Healthy Ways to Celebrate Mother’s Day
Get up and go outside! A trip to a local park can be a great bonding experience for the whole family. Hiking is a low-impact way to get active and may promote cardiovascular health. If you’re willing to ditch your technology for a few hours, you may get even more benefits from your time outdoors. Spending time in nature may boost creativity and can restore certain brain functions — like attention span, problem-solving and multitasking — that may be taxed by too much screen time. Be sure to keep the good time going with a healthy picnic lunch.
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