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How 5-Minute Walks Every Half-Hour Can Counter Prolonged Sitting
Researchers say 5-minute walks every half-hour can counteract some of the health hazards of prolonged sitting.They add that shor...
By: Tony Hicks | January 12, 2023
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5 Excellent Reasons to Take a Walk Today
People who walk regularly swear by the health and psychological benefits of their daily jaunt. Here, wellness expert Michael Roize...
By: Staff | March 10, 2021 | Cleveland Clinic
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How to Walk for Weight Loss
Walking is one of the most convenient and often underrated forms of exercises. Studies continue to support that walking is effecti...
By: Clay Abney | June 25, 2021 | EatingWell
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The Benefits of Starting Your Day with a Walk
When you wake up in the morning, movement might not be your first priority. But starting your day with a walk — wh...
By: Jane Chertoff | September 11, 2019 | Daniel Bubnis, M.S., NASM-CPT, NASE Level II
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5 Ways to Stop FOMO From Stalling Your Weight Loss
After a very weird, very difficult, and very isolating year and a half, people are starting to socialize again. The invites for br...
By: Brigid Sweeney | September 08, 2021 | Real Appeal
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6 Tips for Building Trust in Yourself
Trust can help bring us closer to other people. Trusting others, such as family members and friends, can reassure us that we’ll be...
By: Erica Cirino | July 19, 2018 | Timothy J. Legg, PhD, PsyD
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How to Shake Pandemic Weight Gain
As the COVID-19 vaccine rollout continues, the weather turns warmer and we see the light at the end of the pandemic tunnel, it’s a...
By: Staff | June 08, 2021 | Cleveland Clinic
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Walking: Trim Your Waistline, Improve Your Health
Can you really walk your way to fitness? You bet! Get started today. Know the benefits Physical activity doesn't need to be comp...
By: Staff | August 02, 2021 | Mayo Clinic Health Information Library
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5 Mistakes You May Be Making When Walking, and How to Fix Them
Yes, you're putting one foot in front of the other, but are you getting the most out of your walk? Walking is one of the healthie...
By: Jessica Ball MS, RD | August 02, 2021 | EatingWell
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How to Eat Mindfully in the Real World (Distractions and All)
There’s a Zen proverb, “When walking, walk. When eating, eat.” Unfortunately, modern society seems to follow this adage: “When wal...
By: Carrie Dennett | November 15, 2018 | The Washington Post
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10 Best Healthy Snacks, According to Dietitians
Keep these healthy snacks on hand to boost your nutrient intake and tame afternoon hanger. A walk down the snack aisle can leave ...
By: Sarah Anzlovar, MS, RDN, LDN | June 22, 2021 | EatingWell
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3 Ways to Exercise at Work
Work can be a great place to get in extra steps that will apply towards your daily fitness goal. Remember, every little bit counts...
By Staff | August 30, 2017 | Real Appeal
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Get Back into the Back-to-School Routine
Summer is winding down, which means the back-to-school scramble is just around the corner for many parents. Here are three qui...
By Staff | August 17, 2017 | Real Appeal
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5 Ways to Stay Healthy During the Holidays
The holiday season is here and planning celebrations with the ones we love are top of mind. It’s also a time when maintaining your...
By Staff | November 16, 2017 | Real Appeal
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10 Holiday Tips From Real Appeal Coaches
The added stress of the holidays is real, and it can make it that much more difficult to stay on track with your goals. Our Real A...
By: Mary Arguelles | November 09, 2022
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How to Sneak More Activity Into Your Day
You probably know that regular physical activity is an important part of a healthy lifestyle. It lowers your risk of chronic healt...
By: Staff | March 30, 2020 | Mayo Clinic Health Information Library
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Make This Year’s Resolution Stick!
Every new year, we tell ourselves, "This year I'm going to …" Then the year ends without achieving our resolutions, and we ...
By: Melodie Krecisz | January 18, 2023
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Tax Season Doesn’t Have to Be Taxing
Tax day is upon us, and with that can come an added amount of stress. Chronic stress can lead to unwanted health conditions, s...
By: Mary Arguelles | March 31, 2023
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9 Workouts That You Can Absolutely Fit Into Your Day
Most of us have plans to work out more, get healthier, and maybe even drop a pound or 10. It’s on our to-do lists, and it tops our...
