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.
Having a stomach virus is miserable; there is just no other way to say it. Once you have it you really have no choice but to ride it out but there are strategies you can take to get through it quicker, easier and with less lingering symptoms. The first thing you should think about is […] More
Holiday stress is something we anticipate as readily as we do our grandmother’s annual gift of fruitcake. It doesn’t have to be that way. You can get through this festive season without holiday stress ruining it. A lot of holiday stress comes from financial worries over how to pay for all the gifts, what to buy […] More
Holiday weight gain is so difficult to avoid. Everywhere you turn there are treats just teasing you, from the homemade fudge your next door neighbors send over every year to the pie your grandmother is so famous for, they are impossible to avoid. But you don’t want to pack on another five pounds of holiday weight […] More
When a snack craving hits it is hard to think of anything else except that food you want. But there are ways that you can avoid giving in so that you don’t ruin your diet. After all, when you have worked so hard to stay on track to eat right and work out you don’t […] More
If you have a dust allergy, you know how severely it can impact your life. But there are strategies you can use to help you deal with your allergy to be less bothered by it. Take an antihistamine. This may seem like a no-brainer but the importance of it needs to be stressed. Antihistamines work by preventing […] More
We think we are through with acne when we exit our teenage years but it has a way of coming back as adult acne to some of us unlucky ladies. When it does, what are we to do? Suffer with it? No, there are definitely things you can do to deal with your adult acne […] More
Walking is the best exercise you can do. In our day and age of Spinning, Zumba and the many other choices you have to choose from, why would you choose walking? Walking works. It is the most time-tested form of exercise and weight loss. It has been proven time after time. I, myself have lost 25 […] More
A new study released by the Rand Group on Monday, shows that the percentage of American Adults who are more than 100 pounds overweight has increased since 2000. The study found that in 2010, 15.5 million American adults (6.6%) were obese, which is a 3.9% increase since the year 2000. “Moderate obesity (a BMI of […] More
We can’t all wake up every morning feeling perky and ready to start the day with a smile. In fact, most of us don’t. We’re too tired to fake a smile and act like we care that the day has started. In an effort to try not to fall asleep all day long, we all […] More
With the start of back-to-school comes the start of colds and other illnesses for most families.  Our children share everything, including germs. And we tend to catch whatever they have.  But it doesn’t have to be that way. You can fend off fall colds and illnesses with a few simple changes in routine. We are really too […] More
The bad news is that there is no cure for cancer. There’s treatment that can put a person in remission for a while, or forever, but there is no cure. The good news is that there are ways you can lower your chances of getting cancer by making simple lifestyle changes (which do not include […] More
It would be great to eat whatever you want and never gain any weight. Unfortunately, that’s just not the case for most people, and if they want to look good, they have to watch their diet and get plenty of exercise. In fact, even those who don’t need to lose weight still need to exercise […] More