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Brain

Are Your Diet and Lifestyle Causing Your Brain to Age Faster Than Your Body?

When we think about how well we’re aging, we care about the wrinkles on our faces and the fat around our bellies. Those are the things we can see in the mirror. But we don’t get that sort of feedback on how well our brains are aging until it’s late in the aging process. In [...]

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Back-to-School Nutrition: Prepare Your Child for a Healthier Life

If you have school-age children, you take great pains to prepare them for a successful school year. You provide them with school supplies and replace clothes they have outgrown over the summer. Don’t forget to also prepare them for their future by educating them about nutrition. Teaching them to have good eating habits may help [...]

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Your heart and your brain might be more connected than you realize!

This is the second blog in a series we’re calling Pass Along Heart Health. Please use one of the buttons to share this important information, so that others may enjoy the benefits of a healthier heart now and long into the future!   Those healthy choices you make to protect your heart may also be [...]

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5 Foods That Lead to a Good Night’s Sleep

Get to know your co-workers well enough and you’ll soon hear some of them boasting about their lack of sleep. “I never sleep more than six hours a night.” Or, “Last night I got 3.5 hours of sleep, I’m just so busy.” Despite our hectic schedules, insomnia and this collective competition for who can get [...]

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Yes, You Can Grow New Brain Cells! Here’s How to Protect and Nurture Them

We used to think that it was impossible to grow new brain cells. That’s something I was even taught in medical school. Now we’re learning about something called neuroplasticity, which is a fancy way of saying that the brain generates new cells to replace tired or injured ones. In fact, thousands of new brain cells [...]

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