Health and Wellness
Maintaining a Healthy Weight
Many factors can affect your weight, including your genes, age, gender, lifestyle, family habits, culture, sleep, and even where you live and work. Some of these factors can make it hard to maintain or achieve a healthy weight. Regardless, following a nutritious eating pattern and exercising regularly can help keep your body as healthy as…
Read More8 Ways to Get More Energy Fast
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, around 15 percent of women and 10 percent of men in the United States regularly feel tired or exhausted. But there’s often a simple solution. “Your energy level during the day could be related to many things, including sleep, fitness and food,” says Deirdre Conroy, clinical…
Read MoreNew Breakthroughs in Chronic Pain
Heath Haug served for 22 years in the Army, Marine Corps and National Guard, followed by two decades as a cop. “I beat my body up,” he says. “My back, feet, my knee. It takes a toll.” But Haug, 54, of Christiansburg, Virginia, has found relief through the Salem Veterans Affairs Health Care System’s (VAHCS)…
Read MoreTrouble Sleeping? A Simple Breathing Exercise Could Help Break Insomnia’s Grip
My history with sleep is like a roller coaster — making arduous, steady climbs to stretches of adequate rest, then careening with compounding speed into long stretches of little more than four hours a night. Early in my career, I actually took great pride in my belief that I didn’t require as much sleep as…
Read MoreReady to Give Meditation a Try?
If you’ve always been interested in — if a bit daunted by — the idea of meditating, now might be the perfect time to forge ahead with the practice. Research shows that cutting through the mental static and focusing your mind this way helps alleviate stress and anxiety, slows aging, improves your attention span —…
Read MoreHearing Loss: A Common Problem for Older Adults
Hearing loss is a common problem caused by loud noise, aging, disease, and genetic variations. About one-third of older adults have hearing loss, and the chance of developing hearing loss increases with age. People with hearing loss may find it hard to have conversations with friends and family. They may also have trouble understanding a…
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