Category Archives: Lifestyle

Health Enthusiast, Educate Thyself!

Ben Hulet

Imagine this: You get home from work tonight. Exhausted, you set your keys on the table and hang up your jacket. You begin thinking about what you might have in the fridge to cook for dinner as you casually thumb through your unopened mail. But then you notice a letter with a law firm logo [...]

SMART Goal-Setting for the New Year

Scott Miles

Happy New Year! With each new year, typically comes a new set of resolutions, but very rarely do we think of these resolutions in terms of goals. If we put as much thought and effort into making new years’ “goals” instead of just “resolutions,” we just might be more likely to actually accomplish a few [...]

Seven Tips for Avoiding the Pitfalls of Holiday Weight Gain

Tyler Horton

The combination of colder weather, longer nights and the many food-centric events of the holiday season often leave us peering into the bathroom mirror on New Year’s Day, wondering where that beach body we were so proud of just a few months ago disappeared to. The truth is, we nibbled away at that tanned, toned [...]

Dietary Supplements 201: Making Good Choices

Jane Ramberg

In a previous Healthy Science blog, Supplements 101: The Basics of Dietary Supplement Labels, we offered a few simple tips to help consumers discern dietary supplement quality by careful product label reading. There is, of course, much more to making good dietary supplement choices. Let’s consider the Council for Responsible Nutrition’s (CRN) guidance, “One Dozen [...]

8 Ways to Escape “Wellness” Debt

Mark Sherwood

We have all heard, read, seen and possibly even experienced the pitfalls of overwhelming financial debt. After all, even our very own country is experiencing trillions of dollars of debt. Financial debt, if not addressed and dealt with, can lead to work, family and health problems. You would probably search in vain for someone who [...]

How to Make Wellness a Priority

Mark Sherwood

I have been asked many times, “Mark, how do you consistently maintain a wellness program?” Those who ask this question sometimes add, “You have been able to keep it going for over 25 years.” Without thinking too much, I normally answer, “I just make it a priority.” With further thought regarding my normal answer, I [...]

Living in the Gap

Lisa Johnson

When you hear the phrase, “living in the gap,” what do you think of? Hiding out behind a rack of sassy skinny jeans, making a little bed and pillow out of hoodies and t-shirts so you can live at the mall in retail heaven? Could be fun. But that’s not what I’m talking about here. [...]

Are You a Good Wellness Company CEO?

Jane Ramberg

At the Council for Responsible Nutrition’s annual meeting this fall, Dr. Robert Gould, a behavioral scientist and President and CEO of the Partnership for Prevention, challenged corporate executives to take an active role in promoting the wellness of their employees. Why? Experts agree that, regardless of the impact of healthcare legislation in the U.S., costs [...]