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Understanding and changing the environment in which habits form is a critical step when it comes to breaking unwanted behaviors and forming healthy ones.
Researchers suggest it is important to build daily habits that support mental well-being and seek care when necessary.
Research highlights the importance of daily meditation, exercise and sleep for improving executive functioning, a component of attention that helps people focus.
Routines can be powerful tools to help people build a ‘new normal’ as pandemic restrictions lift. Routines can support creativity, boost health and provide meaningful activities and opportunities.
Researchers looked at the most popular YouTube fitness videos and the types of behavioural change techniques they used. Here’s what they found.
Over half of people who intend to make healthy lifestyle changes fail to do so. Understanding the automatic tendencies that prevent people from enacting a new health habit can help them stick to it.
COVID has made the usual jitters about returning to school that much more intense. Parents can support their children by listening carefully and prioritising healthy habits
During lockdowns, we live our lives through our screens. Here, tech experts share their tips on when - and how - to switch off.
New Canadian clinical practice guidelines for obesity aim to help reduce the prevalence and impact of weight bias and stigma in clinical care, and also encourage the public to advocate for change.
Gathering supplies and indulging in sweet baked treats can make us feel better temporarily. Why do we seek out certain foods in times of stress and should we give in to cravings?
Large-scale adoption of simple, individual actions — like disinfecting our germ-laden phone screens — can limit the ability of COVID-19 to get a foothold.
In addition to its health and fitness benefits, exercise can also give your relationship a boost – especially if you exercise together.
How a technique to instil healthy habits can prevent those recovering from depression from relapsing.
A new study has found breaking old and forming new habits is key in keeping weight off.
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology of Appetite and Obesity, University of Liverpool
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Provost Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Business, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of Health Promotion; Scientific Director of the Healthy Populations Institute, Dalhousie University
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Professor of Psychology & Mental Health, Edith Cowan University
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Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Wayne State University
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Professor of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
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Associate Professor in Psychology, Bournemouth University
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Assistant Professor of Habit Change, Bond University
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Professor of Sociology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Adjunct Professor of Psychology, Georgetown University
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Professor, HBKU Qatar and Visiting Professor, Bournemouth University
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Assistant Professor, Health, Kinesiology and Applied Physiology, Concordia University
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Professor and Registered Psychologist, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary
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Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Huddersfield
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Professor, University of Waterloo
