Good Morning Everyone! Welcome to The Healthy Gut Series! Emily Beard, our McKinley Healthy Living intern has done a fantastic job researching gut health and has put 8 very informative emails together to help you understand your gut and why it’s so vital to keep it healthy. We put our heads together to figure out what we thought would be most important to address but if there’s something we’ve missed, feel free to reach out through email and we would be happy…
Good Morning Everyone! Several of you have had your Doctor’s visit and have received the results from your biometric screening. Were your cholesterol levels where you thought they might be? One of the reasons why it’s so important to have your cholesterol checked is because high cholesterol isn’t something you necessarily feel physically. While high cholesterol can lead to dangerous things that you can feel like a heart disease or a stroke, you don’t FEEL your levels raising or lowering. PLEASE…
Good Morning Everyone! We are on to the letter “T” in our journey through the alphabet of healthy foods! Tomatoes- There is more to eating tomatoes than good taste, they are great for your health! They are incredibly versatile and can be prepared in a seemingly endless number of dishes, as well as being great to eat alone. Health Benefits of Tomatoes: The more tomatoes people eat the lower their risks of certain cancers, especially lung, stomach and prostate…
Good Morning Everyone!! We’re beginning week 2 of the Sugar *5* Challenge!!! I know several of you were feeling the effects of cutting back on sugar last week – it’s not easy but it is worth it!! From some of the feedback I’ve received, you’re already starting to feel so much better WITHOUT the sugar!! Keep it up!!! Check these snack options out below. Feel free to share any of your favorites that aren’t on the list. Have a fantastic…
Good Afternoon Everyone! February is here and so is Heart Month for the American Heart Association!!! We will be raising money for the AHA and participating in the Heart Walk this year which will take place in May – more details to come. For now, I would like to invite you all to join us this Friday February, 5th 2016 for National Wear Red Day to show your support and help raise awareness for heart disease…all you have to do is wear…RED! Did you…
If you don’t belong to a gym and would like some workouts to follow or if you are looking to make your walks/runs more exciting…check out the workout apps below. Some of these apps are really cool!! Zombie, Run! – a game where you are cast as the character “Runner 5” trying to survive a zombie apocalypse through a series of missions which you run, collect items to help the town survive, and listen to various narrations to uncover mysteries….