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The holidays can be stressful—and it’s easy to overindulge in holiday treats—so regular exercise, along with your relaxation techniques, is especially important to keep you feeling healthy and balanced during the holidays. Taking off a day or two isn’t a problem,...

Ho! Ho! … Oh! No! ‘Tis the season -- for packing on extra weight. Research suggests that holiday weight gain, year after year, can be a big reason the number on your bathroom scale continues to go up, up, up. Most people put on a pound or two (or three) this time...

Gestational diabetes can be a scary diagnosis, but like other forms of diabetes, it’s one that you can manager. It doesn’t mean that you had diabetes before you conceived or that you will have diabetes after you give birth. It means that, by working with your doctor,...

Validation starts with the self. To address this, you must understand your internal experience as well as your actions and behaviors. People often fight how they feel, judging themselves about how they experience situations and events. Sometimes a person prefers...

It's no secret that financial wellbeing can take a toll on our stress levels, and that money is a considerable source of worry for many US adults. In fact, in one survey from the American Psychological Association (APA), nearly three-quarters of participants reported...

Even the most dedicated exercise enthusiast can have a hard time in the winter. Cold days and long nights make it hard to get out of bed, let alone get the body moving, but there are simple ways to get motivated when the weather outside is frightful. The season can...

Traveling over the hill to grandma’s house (or where ever you’re going for the winter holidays) can take its toll on your health. At the least, it can throw a wrench in your normal fitness routine and, at the worst, it can make you sick. There’s nothing worse that...

The following symptoms of diabetes are typical. However, some people with diabetes have symptoms so mild that they go unnoticed. Common symptoms of diabetes: Urinating oftenFeeling very thirstyFeeling very hungry – even though you are eatingExtreme fatigueBlurry...

When it comes to prediabetes, there are no clear symptoms – so you may have it and not know it. Here’s why that’s important: before people develop type 2 diabetes, they almost always have prediabetes – blood sugar levels that are higher than normal but not yet high...