Health:
  1.    Drink plenty of water.
  2.    Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar.
  3.    Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.
  4.    Live with the 3 E’s — Energy,  Enthusiasm, and Empathy.
  5.    Make time to practice prayer and meditation or yoga.
  6.    Play more games.
  7.    Read more books than you did in 2008.
  8.    Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.
  9.    Sleep for 7 hours.
  10.  Take a 10-30 minutes walk every day. And while you walk, smile.

Personality:
  11.  Don’t compare your life to others’. You have no idea what
  their journey is all about.
  12.  Don’t have negative thoughts or things you cannot control.
  Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.
  13.  Don’t over do. Keep your limits.
  14.  Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
  15.  Don’t waste your precious energy on gossip.
  16.  Dream more while you are awake.
  17.  Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
  18.  Forget issues of the past. Don’t remind your partner with his/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.
  19.  Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don’t hate others.
  20.  Make peace with your past so it won’t spoil the present.
  21.  No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
  22.  Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
  23.  Smile and laugh more.
  24.  You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

Society:
  25.  Call your family often.
  26.  Each day give something good to others.
  27.  Forgive everyone for everything.
  28.  Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6.
  29.  Try to make at least three people smile each day.
  30.  What other people think of you is none of your business.
  31.  Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your family and friends will. Stay in touch.

Life:
  32.  Do the right thing!
  33.  Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.
  34.  GOD heals everything.
  35.  However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
  36.  No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
  37.  The best is yet to come.
  38.  When you awake alive in the morning, thank GOD for it.
  39.  Your Inner most is always happy. So, be happy.

Just in time for the holidays, some medical advice most people will like: Take a nap. Interrupting sleep seriously disrupts memory-making, compelling new research suggests. But on the flip side, taking a nap may boost a sophisticated kind of memory that helps us see the big picture and get creative.

“Not only do we need to remember to sleep, but most certainly we sleep to remember,” is how Dr. William Fishbein, a cognitive neuroscientist at the City University of New York, put it at a meeting of the Society for Neuroscience last week.

Good sleep is a casualty of our 24/7 world. Surveys suggest few adults attain the recommended seven to eight hours a night.

Way too little clearly is dangerous: Sleep deprivation causes not just car crashes but all sorts of other accidents. Over time, a chronic lack of sleep can erode the body in ways that leave us more vulnerable to heart disease, diabetes and other illnesses.

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pictured above (nphocus photography): Eze Burts, volunteer Youth Basketball Instructor, leads program participants through pushups during routine health exercises for the CLIMB Youth Basketball Camp

Only about a third are in the ‘healthy zone.’ L.A. Unified’s scores also edged up but are below the state average.

By Corina Knoll (LA Times)

When it comes to their physical fitness, students are taking baby steps toward better health, according to results from the 2008 California Physical Fitness Test released Tuesday.

The annual public school test measures six areas, including cardiovascular endurance, body fat percentage and strength and flexibility. Every spring, students in grades five, seven and nine run a mile, among other activities. They are scored on whether their performance falls in the “healthy fitness zone,” a term used to reflect a reasonable level of fitness. 

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