Health & Wellness

So, you’re starting a diet, turning a page and vowing to eat healthy. Well, salad has always been the answer for people who want to maintain a balanced and healthy diet, right? So clearly the first thing you need to do is load up on all those great pre-packaged salads in the produce section and head for the salad bar, right? Or maybe not. New research coming out of the […]

Maybe you’ve noticed, or maybe you’re just going along enjoying the fresh air and unconcerned as to the cause, but according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the number of cigarette smokers in the US has just hit the lowest levels public health officials have ever seen, down a whopping 67% from adults in 1965. Only about 14 percent of Americans over the age of 18 smoked cigarettes last […]

Do you love to make like a cat and snooze away some of the afternoon hours? Don’t feel guilty about it! Turns out napping has a whole slew of health benefits, including: Makes you Leaner Turns out getting a few Z’s helps you lose weight by upping your metabolism and shifting chemicals that affect appetite, so you’ll want to eat less while you burn more calories. Makes your more Productive […]

In early November, most Americans set their clocks back an hour, as daylight saving time (sometimes erroneously called daylight savings time) comes to a close, and most of the United States will "lose" an hour of daylight. These spring and fall clock changes continue a long tradition started by Benjamin Franklin, who takes the honor (or the blame, depending on your view) for coming up with the idea to reset […]

Want to increase your brain power? Get a grip! A recent study by researchers at U.K. Biobank found that people with significant grip strength tended to have “healthier” brains. In the study, over 475,000 participants raging in age from 37 to 73 were tested by undergoing hydraulic dynamometer grip strength tests on both hands, followed by 15-minute computerized assessments in five essential brain function categories, including visual memory, number memory, […]

Ask your body clock! New research into the history and biology of circadian rhythms show that it may be the key to weight loss as well as overall health and wellness. In today’s hyperdrive world, we are constantly time starved, racing around multi-tasking, packing in meetings and projects into every waking hour. Those awake hours increase, sleep becomes an afterthought, and eating turns into a mindless series of stuffing, skipping […]

Sitting for extended periods of time is now considered to be as harmful to our health as smoking cigarettes. Bad news for those of us who spend hours in the car commuting, only to spend more hours sitting at a desk, then more hours in the car, followed by couch potato city at night. So, we work out. Even an hour a day of exercise doesn’t come close to balancing […]