BY MASS MUTUAL Feeling stressed? Want just two minutes for yourself? Want to pull the blanket over your head? Not answer the phone? Lose yourself in a good book?
Good Nutrition Starts At Home
BY ERIN VLASAK – IF YOU EAT RIGHT AND TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF, YOU WON’T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT BURNING OFF THE CALORIES! IT TAKES THE GUESS WORK RIGHT OUT OF THE PICTURE. BY ERIN VLASAK, M.S. AND GINA FRISINA M.S.E.D People choose what food they will eat for a variety of reasons.…
Get In The Game & Play!
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The Perfect Gift: Putting The “KID” Back In Youth Sports
COACH’S CORNER BY TOM CURRY – In an age where seven- and eight-year-old “travel teams” are chosen and play full schedules… it is important to listen to our own children and watch for clues that are given off by the child warning us of the need to back off. Much has been talked and written about the right…
Healthy Tips To Help You Survive The Holidays!
‘Tis the season to be jolly but it doesn’t have to be the season of overeating or extra weight gain. Here is some very scary food for thought: It only take an additional 500 calories a day from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Day to gain six pounds. Whether you are burning less calories because…
Good News, Bad News
FROM THE COACH’S CORNER BY TOM CURRY Despite efforts to curb Harassment, Intimidation and Bullying, these issues still make their way to our headlines each season. What can you do to protect your child from such incidents? I have been in the coaching profession since I was 18 years old. Starting as a volunteer at…
Special Olympics Narrows Health Gap Faced by People with Intellectual Disabilities
Thousands in nine countries received free health care through Healthy Communities initiative. Global campaign to expand to 100 Healthy Communities by 2025 announced. Washington, D.C. – 19 November 2014 – Special Olympics released data today outlining the results of its successful two-year old Healthy Communities initiative and announced that it will expand the program from…
Eating Healthy on a Tight Budget is Possible
HEALTHY CHOICES, HEALTHY LIFESTYLES BY BARBARA B. MINTZ, MS, RD Take your own food inventory, look at your food bills and see where you might be spending some extra hard-earned cash on foods that are really not good for your wallet or you. There is so much conversation around this topic today. And it is…
Linebacker Sacks Ewing’s Sarcoma
LIVING WITH A DISABILITY BY JERRY LEVINSON Because of his passion for the game of football, Herzlich passed on the surgery and began a grueling seven-month routine of chemo and radiation. Ewing’s Sarcoma (“ES”) is a very rare and highly aggressive form of bone cancer that forms from a certain kind of cell in bone…
Sports Performance Supplements and Enhancers: Fact or Fiction?
HEALTHY CHOICES, HEALTHY LIFESTYLES