7-Day Heart-Healthy Meal Plan: 1,200 Calories Help keep your heart in tip-top shape with this delicious heart healthy meal plan. It has long been understood that a healthy diet and lifestyle are the best weapons to protect against heart disease. Research shows that eating healthfully, exercising more, maintaining a healthy weight and not smoking can help reduce heart disease-related deaths by 50 percent. Adopting heart-healthy eating habits just got easier with the help of this delicious 7-day, 1,200-calorie meal plan. The meals and snacks in this plan incorporate heart-healthy foods: fiber-rich fruits, vegetables and whole grains, lean protein and heart-healthy fats like olive oil and avocado. Dishes are seasoned with just a little salt and lots of herbs and spices, to keep things flavorful without adding too much sodium. We made sure that each day is within the recommended limits established by the American Heart Association for sodium, saturated fat and added sugars—nu...
7 simple steps to keep your memory sharp at any age No matter your age, there are times when memory lapses seem to get you down. Fortunately, there are ways to keep your mind sharp, which can also help improve your attitude. Keeping a sharp mind also enables you to figure situations out more effectively and make wiser decisions as you age. There are numerous ways to keep your mind sharp while keeping a positive attitude 1. Keep learning A higher level of education is associated with better mental functioning in old age. Experts think that advanced education may help keep memory strong by getting a person into the habit of being mentally active. Challenging your brain with mental exercise is believed to activate processes that help maintain individual brain cells and stimulate communication among them. Many people have jobs that keep them mentally active, but pursuing a hobby, learning a new skill, or volunteering for a project at work that involves a skill you don't...
Math is very easy if you love it. Watch this video and Learn a easy way for multiplication. Here is an interesting method to visualize multiplication that reduces it to simple counting! Draw sets of parallel lines representi.ng each digit of the first number to be multiplied (the multiplicand, see figs. 1 and 2 further below). Draw sets of parallels, perpendicular to the first sets of parallels, corresponding to each digit of the second number (the multiplier). Put dots where each line crosses another line. On the left corner, put a curved line through the wide spot with no points. Do the same with the right. Count the points in the right corner. Count the points in the middle. Count the ones in the left corner. If the number on the right is greater than 9, carry and add the number in the tens place to the number in the middle (see fig. 2). If the number in the middle is greater than 9, do the same thing except add it to the number from the left corner. Write all those ...