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Need a little inspiration to get back to healthy this summer? Look no further than the Internet! Whether youre seeking healthy recipes, new workout ideas, or simply some wellness words of wisdom, these healthy lifestyle blogs will be your new go-to reads!

My New Roots - Sara focuses on seasonal ingredients to create her truly beautiful, vegetarian dishes. This blog will have you excited to stock up on fresh fruits and vegetables at the farmers market this weekend!

Sunday Morning Banana Pancakes - Heather has mastered the art of creating simple, beautiful and healthy recipes! Her photos alone will inspire you to start cooking healthier this summer.

Oh She Glows Angela creates meat and dairy-free recipes, many of which are also free of gluten, soy, and processed ingredients. At first glance, you would never know how healthy her recipes are with the truly crave-able food photos she posts.

Naturally Ella This beautiful food blog, written by Erin, is focused on creating simple, fresh and seasonal vegetarian dishes. Erins photos are outstanding and her recipes are delicious and completely accessible for the home chef!

Fit Foodie Finds Lee from Fit Food Finds has mastered the balance of delicious and healthy food! Her recipes are amazing, and just when you think youre about to lick the screen, shell throw in a workout or two to keep you balanced!

Oh Lady Cakes If youre looking for something sweet made out of real, whole foods, then Ashlae of Oh, Ladycakes is your girl! She puts together drool-worthy recipes that will satisfy your sweet tooth without leaving you feeling guilty.

Sprouted Kitchen Sara has been growing her very successful clean eating blog for a quite a while and it just keeps getting better and better! Her images are stunning and her recipes will have you running out the door for ingredients!

Happyolks Kelsey, the author behind this simple and beautiful food blog, is determined to celebrate the experience of creating a wholesome meal and the happiness that comes with it!

Green Kitchen Stories This vegetarian blog, written by the most adorable family of three, was the winner of this years Saveur Best Special Diets Blog, and for good reason! If you want decadent vegetarian recipes, this will be your new favorite blog!

Lemon Stripes Health Coach turned fashion blogger Julia is an inspiration to all fashionistas. She is very open and honest on her blog about her life, her career, and how she over comes obstacles. If you like fashion, then you will love Lemon Stripes.

Summer Tomato Darya is a food and health writer based in San Francisco. Her blog, Summer Tomato, is a great resource for healthy recipes, advice on creating healthy habits, and fitness tips!

Whole Foodie Booty Health Coach Shannon shares some of her best secrets for feeling great and living a healthy lifestyle without restricting yourself. Her positive attitude and outlook really shines through in her writing.

Maria Marlowe Another Health Coach to follow, Maria shares excellent tips on her blog that even the most savvy health nut can benefit from! Follow along to find tips and tricks for living a health life. If you like what you see, Maria also leads classes and one-on-one coaching sessions!

Holli Thompson This author of Discover Your Nutritional Style writes truly inspiring blog posts about living healthy. Holli will introduce you to new ingredients, recipes, and wellness tips that youll be using all year!

Vishnus Virtues Vishnu is all about quitting your job and finally doing what you love and what will make you feel fulfilled with your life! His inspiring approach to life is a great read, even if you dont want to quit your 9 to 5!

Sarah Wilson This Australian Native will do more than help you quit eating sugar; she also posts truly inspirational material that will make living your healthiest life a breeze!

Fierce Fabulous Free Nisha Moodley is about as inspirational as they come! Follow along as she opens up about the ups and downs of her life and sharing how to deal with all that life has to offer.

Ask Lauren Fleshman This professional runner shares her experience as a runner, including all the highs and lows. Lauren answers questions for runners of all experience levels and is a very motivational writer.

Daily Cup of Yoga Follow along as these yogis teach you what it means to incorporate yoga into your daily routine and how you can start getting in shape and living a peaceful life.

Run to the Finish Let Amanda of Run to the Finish motivate you to find your inner runner as she takes you on her journey to live her healthiest life. Shell post fitness tips, clean eating habits, and consistent encouragement as you work toward your personal goals!

Fit Bottomed Girls This fun fitness blog is written by two women who know that fitness is an essential part of living a healthy lifestyle. Let them guide you on your journey to getting into better shape!

Peanut Butter Fingers This healthy lifestyle blogger, Julie, posts great workout inspiration, healthy recipes, and plenty of puppy pictures! Its a very fun and informative read.

Purely Twins This website, written by two fitness loving twin sisters, is a one-stop shop for all things fitness and wellness. Follow along as Lori and Michelle post inspiration content and host motivational fitness programs like Purely Fit Life Club.

Powercakes This blog written by Kasey, a certified personal trainer, will inspire you to start a successful fitness routine this summer while still enjoying all that life has to offer!

