Healthy Living Articles

Summer is prime time for ticks. These tiny arachnids, relatives of spiders and mites, are exoparasites, living outside their hosts, supporting themselves by feeding on their hosts' blood ... until something or someone removes them.

When we see the images of the scores of supremely fit cyclists racing in the Tour de France, we see power. We see fitness. We see lots of Spandex and sleek, technologically sophisticated athletes riding sleek, technologically sophisticated bikes.

As summers are getting hotter and more unbearable, the siesta may once again emerge as a way to escape the heat. These daytime naps also, however, offer other tangible health benefits.

Yes — pets make you happier and less stressed. They also, however, boost your overall wellbeing in ways you may not have heard of!

Traveling, domestically and abroad, offers a range of mental and physical health benefits that make the potential short-term stress associated with disrupted routines more than worth it. What do you need to know?

Telling scary stories or singing around the campfire, sleeping under the stars, and taking in the beauties of natures make lasting memories of family fun. Unfortunately, food poisoning, mosquito bites, and fleeing wild animals make lasting memories, too.

Even pre-pandemic, the average American spent over 90 percent of their time indoors. Shocking? Yes. Time to do something about that? Again, yes. Are you ready to join Ginny Yurich's viral challenge and commit to spending 1000 hours a year outdoors?

The toxicity of Teflon is mainly due to the increased temperatures above 400 or 500 degrees and one has to keep in mind that Teflon pans heat very. Therefore it is feasible to use these pans at lower temperatures to reduce this risk. Other alternatives

Working from home has definite benefits, but if you have been living with excruciating back, neck, and shoulder pain since you started remote work, you wouldn't be the first. What should you do to make sure your body is in optimal condition?

Genes are units of genetic information that mostly contain a building plan for a single protein. They are made of a sequence of DNA, our genetic material, and they sit on the DNA molecule like beads on a string.