Before starting every new week on Monday morning, you must commit to yourself to live a healthy and sound life. A healthy lifestyle is not all about eating salads everyday or spend hours on treadmills. Many pleasurable and full of fun activities are also essential for you to live a healthy life. The following activities can help you a lot to live a long healthier and happier life.

Consume one or two glasses of red wine daily

An antioxidant known as resveratrol is abundantly found in Red wine and this antioxidant plays a vital role to protect you from aging. If you really want to keep your body young, consume one or two glasses of red wine daily.

Dark Chocolate can protect your body from aging

You may think that chocolate is suitable only to children but there is an ample amount of antioxidants in dark chocolate that keep body away from the effects of aging. Get a fine quality dark chocolate and appreciate it with every single bite. Chocolate provides an energy boost as well as lower your blood pressure and cholesterol.

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Adult characteristics associated with childhood abuse had been a subject of research for a long time now. A recent study led by Amy Bonomi, associate professor of human development and family science at Ohio State University claims to find what no study has found so ever. The researchers found that women belonging to the average age of late 40s still bear consequences of the abuse which happened decades ago in their lives.

It studied data of more than 3,000 women who belonged to Group Health, a health care system in the Pacific Northwest. It concluded that the middle-aged women who suffered some kind of child abuse tend to spend one-third more of money than average on health-care.

Child abuse can be of various kinds ranging from physical abuse, emotional abuse, neglect, sexual abuse etc. Physical and sexual abuses are the most visible forms of abuse and carry consequences which influence the adult life too. When they compared the results among 3,000 women, they found that the women who had no history of abuse spent much lesser amount on health care that the women who had been victim of sexual or physical abuse in the childhood.

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