Things You Can Control

Posted on July 29, 2010 - Filed Under Behavior Change, Prevention, healthy lifestyle | View Comments

“Four modifiable health risk behaviors—lack of physical activity, poor nutrition, tobacco use, and excessive alcohol consumption—are responsible for much of the illness, suffering, and early death related to chronic diseases.”
— CDC
You can do stuff to help control your health. You can start right now.
Even if chronic disease is creeping up on you, it’s never to [...]

Good Catch

Posted on June 16, 2010 - Filed Under Random, healthy lifestyle | View Comments

Cheesy e-card from the CDC.

It Starts Early

Posted on April 14, 2010 - Filed Under healthy lifestyle | View Comments

We need to teach good health habits early. Teach by example.
[Source: Utah Valley Pediatrics: How to Fight Portion Distortion].

Happy New Year!

Posted on December 31, 2009 - Filed Under Shout Outs, healthy lifestyle, motivation | View Comments

“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.”

– Edith Lovejoy Pierce
Let’s all make this upcoming year better than the last.

Duty

Posted on December 29, 2009 - Filed Under Prevention, healthy lifestyle, motivation | View Comments

“To keep the body in good health is a duty…otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.”
– Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.

Scam?

Posted on November 18, 2009 - Filed Under Fad Diets | View Comments

Yeah baby. More Thanksgiving pie and Christmas cookies for me!

Dare Greatly

Posted on October 26, 2009 - Filed Under Random, Shout Outs | View Comments

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who [...]

Improved Body Image

Posted on October 13, 2009 - Filed Under Exercise, healthy lifestyle | View Comments

“This is an important study because it shows that doing virtually any type of exercise, on a regular basis, can help people feel better about their bodies. With such a large segment of the population dissatisfied with their physiques, it’s encouraging to know that even short, frequent bouts of lower intensity exercise can improve body [...]

Educated Woman = Longer Life for Man

Posted on October 7, 2009 - Filed Under healthy lifestyle | View Comments

“Women traditionally take more responsibility for the home than men do, and, as a consequence, women’s education might be more important for the family’s lifestyle – for example, in terms of food habits – than men’s education.”
“We can assume that more highly educated women have better possibilities to find the important health messages that are [...]