Whats on your summer blog reading list?

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Healthy Lifestyle Key to NCD Prevention

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BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN: Health service providers are urged to be prepared in meeting health challenges. They must not only ensure the continuous better health care and well-being of the people, but more importantly, strive to improve the services, clinical procedures and also management, said the Minister of Health yesterday during the Inaugural of the Brunei Darussalam Cardiac Society and the Cardiology Symposium.

In his address, Yang Berhormat Pehin Orang Kaya Johan Pahlawan Dato Seri Setia Awg Hj Adanan Begawan Pehin Siraja Khatib Dato Seri Setia Awg Hj Md Yusof said cardiovascular and other non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Yang Berhormat Pehin explained that most NCDs can be prevented by means of early detection of risk factors and adopting healthy lifestyle.

In this regard, he said his Ministry is working relentlessly to promote awareness and understanding about the importance of health care measures through prevention and control of chronic diseases as well as NCD's, through various healthy lifestyle programme being held from time to time.

Yang Berhormat Pehin added, the cardiology services have been expanding over the years and the quality of service has improved tremendously. Advanced cardiac procedures are already performed in the country.

Meanwhile, the Brunei Darussalam Cardiac Society was formed early this year, bringing together international speakers from across ASEAN to give lectures on various important cardiology related topics.

The objectives of the Society were to advance the science and art of cardiology in Brunei, and to achieve international standards of best practice for cardiology. It also promotes education, research and training in cardiology and related disciplines to enhance the professional status of cardiology, advocate high standards of practice and professional conduct.

The function saw the presentation of the Cardiac Society Awards to experts who have made contributions to cardiology services in the country. More than two hundred and fifty participants attended the two-day symposium.

Meanwhile in a media conference, the President of the Brunei Darussalam Cardiac Society said that the groups existence has helped to raise awareness on cardiac diseases. In the conference, Dato Dr Isham Jaafar also stressed that the cardiac society also acts as a guide in improving cardiology practises in the country and related disciplines apart from responding to the titah made by His Majesty the Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Muizzaddin Waddaulah, the Sultan and the Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam in relation to the issue.

The Brunei Darussalam Cardiac Society was endorsed by the Registrar of Associations early this year and has more than sixty members including doctors, nurses and allied professionals in the field. The association's objective is to improve cardiovascular health which can only be achieved through education, research, quality control and knowledge sharing especially among ASEAN member nations.

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50 Ideas for a Healthy Lifestyle that take 10 Minutes or Less

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What is a Healthy Lifestyle?

According to a study by Michigan State University, a healthy lifestyle is defined by four basic criteria:

Of the 153,000 respondents, only 3% participated in all four of what are termed healthy lifestyle characteristics.

We have millions of people now going through adult life leading unhealthy lifestyles and a medical system that can treat illnesses and keep you alive longer than ever before, said Mathew Reeves, a Michigan State University epidemiologist. If we dont turn this around, the costs to society are going to be crippling.

What can be done to help people change?

Everyone talks about achieving it, but most people have plenty of excuses as to why they cant, wont, or dont want to change their current status. The most common excuse people make for not trying to have a healthy lifestyle is a lack of time. Have you ever said to yourself, Oh, Im tired, I dont have time to exercise? or I dont feel like cooking dinner tonight; lets just get some fast food.

Yes Dorothy, excuses are real and they are contagious.

Time and health always seem to be at odds with each other.

What can you do in 10 minutes or less? More than you think. In a brief 10 minute window you can release tension, prevent future frustrations, get your blood flowing, etc. In fact, here are 50 things you can do. With time out as an excuse, what are you going to begin doing differently tomorrow? I dont care what it is, the point is, just do something!

Here are some ideas. If you have other thoughts, leave them in the comments!

These things take no time at all but they all could ensure a positive day and a healthier lifestyle. How many of these do you or can you do in a day? What other things can you add to the list?

Whatever you choose to do, make your day healthier and happier. If you can, do the same for someone else too, because, after all, its about a healthy lifestyle!

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Often referred to as the eyes and ears on the ground, Resident Assistants (RAs) serve as the first line of defense if a situation arises among residents. But just how well are RAs trained to handle the growing mental health crisis thats impacting life at Stevens? The following article is a reflection on my experience with the mental health training I endured as a first-year RA.

Staff training begins roughly two weeks before the fall semester kicks off. During that time, RAs are on the clock from essentially 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. observing presentations, acting out scenarios, and getting messy with construction paper for bulletin boards. The presentations trained on a wide variety of topics including crisis response, fire safety, expectations on duty, active shooting, diversity and inclusion, and many others.

