Health and Fitness

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...

Recognizing & Coping With Nursing Burnout

Nurses are often compassionate by nature. After all, one of the reasons you may have chosen nursing is...

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...

Should You Take Dietary Supplements?

When you reach for that bottle of vitamin C or fish oil pills, you might wonder how well...

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...

Tips & Tricks For a Lush Garden

Whether it's a just a vibrant pop of pretty petals you want added to the front of the home or a raised bed full...

8 Foods You Thought Were Healthy

Everybody tries to eat healthy, not only to avoid gaining excessive amounts of weight, but also to try and live a longer, more pleasant...

Cut the Yuck for a Healthier Home

 Dirt. Grime. Bacteria. Airborne allergens. As hard as you try to keep your home clean, these types of yucky things are an everyday reality....

10 Tips For Leaving Your Job Stress At Work

When the going gets tough, the tough get together.And they share—stories, advice, fears and laughter. Now, since nursing is anything but easy, it’s easy...

5 Easy While-You-Work Exercises For Nurses

Nurses are experts at maximizing their time. So what can you do when you want a workout…but won’t be able to make it to...

Mobile App Records Our Erratic Eating Habits

Breakfast, lunch and dinner? For too many of us, the three meals of the day go more like: morning meeting pastry, mid-afternoon energy drink...