Category: Healthy Living
Trouble Sleeping? How to Overcome COPD Sleep Challenges
When you have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, you may struggle to get a good night’s sleep, and too little sleep can make it harder to manage your COPD. Try these tips to get your sleep cycle on track.
Strength Training for Women in Your 20s, 30s and Beyond
Strength training, also called resistance training, is different from cardio exercise. Instead of getting your heart rate up by running, cycling or swimming, a resistance program involves lifting weights or bodyweight resistance training. Strength training for women is one of the best things you can do to promote health throughout your life—in your 20s, 30s and beyond.
Plant-Based Protein Can Meet Your Nutritional Needs
If you choose the right foods, plant-based protein can indeed meet your body’s protein requirements.
Your Top Priority During Perimenopause? Your Health
As women grow older and approach menopause, many experience weight gain and other health changes due to fluctuating hormone levels. By adopting healthy habits during perimenopause, you can help avoid some of these issues and live your best life as you age.
5 Ways for Runners to Have Healthy Feet
Runners: Here are 5 tips on how to reach the finish line with healthy feet.
Parenting and Mental Health: Building Your Toolkit
It can be easy to keep track of your child’s physical health, but you may know less about their mental health. Fortunately, there are approaches that can help you manage your child’s mental health, including the four essential tools of a “mental health toolkit.” With these tools, you can promote positive mental health and prepare your children, and yourself, to cope with difficult times.
Understanding Sleep Paralysis
You’ve just woken up. You try to stretch, but you suddenly realize you’re unable to move. When you try to talk, nothing happens. This scary experience is called sleep paralysis, and it can be very unsettling. Find out what causes this unusual phenomenon, and whether there is anything you can do to prevent it.
COPD Management and the Importance of Taming Stress
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, can complicate breathing and affect the quality of your everyday life. These issues may cause anxiety and stress which can make COPD worse. That’s why controlling stress is a key part of COPD management.
Diet and Exercise: Beyond Eat Less, Move More
You’ve heard the advice. If you want to lose weight, all you have to do is “eat less and move more.” As you get older, you know this simplistic maxim falls short.
How to Eat a Plant-Based Diet
Plant-based diets are heart-healthy diets, and they’re easier to follow than you might think.