How to Build Healthy Bones and Strong Joints

How to Build Healthy Bones and Strong Joints

The bones and joints in your body create the structure for muscles, tendons, and connective tissues that help you move around every day. Maintaining healthy bones and joints helps you stay active and avoid pain, even as you get older. It’s essential to understand how...
How to Reduce Your Chronic Pain Risk

How to Reduce Your Chronic Pain Risk

What is chronic pain? Well, our bodies use pain signals to let our brains know that something is wrong. There are two different types of pain: acute and chronic. Acute pain happens suddenly and is usually very sharp—for example, pain from a broken bone, or a cut or...
Try These Top Tips for Exercise If You’re Busy

Try These Top Tips for Exercise If You’re Busy

Fitness is one of the most important measures of health. When we think about fitness, we often think about exercise, but it also includes diet and mental health. The challenge for many people is finding the time to stay healthy and fit it into our busy schedules....
How Your Local Park Can Boost Your Health

How Your Local Park Can Boost Your Health

July is Parks & Recreation Month and a great time to use your local parks to improve your health. Obviously, they’re a good place to get some outdoor exercise. But beyond that, your local park can be the perfect setting for convenient contact with nature, which...
Swimming and Summer Fitness During COVID-19

Swimming and Summer Fitness During COVID-19

As a fun activity for all ages, swimming offers multiple health benefits that can energize your summer. But with pandemic worries still lingering, many pool and beach-goers might hesitate before getting their feet wet. Is the risk worth the reward? Read on to learn...
How to Improve Your Mental Health with Exercise

How to Improve Your Mental Health with Exercise

It’s Mental Health Awareness Month and the perfect opportunity to exercise for mental health—especially given the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on anxiety, depression, and overall mental wellbeing during the past year.   According to the Centers for Disease Control and...