If you’ve made it to 75, you may think: What harm can a little ice cream, TV-watching and smoking do? But if you want to live longer than your peers, it’s essential to live healthfully—even if you’ve never been big on these habits before. Why? A recent study published in the British Medical Journal showed that seniors can add an average of 5.4 […]
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Spread Out Exercise to Make it More Effective
If your weekdays are jam-packed, it’s tempting to try to cram all of your physical activity into a marathon session over the weekend, but experts recommend thinking twice before taking that approach. Why? The number one reason is that you’re more likely to injure yourself by over-exercising if you try to fit everything in two days. Second, you’re not getting […]
Could Relaxing Make You More Productive?
Over the weekend there was an article in the New York Times that has now popped up in my newsfeed and Twitter stream quite a few times. Written by Tony Schwartz, CEO of The Energy Project, the article “Relax! You’ll Be More Productive” cites lack of sleep, desk-side lunches, and unused vacation days as part of the problem for why […]
3 Moisturizing Rules for Winter Skin
Secretly, I hate body lotion. I know it’s something I need to use daily, and I’ll admit that it does make my skin look ten times better, but I hate the time it takes each morning. But I’ve resolved to be better about it since I know my skin will thank me in 10+ years. Here’s some advice I’m keeping […]
6 Rules for Raising Healthy Children from Mom.me
Recently, my one-year old has been transitioning from puréed foods to solids. Some days he surprises me and enhales everything on his tray, and then other days it’s either thrown across the room, or fed to the dog. It’s not necesarily the mess that bothers me, but more so the waste! Moms, is that normal? I recently read an article from our friends at Mom.me titled the,”6 […]
Wednesday Trivia: The Age of the Oldest Dental Filling
Here’s a bite-sized fun fact to bring up at dinner tonight (or during your next teeth cleaning). The world’s oldest dental filling is 6,500 years old, as discovered by a team of scientists in Italy. The jawbone in which it was lodged was dug up early last century near the village of Lonche in Slovenia. At the time, the find—one of […]
To Get Over a Fear, Start by Speaking Up About It
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, 19.2 million American adults suffer from a specific phobia—such as fear of flying, heights, spiders, or public speaking. (The other day, Real Simple’s own etiquette columnist, Catherine Newman, wrote a great essay about her phobia in The New York Times. Confession: I have the same one!). Happily, there’s hope for fearful folks. […]
Winter Skin-Care Tips
Though I know it’s important all year long, sunscreen isn’t something I typically think to use during the winter months but, as I hit the slopes this past weekend, I did remember to dig out my sun block. Why?
