Best Brain Foods

Eat healthy to keep your mind sharp!

Everyday Health features an article by Katherine Lee focused on a healthy diet for brain fitness. This article is a good summation of both healthy and unhealthy foods and beverages. I wonder if you’ll need the product advertised on the website if you follow the nutritional guidelines offered?

Physical Activity for Seniors

Free CHAMP Manuals and Great Resources!

How cool! Community Healthy Activities Model Program for Seniors, CHAMPS, offers a free manual helping you conduct an effective exercise program for seniors in your community. The CHAMPS II Program Manual, (2003) was produced by the University of California, San Francisco: Institute for Health and Aging, San Francisco, CA. Check out the many resources for physical activity and wellness targeting older adults on the CHAMPS website! Wow!

Physical Activity Campaigns

Recommended ways to promote

physical activities and physical fitness

Task Force on Community Preventive Services provides free research and publications helping people choose programs and policies to improve health and prevent disease within their community. More than 200 interventions have been reviewed by the Task Force on Community Services. Free Community Guides are available addressing 19 health topics including physical activity. Strong evidence suggests using a community-wide campaign to increase physical activity and improve physical fitness among adults and children. Now is the best time to act using these best practices.