New Year – New Healthier Lifestyle
By Sophia Nemes, Healthier Jupiter’s Student Voice Reporter
The start of a new year is a time for making changes in your life. One change might be creating a healthy lifestyle for yourself. A healthy lifestyle can mean different things to different people. To me, a healthy lifestyle is finding time to relax, eating healthy, getting plenty of exercise, going to regular health checkups, and managing stress. You may think that achieving a healthy lifestyle is very hard, but it can be just the opposite. If you introduce these things little by little into your life you can achieve a healthy lifestyle easily. I try to eat more fruits and vegetables each day, go outside to play basketball, read in the afternoon, and stay on top of my school work so I don’t get stressed out by due dates.
It’s important to have a healthy lifestyle because of the benefits it brings to your life. It can add years to your life and reduce your risk of getting diseases like cancer and diabetes. It also strengthens your immune system so in case you do get sick you will get well and back to school and your activities faster.
In the end, it’s important to have a healthy lifestyle because it can positively affect your well being and benefit you immensely. In the new year, I hope you will make a few small changes to your lifestyle that will have a big impact on your health.
Sophia Nemes is a 6th grade communications major at BAK Middle School Of The Arts. She was a winner of the 2018 Healthier Jupiter Student Video Contest in which she produced a film that highlighted pedestrian and bike safety guidelines for kids. Sophia has accepted the role of Healthier Jupiter Student Voice Reporter and will be providing a series of articles on various health-related topics from a student’s perspective. We are thrilled to have Sophia and her mother Anna as part of the Healthier Jupiter Volunteer team. We welcome you to join the Volunteer team as well.
About Healthier Jupiter
Healthier Jupiter is a community-driven initiative funded by Palm Health Foundation. Headquartered at Jupiter Medical Center, Healthier Jupiter works in partnership with the Medical Center to address healthy behaviors, social determinants of health, and quality of life issues across the lifespan. Healthier Jupiter brings the community together by listening to the needs of all, building support, and providing resources to empower people to make healthier choices. Healthier Jupiter is part of Palm Health Foundation’s Healthier Together Initiative. Healthier Together is a long-term, place based funding approach designed to solve the community’s most complex healthcare issues, neighborhood by neighborhood.
