Get the girls together! Celebrating Women’s Friendship Month

We all know how precious our friendships are. But so many times, life gets in the way and it could be weeks, months, even years between times when we get to see or speak to our closest girlfriends. Well, this month gives us an excuse to improve those statistics! Here are some great ideas to [...]

USDA unveils new online weight planning tool

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) have partnered to add the NIH Body Weight Planner to USDA's SuperTracker online tool as a goal-setting resource to help people achieve and stay at a healthy weight. Created in 2011, the SuperTracker tool empowers people to build a healthier diet, [...]

7 ways your garden can save your life

  Gardening is not just for flower lovers, and is moving out of people’s window boxes and into their backyards. In the past few years, food gardening has increasingly become an activity done to facilitate better physical fitness, healthier eating and well-being. And science backs this up. Gardening helps you: To fit exercise into your day Regular [...]

5 tips to help you keep your diet resolution

Like so many women around New Year's, you've probably sworn to yourself to "eat healthier," "lose weight," and "take better care of yourself" over the next 12 months. Many of you have probably turned to popular diets circulating the internet to accomplish that, whether it's the raw diet, Paleo, Mediterranean, vegan, vegetarian, or - well, [...]