Category: Health Advice

  • 4 Simple Tips for Blending a Better-For-You Smoothie

    4 Simple Tips for Blending a Better-For-You Smoothie

    There’s no better time than a new year to embrace healthy habits. And it’s easier to embrace a “new me” mentality by fueling your body with the goodness it needs now. You can incorporate more fruits and vegetables into your daily regimen with one simple snack hack: smoothies! Smoothies are convenient, fast and easy to…

  • Protecting Your Child From Spring Sports Injuries

    Protecting Your Child From Spring Sports Injuries

    As families prepare for baseball, softball, tennis and other spring sports activities, it’s important that parents and caregivers are aware of the most common sports injuries and the best ways to prevent them. Recent statistics from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that almost one-third of all childhood injuries are sports-related, and…

  • Tongue Tied: Signs, Symptoms and Whether to Clip

    Tongue Tied: Signs, Symptoms and Whether to Clip

    Author: Newswise Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. This popular pre-school limerick is sure to get you to slip a time or two. Getting tongue-tied is common when you’re talking faster than your brain is thinking. However, did you know there is another condition that shares the name? Luckily, it’s nothing to be…

  • Holiday Sleep Tips for Kids Help Parents Keep the Season Bright

    Holiday Sleep Tips for Kids Help Parents Keep the Season Bright

      The holidays can pose great challenges for parents who must juggle seasonal excitement and overtired kids. Saint Joseph’s University sleep expert and Professor of Psychology Jodi A. Mindell, Ph.D., offers the following suggestions for parents to help kids navigate high spirits and the need for rest. • Make sure that the bedtime hour —…

  • When Your Peaceful Slumber Turns Into A Haunting Nightmare

    When Your Peaceful Slumber Turns Into A Haunting Nightmare

    Your eyes begin to open after a good night of sleep, but something feels weird. You try to rub the tiredness out of your face but can’t lift your arms. In a panic you try to take a deep breath but can’t draw air. You can’t sit up, and you may even see a shadow…

  • Research Highlights 7 Essential Ingredients For Health Adolescents

    Research Highlights 7 Essential Ingredients For Health Adolescents

    Adolescents need proper nutrition for bone and muscle development, recovery from sports, cognition and strong immune systems. In the August issue of Food Technology magazine published by the Institute of Food Technologists, contributing editor Linda Milo Ohr looked at new research behind seven ingredients that are essential for growing teens and tweens. Protein – Lean…

  • Health Tip: Protect Your Children With the Right Backpack

    Health Tip: Protect Your Children With the Right Backpack

    Each fall as students return to school it may seem the number of books and notebooks seems to multiply. While parents may fear the mountain of homework each night, they should also be concerned about the damage that an improperly worn backpack is doing to their child’s back. Supriya Sen OTD, MS, OTR/L, Assistant Professor…

  • What to Know About Your Gut Health

    What to Know About Your Gut Health

    Your gut health affects more than just how your stomach feels. Recent scientific breakthroughs have uncovered links between the state of the gut microbiome and a range of human health issues such as obesity, diabetes, gastrointestinal disease, cardiovascular disease, immune system disorders, asthma and even cancer and its treatment. Experts say that understanding the gut…

  • Insomnia? Oversleeping? Both May Increase Risk of Stroke

    Insomnia? Oversleeping? Both May Increase Risk of Stroke

    There is growing evidence that sleep disorders like insomnia and sleep apnea are related to stroke risk and recovery from stroke, according to a recent literature review. The review is published in the August 3, 2016, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Based on the review, the authors…

  • Tips To Keep Skin Cancer In Check

    Tips To Keep Skin Cancer In Check

    September is National Skin Cancer Awareness Month, and it is a great time to look at ways to make sure your skin is still cancer free as the summer slowly ends. Being able to examine one’s own skin is crucial to making sure skin cancer is caught before it progresses very far. One in every…