A few minutes of downtime can help relieve stress and boost productivity. Our days are wall-to-wall. Between work and life responsibilities, we’re feeling more pressure and a higher level of stress. And it’s taking its toll on our health [...]
Combatting stress through self-awareness No matter who you are, stress is most likely a part of your life. The key is learning how to identify it and manage it. Many doctors are pointing to mindfulness as a method for [...]
Modern-day stress Life asks a lot of us — spouses, jobs, friends, kids and pets — it can all add up and sometimes it’s more than we can handle. That’s when stress kicks in. Stress is actually your body’s [...]
As winter approaches, we always like to keep people thinking and talking about safety. Our first priority is always focusing on accidents which shouldn’t occur. Winter always brings everything from slips and falls, keeping warm and dry, to monitoring [...]
Diabetes is a condition where the body can’t make insulin, or can’t use it well. Insulin is a hormone that helps our bodies get energy from the glucose in the food we eat. Without it, glucose levels in the [...]
Recently, President Donald Trump performed a bit of an end-around on the stifling healthcare bill by signing an executive order aimed specifically at providing small businesses some relief — and more affordable health insurance options. In a ceremony at [...]
Take this assessment to find out Prediabetes means your blood sugar is higher than normal, but not yet high enough to be diagnosed as diabetes. Many people who have prediabetes don’t even know it. Diabetes is a serious disease [...]
What is pre-diabetes? Pre-diabetes means your blood sugar level is higher than normal, but not yet high enough to be classified as type 2 diabetes. However, without intervention, pre-diabetes can become type 2 diabetes in 10 years or less. [...]
On October 17, the Massachusetts Senate released “An Act Furthering Health Empowerment and Affordability by Leveraging Transformative Health Care” (the “Act”), legislative proposal with the declared goal of reducing healthcare costs and improving the quality of medical services in [...]
Most people don’t think about an HSA, or Health Savings Accounts, as a savings account. Instead, they think of it as an account where you set aside money to spend on health care items during the current year. That [...]
