Month: July 2020

How to Get the Entire Family Involved in Fitness

How to Get the Entire Family Involved in Fitness

Upwards of 80 percent of American adults and adolescents do not engage in enough aerobic physical activity to meet minimum government recommended guidelines. Healthy habits, like any habit, begin at a young age. Children model the behavior of the adults in their lives and if 

How to Make this Summer Your Healthiest Ever

How to Make this Summer Your Healthiest Ever

As we all know, summer can be a relaxing and hectic season simultaneously. There are calm evenings spent on the back deck enjoying the company of friends and family while enjoying a well-earned beverage, while there are also days filled with travel, sight-seeing, planning, youth 

The Health Benefits of Walking More

The Health Benefits of Walking More

You are not walking enough…probably. You are also probably not walking fast or often enough. Research consistently reveals that most American adults do not get enough aerobic activity, which includes walking, and that same research reveals numerous health benefits that are derived from regular walking 

Purple: The Color of Kings, Prince and Healthy Foods

Purple: The Color of Kings, Prince and Healthy Foods

Hundreds of years ago, purple-colored clothing was tough to come by. The dye used on fabric came from the Phoenician city of Tyre (now in Lebanon) and was acquired from either Mediterranean snails or mollusks (wait, is a snail a mollusk?). Thousands of these poor