We also bore witness to a number of presentations specific to the mental well-being of both our residents and ourselves. The first of these was regarding the CARE team, given by Dean of Students, Kenneth Nilsen, and Health Educator and Case Manager, Gabrielle Guider. This training was specific to new RAs and highlighted the internal and external procedures surrounding a CARE report submission. CARE reports allow you to report anonymously or not, its your choice a non-emergency situation that you have observed about a friend. This notifies the proper individuals to reach out to the person youre worried about and try to provide appropriate resources.

The training itself focused on how and when to submit a report for someone. The training itself didnt teach me anything new, though I know that wasnt the case for everyone else. Indirectly though, it laid forth what I saw as a crucial message pertaining to our roles as RAs. We arent supposed to intervene and assist in the lives of our residents; we just exist to report and refer if something happens.

Following this, we were given a presentation on psychological warning signs from Director Dr. Eric Rose and Assistant Director Dr. Melissa Zarin of Stevens Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS). This was a far more comprehensive session on how we can recognize symptoms of specific types of eating, depressive, and anxiety disorders that are common among college students. The list of things we were told we could have encountered was so extensive and niche that many of the symptoms taught were behaviors at which I never would have batted an eye. I felt the technical approach of learning the definitions and forms different disorders take, as well as the appropriate resources to refer residents upon diagnosis, worked very well to teach individuals at a science and technology oriented university.

Rose and Zarin also addressed the much darker topic of suicide prevention through a QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer) certification a few days later. As we began to walk through the symptoms and signs to look out for, the realness and severity of what we were dealing with started to strike a chord in my mind. I vividly remember going over self-harm and being told by Rose that aiming to stop a resident from harming themselves is unrealistic. Instead, we should put our efforts toward trying to mitigate the damage they do to their bodies through safer cutting practices.

Up until this point, everything we had learned was a concrete if you notice x, then respond with y. For the first time, we were being told that the best approach was to be ourselves and connect as humans in these situations. I left the presentation mortified. We were just painted a picture of the most extreme situation that could happen the one no RA hopes to experience and left it at that.

I was afraid of having to handle anything we talked about. Yet, the more we talked about self-harm and suicide among residents, the more these ideas were brought down to Earth as something that can be handled and resolved just like a roommate conflict or work order. By having the harder conversations, I felt more confident that I would be ready for these situations, should they arise.

Sure enough, we put all the skills we talked about into practice later that day. A notorious part of RA training is called Behind Closed Doors (BCDs). Here, returning RAs act out real situations that new staff need to walk into and resolve. Inside the room are other RAs and professional staff from various departments to help discuss what can be improved upon after youve enacted the scenario. Though stressful to go through, the pseudo-experience provided from BCDs most directly translates to what we need to deal with on the job. Whether it was an eating disorder reported from a roommate, or a resident having suicidal desires, they were all very realistic and applicable. Despite the pressure from all eyes on you, being able to receive real-time feedback on how to better approach an issue through body language, tone of voice, word choice, etc. is unparalleled in value. If I had to choose one part of the training that best prepared me for my role, it was performing BCDs.

From here, the conversations in training started to shift slightly towards our own self-care and living a generally healthy lifestyle. Guider presented later that week on the wellness model she prepared for our university. She elaborated on each discipline of wellness needed to make healthy living more attainable, including physical, mental, spiritual, financial, and several others. Each of these categories was applicable to our own lives, as well as the lives of our residents seeking advice, and how we could better partition our time to be more mentally well.

With that we concluded any direct training for addressing mental health before we opened the doors and met our residents for the first time in the fall. Though I wont elaborate on them, there were still plenty of presentations indirectly tackling the mental health of our residents, such as roommate conflict mediation or how to confront a resident with care.

Additionally, during our winter training, we performed additional BCDs and listened to an informative presentation from Rose on seasonal depression and other things to expect with our residents returning from break. RA Daniel Raleigh also gave his own presentation titled Who Counsels the Counselor? that opened discussion on how to appropriately approach having an emotional investment in the lives of our residents and proper practices to distract and recover from the situations we experience.

Bearing the weight of the mental health and well-being of dozens of new college students on our shoulders sounds intensive and stressful. To call the role of a RA anything less is an understatement. Its truly impossible to comprehend what we go through without actually experiencing it first hand.

After surviving my first semester as an RA, I feel comfortable saying that what we learned in training was an accurate reflection of what we experience day to day. It prepared me well to handle any and every situation.

When you become responsible for your residents in the eyes of the university, you want to do anything you can to see them succeed. My greatest personal challenge has been balancing the emotional and professional investments I have in the lives of my residents. With all of the terrifying shortcomings and scenarios I was taught to prepare for, Im content saying that my weakest area thus far has been caring too much.

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