-boring-day-at-home/
Nutrition and Ways to Stay Healthy
Nutrition and Ways to Stay Healthy
Having good nutrition carries with you throughout life. Something that we eat today could have a negative effect on us in the future. A balance diet consists of consuming fresh fruits and vegetables. Be sure to choose lean meats like poultry and fish, as well as other proteins like beans, eggs, and nuts. Avoid whole milk and foods that are high in cholesterol, trans-fats, saturated fats, high sodium (salt), or added sugar.
Tips for Maintaining a healthy Diet
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Set yourself up for success
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Moderation is the key
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Fill up on colorful fruits and vegetables
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Eat more healthy carbs and whole grains
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Enjoy healthy fats, avoid unhealthy fats
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Reduce sugar and salt
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Add calcium foe bone health
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Bulk up on fiber
Staying healthy doesn’t stop there. All too often we are faced with the reality of being diagnosed with a health problem that could have otherwise been avoided. By increasing physical activity, these problems can decrease and be less problematic. Physical activity can be anything from going to the gym or simply dancing to your favorite song. The following are a list of age-appropriate activities to promote good health:
Children and Adolescents:
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Aerobics: brisk walking and running
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Muscle-strengthening: gymnastics and push-ups
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Bone-strengthening: jumping rope and running
Adults and Older Adults:
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Aerobics: brisk walking
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Muscle-strengthening: activities that target all the major muscle groups (legs, hips, back, abdomen, chest, shoulders, and arms)
*For more information, go to: http://www.cdc.gov/healthyweight/healthy_eating/
Common Myths and Misconceptions about the Transmission of HIV
Common Myths and Misconceptions about the Transmission of HIV
1) I can get HIV by being around other people who are HIV positive.
2) I don’t need to worry about contracting HIV, new medication will keep me well.
3) I can get HIV from mosquitoes.
4) I have been infected with HIV, my life is over.
5) AIDS is the new holocaust.
6) If I am receiving treatment then I cannot spread the HIV virus.
7) I am a heterosexual and I do not use IV drugs, therefore I will not contract HIV.
8) My partner and I are both HIV positive; therefore there is no need to practice safe sex.
9) I would be able to tell if my partner was HIV positive.
10) You can’t get HIV through oral sex.
11) HIV can be cured by having sex with a virgin.
12) HIV is the same thing as AIDS.
*For more information about common myths and facts please visit:
http://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/top-10-myths-misconceptions-about-hiv-aids
W.O.R.T.H.: Dinner & Discussion
Join us for our monthly Dinner and Discussion!
Sessions are open to newly diagnosed individuals as well as those returning to care.
Please call us at 615-256-3882 or email: [email protected] for more details and location information.
AIDS Memoir – Book Review
Catherine Wyatt-Morley, while refusing to play a victim, presents the physical, psychological and social reality of living with HIV/AIDS. Her story is one of love, faith and hope in the direst circumstances. Separating disease fact from fiction, she provides a rare view into an adverse world that must simultaneously be combated and embraced.
To purchase this book, go here!
Leave your comments below. We want to hear what you thought of her book!
*W.O.M.E.N. would like to thank the Old Wilmington Road Neighborhood Resource Center Book Club for making this book part of their collection and current focus. Thank you all for your support.
Hepatitis and African Americans
Just like HIV, Hepatitis C is a major health issue affecting the African American community. In the US, people of all races are adversely affected by a Hepatitis C infection. However, for reasons that are not yet understood, African Americans have disparate clinical features (for example, response to therapy) and more complications from Hepatitis C infection than Caucasians.In fact, African Americans are twice as likely to be infected as opposed to other races. Today, of the 3.2 million people infected with Hepatitis C, 22% of them are African American. According to the Center for Disease Control, chronic liver disease, often Hepatitis C related, is a leading cause of death among African Americans age 45-64. In addition, African Americans have a substantially higher rate of chronic Hepatitis C infection than Caucasians and other ethnic groups.
It must be noted that there is currently NO vaccine for Hepatitis C, and the best way to avoid infection is to avoid behaviors that may spread the virus. As always, you can make an appointment or walk right in to W.O.M.E.N. and we can test you for HIV and Hepatitis.
W.O.M.E.N. is excited to Introduce ’20 4 20′
From successful books to powerful movies, distinguished interviews and recognition of the highest regard, Catherine Wyatt-Morley has lead the charge for W.O.M.E.N. for almost 20 years. From strangers to clients to family, brainstorms to successes, a vision to fruition – the past 19 years have brought Women On Maintaining Education and Nutrition through so many exciting achievements, and now we are one step away from the beginning of something the country has never seen in W.O.M.E.N.’s H.O.U.S.E.
Women On Maintaining Education and Nutrition is excited to launch a campaign that is very dear to our hearts, 20 4 20. We are asking for donations from $20 to $2,000,000,000 to prepare us for the even more exciting years ahead of us. As we kick off this exciting endeavor, we think of what we have ahead of us. W.O.M.E.N.’s H.O.U.S.E., HIV Looks Like Me, testing and counseling, we are working hard to maintain the dependable, personalized social services we have specialized in since our inception.
To participate in our 20 4 20 campaign, please help us spread the word and donate, donate, donate! Simply click on the ‘Donate Now’ tab on the right of the screen.
Thank you for being a part of our family, and helping us move forward in our 20th year.
Confidential Conversations
When life isn’t easy…caring, Confidential Conversations effective counseling will help you through the rough patches. W.O.M.E.N. understands that many internal and external factors contribute to cognitive and emotional well-being, including relationships with loved ones, financial issues, work environment, health concerns, and coping behaviors/skills. Stress can lead to physical symptoms ranging in severity from headache, heart palpitations, heart attack, stroke and so much more. Our holistic approach to whole person well-care works with you to identify and navigate towards emotional well-being, and helps you deal with life’s inevitable challenges. Confidential Conversations Licensed Clinical Therapist is waiting to help you.
There is no cost.
To sign up, simply click here and fill out the form!
We all need help sometimes.
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