Creating Wellness for Personal Application

 

To achieve lasting holistic health and boost human flourishing to help with the development of health, happiness, wholeness we need to follow three simple steps. If we follow the simple theory of cause-and-effect we can eliminate suffering from our lives. 

 

The first step is to find and remove unnecessary obstacles, such as confusions, anger, stress, and other energy burning activities and feelings.

 

The second step is to gradually train your brain away from mental negativity and chattering. Replace it with mindfulness, living-kindness, and positive thinking.

 

The third step is to use different techniques to develop consciousness, inner calmness, wisdom, and an open heart.

 

I am applying these steps daily for many years now. I find myself healthier, happier, and the negative people around me are also changing. I am still working on my development because it is a never ending journey into the inner-self. The deeper I dig into consciousness the more freedom, from this world, I get.

 

Personal Assessment

Stress: Management and Prevention

People who don't manage stress well can have headaches, stomach pain, sleeping problems, illness, and depression. You can help manage stress by journaling, meditating, exercising, talking to others, or engaging in a hobby.

 

This paper will help you with resource list on exercises and assessments. Also, will help you to think and understand stress.



Multicultural Resources for Contemporary Diet and Nutrition. Part V

 

Contemporary Weight Loss Programs

 

• The advertised results of weight-loss without diet and exercise should be very suspicious.  To lose weight and maintaining a healthy weight it is a lifestyle change that includes healthy eating, regular physical activity, and balancing the number of calories (Alakkam, 2013).

Multicultural Resources for Contemporary Diet and Nutrition. Part IV

 

The Organic Food Movement

• Research shows a few differences between organic and conventional foods in the content of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, proteins or other nutrient measures.  Research stated that organic food has more phosphorous, higher levels of a type of antioxidant called phenols, and milk and chicken contained more omega-3 fatty acids than conventional products (Organic Not Necessarily Better for You, 2012).  Conventional food shows 30% higher on chemicals than organic food.

Multicultural Resources for Contemporary Diet and Nutrition. Part III

• Religious or ethnic food pattern are strong influence in people diet.  Certain religions fallow rules of consumption of food and drinks.  Many religious people do not eat pork, drink alcohol, and practice fasting (Religion and Dietary Practices , 2013).  Ethnic food pattern can be beneficial for health or luck of nutrition, for example Hispanic food low on calcium, vitamin A, iron, and high in fat (Ethnic Food Patterns, 2011). 

Multicultural Resources for Contemporary Diet and Nutrition. Part II

 

 

Genetically Engineered Food

• The agricultural biotechnology is a breeding techniques or artificial selection, where human decides which trait is desirable, and artificially increases the reproductive success of organisms with this trait (Biotechnology Frequntly Asked Questions, 2013).

Multicultural Resources for Contemporary Diet and Nutrition. Part I

Food Choices

•  Social pressure influence our food choices, like festive, social occasions and family tradition always revolve around food (Social, 2013).  For example, culture and traditions that repeat at specific times, like Thanksgiving and Easter, often encourage us to eat more than we normally would.  Food has been a good way to show friendship and hospitality.  Other factors that influence food choices are psychological factors, which are based on feelings and emotions (Psychological , 2013). 

Healthy Aging Classes

Most people don’t realize that after age 40 the body’s clock is set up to promote decline, decay, and deterioration. Genetically-timed events trigger changes to your metabolism that accelerate the aging process, thereby increasing the risk of cancer, heart disease and many other degenerative diseases. It seems hard to believe that your body would want to set you up for a number of life threatening diseases; but it does.

Aging and Nutrition

As we age, we lose lean body mass and bone density, with this loss we lose body water. Body fat increases with age because we eat too many calories. Digestive secretion diminish and do not absorb nutrients from food as much as before. Vitamins and supplements maybe the only way to replenish deficit of nutrients in the aged bodies. By having a basic idea how many vitamins and minerals body needs will help to keep body healthy and prevent overdosing and malnutrition.

Fitness and Exercise Design

The holistic perspective on health and healing is a complex connection between mind, body, and spirit. An individuals who are using holistic approaches sometimes overlook the benefits of fitness. Some reasons could be lack of time, knowledge, embarrassment, age, mobility. Many trail studies show that physical activity can improve or lead to positive health effects. For example, physical activity is correlated with a reduced probability of developing diabetes and certain forms of cancer, enhance cardio respiratory health, and reduce the risk of depression and cognitive decline. Physical professionals can help you with fitness and exercise assessments and schedules.

Here are some examples of individuals assessment matrix.

Useful Websites

This CDC website is help you on variety of information and different topics, such as healthy brain, preventive services, emergency preparedness, advance care planning for chronic diseases. Also, website includes data and statistics, news and press release.

To find more information on CDC Healthy Aging go here: CDC Healthy Aging

National Institute of Health (NIH) have a good information and tips on healthy aging. Website includes videos, stories, tips, and training tools. In addition, you can search healthy topics from A to Z.

To find more information on NIH go here: Senior Health


National Consul on Aging (NCOA) provides information on public policy, training, community education, and prevention. NCOA website have a good resources on chronic diseases, falls, physical activity, behavior health, and self-management.

To find more information on NCOA go here: Center for Healthy Aging

Eating Well as You Age

As we age our bodies metabolism slows down, we start noticing that we have belly fat more than usual. At 40, maybe it is not a big deal and we keep continue to eat unhealthy, until some years later we realize that our knees hurts from exes body mass and we start to shop for bigger dress sizes. This article will help you to nourish your body, explain what healthy eating means, and what cause unhealthy diet.

This article is good for my future goal because healthy diet can help to slow aging process. By helping people to chose healthier food can prolong quality of life. 

 

The article can be found here: Eating Well as You Age   

How to Sleep Well as You Age

Sleeping is an important part of our lives and no matter how old you are sleeping is essential for your health. This article will help you to overcome age-related sleep problems and may prevent mental diseases. Tips in this article will help you to change some negative behaviors and will lead you to a good night rest.

For my professional goal the article is useful to me because I have to know why people after age of 50, have problem to sleep. To help them to change behavior and establish routines, tips in this article will be handy to me.

The article can be found here: How to Sleep Well as You Age  

Stress Symptomes, Signs, and Causes

We are always overlooking the firs signs of stress but when we get sick we are still wondering, how. Sometimes stress transforms into chronic illness that affect mental and emotional state of human-being. By recognizing symptoms, we can prevent dementia, Alzheimer's, depression, and even suicide. This article will help you to identify if  your body is stressed and provide information on how to manage stress also.

This article will be useful for my profession because I want to teach people how to recognize and manage stress before they enter into senior age. By introducing holistic approaches that help to reduce stress, to middle age people, will help them to experience better and more active senior's life.

The article you can find here: Stress Symptoms, Signs, and Causes

Welcome!

As we mature, we are getting notice that we taking more medicine, seeing physician more often, or experiencing strange symptoms. Some confusion comes from not knowing how to inter into aging. We concentrating of preparing teenagers to inter into adult life, but when we become older adults we are struggling to understand the Gerotranscendence. Here, together we can help each other to research and discuss topics on healthy aging and create our Happy Golden Years!