Get back to basics

All you really need to win the battle of the bulge is to eat simply and get moving

A peek inside the typical kitchen cupboard will give you a short history of American weight-loss fads. Every promise for a skinnier life, from fat-free to high-protein to reduced-carbohydrate foods, i

Sugar, sugar

Hidden and not-so-hidden sugars could be sabotaging your diet – and your overall wellness

If shedding those extra pounds is your top New Year’s resolution, health experts say you should start small – with your sweet tooth.According to the latest figures from the United States D

How to talk weight

Creating an open dialogue with overweight girls is an exercise in positivity

You may approach the subject with the best of intentions, but nutritionists recommend you don’t talk to your teen daughter about dieting, and do not put her on a diet. “If you decide your

Schedule a day of mindfulness

An entire day meditating in silence may not be how you usually fill a Saturday, but here’s an opportunity to try something different. Eva Muller and Juliet Slack are leading “A Day of Mind

Preventing Alzheimer’s

SIU researchers say exercise is the best medicine

Brent Bohlen, a retired state worker and current exercise enthusiast, is an unlikely person to be speaking to doctors at a high-level conference on Alzheimer’s disease held this month at Souther

Finding your way to fitness

Four tips to start the new year out right

Avoid the New Year’s resolution trapJanuary, 2010…you’ve been handed a proverbial clean slate -- another chance to shrug off your bad habits and reach for your dreams. It never fail

Stretch work

We do the hard work it takes to figure out simple movements that take the stress out of chronic and traumatic injuries before – and after – they happen

Untitled Document Got a fitness problem? Sometimes ... you’ve got to stretch yourself. The most common injuries are sorted int

Warm up, cool down

Get your blood pumping first, local experts say

Untitled Document Tim Butler used to run in high school and college, but he says it’s nothing compared to what he’s been up to for the past 13 years.

Those mighty mites

More and more Springfieldians have asthma

Untitled Document Dr. Glennon Paul has worked with Springfield asthma patients for 33 years, but even he admits that he doesn’t have all the answers

A career in caring

Respected Springfield psychiatrist put his mark on medical community

Untitled Document The Frank J. Menolascino Award for Excellence, given yearly by the National Association for the Dually Diagnosed, was created to honor individuals