Brain health, sleep, diet: 3 health resolutions for 2025
Taking care of oneself requires a multi-faceted approach: brain, heart, and metabolic health. What research in 2024 has shown us is that improving our health in these areas comes down to three main factors: sleep, diet, and exercise. But how does one start taking action with this intention? And how can we break down such lifestyle changes into manageable steps? In this podcast episode, Medical News Today shares three actionable resolutions that can help improve your health in the new year.
As humans, we are all capable of growth and change. And perhaps, one of the most influential times of the year for transformation and setting the stage for change is New Year’s.
When it comes to making resolutions for health or any other area of life, we may set unrealistic or very large goals that set us up for failure from the start. The key, according to experts, is to start small and be as specific as possible—whether that be via setting a time frame or measurable results.
In Conversation: What makes a diet truly heart-healthy?
Two nutrition studies recently made the headlines when they sounded alarm bells regarding the impact of dietary choices on heart health. What are the “ingredients” of a truly heart-healthy diet, and which foods should we avoid and why if we want to lower our risk of cardiovascular disease? This podcast episode finds answers to these and other questions related to heart-healthy dietary choices.
In April 2024, two nutrition studies made the headlines, emphasizing the critical impact of diet on cardiovascular health.
The first study, which appeared in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition on April 8, was conducted by researchers from the Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology Innovation and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research in Singapore.
It involved 89 adults who were at risk for type 2 diabetes, and it made a finding that might, at first, sound surprising, namely: That eating plant-based meat substitutes offered no significant benefits to heart health over actual animal meat.
This study found that 89% of these consumed more than double the “ideal” allowance recommended by the American Heart Association, which is 1,500 milligrams (mg)Trusted Source of sodium (salt) per day.
