While carrying a book with me wherever I went became a habit, community and metro newspapers, 'zines, and literary journals possessed a different kind of magic: Someone who had not yet catapulted to literary stardom -- to borrow my former professor Winnie Chan's phrase -- or someone who wanted to engage with the community as a public service, had produced this quarter-pound of paper in my hands.
Investments in bicycling are being viewed here as a way to promote healthy habits, community bonds and greater environmental stewardship.
We could not control for country-specific differences in hygiene, diagnostic habits, community infection control, and vaccination policies that could provide alternative explanations for some of the observed differences.
Chronic illness coaches motivate you to stick to healthy habits, and community health workers educate people in workshops and other group settings," said Sandy Atkins, associate director of Partners in Care Foundation of San Fernando, Calif.
In this study, we aimed to determine whether decades-long habits of community-dwelling older adults could be changed by means of the TAKE10!® for Older Adults program, without receiving detailed individualized professional advice.
That it fills the habit of faith makes communities, encourages values, creates hierarchies is perhaps the best thing about it.
The inhabitants of this penumbra still identify with Christianity, but they lack the communities, habits and support structures that make the religious path (somewhat) easier to walk.
The Communists have also destroyed Beijing's social fabric, cutting through rich threads of community habit, shared memory and (what always infuriated them) subversive resistance to the madder impulses of higher authority.
A good local knowledge and local community habit understanding are absolutely necessary to generate this model.
While fast-food consumption is a minor factor influencing obesity rates, purchasing patterns often reflect larger health issues and habits in certain communities.
