We’ve all heard of the fantastic benefits of exercise. It seems to positively affect just about every disease state in the book as well as positively supporting most mental health conditions. Studies have shown exercise reduces the risk of heart disease, helps your...
Do you own a pair of skinny jeans that haven’t fit well in over two years? Are you holding on to them in desperate hope that you will one day rock them comfortably and look so hot all of your problems will melt away? Or maybe you continue to wear a much-too-large...
While health can be shaped by genetics and lifestyle factors, it is also influenced by access to food, housing and health care as well as gender, race, working conditions, employment status, income level and more. Although many of these social determinants of health...
Being in quarantine is hard. We are bombarded daily with messages about what to do, how to thrive, what to feel and what to eat. With stress abound, eating habits that you have been cultivating may change. That is okay. And even though we are all isolated, getting...
Next week (Feb 24-Mar 1) is National Eating Disorders Awareness (#NEDAwareness) Week. NEDA week is a movement to raise awareness and support for those affected by eating disorders. Eating disorders are a serious but treatable mental illness that can affect people of...
It can be human nature to go through life on autopilot. Have you ever been driving only to arrive at your final destination without any recall of the journey? Let’s face it, we are living this life distracted. Whether it be cell phones, the latest reality TV...
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