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7 Ways to Manage Your Anxiety About Going to the Dentist
April Is National Anxiety Month / Stress Awareness Month
The Link Between Rheumatoid Arthritis and Oral Health
March Is Autoimmune Disease Awareness Month
Amazing Intro to Qi-Gong With David Wei
It’s Super Easy and You’ll Feel Super Great
Qi-Gong (pronounced Chi Gong) is an easy-to-do, ancient movement art that promotes wellness in your body and wellbeing in your life.
Maintain Don’t Gain: Developing a Sense of Purpose in the New Year
Week 7: Home Stretch
You’re in the home stretch! You just need to find a path through leftover holiday sweets and new year’s revelries.
Maintain Don’t Gain: Winter Has Come
Week 6
For those who celebrate it, Christmas is upon us! Whether you celebrate it or not, holiday foods and sweets surround us, and it’s hard not to overindulge. Our goal is to help you maintain your current weight over the holidays.
Maintain Don’t Gain: We’re Almost Through It
Week 5
We’re over the halfway point! The holiday season is upon us, and we’re excited to continue to help you maintain your current weight over the holidays, without having to totally give up all the things that make the holidays special to you.
Maintain Don’t Gain: Now is a Great Time to Start or Refresh Your Program
Week 4
We’re excited to continue to help you maintain your current weight over the holidays, without having to totally give up all the things that make the holidays special to you.
Maintain Don’t Gain: Have a Plan Yet?
Week 3
Last week, we showed you how the average American adult gains 1 to 5 pounds during the holidays that they never lose, and that half of adult weight gain can be attributed to the holidays.
Maintain Don’t Gain: Your Holiday Action Plan
Week 2: Your Tools to Prevent Holiday Weight Gain
As we told you last week, most Americans gain an average of about 1 pound during the holidays. While this may not seem like a lot, they usually don’t ever lose it.
Maintain Don’t Gain: Here’s to Healthier Holidays
Week 1: This holiday season, take charge of your weight
Most Americans gain an average of about 1 pound during the holidays. While this may not seem like a lot, they usually don’t lose it. The average American adult gains 2 pounds per year, so half of adult weight gain can be attributed to the holidays!
3 Ideas to Stay Active This Summer
We have 3 ideas to help you stretch your legs, gather together with others, and have a fun summer.
Let’s Work in More Workouts
Do you know what exercise is good for? Everything. It’s good for your circulatory system, your sleep, and even your brain. No matter who you are, moving around is good for you. Here are some tips for a healthier, happier way of life.
Make a Mind-Body Connection
How you feel in your head affects how you feel in your body. When life gets overwhelming, it’s important to focus on your emotional wellness. Discover simple ways to tame tension, beat stress, and feel happy.
Sugar’s Effect on Your Sleep, and How to Quit
Consuming excess sugar leads to more awakenings when you’re trying to sleep through the night, according to a 2016 sleep study conducted by Columbia University, where 26 adults were studied in a sleep lab.
9 Lessons From 100-Year-Olds in “The Blue Zones”
Many groups of centenarians (people 100+ year old) are living around the world today. Author Dan Buettner teamed up with National Geographic and sought out these groups and places,
What To Do If You Still Can’t Sleep
Rest and Revive Self-Guided Sleep Program - Week 6
If you’re not sleeping better after just a few weeks, don’t worry. Making lasting behavior changes takes time—and you can’t fix everything all at once.
Amplify Your Energy Today
Start Off the New Year With an Energy Boost
Working out works wonders. It builds muscle and self-confidence. It boosts the metabolism and the immune system. Most importantly, it benefits the body and the mind.
Strength Training For Everyone
Do healthy, ripped bodies only belong to the young? Not if you’re Ernestine Shepherd. At 77, she’s the world’s oldest female bodybuilder and in a short, 8-minute documentary from Prevention Magazine, you can follow a day in her life.
Celebrate Summer
(And Get Help Taking Off a Few Pounds)
This month, skip the gym and get active outdoors instead.
Walking and Strength Training Make Your Brain Stronger
Can’t find your cell phone?—it’s probably right where you left it. But if you often have trouble remembering where that is, trying going for a jog or a challenging walk first.
Contact Lens Malfunction? Vision Problem Masks Stroke
Contact lenses don’t usually go haywire overnight – but a body can. Exactly that happened not too long ago to a patient of Serge Wright, O.D.
Be Stroke Savvy
Forget "Time is Money"—During a Stroke, "Time is Brain"
A stroke occurs when a blood clot blocks an artery, or a blood vessel breaks in the area of the brain, causing damage to brain cells. Without blood and the oxygen it carries, part of the brain starts to die.
Laughter Can Boost Your Heart
A Frenchman walks into a bar with a duck on his head. The bartender says, “Where’d you get that?” and the duck says, “In France. They’ve got millions of ‘em.”
Can You Prevent Cancer?
Cancer is not totally outside your control. Although genetic factors may cause cancer, inherited genes are responsible for a fraction of cancers.
Get a Heart Healthy Quick Start With One Simple Slogan
Remember this simple slogan: Eat 5, Move 10, Sleep 8.
Do You Know Your Numbers?
Some risk factors you can’t do anything about. But others you can treat, manage or control with the help of your healthcare provider.
A Beautiful Day (or The Psychology of Sugar Cravings)
Close your eyes. (You may need a friend to read to you.) Visualize a great day. You just had an excellent night’s sleep, the sun is shining, and you have incredible energy.
Remember Play?
When you were a child, you played tag. You swam with friends until someone made you get out of the pool. You raced your sibling from the outfield to the concession stand, and competed in hopscotch and jump rope.
Knowledge: The 1st Step in Preventing Pre-Diabetes
Prediabetes is a term that is used when you are at risk for type 2 diabetes. It means that your blood sugar is higher than it should be. Most people who get type 2 diabetes have prediabetes first.
Trans Fat is Still Hiding in Your Snacks
Eating trans fat can take years off of your life. And you may be eating it in chips, crackers, and baked goods and not even know it.
Lose Weight, Save Your Wallet
Many Americans are carrying around some excess pounds. According to the U.S. National Institutes of Health, 66% of U.S. adults are overweight or obese (61.6% of women and 70.5% of men).
Study Shows Dangerous Mixing of Medications Common
A study published in 2008 by researchers at the University of Chicago Medical Center found that nearly 1 in 25 Americans over age 57 are potentially at risk for a harmful interaction of medications.