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Want to lose the “Covid 19”pounds you’ve gained during the past year in quarantine? You’re not alone. While comfort foods may have increased in your diet during 2020, the new year is a time to resurrect your healthy meals plan and shed some of those gained pounds....

If ever there is a year when we want to create and inspire significant change, it’s this year. Remember: Change begins with you. How will you focus on improving yourself and your lifestyle to feel better, become more healthful, and maybe even inspire others to...

Do you read ingredient labels on packaged foods? They can feel confusing or misleading. Maybe you’re not sure what to look for or what’s important. Should you be counting calories? Watching fat intake? Tallying carbs? It’s enough to make you forget...

December has arrived, and with it comes the longing for holiday traditions and family get-togethers. But pandemic precautions may prevent you from celebrating quite so closely this year. Since keeping your distance may mean you end up cooking holiday meals for just...

You may be familiar with the term “ergonomics” from work, meaning you fit the task to the person rather than having the person strain into uncomfortable physical positions to accomplish their work. In an office setting, ergonomics involves your posture and...

When the pandemic hit, and many of us were asked to work remotely, you may have thrown together your work-from-home “office” on the fly. We thought teleworking was a temporary solution. Fast-forward seven months, and remote work appears to be here to stay....

The numbers don’t lie: Nearly one in five children has obesity, and the prevalence of childhood obesity is on the rise. It’s time to take a close look at what you, as a parent or guardian, can do to promote a healthy weight for your child. The Way to...

September is National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month. It’s a critically important problem: Since the early 2000s, childhood obesity has been a growing issue nationwide. A 2015-2016 Health and Nutrition survey, released by the National Center for Health...

In our previous post, we explored the symptoms and causes of forward head posture—also called “tech neck.” This shoulder-slouching, neck-craning posture is one result of our modern lives spent on cell phones, playing video games, carrying heavy...

You see it on a daily basis: People hunched over their phones or tablets, staring into the screens. You may even notice that you yourself get into that awkward, forward-leaning position. As you’re doing it, your head, neck and shoulders are slumped forward,...

Now that summer weather is upon us and people are spending more time outside of their homes after months inside during the shutdown, it’s an excellent time to review solar safety tips and safe sun behaviors. The sun is the life force of our planet, and in small...

It’s a strange new world where we are often asked to wear a face covering or mask to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. Some policy experts predict we may be asked to wear masks for the next year, or even longer as we learn more about preventing and...