Health Update

If your child is overweight, it can be difficult to know how to discuss the subject with him or her.

If your to-do list never seems to get any shorter, the stress can add up and tax your body, making you age more quickly than you should.

If you love eating yogurt, then it’s time to consider making the change over to Greek yogurt.

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Now, having a colonoscopy is probably not the most fun thing you could do. But you know what would be even less fun?  Having colorectal cancer.

If you like a morning omelette, I have egg-cellent news… after years of recommending that we avoid food high in cholesterol, like eggs, a federal advisory committee has issued a report saying that cholesterol is not considered a nutrient of concern for over-consumption.

According to the American Heart Association, substituting foods high in saturated fats with nuts helps reduce bad or LDL cholesterol.

According to the New England Journal of Medicine, salt is one of the leading culprits in fueling the rise in healthcare costs in America.

According AARP, the food we eat may have a lot to do with the health of our brain as we  age.

Smoking is a nasty habit and one of the top controllable risk factors for heart disease.

According to the American Stroke Association, the best way to remember the warning signs of a stroke are with the acronym FAST, which stands for: