Our cognitive and mental well-being are important factors for our quality of life and puts us in good condition to contribute to society. As a result, it may not be possible to reach physical goals and demand life problems if our brains are not optimal.
However, most of us seem to be interested in physical health than brain health. According to Yougov, in 2024, the most popular New Year resolutions in England are more training, saving money, lose weight, and in a few days in about six days, about 20%. A great study of about 1,000 participants showed that the mental health decisions only reflected in 5%.
Using mobile devices and outdated technology is easy to follow your physical health. At the same time, how to improve and follow brain health and mental well-being. In our new book, Brain Boost: Healthy habits for a happy lifeWe conduct research to make practical advice.
A number of factors contribute to our happiness in life, including genetics, social and physical and physical and physical environment, cognitive and lifestyle. Studies showed that a good cognitive function is better related to welfare and happiness.
Interestingly, 2024 World Happitute Report, all five Nordic countries, Denmark, Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden are among the happiest countries. The UK and the United States do not have a feature in the top 10.
In the UK, the Yougov is watching the mood on the website, and this happiness says only 45% of the most expressed emotions feel it. Ideally this number should be higher.
In addition, stressful and frustrating feelings, 40% and 35% of people with these feelings feel the next top emotions. Disappointment, optimism is also low; For example, only 17% of the 18-year-old children and more than 75 years older and a total of 17% of 45 to 54 years of age have averaged optimism.
Happiness and generally reduce the effects of stress and promote their health and longevity.
To nurture your brain
In our book, we emphasize the latest scientific evidence, including ourselves, our brains, our health, cognitive and well-being. How simple and often surprising regulations, developing brain fitness, cognition and increase the general welfare of our daily habits.
We offer small growing steps to improve your lifestyle habits and ensure this adaptation in our daily activities, as well as being pleasant and delicious. In this way, unlike the New Year’s resolutions we refused for six days, we can ensure that we can keep them in life. This puts us in a better position to reach physical difficulties in the future.
These include training, diet, sleep, social interaction, kindness, mindfulness and learning and know how to get the best of work. For example, the exercise, “comprehensive” can increase our physical health, and at the same time, “thorough”, as we can increase our brains, cognitive and mood. In fact, research showed that our hypokampus, which is critical for training and memory.
Similarly, every night the optimal number of sleep, immune system, our brain structure and mental welfare can develop our mind. Own research, in the middle of the seven-year-olds in the middle of the seven years in adulthood, he said that he was sleeping with a better brain structure; cognition like processing speed and memory; and mental health.
Being socializing socially, our brains play an important role in our health. We have shown that the elderly isolated in the older adults have shown that the dementia is associated with a 26% increase. About five of the optimal number of minors is associated with a better brain structure, cognition, education and well-being.
It is also important to learn new things and keep neural turnovers in our brains at the best levels for as long as possible. To keep our body, we must try ourselves mentally to keep our brains actively to make our body training.
It builds cognitive reserves and helps us during stress. We can also keep our brains active in a number of ways, for example, a new language learning or how to play a musical instrument. Or you can read an educational book about something that interests you.
It is very important to keep our body healthy. But to be happy, we need to educate our brains if it is well protected against diseases such as mental sharpness and dementia.
These simple strategies are important to carry out the happiest and more to make our brain health and prosperity. As a result, lifestyle choices play an important role in reducing stress and sustainability, creativity and general quality of life.
Barbara Jacquelyn is a professor of a clinical neurricology at the University of Cambridge.
Christelle Langley is a research in a neuroscopistic post-in-law in Cambridge University.
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