weight_loss

When we emerge from our winter cocoons, we’re often laden with weight we put on during the colder, more sedentary months. It can be a struggle to find...

If you’ve ever read the side of your cereal box, you’ve probably noticed folic acid listed on the nutrition label. If you looked closely, you’d notice...

You’re feeling pretty good. After all, your typical weekincludes lifting weights and logging miles on the treadmill. Then why does your back feel sore...

For anyone considering a plant-based diet as part of a healthier lifestyle, you might want to hear what Sarah Goodenough has to say. Goodenough lived ...

It’s Friday morning at Bristol Township School District's Mill Creek Elementary School as a line of 18 anxious and competitive staff members eagerly a...

“I’m the poster child for every diet that’s been out there,” says Gretchen Crane, fourth-grade teacher at York Central School District. “I would look ...

When the Mt. Morris Central School District Wellness Committee organized a Body Challenge for early 2017, the committee members did not realize what a...

Armstrong-Indiana Intermediate Unit 28 is only halfway into its ambitious BodPod weight-loss adventure for school employees in Armstrong and Indiana c...

Most people look at Jan. 1 as the beginning of a new year. Not Ashleigh Gerstner, Special Education teacher at North Rose-Wolcott Central School Distr...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control has some stark realities to share. Chronic diseases and conditions—such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, type 2 ...

In May, Westinghouse and Optum, formerly known as Plus One, celebrated something special and exciting: Optum’s five-year anniversary of managing the f...

Everyone loves holiday break, but it can also be a stressful time for working parents, who have to find care for their kids. During the 2015 holiday s...

If there are two people who know about bike safety and how to be prepared in case of an emergency, it is Dale Black and David Town. The colleagues, wh...

A heart-healthy lifestyle is important for everyone, not just people who have existing health problems. Healthy habits can help keep your heart and bl...

A heart-healthy lifestyle is important for everyone, not just people who have existing health problems. Healthy habits can help keep your heart and bl...

As the demand rises for chemical-free food ingredients, more manufacturers are embracing plant-based dye alternatives over synthetic food coloring. Th...

It’s often said that we are what we eat, but most of us never stop to consider how this truism extends well beyond our waking hours. Does what we eat ...

We all know trans fat is bad, clogging our arteries and raising our cholesterol. But how bad are saturated fats? Unsaturated fats? If we’re trimming t...

Incorporate good fats into your food with these healthy recipes.

By mid-winter, you’ve probably sweated it out on the treadmill to hours of bad TV and burned through your music playlist more than a few times. With a...