As we grow older, many of us find it harder to avoid or undo unwanted weight gain
An unfortunate part of our modern-day busy lifestyle is chronic sleep deprivation.
A recent article in the New York Times about New Year’s resolutions caught my attention.
It’s resolution season again, that time-honored exercise of self-restraint when people try to negate the fallout from holiday celebrations and other indulgences.
It’s supposed to be to most wonderful time of the year. But for many people the holiday season is anything but joyous.
The holiday season is a notorious time for unwanted weight gain.
I like to eat healthily, not only when it’s convenient and the opportunity presents itself, but all the time.
It is well known that when immigrants come to the United States and other parts of the Western hemisphere, they quickly adapt their eating styles to ours – especially the young.
More people pay close attention to their physical health and well-being, and yet obesity rates and diseases stemming from weight problems continue to rise.
We do it twice a year without giving it too much thought. Come spring, we turn our clocks by one hour forward, in autumn we dial them back again.
Most of what we achieve in life is based on compromise. Getting exactly what we want is rare. Usually it’s give and take.
Nutrition counselors have arguably the lowest success rate among all healthcare professionals.
According to the 17th Century French philosopher Blaise Pascal, “All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.”
Much has been written in recent years about the blessings of life after work and parenting.
You would have thought, “the older, the wiser.” But when it comes to diet and lifestyle choices, today’s young people seem to be doing better than any living generation before them.
Satisfaction with one’s physical appearance is at an all-time low among today’s adolescents, and eating disorders are on the rise at an ever-younger age, according to reports.
More than half of people who have hypertension, a.k.a. high blood pressure, don’t know enough about the condition and are unable to control it properly, according to a new survey.
Only about 10 percent of people who are at risk of developing type 2 diabetes know about their condition, which makes it hard to take proactive measures while there is still time to prevent the full-blown disease, according to a new study.
As more and more members of the baby boomer generation – those born between 1946 and 1964, about 75 million in all – enter retirement age and move from commercial healthcare plans to Medicare, the national insurance program for Americans over the age of 65, the question becomes more urgent how the ever-rising medical costs will be absorbed by society.
You may get a headache, be unable to concentrate, become annoyed over seemingly simple things. Your heart races, you break a sweat, feel anxious and unsettled for no particular reason.
