Personal Finance and Lifestyle Guide
Here you will find the latest guides to healthy living, health advice, and tips to help you and those you care about live longer.
Losing weight is hard. This is a lesson I didn’t learn until the recent years. I was always on the small side until a few years ago, when I had to start going on and off steroids for a medical condition. One of the side effects, the worst side effect in my opinion, is the weight gain. […] More
I have heard there are some people who love to exercise. I am not one of them. I am more of an exercise because you need to for your health kind of person. But along the way on my goal to fitness I have found several ways to make exercise more fun. There are many exercise […] More
Arthritis causes pain, swelling, and stiffness in the joints. The joints normally affected by arthritis pain are the hips, wrists, knees, or the spinal cord. Changing your diet and eating the right foods may not get rid of arthritis pain completely, but certain foods may ease the pain caused from it. Recent studies show people […] More
It’s 3:37 a.m., and this is the fourth time you’ve rolled over to look at the clock in the last half hour. Should you keep lying there in the hopes sleep will come or do you get up and grab a snack or go read for a bit? Better make a decision quick because in less […] More
Many families want to cut costs and save more money in the New Year. One great way to do that is to serve meatless meals more often. But wait! Before you protest that vegetarian meals are strange, complicated or distasteful, hear me out. Plenty of meat-eating families eat vegetarian meals now and then to save […] More
Committing to regular exercise is tough; between schedule snafus, low energy, family commitments or even iffy weather, many women face numerous obstacles to making fitness a priority. But don’t let your finances be one of them. Getting in shape doesn’t have to cost a fortune—or even strain your budget. Read on for some penny-wise ways […] More
Diet doesn’t mean healthy! Ahhh…the D word. Doesn’t eating or drinking something that starts with “diet” just make you feel healthier or at least health conscious? Sure it does, but only mentally. In many ways, diet products are simply substituting some ingredient with another in an effort to expand market reach and increase profits, be it for taste […] More
I really love my pets and as the proud parent to 300+ lbs of dog, (a Great Dane and a Black Lab) I experience firsthand the expense of pet ownership month after month. But I’m not alone. According to the ASPCA, the average annual cost of caring for a dog is $1579, this covers food, […] More
For many families quality time together is limited between work, school, sports, extracurricular activities and friends. Carving out time for a workout can be difficult. Additionally, costly gym memberships are often an expense that doesn’t fit in the family budget. Finding a way to kill two birds with one stone is always welcomed. Here are […] More