By Gaurav Sarma
Published Mar 02, 2025

Hindustan Times
Education

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Be fit Harvard style: 6 courses on fitness & nutrition all health freaks can try

'Cognitive Fitness' is an online course by Harvard University wherein experts bring you tips on staying mentally sharp as you age. The course focuses on cognitive reserve and how it can help fight the brain changes associated with dementia and other brain diseases, among other areas.

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'6-Week Plan For Healthy Eating' is an online course that presents an engaging, empowering and exciting way to learn about healthy eating. While the course is designed as a 6-week plan, users can watch and learn at their own pace.

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'Back Pain: Finding Solutions for Your Aching Back' is a self-paced online course wherein Harvard faculty share the best practices, procedures and preventative steps to help you confidently determine how to best treat and defeat your back pain.

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'Controlling your Blood Pressure' is another online offering by Harvard where faculty share strategies for addressing cause of hypertension and show you how to use today’s advances to your greatest advantage.

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'Starting to Exercise' is an online course that brings a valuable program highlighting forty-one exercises that together will help you achieve greater overall fitness. There are aerobic workouts, strength training, and flexibility exercises.

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'An Introduction to Tai Chi' is an online course where Harvard health experts teach you the basics of Tai Chi and it can help to strengthen your heart, build better balance, improve flexibility, slow the onset of dementia and more.

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