Health

• Helping Your Child Develop the Fitness Habit

  While most children are born healthy and fit, not all of them remain that way. Doing so depends in great part on four factors: environment, attitude, knowledge, and lifestyle. All of these elements are within your control. In honor of National Physical Fitness & Sports Month (May), lets look at them one at a time.

• Use Mealtime to Teach Kids About Proper Nutrition

  Rounding up your kids and shepherding them to the table for regular meals together is one of the best ways to teach them about proper eating habits and good nutrition. Although the foods that your kids eat are important, your presence at the table is critical.

• Why P.E. for Preschoolers?

  The Council on Physical Education for Children (COPEC, a council within the National Association for Sport and Physical Education), the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services all recommend that physical education be offered to children enrolled in preschool programs. There are a number of reasons why.

• The Mother-Child Weight Connection

  Children of overweight moms are significantly more likely to be overweight themselves than children of normal-weight moms. While heredity is undoubtedly a critical factor, it doesnt necessarily doom a child to a lifetime of obesity. The home environment in which a child is raised seems to be just as important as his genes. In fact, the genetic predisposition to be overweight typically is expressed only when children are reared in surroundings that are conducive to weight gain.

• How To Get Past a Weight Loss Plateau

  Everyone who has ever been on a diet has hit a plateau at some point. It is that point where no matter what you do, you cannot seem to lose any weight. I myself have hit many of these and I am going to give you a few ways to blast through your weight loss plateau.

• Why You Should Do Your Workout Today

  Need a little extra motivation? Here’s a quick list of the ways that today’s workout will boost your mind, body, and soul.

• Do You Worry Too Much? Ten Tips to Help You Stop

  Worry is negative visualization. That’s what authors Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan point out in Lessons from the Art of Juggling. It’s true: Worry is a focus on fear, which leads to tension, anxiety, anger, and exhaustion. Here are ten tips to help you stop worrying

• Menopause: Questioning Hormone Replacement Therapy

  Most recently, virtually everything that was supposed to be good about estrogen has been refuted. Mind you, there were always two schools of thought about hormone replacement. The first (and less vocal) maintained that nature must know what it’s doing when it causes the ovaries to stop making hormones and thus permits menopause to set in. They advised against tampering with this normal course of events by taking hormone replacements. If nature had wanted women to continue to have estrogen, the argument went, it would have designed the female body to keep producing the hormone.