Main Ingredient is The Public Health

Many health teachers focus on one aspect of health and called it the "key" to health. Perhaps diet, exercise, detox, breathing, positive attitude, or meditation. We can all agree that all of the things that contribute to a healthy lifestyle, but Roseto Effect perhaps most important of all.

What Roseto Effect?
In 1960, a group of Italian immigrants settled in Roseto, PA. When they are shunned by their English and Welsh neighbors, they create an isolated community that maintained close their traditional customs. People smoke and drink alcohol to leave. They do a tiring job at the mine. Can not afford the olive oil from their homeland, the women use lard to cook and eat food that would make a cardiologist cringe. However, in spite of what we refer to as "an unhealthy lifestyle," they have half the rate of heart attacks as the rest of the country. Moreover, they do not have a crime and some recipients of public assistance. Why?

What researchers found was that the main ingredient is the public health. Feel secure in your role in society, to have people who care about warm around, stay connected with their parents, have a stable routine, and feel supported is a better predictor of longevity and happiness of low cholesterol or if you smoke. It seems that the food and the adrenaline is not the only way to maintain and stimulate the mind and body. Nurture healthy relationships.

If you want to add another dimension to your health regimen, here are some changes you can make now.

• Get revoked. Have special hours or days when you commit to not use the internet at all.
• Get face time. Communicate face to face as much as possible with the people you care about and want to have a close relationship with. Forget the phone call. Forget email. Sit and look at each other.
• Sharing laughter. If you have something funny or good happens in your life, share.
• Provide support. If you have the time or talent to share, give it to someone who will appreciate it. Begin with your own family. If they are not nearby, check out the charity. They are always looking for volunteers.
• Ask for help. Americans are so conditioned to be a self-starter and achievement can we forget to ask for help. Let someone else to be there for you. Relationship of giving and receiving.
• Dinner at the table with someone you care about. How many times we ate at our table, in the street, or alone in front of the television? Stop! It is the behavior of human conduct, not a Human Being. Do you want to live or just get through it?
• Pursuing productivity than material success. Those who find it a rewarding experience a greater sense of control, more resistant, and feel more satisfied with life than those who do not have it. This does not mean you can not have both. It's a matter of focus.
• For Yourself. How many times have we heard the crowd is a lonely place? Social beings instead of just being in the presence of others. It's about sharing your true self. When you see, hear, understand, and accepted, you bloom.
• Be careful. Part of what makes loneliness and separation is when you are not present. Stop thinking about what you have to say next. Stop thinking about what you need to do later. Stop thinking about what happened last week. Just to be where you are right now.
• Accept others without judging. If you want to be accepted as you are, you have to be willing to do the same for others.