Mind, body and soul - Grounding yourself, Eat plenty of Greens, Get outdoors

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Hiking outdoors has plenty of perks: nice views, fresh air, and the sounds and smells of nature.

It's good for you, too. Hiking is a powerful cardio workout that can:

• Lower your risk of heart disease
• Improve your blood pressure and blood sugar levels
• Boost bone density, since  walking is a weight-bearing exercise
• Build strength in your glutes, quadriceps, hamstrings, and the muscles in your hips and lower legs
• Strengthen your core
• Improve balance
• Help control your weight
• Boost your mood. "Research shows that hiking has a positive impact on combating the symptoms of stress and anxiety," says Gregory A. Miller, PhD, president of the American Hiking Society. "Being in nature is ingrained in our DNA, and we sometimes forget that."

One of the biggest advantages of leafy green vegetables is that they can tell you a lot about their nutritional value. The darker the color of a leafy green, the higher the antioxidants. Eating more salads is great. But take it a step further and learn to try spinach, arugula, and other greens rather than iceberg lettuce.

Eating more of these dark, leafy greens means you will get more vitamins A, B, C, E and K. Vitamin A helps with your vision, B increases metabolism, C with your immune system, E reduces free radicals, and K can help with osteoporosis just to name a few benefits.

The fiber found in dark, leafy greens helps with digestion. Fiber actually has 2 benefits. First, it cannot be digested by your body. That means that it cannot be broken down so it will give you a feeling of being full longer. Second, it helps your digestive system actually move food more quickly.

Despite the unfair reputation that vegetables, especially leafy greens, have gotten over the years they taste great and have many uses other than salads. You can add spinach, kale, romaine lettuce, bok choy, and other mild flavor greens to smoothies. This will not add much flavor to your homemade smoothies but will add a ton of nutrition, making it an easy way to increase your vegetable consumption. Heartier green vegetables like kale, spinach, turnip or collard greens, or chard can be added to soups giving them a slightly different flavor and texture as well as adding all of these great health benefits.

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