2019 Families Walk For Hope

It’s time to lace up your sneakers for the 2019 Families Walk for Hope, Saturday May 4, 2019. The Walk will celebrate its 25th year of supporting the Fortunato Breast Health Center at Mather Hospital and breast healthcare in our community.

Avoiding Back Pain during Your Summer Travels

It’s summer and for many of us that means taking a long awaited vacation. Whether you’re taking planes, trains or automobiles, don’t let back pain interfere with your travel plans. Here are some tips for preventing back pain on your summer holiday.

One Small Change at a Time

By Daphne Baldwin Kornrich, MS, RDN, CDN I need to lose weight. I have to exercise. I’m so stressed at work I should be meditating. We have all been there. Sometimes we need to stop, take a breath and think of small changes.

Fad Diets: Why They Don’t Work

By Melissa Buscetta, RDN There’s always a new diet being promoted as the best approach to weight loss. Unfortunately, many of these diets involve eliminating foods that contain necessary nutrients. Some diets even cut out entire food groups. Many of these fad diets may lack major nutrients, such as dietary fiber and carbohydrates, as well…

Progress NOT Perfection: Tips to help set realistic and achievable exercise goals

By Barbara Broggelwirth, RDN, CDN Do you begin a new exercise routine going full-out, every day, only to stop abruptly when the first hiccup prevents you from getting to the gym? If so, you may be an exercise perfectionist.  In any perfectionistic behavior, we set ourselves up for failure by taking an “all or nothing”…