Health

The ability to bring laundry to the basement and back upstairs to fold it can sometimes be taken for granted. For Chris Szabo, just walking to her pat...

Happy Fitness Friday Almost two years ago, York science teachers Heather Kent and Renee Webb devised a plan to play awesome music, wear comfortable wo...

Marcus Whitman School District invites and urges any and all staff to partake in the numerous wellness events scheduled year-round. As part of the sch...

Taking the first step in managing our health and wellness can be a challenge. We can become overwhelmed with differing points of information on where ...

They flocked together by the hundreds, each carrying a varying degree of burden. Some saw it as a way to lose weight, others a way to kick-start a hea...

Jeannie Petrosky has a clever way of getting people into shape. “I take kickboxing-type moves and choreograph it into an exercise routine,” Petrosky s...

The Boston Marathon has Heartbreak Hill. The London Marathon offers a glimpse of Big Ben. The It’s a Wonderful Run 5K in Seneca Falls has the Bridge S...

Have you ever been lying in bed, unable to sleep soundly over financial worries? Or had a disagreement with your partner over money? Do you have a pla...

Upstate New York is known for its lakes and scenery, but community members want to be known for something else: good health. So, Finger Lakes communit...

We live in tough times of uncertainty. Work, family, politics and constant expectations to be digitally connected 24/7 are just a few things weighing ...

Although the benefits of an employer-sponsored wellness program are plentiful, employee participation can sometimes be lacking. Instead of taking adva...

It’s an epidemic in our country. And because one can’t feel it, it does its damage silently. That is the biggest problem with diabetes: If you wait un...

Spending time at the gym. Working hard in the office. Walking instead of driving a car. These are all desirable behaviors, right? It depends. Are you ...

There’s an old adage from the 1800s that begins, “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.” Over decades, that adage turned into what m...

Lexi was horribly bullied in school. The abuse she endured was so bad she sought to numb her senses through drug use, and eventually attempted to take...

Life can get stressful. Between morning routines, commutes and work and family responsibilities, the idea of wellness can easily be put on the back bu...

Welcome to our second edition of Wellness Connections, WPV's quarterly magazine written especially for members of our community who are interested in ...

I know I’m not the only one who dreads hearing the same old acceptance speeches. “I want to thank my agent, my mom, my third-grade teacher, my limo dr...

Seneca Valley School District is going giddy over gaga ball. The game, which has been described by some as a “kinder, gentler version of dodgeball,” h...

The nine participants currently enrolled in the Grove City Medical Center-Franklin/Grove City YMCA Diabetes Prevention Program were all facing a cross...