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Maintaining Well-Being During Social Distancing
Social distancing is a strategy to slow the spread of COVID-19. What is “social distancing”? How do you participate?
Why Do You Exercise?
Why do you exercise? Remembering your reasons for exercising can help motivate you to get moving more often!
Office Calories and Your Weight
Lowering Your Risk for Coronavirus
The coronavirus outbreak is affecting everyone. So much is out of our control, but there are steps you can take to keep yourself healthy.
COVID-19 and Hypertension
Why Breaking Up Sitting Time Can Save Your Life and How to Do It When You Have Prediabetes
The new phrase, “sitting is the new smoking,” emphasizes the importance of breaking up sitting time. Here is what it can do for you!
Does Your Commute Contribute to Your Health?
The average American commute is over 26 minutes each way, totaling 52 minutes per day or 4 hours and 20 minutes in a five-day workweek.
Five Ways to Remember to Break up Sedentary Time
Breaking up sitting time is another powerful way to lower blood sugar and improve insulin sensitivity.
How to Break a Weight Loss Plateau
As frustrating as weight loss plateaus are, they do happen. There are ways to fight back so you can see the progress you deserve!
How to Read Your Blood Pressure Results
Learning how to read your blood pressure results is essential to managing your high blood pressure (or hypertension).
Ways to Stand More Throughout the Day
Standing burns 20% more calories per minute than sitting, and has increased benefits. How can you stand more during your days?
Give Yourself a Break for Weight Loss
Ups and downs happen no matter what. But having a bit of an understanding about what may cause them can increase your sense of control.
Seven Ways to Break a Fitness Plateau
Recently, though, imagine that those benefits do not seem to be coming anymore. You may have hit a fitness plateau.
Smoking and the Damage to Your Heart
The dangers of smoking to your lungs are well-known, but what about smoking and heart damage? Quitting smoking can be great for your health.
Sodium Intake and The Effects On Blood Pressure
Sodium often comes up in conversations about hypertension. Sodium raises blood pressure, so limiting sodium intake will lower blood pressure.
Prevention of Hypertension
Lifestyle changes can help lower blood pressure and prevent hypertension, including if you are on anti-hypertensive medications.
Five Food Swaps to Lower Your Blood Pressure
While many factors affect blood pressure (also known as hypertension), what you eat is among the more influential to lowering blood pressure.

Insulin Resistance Diet
If you have prediabetes, improving your diet may be the most effective way of reversing it, like with an insulin resistance diet.
Coronavirus and Diabetes
People with diabetes are in one of the high-risk groups for being impacted by coronavirus. Learn how to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.
What is Borderline Diabetes (Prediabetes)?
Borderline diabetes, also known as prediabetes, is a condition in which blood sugar is higher than normal, but not as high as it is in diabetes.
Take Small Steps to Reach Big Goals
Small changes and gradual habit-building are great strategies for progressing towards larger goals by breaking it down.
A Single Trick Can Get You to Your Exercise Goals
What if you could work out more, and see better results, easily? It turns out there is a simple way: put on activewear that you like.
Why Eating While Watching Television Can Make You Gain Weight, and How to Stop It
There are many reasons why TV watching and other screen time, such as using smartphones and tablets, may lead to weight gain.
Reduced Carb Diets
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How to Lose Weight Without Stressing Out about Calories
To lose weight, you need to have less calories coming in than you burn. But there are better ways than obsessively counting calories!
Small Changes for Big Weight Loss
Although rapid weight loss diets can cause quick weight loss, small changes can lead to bigger weight loss that lasts.
Heart Health Tips for Men
Focus on caring for your heart for American Heart Month. There are tons of easy heart health tips to help your heart and blood vessels.
Lark Holiday Survival Guide
Find the Right Workouts for Your Personality
Your exercise personality may be a contrast to your rest-of-the-day persona. Some people are extroverts, and some may need their exercise time to be quiet.
Eat More to Lose More Weight
Does the idea of taking smaller portions make you think of deprivation and dieting? Think again! As the Lark hinted, you can take larger portions of others.
Online Help for a Healthy Life
These days, it seems like everything is available online. Why not turn to the world wide web to lose weight and manage prediabetes, too?
What You Can Do About High Morning Blood Sugar
Morning blood sugar, or blood glucose, value refers to the measurement you might take when you wake up in the morning and are still fasting.
Find and Befriend Your Stress
Vigorous-Intensity Activity You Can Do!
Why Your Workout Can Make You Happy
Strategies for Healthy Grocery Shopping
Five Reasons Why "I Can't Cook"... Beat The Excuses!
Cooking at home can lead to lower-calorie, more nutritious meals. You may have trouble cooking at home, but there are responses to those barriers that turn them into nothing more than excuses.
Five Things You're Doing to Increase Your Heart Disease Risk
You have a lot of control over your risk for diabetes and heart disease. Here are 5 ways that you may be raising your risk, and what you can do about it.
