New Year's resolutions

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Need a New Year's resolution? Here are 50 ways to improve your life in 2024

9:01am December 26, 2023

Scroll through Life Kit's New Year's Resolution Planner to find the perfect goal this year, whether it's exercising more, paying off your credit card debt or having more fun.

Sometimes the best new year's resolution is quiet time and self care.

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5 low-key ways to get your new year off to a healthy start

5:00am January 07, 2023

Does the idea of ambitious goal-setting in January turn you off? Try these tips for sustainable self-care instead.

Time is fleeting. Here's how to stay on track with New Year's goals

5:01am January 02, 2023

by Allison Aubrey

As we dive into another new year of resolutions, managing time is the key to success. And learning to organize our time around our goals may mean saying 'no' to activities that don't align.

A pink donut with sprinkles with a bite out of it.

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A Poem For Those Who Dropped The Ball On New Year's Resolutions

6:56am January 31, 2020

by Rachel Martin

As 2020 rang in, there were inevitable promises to diet, exercise and save money. Poet Kwame Alexander shares a community poem of audience-submitted couplets inspired by broken New Year's promises.

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Dr. James Mold, a family physician and author of Achieving Your Personal Health Goals, says doctors should work with their patients to set mutually agreed-upon goals throughout life.

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How To Work With Your Doctor On Healthier Goals For The New Year

6:01am December 31, 2017

by John Henning Schumann

What health goals will you reach for in 2018? And which, if any, will you discuss with your doctor?

Young bodies may more easily rebound from long bouts of sitting, with just an hour at the gym. But research suggests physical recovery from binge TV-watching gets harder in our 50s and as we get older.

Home For The Holidays? Get Off The Couch!

8:59am December 27, 2017

by Patti Neighmond

If you sit too much during middle age — at work and at home — your ability to exercise or even walk in late decades is at risk, research hints. And, of course, your risk of heart disease climbs, too.

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Researchers created the bag on the left as an example of groceries bought in December while those on the right show groceries bought in January. After the New Year, some shoppers add healthier items to their carts but end up taking home more calories than

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How Food Shopping Can Turn New Year's Resolutions Into 'Res-Illusions'

10:49am January 08, 2015

by Alison Bruzek

Many people aim to make healthier food choices in the New Year. A study finds that while people buy more healthy food, they spend just as much on unhealthy foods as they do during the holidays.

U.S. soldiers at Long Binh base in South Vietnam line up to give urine samples at a heroin detection center before departing for the United States. About 20 percent of soldiers said they were addicts, but most didn't continue drug use back home.

What Heroin Addiction Tells Us About Changing Bad Habits

4:15pm January 05, 2015

by Alix Spiegel

Sure, you resolve to exercise more, but somehow it never happens. It could be that your environment is sabotaging you, psychologists say. A famous study about heroin and the Vietnam War explains how.

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