by Healthy Wealthy n Wise | Health and Fitness
Everyone knows the equation: holidays = pressure + stress. Even when you try to reduce the stress, it's still stressful. Even when you're not being a host, just a guest, it's still stressful. When you're under stress, you can more easily be captured by...
by Brad Walker | Health and Fitness
Over the last few months my inbox has been flooded with concerns about which stretches are good and which stretches are bad. In all cases someone has told the inquirer that they shouldn’t do this stretch or that stretch, or that this is a good stretch and this...
by Chick Moorman and Thomas Haller | Family
The drive to assign more and more homework to children at younger ages is in full force in some schools. The homework binge threatens to cut into prime family time, extra-curricular activities, and rest and relaxation. It also increases conflict over scheduling and...
by Elizabeth Yarnell | Health and Fitness
Ask almost anyone who is in charge of putting the daily dinner on the table what the most dreaded chore is and you'll likely hear a complaint about meal planning. Figuring out what to make for dinner day in and day out is something many of us loathe. We'd like...
by Healthy Wealthy n Wise | Health and Fitness
Cheating on a diet is one of the most crucial aspects when it comes to success or failure. If you can handle those inevitable lapses, you will be overcoming an important obstacle. It is in this area of mistakes – cheats – where dieters' attempts can...
by Abigail Natenshon | Family
Your child's room is strewn with clothing as she searches desperately for something to wear that "looks decent." As the piles become heaps, still nothing looks good enough. She peers into the mirror and sees only that her physical appearance does not...
by Healthy Wealthy n Wise | Health and Fitness
It finally happened, the thing I had been dreading since she started to have playdates away from my watchful eye. My nine-year-old daughter came home from a friend's house and sheepishly announced that she had eaten MacDonald's chicken McNuggets. "Oh,...
by Pankaj Naram and Smita Naram | Health and Fitness
Diabetes and obesity are walking hand-in-hand in America. 9.3 percent of the population actually has diabetes. All these people are now in the pipeline of what? Possible heart disease, circulatory problems, stroke, gangrene and kidney failure. But there is hope! This...
by Connie Bennett | Health and Fitness
Annoyed because your allegedly smart, qualified M.D. thinks your so-called "sugar addiction" is all "in your head"? Feeling frustrated because you can’t find a physician who understands the incredible power and value of good nutrition? Feeling...
by Cheryl Tallman and Joan Ahlers | Family
Recently, Time magazine ran a story called "Rethinking First Foods." It was a great summary of the latest information on the importance of feeding your baby healthy foods in the first two years of their life. The article had some very frightening statistics...
by Dr. Robert Duvall | Health and Fitness
Back pain is pervasive throughout the adult population. It is one of the most common reasons to visit a doctor. Young children are suffering from back pain much earlier than previously reported, and the use of overweight backpacks is a major contributing factor. In...
