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4 Forms of Exercise: How They Work for You
Regular exercise can improve your health, your attitude and your odds against disease and disability. For specific fitness benefits, experts say we should focus on 4 primary forms.

Why Are You So Tired?
If you’re walking around fatigued, you’re not alone.

Resisting Antibiotics
Six steps to safe antibiotic use.

Health Websites We Recommend
Navigating what’s accurate, unreliable or downright bogus isn’t always easy.

When Your Head Hurts
What causes headaches? Knowing can help prevent them.

Indulge in Time for YOU
If work-life balance seems elusive, maybe you’re trying too hard.

5 Exercise Errors to Avoid
Exercise can help us prevent or reverse several diseases, including depression. here are 5 oversights to watch for.

Get in the Swim
Water exercise offers special rewards. Low-impact aqua workouts can leave you feeling calm and invigorated, not tired or achy.

Take the Pressure Off
High blood pressure silently damages blood vessels and leads to serious health problems, including stroke.

Tips to Prevent Burnout
When stress continues for too long, you can experience the physical or emotional exhaustion known as burnout.

Health Care Visits: Ask Questions
When you’re diagnosed with a condition, the better you and your health care provider communicate, the more successful your health outcome.

Health Benefits of Volunteering
Volunteering can help you learn new skills, meet new people and feel good about helping others. Researchers have found it can benefit your health, too.

Checkup Time
We’re into the second half of 2023 — how are you doing so far? Take some time to review your successes and make the rest of the year even better by adjusting goals or making new ones.

AT RISK: Heat-Related Illness
In the summer, outdoor workers need to take precautions so they don’t succumb to weather-related maladies such as heat exhaustion and heatstroke; the latter can be fatal. Recognize the symptoms and learn the suggested treatment and prevention methods.

Coping with Chronic Health Problems
Being diagnosed with a chronic or long-term health condition, such as, diabetes, arthritis, asthma or COPD, can be stressful and discouraging. How will it change your lifestyle and future? For example, you may need to:

Making the Best Medical Care Choices
Quality health care is the right care at the right time for the best results.

Tap Into Protein Power
Protein is an essential nutrient found in many foods. Protein breaks down into amino acids and the body uses them to make muscles, tendons, organs, enzymes, hormones and other molecules that serve important functions. Without protein, our bodies couldn’t function.

The Value of Prevention
When it comes to health and health care in America, here are some figures that may surprise you:

Outsmart Winter Weight Gain
For many folks, it starts with the winter holidays. We add pounds celebrating with month-long buffets, irresistible desserts and drinks. This can also be a stressful, busy time when we lose the incentive to fix healthful meals and exercise.

Volunteering? Good for You!
When people donate their time and resources to others, they often benefit as much as those they serve. Many people enjoy a sense of achievement, connection and emotional well-being from their volunteer efforts. As a volunteer you may explore your personal interests, learn new skills and boost your self-confidence and morale.

Conquer that Cough
Can’t quit coughing? Common causes of persistent coughing include smoking, asthma, chronic bronchitis, postnasal drip, acid reflux, infections from a lingering cold or the flu, and some medications. Chronic coughing can affect your health and quality of life. Once you know the cause, you can usually find relief.

Get a Move On
Quit sitting your life away.

With 206 bones and more than 600 muscles, our bodies are made to move. Of course, modern trends and technology have led to sedentary lifestyles. We now spend the majority of our waking time sitting in a constricted posture that prevents our bodies from functioning well.

Save Your NECK
Supporting your head is a nonstop job for your neck, and subjects it to frequent strain and pain over the course of your life. Most neck pain is due to mechanical disorders, including pinched nerves caused by herniated vertebral discs, a narrowing of the spinal cord (stenosis), osteoarthritis and whiplash-related injuries to the neck’s soft tissue.

Protect Your Immunity
Your body’s immune system is your No. 1 defender against infection. It protects you daily from exposure to millions of germs (microbes), including bacteria, viruses, parasites and other threats. When germs do invade your body, making you ill, the immune system begins fighting the infection at the cellular level.

