Mental Health Tips
Taking a few minutes to clear your mind and focus on your breath, which can reduce stress.
meditation or mindfulness
Filling half your plate with these colourful plant-based foods, which are packed with vitamins and fibre.
vegetables and fruits
Starting your workout with light activity, like walking or light stretching, to gradually prepare your muscles and heart for more intense exercise.
warm-up
This diet focuses on eating only plant-based foods, completely excluding all animal products like meat, dairy, and eggs.
vegan
This exercise trend involves short, intense bursts of exercise followed by brief recovery periods, designed to maximize calorie burn in less time.
Hight Intensity Interval Training (HIIT)
This practice involves regularly writing down your thoughts, feelings, and experiences in a notebook or digital document.
journaling
Choosing foods like brown rice, oats, and whole-wheat bread instead of their refined, less nutritious counterparts.
whole grains
This type of exercise, like running, swimming, or cycling, strengthens your heart and lungs and improves your overall stamina.
cardio
Advocated for extremely low-carb intake and high fat intake, pushing the body into a metabolic state called ketosis.
Keto
A popular dance fitness program created by Beto Pérez, often taught in group classes to Latin-inspired music with easy-to-follow choreography.
Zumba
Limiting time spent scrolling through social media apps can help reduce this negative feeling often related to comparing yourself to others.
social media anxiety or comparison
Staying properly hydrated throughout the day by regularly drinking this simple, essential liquid.
water
Including activities that improve the range of motion in your joints and muscles, such as stretching or yoga.
flexibility training
This fad diet claims to cleanse your body of toxins, often involving consuming only specific liquids, like juice or broth, for a period of days.
detox diet or cleanse
This wearable technology, often worn on your wrist, tracks various metrics like steps, heart rate, sleep patterns, and calories burned.
Smartwatch, fitness tracker, FitBit
A key strategy for mental well-being is making sure you get enough of this essential restorative process, typically 8-10 hours for teenagers.
Sleep
This means you are eating not too much or too little of something/ anything
eating in moderation
sudden, involuntary, and painful contractions or tightening of one or more muscles
cramps
This dietary pattern suggests only eating during specific hours of the day, with periods of prolonged fasting in between, such as an 8-hour eating window and 16 hours of fasting.
intermittent- fasting
To loose weight you need to do a lot of cardio. True or False?
False. While cardiovascular exercise (running, swimming, cycling) is an excellent way to burn calories and improve heart health, you do not need to do a "lot" of it—or even any at all—to lose weight.
Weight loss is primarily driven by a calorie deficit
This involves reaching out to a trained professional, such as a therapist, counsellor, or school psychologist, when you feel overwhelmed or persistently sad.
professional help or therapy
This essential macronutrient, found in lean meats, fish, beans, and nuts, is crucial for building and repairing tissues, muscles, and organs.
protein
This common mistake involves going from intense physical activity to rest too quickly, potentially causing muscle soreness, dizziness, or even fainting.
cool- down
this diet is an extremely restrictive diet that's grown in popularity mostly via social media as a quick way to lose weight over the last few years. It's made up of only animal products: meat, fish, seafood, eggs and some dairy products like butter.
carnivore- diet
This extreme strength and conditioning workout program often involves complex Olympic lifts, gymnastics movements, and high-intensity metabolic conditioning.
Cross- Fit