Category: Your Health Matters

  • Here’s to Your Health: Everyone Needs More Laughter at Work!

    Remember in school, when you got into trouble for laughing, and disrupting the class? Everyone was told to settle down or you were sent to the principals office…for laughing

  • Your Health Matters: How to Stay Awake in Your Most Boring Meeting

    Nodding off during the day can be embarrassing. Discover why this happens and how to prevent it. By Beth W. Orenstein Medically Reviewed by Farrokh Sohrabi, MD Nearly 40 percent of Americans fall asleep unintentionally during the day.  It happens all the time and it happen s to everyone, at least now and then: falling asleep in…

  • Your Health Matters: Here’s How Sleep Loss Can Affect Alzheimer’s

    Story by MAGGIE FOX NBCNews   A single night of interrupted sleep causes an increase in brain proteins believed to cause Alzheimer’s disease, researchers reported Monday. They believe their research shows that sleep helps the body clear away the compounds, called amyloid and tau, and that interrupting sleep may allow too much of them to build…

  • What Retirement Looks Like in 2017!

    by Margaret Wood July 10, 2017 2:19PM What was news last week is now old news this week; this week, we have something even bigger, better and badder to consider. You miss a day, you miss A LOT! It’s  hard to keep up sometimes! Let’s take a look at how the perception of retirement has…

  • 7 Things to Stop Doing When You First Wake Up in the Morning

    We’ve already told you about all the things you should do to have a better morning, but what about what you shouldn’t do? From taking steamy showers to—dun, dun dun—drinking coffee, read on for seven morning habits you’d be better off breaking to reduce your morning stress…