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Health (usually stylized as HEALTH) is an American noise rock band from Los Angeles, California.

Early in their career, Health became popular playing multiple concerts for free, leading to a variety of venues requesting to book them. The band's favourite setting, LA's The Smell, has been their chosen place to record their full length album, "during empty mornings", although the band have already recorded a live album at the Smell, released on DNT Records.

In 2008, Boston newspaper The Phoenix named them the Best New Band from California.

Health opened for Nine Inch Nails on part of the Lights in the Sky tour in the fall of 2008.

The name of the band was chosen after the band's members agreed that they wanted to use an "everyday word." They created a list of words and went through to see which was taken, and the word "health" was the only one left.

Health have been described as having "artfully crafted noise and raw synth, haunting monotone vocals, and drum skills that are borderline insane".Guardian Unlimited writer, Louis Pattison, chose the Crystal Castles version of "Crimewave" as the pick of the week, describing the song as "melancholy electro-pop built from pixelated synths and depressed vocals that hint at a past programme of busy and sustained serotonin depletion". Jim Carroll of The Irish Times also chose the song as tune of the week.

The band describes the role of lyrics as being "purposely kept vague for the listener":

"...[Lyrics] sort of begin to bring out this more individual quality to the whole thing like, ‘These are the lyrics, and this is the guy is singing them, so I can relate to that.’ Which is really not something we want.[10] We wanted the vocals to have an even, unaffected feel. A softness, like a Zombies melody, or even a Gregorian chant. We aren’t just interested in being a noisy screaming band."

The band's unusual sound can be partially accredited to the use of the Zoothorn, which is a permutation of microphone and guitar pedal and an occasional atonal sound without a symmetrical structure.

In piece for Dummymag.com, Health described their love of sounds from the guitar solo on All Along the Watchtower to an elk's yelp.

To promote their 2009 album, Get Color, the band held a sweepstakes contest, in which a winner of a golden ticket was awarded a free trip to Los Angeles to go to Magic Mountain with the band. Other prizes included locks of the band members' hair and posters autographed in blood.[12] In late 2009, the band was chosen as one of Beyond Race Magazine's "50 Emerging Artists," resulting in a spot in BRM's No. 11 issue as well as an exclusive online Q&A.

An album remixing the tracks from Get Color, entitled Disco2, was released on June 22, 2010.

Health plans to debut an internet television show entitled HealthVision, which will star members of the band. They will also debut a clothing line in early 2010, which will feature high-quality, hand-sewn, one-of-a-kind designer items.

On March 5, 2012, it was announced that Health would be composing the score for Max Payne 3, a video game by Rockstar Games.A short sample of the score can be heard in the game's second trailer.

HEALTH are currently working on their third studio album.

Living healthy can be an easy process if you set up a realistic plan for yourself, get motivated, and have plenty of support. All it takes to begin is eating plenty of fruits, veggies, whole grains, proteins, and plenty of organic food in your regular diet to get you fit and confident.

Incorporate Foods That You Already Enjoy In a Healthy Way

With any diet, it’s very important to eat foods that are appealing to you. When some people think of eating healthy, they think of eating nothing but raw vegetables. It’s also important to never skip meals for your own safety and wellbeing. If you like spaghetti but don’t know how to make it healthier, try making it with whole grain pasta, low calorie pasta sauce, and lean turkey. It may be different for you to adjust to eating healthy for the first few days, but your body and energy will thank you for it in the end.

Ingredients and Nutrition

Fruits and Vegetables aren’t the only things that are healthy. When it comes to the food you put in your body, it’s always very important to look at the ingredients and nutritional fact label on every food item. You’d be surprised at some of the ingredients that are in the foods you eat on a day to day basis. More than likely, if you can even pronounce the ingredients on a food label, it shouldn’t be going in your body.

Fitness

Many individuals who don’t exercise think of fitness as being some sort of extreme biking exercise or running on the treadmill for three hours. Fitness is not supposed to be something you loathe doing every day. The best way to start exercising is to take it slow. Don’t overrun your body and exhaust yourself because this will make you not enjoy exercising at all. It’s also important to find an exercise that you enjoy or would like to try. Yoga is a great way to burn off calories while putting your mind at ease.

Calories

Low calorie foods are a must when you are trying to lose weight, or just stay in shape. You can find the amount of calories on the back of practically every food item in the nutritional value box. Low calorie items aren’t just found in organic or raw foods. There are several low calorie snack and frozen meals that you and your family can enjoy that are both yummy and satisfying.

Having a healthy lifestyle and maintaining it can be an amazing experience. Though it may be extremely tough at first for some, eating healthy and getting a good amount of exercise will boost your self-esteem and make your body happy and full of energy that you never knew you could have.