By: Molly Hurford | July 03, 2018 | Rally Health
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10 Ways to Move More in Everyday Life
It can feel overwhelming when you’re trying to make time for exercise. Here are some tips I give my physical therapy patients&hell...
By: Marcy Crouch PT, DPT, CLT, WCS | September 27, 2021 | Jake Tipane, CPT
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8 Techniques to Beat Your Cravings
The foods you crave are likely to be high in sugar, fats and carbohydrates -- such as pizza, chocolate, cake, chips and ice cream....
By: Staff | March 31, 2021 | Mayo Clinic
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Love Your Heart
February isn’t only about celebrating Valentine’s Day, it’s also National heart month. According to the Centers for Disease...
By: Mary Arguelles | February 09, 2023
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5 Surprising Signs You’re Not Moving Enough During the Day
It's not just in your head: working a 9-to-5 job from your makeshift home office is very hard on your body, in an extremely lazy k...
By: Maddy Sweitzer-Lammé | May 27, 2021 | EatingWell
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How to Outsmart Your Hunger Hormones
We tend to think of weight as a matter of simple math: Eat fewer calories than your body burns in a day, and the scale will slide ...
By: Brigid Sweeney | September 02, 2021 | Real Appeal
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5 Strategies to Help You Stop Emotional Eating
You stand at the freezer, steaming over a fight with your spouse and searching for some ice cream to cool your emotions. You sit o...
By: Kristin Kirkpatrick, MS, RD, LD | February 17, 2021 | Cleveland Clinic
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7 Benefits of Exercise (Other Than Weight-Loss)
In theory, most of us know that exercise is good for us. We’re aware that it can help us lose weight or maintain our current weigh...
By: Staff | February 24, 2021 | Cleveland Clinic
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8 Fun Workouts That Don’t Feel Like Working Out
Maybe you’re not interested in doing a high-intensity workout, or the idea of the weight room makes you shudder. That doesn’t mean...
By: Molly Hurford | June 18, 2018 | Rally Health
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Bad Food Habits at Work? Get Back on Track in 5 Steps
Does it feel like your workplace is conspiring against your aims to eat healthier? You're right. It probably is. And you're not al...
By: Staff | April 14, 2021 | Mayo Clinic
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10 Workout "Rules" You Should Be Breaking
Exercise has so many benefits—from reducing stress and boosting your mood to improving your heart health and helping you get...
By: Jessica Ball, M.S., R.D. | September 08, 2021 | EatingWell
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Explore Your Support
Do the people around you give you the support you need? Keep reading to take a look at your current network and see what kind of s...
By: Melodie Krecisz | April 11, 2023
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3 Exercises That May Help You Live Longer
Hand-grip strength is about more than opening pickle jars with ease. It's also about your longevity and quality of life. Research ...
By: K. Aleisha Fetters | May 27, 2021 | EatingWell
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6 Stress-Busting Secrets From Real Appeal Coaches
Stress can feel like kryptonite for your weight loss goals, making it harder to stick to your healthy eating habits and activity g...
By: Caroline Roberts | May 21, 2021
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5 Ways Real Appeal Coaches Stay Active During the Pandemic
Staying active can sometimes be tough, even during normal times. And the pandemic -- and the gym closures and fewer outings that g...
By: Caroline Roberts | April 23, 2021
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14 Mindfulness Tricks to Reduce Anxiety
Anxiety can mentally exhaust you and have real impacts on your body. But before you get anxious about being anxious, know tha...
By: Mandy Ferreira | February 11, 2020
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8 Ways to Embrace Self-Love and Thank Your Body
Saying “thank you” to others is something you learn at an early age. But how often do you thank yourself? Saying “thank you” to y...
By: Lauren McAulay | August 11, 2020
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5 Myths About Cravings That Might Be Holding You Back
Imagine you’ve been on a healthy-eating kick. Everything is going great. You’re skipping the drive-thru, you’re passing up that se...
By: Kate Rockwood | January 03, 2019
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How to Exercise When You Have No Time
When schedules get busy and days get long, it can be hard to keep up with everything on your to-do list. Unfortunately, for many, ...
By: Jessica Ball, MS, RD | January 13, 2021 | EatingWell
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3 Easy Ways to Practice Body Positivity Right Now
When it comes to weight and body image, the American public is on the receiving end of a lot of mixed messages. The body positivit...