Summer Fitness, Family Style
Families often face stressful times. Staying close and exercising together can help keep you strong physically and emotionally, especially when the activity involves fun in the sun.

Cultivating POSITIVITY
When you maintain a positive mindset, life seems easier. You get more done, feel more motivated, take setbacks in stride and have more energy and focus. Your positivity can also motivate others in the workplace — while being negative can have an opposite, toxic effect.

Safety Corner: Green Thumb
Gardening is a great way to enjoy the outdoors.

Health Impact of Nasal Allergies
Nasal allergy, or allergic rhinitis, is the 6th most common chronic disease in the U.S. and a common chronic disease in children. It leads to millions of lost work and school days and billions of lost health care dollars each year.

Garden Shape-up
Getting your garden fit for spring? Get ready for a healthy workout. With all the mowing, raking, tilling, weeding, digging and hauling, the physical demands of yard work can produce multiple fitness benefits.

CHECKUP: Your Heart
Each year, more than 600,000 Americans die from heart disease (also called cardiovascular disease). This number has declined somewhat in recent years, but heart disease remains our leading health problem, causing 1 out of every 3 deaths in the U.S.

Overcome Your Exercise Plateau
People often abandon their workouts when the results — getting stronger or slimmer — begin to dwindle. In most cases, reaching a plateau simply means you’re progressing toward fitness and ready for a new level of workout.

Stretching: Stay Flexible at Work
Flexibility is key to staying mobile and working well without pain or injury. After hours of sitting, driving or standing on the job, muscles and joints tend to tighten up. Areas most affected are the hamstrings, hip flexors (muscles around the hip), back, chest, shoulders, arms and wrists.

Nutrition and the Common Cold
A nutritious diet helps keep your immune system strong enough to help fight seasonal colds. First, replace processed foods with whole foods, including vegetables, fruit, whole grains, beans, nuts and fish. Here are some other suggestions for staying well during cold season.

Signs of Depression
Depression is a complex disease with many causes. These include inherited traits, hormone changes, traumatic or stressful events, alcohol or drug abuse, and certain medications or health conditions. Also, individual brain chemistry can impact mood, our perceptions and the way we experience life.

Help Prevent Medical Errors
Thousands of Americans die each year as a result of medical errors. Common errors include medication mixups, unnecessary blood transfusions, health care facility-contracted infections, patients not reporting side effects, symptoms and complications, and inadequate patient preparation before and after surgery.

Live Stronger
Here are a few simple strength-training exercises you can do for the rest of your life. Always check with your health care provider first before beginning any exercise program.

SUNSCREEN: The Real Cover-up
Do you know how to choose an effective sunscreen? To provide adequate sun protection, take a close look when shopping — new FDA labeling regulations are in effect for sunscreen products. Here are some common sunscreen questions, with answers provided by the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD).

Safety Room by Room
Your home is your haven, but not if there are safety issues. Install smoke and carbon monoxide detectors on every level of your home, and use this brief overview of room-by-room hazards and ways to secure each room.

Q: How to stop worrying?
A: If you worry incessantly, don’t despair. These tips can help bring this troublesome habit under control:

TIPS for 10,000 Steps
Health experts recommend that we take 10,000 steps per day, or walk about 5 miles, to get healthy.

Q: Heart attack signs?
A: A heart attack occurs when blood flow to the heart gets cut off. Any part of the heart muscle not receiving blood flow can be permanently damaged without a quick response. The signs of this medical emergency vary from person to person and may be absent, mild or severe.

Medications and Food
Did you know certain foods can affect how your medications work?

5 WAYS to De-Stress Now
Use one of these techniques to find a small oasis of calm amid the chaos and recharge your mind and spirit in just 5 minutes.

