Bad Habits Lead to Bad Health

by | Apr 8, 2023 | Breaking Bad Habits, Health & Wellness

Did you know that drinking too much soda or other carbonated beverages could interfere with calcium absorption – a problem that could eventually lead to osteoporosis? Or that slouching at a desk all day or tapping away at a computer keyboard can lead to painful...

Your New Reality

by | Apr 5, 2023 | Breaking Bad Habits, Health & Wellness

Is it possible to create a new personal reality? So-called unscripted television shows say you can – “The Biggest Loser” being one of the more popular of these tell-all and show-all programs. But most of us realize that these shows don’t...

The Luck of the Draw

by | Apr 5, 2023 | Breaking Bad Habits, Health & Wellness

Some people do all the right things and still develop serious health problems. Others flaunt their bad habits and can live long lives, dying peacefully in their sleep at the age of 95. For example, high blood pressure (hypertension, HTN) is a common chronic disease in...

Rise and Shine!

by | Apr 5, 2023 | Breaking Bad Habits, Health & Wellness

We all know people who get up with the first rays of the sun. Some people wake up even earlier, bouncing out of bed before there is even a glimmer of Homer’s famous “rosy- fingered dawn” in the eastern sky. In contrast, for many people leaving the...

Principles of Posture

by | Apr 5, 2023 | Breaking Bad Habits, Health & Wellness

Long ago and far away, a fourth-grade teacher told a student to “stand up straight – you look like a pretzel”. The unthinking adult only offered criticism. The child was left to try to unkink himself in ways that probably caused more structural...

Making the Grade

by | Mar 30, 2023 | Breaking Bad Habits, HealthCare

The recent school year has long been over, but the echoes of learning, striving, and achieving persist. We may, if we choose, apply these remembrances of ourselves when we were in school to the circumstances of our health and well-being. We all want good health for...