Healthcare & Wellness

As soon as you slap a mental label onto your circumstance, the body responds and follows your mental lead. Is life for you or against you? The choice is yours.

Summer is a great time of year to spend time outdoors, but with the dog days of summer fast approaching, exercising outdoors in the extreme heat comes with some risks. Here are some tips for safely exercising outdoors in the hot summer months.

There is no denying that incorporating exercise into your daily life is important. You could even say our lives depend on it. But if going to the gym or running for any distance makes you cringe just thinking about it, what then?

For years the message was that to lose weight, you had to eat a low-fat diet. Research has found, however, that all fats are not created equal, and some are actually good for you. The key is to know the difference.

You’ve heard that exercising with a friend is beneficial because you are accountable to someone else and less likely to skip a workout. But finding someone with the same schedule as you on a daily basis is nearly impossible. Well, look no farther than your own feet.

There’s a saying in cosmetic/medical aesthetics world about the best-of-the-best: “Done right, no one will know, but everyone will notice.” The trick is to work to get the greatest bang for that hard-earned buck.

Employers are investing in wellness programs because these initiatives can support their employees’ desire to improve their health and create a happier, healthier workforce while reducing costs for employees and the company.

Achy joints have a way of slowing people down, and for some, provide an excuse to not exercise. Inactivity, however, can actually be worse for aging or achy joints; any movement is better than none.

Before your organization looks to increase employee access to doctors and hospitals, there are three things you must understand about PPO networks.

Here are few exercises that you can do without equipment that will help you increase your metabolic rate and increase your fitness level in preparation for the upcoming summer months.

If you are at a healthy weight and think you don’t need to include a regular fitness program in your life, you are depriving yourself of the many other health benefits that exercise provides.

Men now know what women have known for 100 years: If you take care of your skin, you will continue to look, and feel, more youthful. Men are spending $107.6 billion a year on skin care.

Have you ever considered how many New Year’s holidays many of us have used to make new fitness or weight loss goals? Have you been able to stick with your resolutions past March or April?