Lifestyle
Contact Lens Hygiene: Who Cares?
Recent surveys show that 6 out of 7 contact wearers report at least one behavior that puts them at risk for eye infection, be it anything from sleeping with lenses in, swimming with contacts, or not replacing lenses enough. This general disregard for eye health is cause for concern among medical professionals, in part because …
Q & A With Olivia Harlan
ESPN and Fox Sports Sideline Reporter Healthy Magazine (HM): College football, NBA, multiple networks, sideline NFL reporter… My first question is: how have you not gone insane? In other words, what advice do you have about juggling priorities? Olivia (O): When it comes to priorities, I layer my to-do lists. Big picture (months, years down …
Walking Into Wellness
Do Corporate Wellness Programs Live Up to the Hype? Written by Caitlin Schille Corporate wellness programs are all the rage. Companies like them for many reasons, including saving money on healthcare expenditures, increasing employee productivity, promoting good company culture, and attracting the best employees. As a result of Affordable Care Act (ACA) stipulations that encourage workplace wellness, wellness programs have become quite …
Do Nature Sounds Actually Do Anything For You?
Written by Angela Silva The suggestion “get some fresh air” may carry more weight than we realize. Sure it feels nice to step outside of a stuffy, crowded room or to roll down the car window when we’re feeling a bit sick, but do the sounds and settings of nature actually offer any benefits to us? Researchers are …
The Case for Chores
Written by Caitlin Schille Most of us can easily recall the days of childhood chores. Maybe your family had a chore chart or chore wheel. Maybe chores were used as a form of punishment—in my family, the threat of weeding the ivy growing over the rock wall in our backyard was enough to correct any …
3 of Your Biggest Fears and How to Beat Them
Life is scary! Here are three common fears everyone has and proven ways to overcome them. Fear of Failure Set new goals A common cause for fear of failure is creating unrealistic goals. Try reworking your goals to allow room for improvement or growth. If you leave space in your goal to learn something new, …
Rewrite The Happiness Formula
It’s time to start thinking differently about happiness What makes a person happy is surprisingly elusive information. It’s often something we think we know, but in the end we realize our formula was incorrect. That formula is the life work of positive psychology expert Shawn Achor. He started thinking differently about happiness when he came …
Common Cooking Rules To Chuck In the Disposal
“Some foods contain fewer calories than it takes to digest it.” Also called “negative calorie” foods, many mistakenly believe foods like celery, grapefruit, apples, and lettuce provide net calorie loss. This is not true. A stalk of celery, for example, provides 6 calories, but the body only uses a half of a calorie to digest …
The 5 Best Apps Students Shouldn’t Live Without
By Christie Garton, CEO and Founder of the 1,000 Dreams Fund For better or worse, our iPhones are glued to our hands. And while endlessly scrolling through Facebook will never (ever) be productive, there are plenty of apps that are not only useful, but even life-changing. Trendy apps come and go – new data shows …
What is Healthier: City or Rural Living?
In one of Aesop’s more familiar fables, a proud town mouse visits a country mouse and scoffs at the simple food and housing. The town mouse brings his country mouse friend to experience the finer city living, but the country mouse is horrified to find that the fine life requires mortal danger. He eventually goes …