By: Leslie Goldman | May 04, 2021 | EatingWell
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9 Natural Ways to Boost Your Energy Levels
If you find yourself feeling sluggish, having difficulty staying awake, or chugging multiple cups of coffee just to make it to lun...
By: Rachael Link, MS, RD | November 25, 2022 | Kim Rose-Francis RDN, CDCES, CNSC, LD
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What Experts Say to Do After Overeating
Step away from the juice cleanse... Whether you ate one (or several) more hot dogs than you had originally planned at that weeken...
By: Karla Walsh | November 18, 2021 | EatingWell
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How to Gain Control of Emotional Eating
Sometimes the strongest food cravings hit when you're at your weakest point emotionally. You may turn to food for comfort - consci...
By: Staff | February 17, 2021 | Mayo Clinic
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3 Eating Resolutions to Keep, and 3 to Ditch
Plenty of Americans make New Year’s resolutions, especially those that pertain to weight, diet and health. But how long do resolut...
By: Breana Killeen M.P.H. R.D. | December 20, 2018 | EatingWell
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10 Simple Ways to Relieve Stress
Tips to manage stressful situations It might surprise you to learn that biological stress is a fairly recent discovery. It wasn’t...
By: Nathan Reese | July 03, 2019 | Timothy J. Legg, PhD, PsyD
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How to Be Happy: 27 Habits to Add to Your Routine
Regardless of your version of true happiness, living a happier, more satisfied life is within reach. A few tweaks to your regular ...
By: Ann Pietrangelo | July 13, 2022 | Medically Reviewed by Lori Lawrenz, PsyD
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A Trainer’s Tips for Actually Sticking to Your New Exercise Routine
So you’ve resolved to start exercising -- but you’ve never done a bicep curl or been on a treadmill in your life. Sound like you?...
By: Staff | February 03, 2021 | Cleveland Clinic
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7 Top Weight Loss Tips
Struggling to shed weight and keep it off? We asked a registered dietitian, Nicole Hopsecger, RD, LD, for the top weight loss tips...
By: Staff | September 08, 2021 | Cleveland Clinic
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5 Sneaky Reasons You're Hitting a Weight Loss Plateau
You've lost 10 pounds! Then the dreaded scale stops and nothing you do seems to move that number down, ugh. It's not you; it's you...
By: Lainey Younkin RD, MS, LDN | August 06, 2021 | EatingWell
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Create a Healthy Workplace
Your work environment may be in an office, a hospital, at home, or even in your car. It’s where you spend a significant part of yo...
By: Mary Arguelles | April 11, 2023
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Brain ‘Clutter’: What It Is and How It Can Impact Memory as You Age
Researchers say one reason older adults sometimes have trouble remembering things is that there is an abundance of memories and in...
By: Moira McCarthy | February 15, 2022
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Manage Stress: Healthy Actions
You can breathe easier knowing you have the tools to manage your stress with simple, quick-relief actions. You may notice the sam...
By Melodie Krecisz | April 18, 2023 | Staff
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In It Together - How a Diet Partner Helps You Lose Weight
For years, the M&M’s on a secretary’s desk at the Trumbull County courthouse in northeastern Ohio were Claudia Cabot’s downfall. C...
By: Courtney Rubin | October 30, 2019 | Rally Health
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Self Care and Your Waistline
Reaching a healthy weight isn’t something that happens only when you’re at the gym or watching what you eat. It’s influenced by th...
By: Kate Rockwood | September 24, 2019 | Rally Health
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Yes, You Can (and Should) Give Yourself a Hug
Hugs can provide a lot of comfort. They can help you feel closer to someone you care about, whether that’s a partner, friend...
By: Crystal Raypole | June 16, 2020 | Timothy J. Legg, PhD, PsyD
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Boost Your Flexibility with These 8 Yoga Poses
Flexibility is one of the key elements of good physical health. Over time, though, your body may lose flexibility due to aging, a ...
By: Emily Cronkleton | October 23, 2019 | Daniel Bubnis, M.S., NASM-CPT, NASE Level II-CSS
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Why ‘Tidying Up’ Like Marie Kondo Is Good for Your Health — and Wallet
The Netflix series that teaches people how to declutter their lives isn’t just popular entertainment, it’s helpful advice that can...
By: Cathy Cassata | February 15, 2023
