Healthy Living

Resolving to exercise more, lose weight, eat healthily and so on can lead to a constant uphill battle. If your lifestyle is naturally sedentary and your eating patterns have been constant for years, the "new you" will struggle to constantly find motivation to do things differently - old habits are hard to change.

Instead of trying to make resolutions, then, focus on making good habits - and breaking bad ones. Here's how:

Shelbyville, Indiana native Edna Parker is now believed to be the world's oldest person. At 114 years of age, Edna attributes her prolific longevity to abstaining from alcohol and tobacco and leading an active life.

So aside from keeping active and eschewing booze and cigarettes, what else do centenarians do to live such long lives?

Aside from the usual suspects of hitting the jackpot in the genetic lottery, exercising and healthy eating - here are some other habits that help people cut a deal with father time:

Back pain is epidemic.

80% of the population will at some point in their lives experience a bout of low back pain. In fact it is the most common cause of work-related disability and the second-most common cause of physician visits behind cold/flu. It costs the economy billions and places an incalculable toll on the livelihood of millions.

Here are 5 ways you can help alleviate and/or prevent lower back pain from interfering with your life...

Many people fall in love with the “idea” of change. That is why the “idea” of a diet is so alluring. It sounds so Hollywood (for whatever reason!) to say, “Oh, I simply can’t eat that... I’m on a diet.”

The BBC has a huge feature on eating healthy and losing weight - called the Big Challenge. The mini-site has a massive amount of information, tools, and even diet and exercise programmes.