A lot of people resort to eating out because they don’t know how to prepare a simple, healthy meal at home. Instead, they opt for expensive takeout. Not only does eating out on a regular basis put a serious dent in your bank account, but it also exposes you to a lot of questionable ingredients. Even seemingly healthy takeout meals like salads often are made with … [Read more...]
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Top Five Reasons to Make Squats a Staple Part of Your Workouts
When it comes to working out, there’s no such thing as a one-size-fits-all training plan. However, there are certain exercises that just about everyone should be incorporating into their routine. Whether you want to build muscle, lose body fat, increase your strength, or minimize chronic pain and injury risk, squats are one such exercise. Read on to learn all about the … [Read more...]
How to Bounce Back After an Ankle Surgery
Undergoing surgery is never a particularly pleasant experience. But, it can be even more frustrating when your surgery literally knocks you off your feet for a few weeks or months. If you’ve got an ankle surgery coming up, you might be wondering how you expedite your recovery and minimize the amount of time you have to spend sitting around with our ankle propped up. While … [Read more...]
10 Healthy Hobby Suggestions for Seniors
It’s no secret that the retirement years can be a very lonely and depressing period of a person’s life. You may feel unfulfilled or lacking purpose, your body may not work like it used to, and it might seem like there is nothing but time to kill. Due to isolation, many seniors may also get stuck in a rut and could require a little nudge to get moving. The key here is to … [Read more...]
How to Stay Healthy While Doing Shift Work
Are you one of the nearly 15 million Americans who works an irregular schedule? Often referred to as “shift work,” an irregular schedule is essentially any schedule that doesn’t fit the standard 9-5 mold. If you work overnight shifts, rotating shifts, or evening shifts, you’re technically doing shift work. Depending on your career, shift work may be an unavoidable part of … [Read more...]
10 Possible Reasons Why You Are Tired All the Time
Due to the strenuous demands of modern day living, everyone feels worn down from time to time. Perhaps you’re staying up too late or you’re working too hard, in which case the solution may be simple: get an early night and try again tomorrow. While fatigue is never considered to be the most threatening of conditions, however, it can often be an early indicator of a much larger … [Read more...]
Top Nursing Injuries (and How to Prevent Them)
When it comes to rapid industry growth, few sectors are experiencing the explosive boom of the healthcare market. Shifting population demographics mean more and more adults are aging into the 65+ bracket and that translates into rising healthcare needs, including a growing demand for nurses and other healthcare workers. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that … [Read more...]
10 Daily Habits for Healthy Hands
Take a moment to look around you and count how many objects in your surrounding environment have been designed for the hands. Most of them? All of them? Truthfully, it’s difficult to imagine a task where the hands aren’t somewhat involved, and this means that they are not only immeasurably useful appendages but also continuously exposed to contaminants and injury. The very … [Read more...]
Five Reasons to Make Glucosamine Your New Staple Supplement
The dietary supplement industry is booming right now. In fact, it’s expected to reach a valuation of $278.02 billion by the year 2024. With so many supplements on the market, it can be hard to know which ones to use and which ones to avoid. Everyone’s needs are different, of course. But, there are some supplements that just about everyone can benefit from. One of those is … [Read more...]
10 Tips for Proper Spinal Care
The importance of a healthy spine cannot be overstated, as the majority of your body is completely reliant on its performance. And yet, when one looks at the general posture habits of the current technologically-driven society, there is still a severe lack of awareness of how to properly care for this invaluable biological asset. If you are worried about your spine or are … [Read more...]
