Health
Improve Your Skin Health with Exercise and Nutrition
As registered dietitians and personal trainers, we are intimately familiar with the health benefits that good nutrition provides for every part of the body. Interestingly, most people focus on nutrition and exercise for disease prevention or for weight loss, but they don’t typically think of the positive effects they have on skin, the […]
Turbotax Health Offers Simple Tips And Tools For Consumers Navigating Health Insurance Open Enrollment
SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) opens Saturday, Nov. 15, marking the second opportunity for uninsured Americans to purchase health insurance under the new health care law. TurboTax, the nations leading online tax preparation service from Intuit Inc. (INTU[1]), is offering simple tips and tools at www.TurboTaxHealth.com[2]. The online guide […]
Weight Loss For Couch Potatoes – Don’t Get Up, I’ll Explain…
*** You’re fat and you know it! Now I’m going to tell you something you don’t already know. You think you already know why you’re fat but you don’t. You think it’s because you just don’t have enough time and motivation to exercise. You think it’s because you love food and don’t quite have enough […]
Moderate consumption of sugary drinks has little impact on adolescents’ metabolic health
Sugar-sweetened beverages are the largest source of added sugar in the diets of adolescents in the United States, and young adults ages 15-20 consume more of these drinks than any other age group, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Adolescent obesity rates, which have quadrupled over the past thirty years, led to […]
Train More Effectively With A Heart Rate Monitor
Today’s heart rate monitors have made it easier for athletes of all levels to get the same feedback they would get from a high-priced trainer. It’s like having a personal coach strapped to your wrist. Until you get a heart rate monitor, you measure your effort by time or distance. With a heart rate monitor, […]
Michael Moore’s Sicko Review A Documentary Of The “sickening” Health Care System In America!
There couldn’t be a better word to describe Michael Moore’s latest film “Sicko”. Traveling through the health care world in the United States brings on a new era of realization of how “Sickening” the health insurance industry of America really is. Almost 50 Million Americans live without health insurance in America. As bad as that […]
Improve Your Brain Health
As we get older, our brains get rusty. This deterioration of the brain eventually leads to Alzheimer’s disease. There are ways to improve you brain health however and decrease your chances of getting Alzheimer’s disease. Eating a lot of colorful fruits and vegetables is important for brain health. The brighter the colors the better, because […]
Online Health Supplements
The internet, a relatively new invention, presents us with new ways to make the purchases of items we need. Another relatively new craze would have to be the world’s obsession with health supplements. In an increasingly health-aware society, there are many easy options out there to help keep your health robust. Many of them are […]
A Healthy Breakfast: Not An Impossible Mission
It’s a trite but true refrain that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. For most of us, it’s been about 12 hours since our last meal and our bodies need a good refueling. Yet, statistics show that as many at 50% of us don’t eat breakfast. We’re too busy. We don’t like […]
Save Women's Health, Maternity Support Services In South King County
Dariia Leavitt, 25, is just one among thousands of clients watching closely to see if the Auburn Public Health Clinic remains open next January. Dariia Leavitt signed up as a maternity support services client at the Auburn Public Health Clinic in 2011. Today, she goes to the clinic for family planning services. (Photo courtesy of […]