100 : 100 In Action

 Regardless of whether you are at a national park, beach, or your own backyard, spending time outdoors can lower blood pressure, improve your mood, reduce stress, and slow your heart rate. All of this and other aspects of being in nature also contribute to a stronger immune system. When children in particular get up and away from computer screens they experience less stress, use their imagination more, get moving, experience reduced stress and fatigue, and are able to focus their attention better. 

  Living near nature can actually help you live longer. A study was done by researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. The study was a nationwide investigation into risk factors for major chronic diseases in women. It examined more than 108,000 women from 2000 to 2008.  The researchers compared the risk of death with the amount of plant life and vegetation near the women’s homes and found that women living in the greenest areas had a 12% lower death rate than women living in the least green areas.  Specifically, women in greener areas had a 41% lower death rate for kidney disease, a 34% lower death rate for respiratory disease, and a 13% lower death rate for cancer than those living in areas with less greenery.

  It’s our nature to want to spend time outdoors. At 100 Year Lifestyle we have always encouraged people to get up, get out, soak in the sun to get your vitamin D, and just enjoy being outside. But our connection to nature runs deeper. If you aren’t spending enough time in nature, you aren’t maximizing your 100:100, living at 100% for 100 years…or more. 

  For the dads out there who are living their 100 Year Lifestyle, they are reaping the benefits of a long and healthy life to spend with their kids and grandkids. They also, however, can know that their choices, what their children are observing about and learning from them every day, is creating a healthy lifestyle for their children and future generations as well.  Dad’s, you play an important role. If you truly want the best for your children, then only accept the best for yourself as well. Take care of yourself, and by doing so you will be giving them the best care possible.

  Today, everybody is searching for the latest technology, the latest gizmo, the latest gimmick, the ultimate healthcare technology. Your personal innate intelligence is the ultimate gizmo. If you understand The 100 Year Lifestyle principles, if you nurture them, if you use them as the centerpiece for decision-making as it relates to optimizing your health, your children's health, over the course of a lifetime, you will be maximizing the ultimate healthcare technology, your personal innate intelligence. Click here for our Raising Super Healthy Families free ebook.

  According to Paul Amato, PhD, a sociologist who studies parent-child relationships at Pennsylvania State University, “Fathers and mothers are children’s most important teachers. Fathers might ask themselves, what are my children learning — about life in general, about morality, about how family members should treat one another, about relationships — from observing me every day?”