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Alzheimer’s Awareness Month: Keeping Your Family Healthy
November is known as Alzheimer’s Awareness Month. While you’re probably already familiar with the signs and symptoms of this disease, you may not know how to prevent it. The...
Best Practices
Recognizing & Coping With Nursing Burnout
Nurses are often compassionate by nature. After all, one of the reasons you may have chosen nursing is...
Health and Fitness
Wearable Devices: Useful Medical Insights Or Just More Data?
Do you track your steps with a FitBit or monitor your heart rate with an Apple Watch?
Wearable devices...
Health and Fitness
Should You Take Dietary Supplements?
When you reach for that bottle of vitamin C or fish oil pills, you might wonder how well...
Health and Fitness
Food For Thought: How The Brain Reacts To Food
The reason why some people find it so hard to resist finishing an entire bag of chips or...
Top 14 Ways Nurses Are Shedding Pounds
Obesity in nurses is an unfortunate trend that mirrors the obesity epidemic around the world. Unfortunately, being seriously overweight can be extra dangerous for...
Fiber : It’s Not Only Good For Your Colon
Are you interested in losing weight, or simply eating a more healthy diet? The first thing you can do is increase your fiber intake....
5 Best Apps For a Healthy Mind
We’ve previously written about great apps designed to help improve your physical fitness, but what if you are looking for ways to improve your...
Best Running Apps For Nurses
Happy 2016! Did you know the number one New Year's resolution is to “lose weight,” with the number five resolution listed as “staying fit and...
Weight Loss 101: The Making Of A Healthy Life – WATER!
Ifind myself telling many of my patients that they need to lose weight. But, it’s easy to say it, and really hard to do...
All Calories Are Not Created Equal!
As time goes by, so do weight loss fads. In the eighties, we were all told to count calories. In the nineties, we all...