让你更健康快乐的九件小事

As a health editor, I spend the majority of my day poring over content related to, well, health. At HuffPost, we're lucky to talk to experts on a daily basis about how to live our best lives, both mentally and physically. Over time, you start to pick up on

some things. Themes begin to emerge loudly and clearly. It becomes obvious what is considered a universal "good." These things are often relatively straightforward, and it's clear that life would be happier and healthier if we would just do them. Sure, some of these are easier said than done, but their premises are often simple. I wanted to share a few of my favorites:

作为一名健康栏目编辑，我时刻关注着有关健康的各类信息。在《赫芬顿邮报》交流期间，我们有幸与健康专家进行了交流，了解了一些在日常生活中简单有效的保持身心健康的小妙招。随着时间的推移，你慢慢掌握一些生活方式，它们大张旗鼓的标榜着健康。这些被全球公认的好的生活方式，看似简单、直接，人们若能遵循它们，生活则会变得更加幸福、健康。事实上，这其中的很多都是“说比做容易”，但其实这些生活方式的前提都非常简单。在此，我要分享几条个人认为非常不错的生活方式。

1. Have a bedtime. Sleep is considered the third pillar of health, and for good reason. Research is only making it increasingly clear that not getting enough of the stuff can have serious health effects. Meanwhile, getting enough sleep is good for everything ranging from weight, to mood, to even the immune system. One of the simplest things you can do to ensure you get enough sleep each night is to set a bedtime. Forgive yourself if you can't meet it every night (I tell myself I need to be in bed by midnight, but life gets in the way, and all of a sudden it's 1:30 a.m.), but make a point to try to stick to it.

1. 保持充足睡眠

睡眠有充分地理由被认为是人类健康的第三大支柱。越来越多的研究证实，睡眠不足会带来相当大的健康隐患，相反的，保持充足睡眠对于控制体重、保持心情和增强免疫力都有着至关重要的作用。想要每晚获得良好充足的睡眠，最简单有效的做法就是为自己设定一个“上床时间”，尽管你可以原谅自己在偶尔的几个夜晚没有遵守这个时间（尽管我常常告诫自己要在午夜前上床睡觉，但现实往往不如人意，一不小心就到了凌晨1点），但你依然要时刻提醒自己，坚持在“上床时间”准点睡觉。

2. Understand what emotional intelligence is -- and make a point to cultivate it. To have emotional intelligence means to be "confident, good at working towards your goals, adaptable and flexible. You recover quickly from stress and you're resilient," psychologist Daniel Goleman previously told HuffPost. It's made up of five parts: social skills, empathy, motivation, self-awareness and self-regulation. And fortunately, these are all traits you can cultivate. Be curious about things beyond yourself. Know what you're good at and where you can stand to improve. Try to improve your ability to pay attention.

2. 了解并培养情商

心理学家丹尼尔.戈尔曼曾对赫芬顿邮报如此定义情商：情商是个体所表现出的自信，能够努力实现自己的目标，并有较强的适应能力和灵活性；你弹性大，能够很快从压力中恢复。情商包含了5个部分，即社会能力、同情心、能动性、自我意识和自控能力。可喜的是，这5项能力都是可以通过后天培养的。你需要时刻对外界事物保持好奇心，充分了解自己的优势和弱势，并清楚哪些是可以改进的，此外，还需不断提升注意力。

3. Take a minute. This is something I'm admittedly still working on. I'm an objectively fast person -- fast at walking, fast at eating, fast at talking, you get the gist. This also makes me very impatient, and also sometimes very unobservant -- stopping to smell the roses has never been my strong suit. But slowing down to appreciate life and all its little moments builds gratitude -- and that's a very healthy thing.

3. 停下来休息一会儿

关于这一点，我依然在坚持在做。我是生活节奏超快的那类人——就是你了解的那类人，走路快、吃饭快、说话也快。而这种生活方式也容易让人失去耐心、变得浮躁，那种停下来闻一闻路边玫瑰香的事情，过去的我从来都是不屑一顾的。然而，当我学会放慢速度来感受和欣赏身边事物时，一切都是那么美好，而我的生活也变得更健康了。

4. Cut out sugar where you can. I used to be a dessert fiend. Cupcakes, ice cream, brownies, if you put it in front of me, I would most definitely eat it. And growing up, I drank some sort of juice at every single meal (being mildly lactose intolerant meant instead of milk, it was OJ at breakfast, OJ at lunch, and OJ at dinner). But the more I learned about how too much sugar affects the body -- and how it manages to sneak into all the non-dessert-like foods I also eat -- the more I realized I had to wean myself off the sweet stuff. So I started small. Instead of dumping sugar into coffee, I slowly trained myself to go milk-only. (Now, coffee with sugar just seems too sweet.) Instead of drinking juice and soda with meals, I opt for water (and on that note, I don't keep any beverages besides water in my fridge at home). I don't buy cakes or cookies from the store, so I'm not tempted to eat them at 10 p.m. when I'm in my apartment. Don't get me wrong, I'll still indulge in a slice of birthday cake or some ice cream. But those are treats, and I've realized that treats are not meant to be eaten all day every day.

4. 尽可能少吃糖