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Would you like to find out how to improve your health? This free online health course covers a wide range of topics from coping with stress to maintaining a healthy weight. It is based on sound scientific principles. >>

Living Healthy

Would you like to improve your wellbeing? Here you will find some key points to help you.

The Seventh-day Adventist lifestyle is a proven healthy and balanced approach to personal wellbeing. More than 250 scientifically researched articles published in journals around the world consistently show Adventists usually live longer, have later onset of most cancers, heart disease and diabetes, and lower incidence of the common lifestyle-related diseases.

You can view the results from previous Adventist Health studies conducted by Loma Linda University.

> Nutrition Information - dietary guidelines for kids, adults and vegetarians.
> Exercise and Weight Control
> At-risk Behaviours
> Mental Wellbeing
> Spiritual Wellbeing

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Practical answers to common health questions are not always easy to find.

The following health tip is taken from Taking Charge of Your Health, a health series created to help you live a longer, healthier and more fulfilling life.

Energy Enhancer

Do you find yourself feeling slow or weak?

If you mental alertness, endurance and energy levels aren’t quite “up to par”, you may need to drink more water.

Most people need about eight glasses per day in addition to the water in food. A sign of good hydration (that means having enough) is when urine ranges from clear to straw-coloured. Dark urine is a sure sign of poor hydration or something more serious. Healthy people should be able to urinate several times a day. Less than that suggests that your body is hanging on to every drop of fluid that it can. To keep well hydrated, get in the habit of drinking water even if you aren’t thirsty.



Produced by Dr Elmar Sakala and Dr Percy Harrold.

Dr Sakala is a physician, educator and lecturer. He is currently a professor of gynaecology and obstetrics, and an assistant professor of the School of Public Health, at Loma Linda University in California, USA.

Dr Harrold is a graduate of the University of Queensland. He has practiced medicine in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria, as well as in Hong Kong, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. He has expressed his interest in health education through radio programs. Radio listeners Australia wide know him as “Dr Charles” of “Life Talk”.