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Balance Exercises That Reduce Fall Risk for Seniors
Falls are the leading cause of injury-related death among adults over 65, and the statistics behind that fact are significant enough to warrant more serious attention than most people give them before a fall has already happened. One in four adults over 65 falls each year in the United States. Falls are the most common…
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The Link Between Sleep and Weight Gain Most People Miss
Weight management conversations tend to focus almost entirely on two variables. What you eat and how much you move. These matter genuinely and significantly. But there is a third variable that influences both of them in ways most people never consider, that operates invisibly across every night of inadequate sleep, and that the research has…
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How Social Connection Affects Your Long-Term Health
Loneliness is as dangerous as smoking fifteen cigarettes a day. That finding, drawn from a meta-analysis by researcher Julianne Holt-Lunstad examining data from over three million people across multiple studies, is striking enough that it has been cited widely since its publication and significant enough that the United States Surgeon General declared loneliness a public…
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Small Lifestyle Swaps That Have the Biggest Long-Term Impact
The health advice that gets the most attention is usually the most dramatic. Overhaul your diet completely. Train six days a week. Meditate for an hour every morning. Transform your sleep, your stress, your relationships, and your relationship with your phone simultaneously. This kind of advice is not always wrong, but it is consistently impractical…
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Yoga for Beginners: A Gentle Guide to Getting Started
Yoga has an image problem for beginners. The images most commonly associated with it show people in advanced poses that require years of practice to achieve, performing feats of flexibility and balance that look more like gymnastics than anything most beginners could reasonably aspire to in their first months of practice. This visual representation of…
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How to Stay Motivated to Exercise When Life Gets Busy
Motivation is an unreliable exercise partner. It shows up enthusiastically at the start of a new routine, accompanies you faithfully through the early weeks, and then quietly disappears precisely when life gets complicated enough that you need it most. The busy season at work arrives. A family commitment expands to fill the time you had…