Research-Based Tips for Adopting and Sticking to New Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors

Research-Based Tips for Adopting and Sticking to New Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors
There are strategies you can use to help you stick to a new healthy habit despite internal resistance.fizkes/Shutterstock
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New Year’s resolutions are an annual ritual of setting intentions for self-betterment. Health behavior goals—such as improving healthy eating and physical activity—are among the most popular resolutions. Unfortunately, failing to stick to those new goals is so common that it has become cliché.

This is backed by research evidence. Studies have repeatedly shown that over half of people who form health behavior intentions fail to enact them.
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