Things to Keep Your Brain Sharp and Healthy Later in Life

These behaviors and activities are proven to help keep your brain young.

Learning new information and skills throughout your entire life helps to keep your brain strong even in the later years of life. Activities that have the highest value for brain health are novel and complex to each particular person. What is easy for one person may be challenging for another. 【小题1】

Exercise can improve our energy levels, sense of well-being, sleep, and brain health. 【小题2】Identifying why we do not exercise permits us to systematically break down our barriers, and to slowly change our behaviors towards a healthy lifestyle.

Friends provide opportunities to enable the sharing of experiences, new learning, challenge, emotions, trust, and understanding. Friendship also provides the necessary motivation towards activity and involvement. Engaging in new pursuits with friends often helps develop new life roles, which provide us with an opportunity to feel appreciated, enjoy life, laugh, and have fun. 【小题3】

It is important for us to take control of our health and understand that we are in charge of managing of our bodies. 【小题4】 Once we establish our own role in the management of our health, the importance of a close and trusting relationship with our physician becomes apparent.

Studies have shown a relationship between spirituality and the immune system. As we continually learn more about the potential of positive thoughts to influence health, people are beginning to integrate these practices more frequently into their daily lives, and experiencing life-changing results.

Dark stairways can be a bit dangerous, especially when it becomes wet or damp. A railing and sufficient lightning is important, but the cost to install wiring can be a bit expensive. So, stop trying to find ways in the dark and opt for stylish alternatives that are safe and effective. 【小题1】 They also save money on permanent additions that would cost a little bit more.

If you want to add vintage (复古) style to the outdoor stairway, then add a series of candle lanterns. Surround flameless candles with small smooth stones inside the glass globes. The stones will add natural beauty to the home. 【小题2】. It will look great and provide adequate amount of light.

Battery operated candles need not to be stored. Weather-proof candles and frameless columns would look great on an outdoor stairway, especially if the steps are surrounded by flowers. 【小题3】. As long as wind is not a problem, it will work exceptionally well to light way.

In an area where strong winds gushes there are a possibility the window will blow away the candle. Accordingly, consider using solid lights. Surround the posts with low growing flowers. 【小题5】. Consider impatiens (凤仙花) for dark location in hardiness zones 3-10 and mazus in sunny area. With due care they will grow beautifully and solar lights will light up the stairways adequately.

Despite years of drought and water-saving policies, Californians continue to put a lot of clean, drinkable water into yards to keep the greenery alive. Now, however, Southern California officials have carried out very strict limits on outdoor water use in response to a water shortage emergency. So you may need to find other ways to keep your plants from drying in the summer sun.

How about watering them with grey water instead of clean water? Grey water is the water from showers, bathtubs, washing machines — anything that’s not filled with human waste, food or poisonous chemicals. With the right measures, grey water can be fine for most plant life.

If you’re a typical Southern Californian, you’re throwing a lot of grey water into the sewer system. Every load of clothes you wash leads to roughly 15 to 40 gallons of it, depending on your washer’s design and efficiency. Over the course of a year, thousands of gallons of soapy water ran away. That’s enough to keep a number of trees and other plants happy. And if you’re really ambitious, you can build a system that carries all of your horned grey water to the roots of your grassland, thus making your non-native grass in your yard watered regularly.

Some critics, the Los Angeles Sanitation and Environment Bureau, see grey water recycling as environmentally risky, damaging public wastewater recycling efforts and uneconomic. However, other local agencies across the state, including the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, actively endorse grey water projects as a way to reduce water use. Supporters admit that the projects carry some risk and require great efforts, but insist that they can save clean water and help your plants.