Healthy Living Steps to Take Right Now
Living healthy is not a goal you can accomplish in a single day. It takes a long-term lifetime commitment. Even so, there are steps you can take right now to start living healthier today and get you moving in the right direction a healthier you in the days, weeks, months, and years to come. Eat […]
Winter Health and Wellness Tips
Decreasing temperatures, along with the wind, rain, and snow that often accompanies winter time creates a fertile breeding ground for germs to thrive. This, along with lengthy periods spent indoors, contribute to colds, flu, and other sicknesses spreading. You can make it through the winter without getting sick and stay healthy all winter long with […]
Keep Your Skin Glowing and Healthy All Winter Long
Winter weather is tough on your skin. Outside, cooler temperatures coupled with plunging humidity levels result in dry air which draws moisture from your skin. Inside, heat and hot showers continue the barrage further stealing the moisture your skin needs. You can counter winter’s effects, reduce itching, redness, cracking, chapping and keep your skin healthy, […]
Changes to Make Now for A Healthier Lifestyle
Following New Year’s Eve, the topics of conversation turn to weight loss, healthier eating, and exercise. These often come in the form of resolution for the new year, which often quickly fall by the wayside because you try to implement too many changes at the same time. You can make small changes now for a […]
The Health Benefits of Daily Exercise
Today, everyone seems to be focused on healthier living. From diet to exercise, positive lifestyle choices are all the rage. Daily exercise is well known for its health benefits including muscle building, strength, and weight loss. What you may not know is daily exercise offers a number of other health benefits, so let’s get moving! […]
Lowering Your Risk for Alzheimer’s
As the research continues to find a cure, Alzheimer’s continues to affect more than 33 million people around the globe. Even so, the latest discoveries suggest that you can lower your risk for Alzheimer’s disease by making certain lifestyle changes, some as simple as getting more exercise. Though advancing and age and genetic makeup are […]
Illnesses that Thrive in Autumn
Autumn brings great beauty, along with falling temperatures and dropping humidity levels. Of course, this time of year also begins the peak of infections, particularly the flu, and other viral illnesses. Because many of these illnesses are easily transmitted, and cooler temperatures can suppress your immune system, it is important to understand what illnesses thrive […]
Autumn Superfoods
Selecting your food seasonally offers ample opportunities for fresh produce and greater nutritional benefits. In addition, buying local and in season is also easier on your budget. Often with autumn’s arrival, many people feel the time for season fruits and vegetables is over – but the opposite is true. Autumn brings a bountiful array of […]
A Fall Favorite – Pumpkin’s Little-Known Health Benefits
Pumpkins are the symbol of fall and harvest time. Pumpkins, when carved, become jack-o-lanterns decorating porches and doorsteps all over the United States, a sign that Halloween is on its way. The gourd-like fruit is actually a member of the squash family, typically round, smooth, with ribbed skin and most often orange in color. Pumpkins […]
Tips to Living Healthy this Fall
Fall is a great time of the year to give yourself a healthy boost! Though the days are a bit shorter and the nights a bit cooler, change is always in the air. Fall is the perfect season to make simple changes to improve your health in big ways. Shift Your Schedule Fall is often […]