Health and Wellness

Sinclair-specific Resources

• Sinclair LiveWell
  Read/watch any four of the resources on this page and earn 1 point on the LIVEWELL Health Activity Tracker.  See LIVEWELL@Sinclair website for details about reporting on the items that you complete. 

eBooks

• No-Waste Kitchen Gardening : Regrow Your Leftover Greens, Stalks, Seeds, and More
• 101 Organic Gardening Hacks : Eco-friendly Solutions to Improve Any Garden
• Mother Earth News Guide to Vegetable Gardening : Building & Maintaining Healthy Soil, Wise Watering, Pest Control Strategies, Home Composting, Dozens of Growing Guides for Fruits & Vegetables
• Bike for Life: how to ride to 100 and beyond
• Heart 411: the only guide to Heart Health you’ll ever need
• Undo it! : how simple lifestyle changes can reverse most chronic diseases
• Well-being: productivity and happiness at work
• 29 gifts: how a month of giving can change your life
• Gratitude diaries: how a year looking on the bright side transformed my life

Articles

• Tips for Social Distancing, Quarantine, And Isolation during an infectious disease outbreak
• 30 Ways to Break a Sitting Streak
• How to salvage a disastrous day in your COVID-19 Quarantine. If you don’t already have an account to read The Chronicle of Higher Education articles, follow these instructions for creating a free account using Sinclair’s access. 
• 56 Random Acts of Kindness Ideas
• “Take a Facebook Break: Could a Social Media Sabbatical Be Good for Your Health?”
• Daily Food and Physical Activity Diary
• Dear diary: it turns out that keeping a food diary can help you double your weight loss and improve your health
• How to be a Successful Dieter: 8 helpful tips
• 6 Yoga Exercises You Won’t be Embarrassed to Do at Your Desk
• Exercises for the Deskbound
• Chair Pose: Stretch out with these 5 feel good exercises

Videos

• Professor Shares Expertise on Stress and Mental Health
  To assist all Sinclair employees with the variety of impacts we may experiencing from the circumstances of this year, Sinclair Professor Gwen Helton, chair of the Mental Health and Addiction Services Department is sharing a recent presentation she gave entitled Stress and Mental Health. The presentation provides information on types of stress, how stress is related to our mental health, ways to identify effective self-care and much more.
• Forks Over Knives
• SuperSize Me
• Exercise: Take an energy break
• Ergonomics and Activity at Your Desk
• Healthy Lifestyle Changes: SMART Goal Setting
• Rx Video series on a variety of health topics