ACE Healthy Living Blog

Feeling freaked out by all the sugar surrounding you during the weeks before and after Halloween? This year, take a different approach and try these four candy-free tricks to treat yourself right without all the sweet-food fright!

To do more than merely survive the energy demands placed on you as a parent, here are a few simple daily tips that can help reenergize your physical, mental, emotional and even spiritual energy so you can actually thrive.

You’ve heard the expression: You are what you eat. Well, as it turns out, a growing body of research suggests that you’re actually what you think you eat. Learn about the many ways mindset can impact your well-being, along with practical suggestions for changing your thoughts to improve your health.

Clearly, there’s a relationship between exercise and the brain, but what is it? What creates such a dramatic improvement in your mood, your mental health and even your memory when you work out? Learn about the changes in brain biochemistry that occur with different forms of exercise, and how you can harness the power of these feel-good chemicals to help propel you to the gym, even when you’re tempted to skip your workout altogether.

Long-term success with health and fitness is possible only when we change how we think about health behaviors. Chores are obligations, while desires draw you toward them and require little to no summoning of your will. Learn how to change your mindset about exercise by examining how you feel about healthy behaviors, and why you should stop doing physical activities you don’t enjoy.