The importance of family time and smiling more

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Here are a couple of tips from the American Heart Association.

FAMILY TIME

Think you must trade off family time for your personal fitness time?

Make health and wellness a family affair. Cook together, workout together, plan on running a 5k together.

That way, you are staying healthier as a family and not sacrificing one time for another. 

SMILE MORE

Science is backing up the correlation between emotions and heart health.

In a recent study, people who were happy and positive were less likely to develop heart disease over a 10-year period compared with those who were not so happy.