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...

Summer Hair Survival Guide

Repeated exposure to sun, salt water, and chlorine chemical residues can take an unstylish toll on our tresses. By the end of the summer,...

Healthy, Affordable Food Choices Made Easy

It's a common belief that eating healthy is more expensive. In fact, keeping healthy food affordable was among the top five most concerning life...

Tips for Eating Healthy On The Go

Nurses are notorious for eating on the go, grabbing something quick, easy and often times not the healthiest.  As a care giver, you also...

Honey: One Food, Many Uses, No Rivals

There's been a lot of buzz lately about the benefits of honey – both raw and filtered. But, what exactly is honey? Where does...

Low Fat Diet Reduces Body Fat More Than Cutting Carbs

In a recent study, restricting dietary fat led to body fat loss at a rate 68 percent higher than cutting the same number of...

Positive Emotions And Your Health

Do you tend to look on the sunny side, or do you see a future filled with dark, stormy skies? A growing body of...