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Simple Ways to Maintain a Healthy Weight

While weight loss is a challenge, weight management can be even harder. The average adult gains one to two pounds every year. While there’s no magic-bullet cure, these four simple tips can help prevent weight gain. 1. Make time for meal prep.

How Exercise Can Boost Your Mental Health

Have you ever headed out the door for a walk feeling a bit down, but felt much brighter by the time you finished? You weren’t imagining the effect. Our minds and bodies are linked in many ways, and physical activity is an established way to improve mental health, which is as important as physical...

10 Healthy Habits You Can Stick with All Year

If your New Year’s resolution is to eat better and exer- cise more, setting the threshold too high with a new rigid diet or strenuous workout may not be the best way to reach your goals. In fact, making drastic lifestyle changes can backfire when you’re trying to develop healthy habits. You may...

Where Do You Carry Extra Weight? It Matters, Doctors Say

Visceral fat — fat stored deep in the belly — is the most harmful kind, experts say. Years ago, we didn’t know that where we carry extra weight matters. Now we know it does. Researchers say a large waist size makes you more likely to develop heart disease. Fat around the belly makes you more...

Dining Out? Choose Healthy Eating from the Menu

American families now spend as much as 40 to 50 percent of their food budget on meals away from home. And the obesity rate among kids and teens has skyrocketed right alongside rates of eating out. A difference of 50 to 150 calories a day is all it takes for children to gain weight. That means...

Healthy Cooking: Home Cooking

Home-cooked meals can boost your health — and protect your wallet. Try these cooking tips: • A hot tip for freezing. Fresh vegetables will freeze better if you blanch them first. Bring water to a boil and drop in the veggies for a few minutes. Cool them quickly and thoroughly in an ice water bath...

Get Fit: Hyperglycemia and Exercise

Hyperglycemia, or high blood sugar, can occur due to excessive food intake, illness, stress and/or insufficient insulin. American College of Sports Medicine guidelines indicate that a blood-glucose reading of greater than 300 mg/dl, with or without ketones present in urine, or greater than 240 mg/...

Healthy Cooking: Scrumptious Soups

If you have a blender and some imagination, you can make creamy soups that will fill you, your family and your friends with healthy and tasty fare. These foods are low in calories, high in fiber and low in sodium. The list that follows includes great produce sources for essential nutrients:

Quick and Healthy Snacks For Your Family

Although a home-cooked meal with the family sitting around the dinner table is ideal, many families find that their days and nights are packed with work, school events, activities, family obligations and errands.