Wellness

Your Number One Priority: Your Health

Caring for your physical health enables you to focus on what matters to you most: loved ones, travel, achieving your goals, etc. Good health habits are not made in a day, and bad ones are not broken quickly. Read more about how to maintain and repair your health.

Seeking Balance

Many people seek a "work/life balance" in which they can reach career goals while maintaining a fulfilling personal life. This concept is not effective because it is not specific enough. The first step to a successful balancing act is to identify priorities in each area of your life: health, faith, family, work, and finances.

Multitasking Can Be Harmful to Your Health

Attempting to do several things at once, especially if you do it all the time, negatively impacts your health in several ways. Read about negative multitasking habits you may be doing and their effects on you.

Make Time for Good Health

Successful time management is an attitude that prioritizes important activities, not a system of calendars and day planners. Read some of our time management tips here.

Too Much Sugar Is Bad for Your Heart

Eating Organic on a Budget

Here are some tips for eating organic, or mostly organic, on a budget.

Getting the Most From Fruits and Vegetables

Shopping for organic and locally-grown produce is only the first step to healthier eating. Many of the valuable nutrients in your fruits and vegetables will be lost if you do not prepare and cook them properly. Here are some tips for preparing vegetables.

Does Being Cold Make You Sick?

Almost every mother has said it: “Wear a jacket or you’ll catch a cold!” Is she right?

Care and Feeding of Your Immune System

Your immune system is a complex network of tissues and cells that keeps you healthy by detecting threats to your body and eliminating them. Here are some tips and information on maintaining your immune system health.

Good Health Starts at the Supermarket

Do You Need Flu Shots?

The best way to protect yourself and your loved ones is to be vaccinated against the flu. Flu shots are recommended for anyone older than 6 months, but especially for people over 65, children younger than 5, people who have weakened immune systems, and their caregivers and family members.

Adults Need Shots Too

Adults might need booster shots for tetanus and other infectious diseases because immunity from early childhood vaccinations has faded. New vaccines introduced during the past decade can protect you from painful and debilitating illnesses.

The Value of a Good Night’s Sleep

Here are some tips for getting the most out of your sleep time...

The Relaxation Response

The "relaxation response" is a physical state of deep rest that changes the way your body reacts to emotion and stress. It occurs naturally when you are engrossed in something that you enjoy, such as playing music, bicycling, or shooting hoops. There are many ways to consciously trigger the relaxation response. Experiment and develop techniques that work for you.

Regret Can Undermine Your Well-Being

Learning to process regret in a productive way contributes to our health and well-being. Here are some tips for processing regret...

Faith and Health

Faith and being a part of a religious community can have positive effects on health and wellness. Read some of the ways that faith can impact your physical and mental health.

Challenge Your Status Quo in 2018

Are you ready to embrace a positive change in your life? How can you reinvent yourself, and go beyond your limitations to new levels of success?

Understanding Your Child's Appetite

Many parents worry when a child who ate ravenously as a baby becomes uninterested in food and seems to eat very little. This often happens around the second birthday, when the child's growth rate slows. Parents are concerned that their child is not getting enough nutrition. Here are some tips for forming healthy eating habits.

How to Understand and Use the Nutrition Facts Label

What’s for Lunch?

Good eating habits are the foundation for the rest of your child’s life. A child’s body needs calcium and other vital nutrients to grow and develop properly. Many common health problems, such as excess weight, heart disease, and diabetes, begin with poor eating habits acquired early in childhood.

Water – Gotta Have It!

Make sure you are staying hydrated, as it is essential for all of the functions and processes that keep your body going. Any beverage contains water, but when choosing what you are going to drink, consider these facts...

Vitamin Supplements: Take Them or Leave Them?

Your body needs only very small amounts of vitamins, yet a lack of even one of them can result in weakness, disease, and sometimes death. Vitamins by themselves do not supply your body with energy, but they help your body to release energy from carbohydrates, proteins, and fats.

Caring For Your Body During Chemotherapy

Side effects of chemotherapy can be managed with proper nutrition. Getting enough rest and minimizing stress also help to alleviate unpleasant symptoms.

Care and Maintenance of the Heart

We take our heart for granted because it is always working in the background, but it deserves the same effort that we devote to strengthening and maintaining the muscles in our backs, legs, and arms. Here are the most important things you can do to take care not only of your heart, but of the hearts you love.