Show 1018: How to Have Healthier Habits for the New Year

HabitsÐthings you do on a regular basis without even thinking about themÐcan have a huge impact on our health. But it isn’t easy to drop old habits that aren’t serving us well, like eating a pint of ice cream every night. Nor is it always easy to adopt the new ones that could be more helpful, like taking a brisk 30 minute walk every day after lunch.

Developing Healthier Habits:

Now as we face our New Year’s resolutions and are focused on our health goals for 2016, Gretchen Rubin has great advice for us on how to get rid of the habits that hamper us and embrace the ones that could help make our lives better than before. Why not make listening to The People’s Pharmacy one of your great health habits for 2016?

This Week’s Guest:

Gretchen Rubin is one of the most influential and thought-provoking writers on happiness. Her best-selling earlier book was The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun. She followed that with Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life. In this interview we are discussing her latest book, Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives.
Gretchen Rubin writes a daily blog, gretchenrubin.com, and hosts a weekly podcast, Happier with Gretchen Rubin.