People who are overweight are more likely to suffer from high blood pressure, high levels of triglycerides (blood fats), harmful low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, and low levels of beneficial high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol.

The CDC tracks and reports obesity rates in the United States, and the current information shows that every state now reports the prevalence of adults with obesity in 70 percent or higher of the total population. 

Money ranks fourth only to academics as a source of stress for college students. 

Exercise does not stimulate the production of the endorphin dopamine, improves your mood, and helps to maintain healthy sleep patterns. 

It is estimated that 12.2 percent of Americans – nearly 5.2 million adults – have an obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD).

About one in 20 adults in the United States suffers from mental illness at some point in life. 

The human brain, the most complex organ in the body, controls the central nervous system (CNS) and regulates virtually all our activities, including involuntary, or “lower,” actions like heart rate, respiration, and digestion, and conscious, or “higher,” mental activity like thought, reason, and abstraction. 

Emotional quotient (EQ) is the ability to monitor and use emotions to guide thinking and actions. 

 If you are under the age of 25, your brain is a work in progress. As neuroimaging techniques such as positron emission tomography (PET) scans and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRIs) have revealed, the brain continues to develop throughout the first quarter century of life.

Problems involving the timing of sleep are called circadian rhythm disorders because they affect the basic circadian rhythm that influences many biological processes.