When a new year begins, it’s a natural time to start new habits, particularly ones related to your health. You may or may not have eaten or drank your way through the holidays, and the lack of social events in January is a good time to start eating better, drinking Read more…
We pick our blog topics for Physiquality months in advance, so the irony was not lost on me when this topic came up the same week I had hip surgery. The thought of standing all day while working was, suffice it to say, not a pleasant one to have as Read more…
Like many people, exercise has been a challenge to fit into my schedule as I’ve grown older and have more commitments in my calendar. If you’ve ever wondered how frequently you should be exercising in order to stay healthy, you’re probably not alone. (And you’re probably not exercising enough.) Read Read more…
I will admit that since I became a mother, I have focused more on convenience and less on movement. Most shopping is done online (with the exception of the groceries). I work from home, so my commute is up a flight of stairs, and I have noticed (thank you, Apple Read more…
Full disclosure: I am a sorority girl. Not one that skulked around the edges, either — I was our philanthropy chair as a junior, and was in charge of retention as a senior. While I have drawn more close to my university alumni groups rather than Alpha Phi social groups Read more…
This is something that I worried about a lot when I was pregnant. When you get pregnant at 38, you know that your body is not going to snap back as well as those who get pregnant in their twenties. (And, spoiler alert, it did not.) So I was quite Read more…
When the TV show The Biggest Loser started becoming popular, my husband’s office had a weight-loss challenge. While I appreciated the attempt, focusing on weight loss versus making healthier choices is a tricky path. People who focus on weight loss, as compared to determining to living a healthier life, rarely Read more…
While living with fibromyalgia can be a painful and frustrating disease, physical therapy can help ease many of its symptoms. Several of our member clinics specifically treat the condition and offered their advice on how to feel better, every day. What is fibromyalgia? Can physical therapy help? Fibromyalgia is a Read more…
I’m sure that the majority of the people that read this post will already know that exercise is good for your health. That said, sometimes it’s good to have your beliefs reinforced with hard data on how exactly it helps your body to fight disease. And feel better. And live Read more…
It saddens me to think that last month we had to celebrate that the obesity rate for preschoolers had declined by a percentage point in five states. The reality is that we still can say one out of eight preschoolers is obese. Now that I’m a parent, I’m more aware Read more…