HowTos Index

How To Relax
The Relaxation Response is a proven way to teach a person to relax and reduce high blood pressure. Learn the easy steps to daily relaxation.

How To Grocery Shop for Longevity
The foods we buy impact how long we live. Learn to grocery shop for a long, healthy life.

How To Sleep Well in a Hospital
Sleep is an important part of healing, but sleep in hospitals and ICUs is challenging. Increase your chances of healing fast by focusing on sleep with these easy tips.

How To Live 14 Years Longer
Living longer means exercising, eating fruits and vegetables, not smoking and drinking some alcohol. Together, these can add 14 years to your life. Learn what you need to do to increase your longevity and life expectancy and feel good in the meantime.

How To Make Sure-Fire New Year's Resolutions
Most people make a New Year's resolution, and most people fail by February. This is because their resolutions are all wrong. By taking time to make a good, solid resolution, you can ensure your success. Spend some time goal setting, thinking it through, and creating a sure-fire New Year's resolution.

How To Learn to Love Exercise
We all know that exercise is good for our health now. Exercise is also good for our health 50 years from now. By establishing a weekly fitness routine, we can feel better now and for years to come. The easiest way to do this is to learn to love exercise.

How To Meditate for Brain Health, Mental Fitness and Energy
Meditation is a mind/body state that brings benefits for healing, stress reduction, and even longevity. By investing 20 minutes a day in meditation, your life will probably improve through this daily time-out that gives you calmness and perspective.

How To Slow Down Your Eating
Eating too fast We eat too fast. It takes about 20 minutes for the hormones in your stomach to tell your brain that it is full. Most meals are eaten in about 10 minutes. We have no idea if we are full or not, we just eat about the amount we normally eat. This article presents the fork down technique that allows you to learn to slow down your eating, eat less, and eat better to increase longevity and live healthier.

How To Keep a Sleep Diary
A sleep diary will help you find patterns in your sleep and make connections to your behaviors during the day. Keeping a simple sleep diary can encourage you to make changes that will improve your sleep. A sleep diary is also helpful to a doctor to understand your sleep situation.

How To Check Yourself for Skin Cancer
Skin cancer is a treatable cancer if caught early enough. Through a combination of professional skin cancer screenings and annual self skin examinations, you can significantly reduce your risk of skin cancer and increase your longevity.

How To Taste Chocolate
Learning to taste and eat chocolate is a lot like wine tasting. By appreciating the finer qualities of chocolate, we can learn to be satisfied with a little bit of high quality, healthy, dark chocolate instead of lots of unhealthy milk or white chocolate.

How To Tell Good Stories to Strengthen Relationships and Exercise Your Brain
Stories and storytelling are a basic part of being human. We live and breathe stories. Every television show, every movie, and every book tells a story. Anything told as a story is more compelling, more interesting, and more memorable. So hone your storytelling skills.

How To Learn a New Skill for Brain Health and Mental Fitness
Learning a new skill can give the brain a total work out, from learning new physical movements to memorizing instructions. Pick a skill and start learning. You and your brain will benefit from the experience.

How To Reduce Inflammation and Improve Your Looks
Inflammation is one of the primary reasons our looks change as we age. Wrinkles, puffiness, sagging and more can be caused by inflammation. Learn how to reduce inflammation and retain a youthful appearance.

How To Manage Stressful People
Stressful people can drain your energy, ruin your day, and create negative feelings. Learn to manage stressful people can increase your life expectancy by facing them with stress-free calm.

How To Improve Your Mental Fitness
Aging does not have to mean the loss of mental function. As we age, our brains become exposed to damage from our diets and other behaviors. By eating right, staying active and using our mental functions, we can stay sharp to 100 and beyond.

How To Learn to Love Cooking
Cooking is an essential skill for longevity. It is only by cooking that you can truly know what is going in your food and maximize your eating so that you live long and healthy. You don't have to cook every meal, but you should learn to love to cook.

How To Get a Good Night's Sleep
A good night's sleep is essential to controlling your blood pressure and just staying healthy. There are some simple things to do to fall asleep fast and get a good night's sleep.

How To Avoid Mistakes when Taking a Blood Pressure
Mistakes are common in measuring high blood pressure. Body position, equipment, and simple errors can give false readings. Learn to avoid the common mistakes.