Say Goodbye to Food Cravings
It’s 3 o’clock and your body longs for chocolate. Does this craving sound familiar? It could be your body’s need for nutrients or calories, or it may be based on habit. Use these tips to help keep cravings at bay.

5 Ways to Stop Winter Weight Gain
Gaining a few extra pounds during winter is easy to do. Often it happens because we become less physically active in the chilly outdoors and less body conscious under bulkier clothing. Or you eat more watching additional TV indoors or when lack of sunshine gets you down. Then come the holidays and all those treats. Here’s how to avoid added pounds.

Stop Germs Cold
Colds and flu viruses are highly contagious. In fact, we are infectious a day before we even have symptoms, and 5 to 7 days after getting sick. To help stop the spread of germs, remember these tips.

3 Common FITNESS QUESTIONS
1. What’s the best exercise for losing weight?
2. What’s a simple way to build strength?
3. What kind of exercise is best for obese or overweight people?

VACCINATION: A Smart Investment
People often wonder about the need for vaccinations. Here are some common questions and guidelines from the CDC.

Cool Meals for Hot Days
As the temperature soars, your desire to turn on the stove likely wanes. Keep cool and stay healthy with these delicious, no-cook dinner ideas.

4 Rs for Restoring Health
Sooner or later, unhealthy habits catch up with us. Maybe too much eating, drinking, sitting, sunning or worrying? Fortunately, the body has an amazing ability to heal itself — when you step in and help it, starting now.

Medical Testing @ Home
Major advances in medical testing technology have given us a growing number of tests we can use in our homes. They are convenient, quick, confidential and usually available over the counter. Home tests help:

Play It Safe With Exercise
COVID-19 has sent us indoors, looking for alternatives to outdoor physical activity. Before you put on your workout clothes, follow these guidelines to avoid getting sidelined with an injury.

Boost Your Mood With Exercise
Have you ever tried exercise to relieve stress or a bad mood?

Lowdown on Body Fat
You may not want to think about your body fat, but do you know where you carry fat can affect your risk for some conditions?

Avoid These Calorie Traps
If you’ve resolved to shed a few pounds this year, pay attention to foods that can derail your weight-loss plan. You know the ones — the innocent-looking muffin or fruity trail mix with shockingly high calorie counts.

Cold-Weather Workouts: Dress Code
Don’t let winter’s chill keep you inside and inactive. You may find cold weather a challenge that actually enhances your exercise.

Are You Weight-Loss Ready?
People choose to lose weight to gain something — better health, self-esteem or energy.

The Flu and You
Clean hands are helping hands. Washing them often is the best primary protection against spreading germs.

Healthy Top Ten
Goals for Good Eating

Exercise Help Online
Online exercise classes offer convenience, affordability and a broad range of exercise options for all levels and degrees of mobility.

No Heat Required: Summer Meals
You know those days when it’s too hot to cook dinner? If the temperature is soaring, consider a nutritious supper without your stove. Here are some ideas.

The Heat is On
Most of us cope OK in normal hot weather. But don’t risk getting sick during long periods of extreme heat — especially when temperatures reach 10 degrees or more above the average high for your region.

Eat the Mediterranean Way
Studies link the Mediterranean Diet to a reduced risk of heart disease, diabetes, cancer, obesity and dementia, so it makes sense to enjoy more Mediterranean-inspired meals every day.

What’s Your Relationship with FOOD?
Many of us may eat when we feel bored, stressed or sad, rather than hungry. And sometimes we eat even when we already feel full.

Nutrition Facts: What You Need to Know Now
In May 2016, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration showcased a new Nutrition Facts label for packaged foods.

Life’s Simple 7 for Your Heart
American Heart Association’s Life’s Simple 7 steps to heart protection are crucial to good health overall.

Weight-Loss Aid: Exercise
What matters most for losing pounds is consuming a healthy diet.

Sleep Diary
Use this form to record your sleep habits and identify factors which may interfere with your sleep.

Headache Diary
Use this form to track your headaches and identify possible triggers.