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The New Year is here! Let this be a year of new beginnings, new hopes and new adventures! What’s your New Year’s Resolution? Check out our list of the Top Ten New Year’s Resolutions for 2008. The cold and flu season is upon us, so take a look at 4 ways you can keep healthy this winter. Got cabin fever? Get out and discover the many things going on around town this month!
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1) Spend More Time with Family & Friends
Recent polls show that more than 50% of Americans vow to appreciate loved ones and spend more time with family and friends this year.
2) Fit in Fitness
The evidence is in for fitness. Regular exercise has been associated with more health benefits than anything else known to man. Studies show that it reduces the risk of some cancers, increases longevity, helps achieve and maintain weight loss, enhances mood, lowers blood pressure, and even improves arthritis. In short, exercise keeps you healthy and makes you look and feel better.
3) Tame the Bulge
Fifty-five percent of adults in America are overweight, so it is not surprising to find that weight loss is one of the most popular New Year’s resolutions. Setting reasonable goals and staying focused are the two most important factors in sticking with a weight loss program, and the key to success for those millions of Americans who made a New Year’s commitment to shed extra pounds.
4) Quit Smoking
If you have resolved to make this the year that you stamp out your smoking habit, over-the-counter availability of nicotine replacement therapy now provides easier access to proven quit-smoking aids. Even if you’ve tried to quit before and failed, don’t let it get you down. On average, smokers try about four times before they quit for good. Start enjoying the rest of your smoke-free life!
5) Enjoy Life More
Given the hectic, stressful lifestyles of millions of Americans, it is no wonder that “enjoying life more” has become a popular resolution in recent years.
6) Quit Drinking
While many people use the New Year as an incentive to finally stop drinking, most are not equipped to make such a drastic lifestyle change all at once. Many heavy drinkers fail to quit cold turkey but do much better when they taper gradually, or even learn to moderate their drinking. If you have decided that you want to stop drinking, there is a world of help and support available.
7) Get Out of Debt
Was money a big source of stress in your life last year? Join the millions of Americans who have resolved to spend this year getting a handle on their finances. It’s a promise that will repay itself many times over in the year ahead.
8) Learn Something New
Have you vowed to make this year the year to learn something new? Perhaps you are considering a career change, want to learn a new language, or just how to fix your computer? Whether you take a course or read a book, you’ll find education to be one of the easiest, most motivating New Year’s resolutions to keep. Challenge your mind in the coming year, and your horizons will expand.
9) Help Others
A popular, non-selfish New Year’s resolution, volunteerism can take many forms. Whether you choose to spend time helping out at your local library, mentoring a child, or building a house, these nonprofit volunteer organizations could really use your help.
10) Get Organized
On just about every New Year resolution top ten list, organization can be a very reasonable goal. Whether you want your home organized enough that you can invite someone over on a whim, or your office organized enough that you can find the stapler when you need it, these tips and links should get you started on the way to a more organized life.
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Sip chicken soup
People have always looked to food as medicine. This cold and flu season, I decided to look into the beliefs long held by my mom and many others to see which are nutritionally valid and which are merely folklore.
It turns out there is something to chicken soup after all. In one study, researchers measured nasal mucus velocity (science-speak for “runny nose”) and nasal airflow resistance (stuffy nose) after volunteers drank cold water, hot water or chicken soup. Of the three, hot chicken soup was the most effective at making noses run—a good thing since nasal secretions help rid the body of pathogenic viruses and bacteria. Adding a few hot chiles might help loosen things up even more.
Try vitamin C
Ever since biochemist Linus Pauling proposed megadoses of vitamin C to stave off cold symptoms, research has been piling up to assess its effectiveness. For perspective, I turned to a well-regarded review of 29 studies that involved more than 11,000 participants. The reviewers found that vitamin C failed to reduce the incidence of colds. But overall, with doses of 200 mg or greater (more than twice the 60-75 mg current recommended dietary intake for adults), the duration of colds was shortened by about 8 percent—not a huge difference, but something. There was also a significant reduction in the number of days subjects took off from work or school, which suggests vitamin C might help reduce a cold’s severity. The likelihood of success seems to vary with the person—some people improve after taking vitamin C supplements, others don’t.
Think before you zinc
Zinc’s effectiveness against cold symptoms is more controversial. One study found that zinc lozenges shortened the duration of colds by one-half, while others found no advantage over a placebo. If you want to try zinc lozenges, follow the protocol used in scientific studies: take the lozenges every two hours and stop when your symptoms die down. Don’t assume more is better; excessive doses of zinc can interfere with the absorption of other minerals, and high doses can be toxic.
Get a dose of vitamin D
Since colds and flu tend to strike during the darker winter months, some researchers believe a lack of vitamin D, the “sunshine” vitamin, might have something to do with making us more susceptible. At least one study found that a group of kids who took vitamin D supplements had fewer colds than another group that didn’t. There’s still much to learn, but unless you get steady exposure to the sun in the winter it seems prudent to take a multivitamin that contains 100 percent of the daily value for vitamin D.
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January 1st
23rd Annual New Year's Day 5k Race
(Lincoln Park)
Come celebrate Chicago’s first official 5K running event of 2008 at the 23rd New Year’s Day 5K Run & Walk which has become an iconic annual event among sports enthusiasts!
An estimated 1,000 runners and walkers are expected to welcome 2008 on a healthy footing at the event that starts at the south end of Lincoln Park. The course route then winds north along the lakefront bike path to Diversey Harbor before returning to the North Avenue Field House. A portion of run/walk proceeds will benefit the Lake View Citizens' Council, a non-profit neighborhood organization.
January 1st
11:00 AM start
Lincoln Park (Stockton Drive & LaSalle)
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Throughout January
Earth Revealed
(Hyde Park)
Now Open! Get an up-close and near “real-time” view of our planet Earth in the new Museum of Science and Industry permanent exhibit Earth Revealed. This 6-foot in diameter, solid carbon fiber globe will be dramatically suspended among computers and video projectors, loaded with data sets from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA. The technology will transform the sphere into a dynamic, revolving globe that demonstrates the Earth as a living system.
Ongoing
Times vary
Museum of Science & Industry (5700 S Lake Shore Dr at 57th Street)
See website for details.
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Begins January 18th
Space, Color and Motion
(Evanston)
Space, Color, and Motion presents time-based computer artworks by four artists exhibited in the exhibition Imaging by Numbers: A Historical View of the Computer Print — Jean-Pierre Hébert, Manfred Mohr, James Paterson, and C.E.B. Reas. These works explore computer-generated motion, an important aspect of computer art not featured in Imaging by Numbers.
Ongoing
Times vary
Alsdorf Gallery, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art (40 Arts Circle Drive)
See website for details.
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