Starting a new school year is the perfect time to start healthy eating habits. After a summer of traveling and irregular schedules, focusing on promoting healthy lunches and snacks are a great way to instill good eating habits in your children.
Packing healthy lunches is easy when you have a basic formula to follow. Following a formula makes packing a lunch easy because you just fill in the blanks.
Topics: Wellness
Summer means fun in the sun, frolicking in a pool and eating hot dogs and potato salad at family picnics – unless you are pregnant.
When expecting, you need to take precautions with your health - no matter the time of year. During the summer months, though, you need to be extra careful. Heat and humidity can cause additional stress on you and your baby.
Topics: Birth, Maternity Care
The Fourth of July holiday is a special time in every community. We not only honor our country's independence but enjoy time with family and friends.
Celebrations traditionally include cookouts and fireworks. A good time is had by all – until an accident happens. Nationwide, there is an average of 400 deaths and 41,000 injuries – including car crashes, swimming incidents and fireworks accidents – during the July 4th holiday period.
The American Red Cross and the National Safety Council remind us to take some safety precautions with celebrating The Fourth. Here are a few:
Topics: Emergency
Summer has arrived! With all the outdoor activities you will be doing in the coming weeks, it's important that you take care of your skin. Too much sun exposure can have damaging effects on the skin ranging from sunburns to cancer.
The ultraviolet (UV) rays from the sun are the main source of damage to your skin. People who have more exposure to UV rays have a greater risk of developing cancer. That doesn't mean that you need to completely avoid the sun. Feel free to get outside and enjoy your summer, but take some precautions.
Here are some tips to keep your skin safe and protected this summer.
Topics: Cancer, Pediatrics
Summertime is fun time - and, unfortunately, injury time - for kids.
More than 200,000 children ages 14 and younger in the United States are injured in playground-related accidents during the summer, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Emergency rooms and pediatricians most commonly see concussions, broken bones, cuts and burns from tumbles and other accidents while playing outside with friends or in youth sports programs.
Young people also get hurt from lawnmowers, barbecue grills and fall hazards.
Does that mean you need to keep them safe by enfolding them in bubble wrap confining them to their rooms? Of course not. Children need to run and play to keep their bodies and minds healthy.
Topics: Safety, Pediatrics
The food you eat is just as important as regular exercise. Eating a heart healthy diet can significantly reduce your risk of heart attack or stroke and many other health problems.
By understanding which foods are the healthiest for your heart, you can take steps toward a healthy lifestyle and greater quality of life.
Topics: Nutrition, Weight Loss
It’s February, and if you already feel a little guilty about the New Year’s Resolutions you’ve let slip, you are not alone. Fortunately, a resolution to boost your heart’s health can be easier to keep than you think!
Even with COVID-19 pandemic restrictions on gyms and exercise class gatherings, we want to share six easy actions any of us can take to improve the health of our hearts.
Topics: Cardiac Care
We have been worried about impact of the coronavirus pandemic on our older population. A significant percentage of people who have become seriously ill or died are seniors with other health issues.
There is growing concern, though, about children – and the long-term effects of contracting the virus, even when the symptoms are mild. Research shows that while rare, children can become very sick with COVID-19, and even die.
Also, children without symptoms might be carriers of the virus – easily spreading it to their parents, grandparents and other adult family members.
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, about 11 percent of patients with COVID-19 are children. Children make up 1 to 3.6 percent of total reported COVID-19, hospitalizations, and between 0.6 and 6.9 percent of all child COVID-19 cases resulted in hospitalization. Here is some information you need to know as a parent:
Topics: Pediatrics, COVID-19
As the percentage of Hoosiers testing positive for the coronavirus continues to exceed double-digits, chances are higher someone in your home may become infected.
The symptoms of COVID-19 range from mild to severe, and many people testing positive ride out the illness at home. That means family members and others in the household need to provide care while protecting themselves from the highly contagious pandemic virus.
If others in your home contract the coronavirus, here are ways to help them as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Indiana State Board of Health:
Topics: COVID-19
Holidays just aren’t the same when you have lost a loved one.
Though coping with the emptiness is challenging every day, the grief can be perplexing and overwhelming during this time of year.
One minute, you are fine and seem to have hope. The next, a yuletide song on the television leaves you heartbroken.
We also are feeling a sense of loss during the Covid-19 pandemic. Chances are you know someone who has been ill or passed away from the virus. At the very least, you are grieving the loss of a normal life - like not seeing family and friends while you are staying home.
Grief during the holidays is especially profound in a year of loss. However, it can also linger for years. That’s because holidays mark the passage of time in our lives, according to Grief.com. “They are part of the milestones we share with each other and they generally represent time spent with family. They bring meaning to certain days and we bring much meaning back to them.”
So how do you cope? Is there a way you can have an enjoyable holiday following the death of a spouse, partner, family member or friend?
Here is some advice that might help:
Topics: Mental Health
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