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The list of benefits achieved through wellness is endless, ranging from having more energy to saving on healthcare costs in your business. Read more about the benefits of wellness in these stories.


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Find Your Perfect Workout
The trick to sticking with any exercise program is choosing the right one for your personality.
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Money-Saving Meals: Healthy, Low-Cost Dinner Recipes
Eating healthy on a tight budget is easy with these expert money-saving tips for grocery shopping and low-cost meals. The number-one piece of advice: Plan your dinners in advance. It's easy with these healthy, budget-friendly dinner recipes.
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10 Ways to Go Green, Get Healthy, Save Money
Reduce your carbon footprint and boost your bank account with these easy, healthy, earth-friendly tips from Josh Dorfman, author of The Lazy Environmentalist on a Budget.
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8 Ways to Get Your Kids Fit
Dr. Jennifer Trachtenberg shares her tips for making exercise and fitness fun for kids.
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5 Secrets of Happy People
Even the most goal-oriented woman can sabotage her success. Stop being your own worst enemy and get happy.
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Easy Ways to Make the Kids' Food Healthy
A few ways to make meals healthy in a kid-friendly way.
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Build a Home Gym on Any Budget
No matter how tight your space or your budget, our latest fitness finds will turn any room into your own mini gym. Mix and match the exercise equipment in this slide show according to your needs to build your perfect home gym!
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9 Mood Boosters for Your Diet
Simple solutions to keep you focused on your weight-loss goal and motivated every day.
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8 Moodbusters for your Job
Simple solutions to keep you happy and productive at work.
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7 Surprising Signs Your're Way Too Stressed
Learn the meaning of your body's stress signals.
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The Best Home Gym Equipment for Any Budget
Looking for some variety in your exercise routine? Try these workout alternatives and co-rec sports leagues in your area.
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6 Ways to Find More Time for Yourself
Simple solutions for the office, for your home, and for your psyche. These six ideas will help you simplify your life and make more time for the important things -- like yourself!
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6 Secrets to a Calmer, Saner Life
Stick out your tongue, refuse to answer work e-mail, carry a lot of cash. Sounds risky, but these "bad" behaviors may be the key to a less stressful life.
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Find More Time to Socialize: 8 Timesavers for a Better Social Life
How to make time for your friends and fun without getting overscheduled.
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Get a Grip: How to Beat Stress and Take Control of Your Life
Don't let daily stresses pull you off course. With the right attitude, you can take control of your finances, your fitness routine, and your love life -- take charge!
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Boost Your Mood: Find More Happiness
Happiness truly is a state of mind. These simple exercises will get you there.
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Dine out on a Diet
Worried that eating out will wreck your diet? Use our 5 simple strategies to dine with no reservations.
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So Long, Job Fat!
A typical workday can make you stressed, tired -- and flabby. And an hourlong lunchtime workout? Not gonna happen. Slim down and sculpt muscles you never knew you had (in your cubicle!) with this busy-girl's guide.
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Goal Setting
Download the Live Healthy Goal Setting Worksheet.
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Weight gain during infancy may lead to obesity in toddlers
A new Harvard Medical School study suggests that parents should also monitor the weight of their infant children.
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Exercise helps vessels after heart attack, but benefits vanish when work-outs stop
Blood vessel function improves after just four weeks of exercise in heart attack survivors.
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Nutrition Basics
By knowing these basics, you will be better equipped to sort through nutrition research and dietary advice.
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Regular Exercise Late in Life Helps Reduce Breast Cancer Risk
Exercising regularly comes with a long list of benefits.
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Why is managing stress important?
Managing the level of stress in your life is important because it not only can make you happier and more productive, but healthier as well.
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Controlling Portion Sizes
As Meals Swell to "Super-Size," So Do American Waistlines
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Face The Fats
It's time to meet the Fats - some are bad and some are better.
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Can Pets Help Keep You Healthy?
You take good care of your pet. But what’s your pet done for you lately?
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Food Diaries: Losing Weight the 'Write' Way
America has a well-publicized weight problem.
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Breakfast can help keep you lean
Breakfast may be the most important meal of the day, but be aware of what you're eating.
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How Do You Maintain Weight Loss?
Get your head working and the middle will take care of itself!
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Vitamin D may protect against common cold
People with low blood levels of vitamin D were more likely to have had a recent cold.
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Even Moderate Alcohol Use Increases Risk of Certain Cancers in Women
There's a lot of buzz about the health benefits associated with having a glass or two of red wine a day.
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Nutrient Content Claim and Percentage
Ever wonder what the difference is between fat free, saturated fat free, low fat, reduced and less fat?
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Physical Activity in Your Daily Life
There are several activities that you can incorporate into your daily tasks at home, the office, or at play.
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Your first step to getting healthy.
Before you begin the Live Healthy America challenge, take a Personal Health Assessment (PHA) to get a snapshot of your personal health.
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A Healthier You
You have the power to improve and protect your health.
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The 6 Nutrients You Need Most
Find out what you can fill your plate with to get the vitamins and minerals you need.
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Quiz: Are you ready for a change?
Answer the following questions to take the first step toward a better you!
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Physical Activity Guidelines for Adults
Wondering how much physical activity you should be getting each day?
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How Many Calories Do You Drink?
Quiz: liquid calories
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How Healthy Are You? 13 Instant, Easy Health Checks
Try these 13 quick self-assessments and test yourself for everything from allergies to "toxic" fat.
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Healthy Habits That Zap Your Energy
It's amazing what can drain you if you're not careful. Here are five habits that may be sapping more energy than you think.
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Fast Food Calorie Quiz
Take this fun quiz to find out how many calories you are taking in when eating fast food!
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Dining out can be healthy!
View some tips to help you with healthy eating while dining out.
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7 New Ways to Protect Your Skin from the Sun
We know you love to exercise outdoors, and hey, you shouldn't have to hide from the sun. Here's how to keep your skin healthy, radiant, and wrinkle-free when you play outside.
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7 Everyday Therapies for Cabin Fever
Combat Cabin fever with these fun, meditative activities.
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6 Tips for Healthier Baking
Find out ways to bake your favorites the healthier way!
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5 Eat-Right Strategies
What to get in shape for the beach? These 5 Eat-Right Strategies will get you into shape before the warm weather arrives.
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14 Simple Ways to Turn Your Health Around
These 14 easy changes will help you get slim and feel a lot less stressed -- and they'll add years to your life.
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14 Energy Drainers - and Fixes!
Want to get your energy back? Here are 14 reasons why there's less pep in your step, plus the easy fixes that will get you up and running. Your vitality makeover starts right now!
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10 Healthy (and 10 Terrible!) Vending Machine Snacks
Pushing the wrong buttons could be a diet disaster! Check out which choices are best.
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How Fit Is Your Family?
Body mass index (BMI) calculates your weight in kilograms divided by the square of your height in meters. Since it measures how much you weigh in relation to how tall you are, it's considered an accurate marker of your overall fitness.
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Healthy Foods
Here, our very best healthy foods, including healthy recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, drinks, and even snacks. We've got you covered with these healthy and low-calorie foods that taste great so you can reach your better-body goals and still satisfy y
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Healthy Eating Planner: 31 Days of Superfoods
Your 31-Day Meal Plan 31 days of dinners using the 10 healthiest foods on the planet from Fitness Magazine.
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Live Healthy America Store!
Check out the online store for Live Healthy America apparel, merchandise, and more!
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Are You A Health and Wellness Coordinator?
Learn how healthy employees can benefit your company.
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An Affordable Health Program for Everyone!
Learn more about the costs of the LHV program
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Health and Wellness
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