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Effective strategies can help families create healthy habits. (Unsplash+/Getty Images)

Healthy habits and the holiday season: Tips for families to navigate eating, physical activity and sleep

Holly Noelle Schaafsma, University of Guelph; Jess Haines, University of Guelph; Kathryn Walton, University of Guelph, and Raphaëlle Jacob, University of Guelph

Integrating simple habits can help your family maintain healthy eating, sleep and activity behaviours to feel your best during this busy season.
Getting outside – without your phone – is one way to disconnect. We Are/DigitalVision via Getty Images

How to overcome your device dependency and manage a successful digital detox

Kelley Cours Anderson, College of Charleston and Karen Anne Wallach, University of Alabama in Huntsville

Disconnecting from the digital realm from time to time is good for your well-being, but doing so can be difficult. There are steps you can take, however, to get in the habit of putting your phone down.
Do you have a healthy relationship with your phone? Morsa Images/DigitalVision via Getty Images

Here’s how to maintain healthy smartphone habits

Shelia R. Cotten, Clemson University

Healthy smartphone use depends as much on the way you use it as how much you use it. The key is paying attention to your phone behavior.
The fresh flavors taste good now – a here-and-now reward that’s more motivating than potentially avoiding health problems in the future. kajakiki/E+ via Getty Images

Focus on right now, not the distant future, to stay motivated and on track to your long-term health goals

Kaitlin Woolley, Cornell University and Paul Stillman, San Diego State University

Long-term goals can be hard to stick to if the benefits are only way off in the future. Research suggests ways to focus on the here and now to help you ultimately achieve your more far-off targets.
The new rating system shows that eating the right amount of vegetables can lower your risk of heart disease by nearly 20%. Westend61/Getty Images

How unhealthy is red meat? And how beneficial is it to eat vegetables? A new rating system could help you cut through the health guidelines

Aleksandr Aravkin, University of Washington; Christian Razo, University of Washington, and Jeffrey Stanaway, University of Washington

Health guidelines can feel contradictory and hard to interpret. But a new star rating system should help consumers and policymakers better parse the evidence behind health risks and outcomes.
Many people attribute their coffee drinking to the need to feel more alert, but research shows that habit is just as big a driver behind caffeine consumption. Westend61/Getty Images

To break unhealthy habits, stop obsessing over willpower – two behavioral scientists explain why routines matter more than conscious choices

Asaf Mazar, University of Pennsylvania and Wendy Wood, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Understanding and changing the environment in which habits form is a critical step when it comes to breaking unwanted behaviors and forming healthy ones.
As COVID-19 public health measures begin to relax, reflecting on routines and their value is useful when moving toward a ‘new normal.’ (Shutterstock)

What you do every day matters: The power of routines

Megan Edgelow, Queen's University, Ontario

Routines can be powerful tools to help people build a ‘new normal’ as pandemic restrictions lift. Routines can support creativity, boost health and provide meaningful activities and opportunities.
Health goals are among the most popular New Year’s resolutions, but failing to stick to them is so common that it has become a cliché. (Shutterstock)

Got health goals? Research-based tips for adopting and sticking to new healthy lifestyle behaviours

Ryan Rhodes, University of Victoria

Over half of people who intend to make healthy lifestyle changes fail to do so. Understanding the automatic tendencies that prevent people from enacting a new health habit can help them stick to it.
New guidelines for health-care providers advise supporting every individual to achieve their best health, rather than focusing on weight status. (Shutterstock)

Are we over weight yet? New guidelines aim to reduce obesity stigma in health care

Sara F.L. Kirk, Dalhousie University; Angela Alberga, Concordia University, and Shelly Russell-Mayhew, University of Calgary

New Canadian clinical practice guidelines for obesity aim to help reduce the prevalence and impact of weight bias and stigma in clinical care, and also encourage the public to advocate for change.
Commuters jam a Toronto subway platform. Widespread adoption of habits that help prevent infection may boost behavioural herd immunity. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graeme Roy

Coronavirus: How behaviour can help control the spread of COVID-19

Peter Hall, University of Waterloo

Large-scale adoption of simple, individual actions — like disinfecting our germ-laden phone screens — can limit the ability of COVID-19 to get a foothold.
Research suggests that couples who exercise together, stay together. (Shutterstock)

Exercise your way to a better relationship

Scott Lear, Simon Fraser University

In addition to its health and fitness benefits, exercise can also give your relationship a boost – especially if you exercise together.

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  1. COVID-19
  2. Diet
  3. Exercise
  4. Fitness
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  6. New Year's resolutions
  7. Nutrition
  8. Physical activity
  9. Psychology
  10. Technology

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