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Prediabetes: Catch it, Stop it
If your healthcare provider says you have prediabetes, pay attention. It’s a wake-up call. Receive it as news you can use to become a healthier you. The good news is prediabetes can be reversed. Research from the National Diabetes Prevention Program found in 58% of cases, diabetes could be prevented or delayed with a modest
How To Recognize Depression In The Elderly
Here’s an alarming statistic: according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, more than 6 million Americans aged 65 and above live with some form of depression. While unfortunate to note, recognizing depression in the elderly is often tricky as most assume the symptoms they exhibit are a normal part of aging. Nothing can be
6 Surprising Reasons You Can’t Lose Weight
You’ve been cutting calories, eating smaller portions and walking almost every day — a seemingly successful dieting strategy by all measures except one: the scale. It doesn’t seem to budge. What gives? Why can’t you lose weight even when you’re dieting? If you’re over 50, experts say that your metabolism — as it relates to
How To Control High Blood Pressure Without Medication
If you’ve been diagnosed with high blood pressure, you might be worried about taking medication to bring your numbers down. Lifestyle plays an important role in treating your high blood pressure. If you successfully control your blood pressure with a healthy lifestyle, you might avoid, delay or reduce the need for medication. Here are 10
Weight Loss: Mindful Success
Are you always chasing a plan to lose a few pounds or maybe even a serious amount of weight? It doesn’t matter how much. Losing weight is one of the most befuddling and challenging health behaviors to confront our willpower. Of course we know the basic idea is eat less and exercise more. It’s not
Weight Loss: 6 Strategies For Success
Hundreds of fad diets, weight-loss programs and outright scams promise quick and easy weight loss. However, the foundation of successful weight loss remains a healthy, calorie-controlled diet combined with increased physical activity. For successful, long-term weight loss, you must make permanent changes in your lifestyle and health habits. How do you make those permanent changes?
The Power of Pilates
Pilates is more than a popular fitness trend with a hard-to-pronounce name (puh-LAH-tees). It will strengthen your core, but it will do more than that—it will leave you feeling centered from the inside out. What is Pilates? Pilates is a unique system of exercises designed to strengthen and lengthen the muscles. The series consists of
Early Signs of Arthritis
It’s not unusual to experience pain in your joints on occasion, especially if you’re active and participate in high-impact activities such as running. That unwanted ouch can be caused by injured muscles, tendons and ligaments around the joint, by tendonitis or by a sprain or a strain. But if you start experiencing aching, pain and