The Fast Facts on Eating Disorders

The Fast Facts on Eating Disorders

An eating disorder is a mental illness that severely affects a person’s relations with food, body image, and self-esteem. People with eating disorders have excessive thoughts of food, body weight and/or how their body looks, and how to control their intake and relationship with food.

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Continuing with Your New Year’s Resolutions

Continuing with Your New Year’s Resolutions

New Year’s Resolutions are a great way to take a step in a new direction, but often end up forgotten about. The gyms are always bustling the first couple of weeks in January, but by the middle of February, the workout machines are back to being used by the regulars at the gym.

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Prioritizing Exercise During the Holidays

Prioritizing Exercise During the Holidays

Establishing and maintaining an exercise routine is difficult at any point in the year, but during the holidays it can seem impossible to continue (or start) exercising. Between a packed schedule and holiday stress, here are some tips to help you recommit to prioritizing your workout.

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Managing Anxiety During the Holidays

Managing Anxiety During the Holidays

For many struggling with anxiety, the holiday season brings an extra dose of worry, stress, and fear. The combination of traveling from home, seeing family, entertaining large crowds and making endless small-talk at office parties can be terrifying for some. For some tips to cope with the added stressors the holidays can bring, keep reading.

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Alcohol and the Holidays

Alcohol and the Holidays

The holiday season is often synonymous with large meals, large get-togethers, and the large consumption of alcohol. To keep everyone safe (and keep off a few holiday pounds), read ahead for some tips on safe alcohol consumption this season.

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Dates for Better Health and Safer Snacking

Dates for Better Health and Safer Snacking

For the health conscious, dates are considered nature’s perfect snack food. They grow in bite sized pieces, they can be easily incorporated into countless recipes for entrees, deserts, and appetizers, they’re naturally sweet, and are loaded with potassium, fiber, protein, and natural sugars.

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Brain Exercises to Boost Memory

Brain Exercises to Boost Memory

Most people might agree that physical exercise is important for the overall health of your body, but what we often forget is that cognitive exercise is also important to keep our minds sharp.

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