Health and Wellness

Top 10 Ways to Prevent Injury When Exercising From Home

Available for Interviews: Dr. Mimi Secor

Dr. Mimi Secor DNP, FNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN, is a board-certified Nurse Practitioner specializing in Women’s Health for over 40 years. She is a sought-after national speaker and consultant has been featured in numerous local and national media outlets. Dr. Mimi is also a fitness and health advocate, and is passionate about helping women to lose weight and feel great, and is the #1 international bestselling author of Debut a New You: Transforming Your Life At Any Age.

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How to Avoid Injury When Exercising at Home:

I’m a doctorally prepared nurse practitioner specializing in health/fitness and I’m also a 65-year old competitive bodybuilder. I’ve experienced various exercise-related injuries so can speak from experience on this topic. Typical of most people these days, I have also had to creatively reinvent my home exercise program during this pandemic. Here’s what I know:

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3 Red Flags: How Technology & Social Media Can Fuel Anxiety in Us

Available for Interviews: Dr. Colleen Cira, Psy.D.

Dr. Colleen Cira, Psy.D., is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist who specializes in Women and Trauma, and has worked with hundreds of people struggling with mental health issues.

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On Technology & Social Media’s Negative Impact:

We live in a scary world and the 24/7 access to all of the scariness due to the technology era and social media is too much for anyone to handle. Most of us struggle to watch or read about real-life atrocities and may have some mild anxiety symptoms as a result. We may avoid the content entirely, experience intrusive and/or ruminating thoughts about the disaster, feel inclined to research it more, or talk about it excessively. When we witness or read about something incredibly disturbing, these are all commonplace and should fade in a matter of days.

How do we know when there’s an issue? Here are 3 red flags to consider:

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8 Health Tips to Help You Live Your Best (Aging) Life

Available for Interviews: Saundra Dalton-Smith, MD

Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith is an internal medicine physician, a work-life integration researcher, and an international expert on the mind-body-spirit connection. She is also an international speaker and bestselling author of Sacred Rest: Recover Your Life, Renew Your Energy, Restore Your Sanity.

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Health & Aging:

We’re all aging.

Tomorrow you will be older than you are today. It’s sad but true. And while we can’t do anything to reverse this aging process, we can adopt a lifestyle now that will set us up for success later.

As we grow, we should ask ourselves, “What would my future self want me to be doing right now? What wouldn’t they want me to be doing?”

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How to Stay COVID-Free On Your Fall Vacation

Available for Interviews: Christopher Elliott

Christopher Elliott is an author, advocate, and journalist. He writes six weekly columns about customer service, with a special emphasis on travel and technology. His work reaches more than 10 million readers a week. You
have likely read his work in USA Today or The Washington Post.

What Travel Expert and Consumer Advocate, Christopher Elliot,
can say about Fall Travel:

“When it comes to travel, COVID-19 is a loose cannon. Just when we thought the worst was behind us – blam! – we get hit with another variant.” says Christopher Elliott.

As people look to their fall trips, they’re also keeping an eye on rising COVID-19 case numbers. And they’re wondering: How do they keep the coronavirus from joining them on their trip?

As we get closer to the Thanksgiving holiday, one of the busiest travel periods of the year, the questions are likely to become more frantic. But there are answers.

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Practical Tips for Returning to the Office

Available for Interviews: Leni Rivera

Leni Rivera is a Workplace Experience specialist and author of its very first book in the industry, Workplace Experience. Her passion is creating work environments that enable employees to be both productive and happy, regardless of where that is.

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Returning to the Office:

As more and more workers return to the office, you can be sure that things will never be the same as they once were—and that’s mostly a good thing! As everyone may be at different levels of adaptation to the new workplace reality, we must try to be patient! (with yourself, with your manager, and with your company). We’re not out of this pandemic yet, and everyone is still trying to figure things out. It will take time. And that’s okay.

Here are some tips for adjusting healthily and happily as we slowly return to the workplace:

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4 Ways to Improve Your Concentration in the Digital Age

Available for Interviews: Dr. David J. Calabro

Dr. Calabro, DC, CCN, FICPA, CEG, practices Functional Medicine at the Calabro Chiropractic and Wellness Center. Dr. Calabro specializes in functional medicine, clinical nutrition, essential oils, and BrainTap therapy.

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Simple Ways to Improve Concentration:

- In the digital age we now live in, it can be difficult to stay focused.
- According to a Microsoft study, people now have a shorter attention span than a goldfish! Whereas a goldfish can maintain its focus for nine seconds, humans begin to lose concentration after eight seconds.
- Besides all the digital distractions, there may be other factors contributing to our lack of concentration: Poor nutrition, inadequate sleep, and dehydration may be just some of the reasons why your mental focus is less sharp.
- To improve your mental clarity, begin by making positive improvements in your diet, be sure that you are getting enough sleep, and drink more water.

Beyond those obvious basic recommendations, here are 4 essential tips to help you regain your focus:

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How to Improve Sleep Quality With These Two Tips

Available for Interviews: Saundra Dalton-Smith, MD

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How to Improve the Quality of Our Sleep:

New studies are now proving that sleep is absolutely critical for good health.

For example, one study in 2017 found that lack of sleep could produce effects similar to being drunk!

“We discovered that starving the body of sleep also robs neurons of the ability to function properly,” said the lead researcher. “This leads to cognitive lapses in how we perceive and react to the world around us.”

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Winter’s Coming: The Power of Vitamin D

Available for Interviews: Dr. Mimi Secor

Dr. Mimi Secor DNP, FNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN, is a board-certified Nurse Practitioner specializing in Women’s Health for over 40 years. She is a sought-after national speaker and consultant and has been featured in numerous local and national media outlets. Dr. Mimi is also a fitness and health advocate, and is passionate about helping women to lose weight and feel great, and is the #1 international bestselling author of Debut a New You: Transforming Your Life At Any Age.

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The Benefits of Vitamin D:

Particularly now, we are hearing about a lot of different ways to stay healthy and protect ourselves from illness. A rising star in the pandemic is Vitamin D. Recent studies have pointed to this vitamin as a link to not only preventing COVID-19, but also lessening the severity of the illness.

Fact About Vitamin D

- Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin that acts like a hormone in the body. It can be obtained from very few food sources (oily fish, fish skin, egg yolks), a supplement of D3 (cholecalciferol) taken orally, and skin synthesis via sun exposure/UVB radiation.

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How to Control and Prevent Chronic Inflammation

Available for Interviews: Tibor Deme

Tibor Deme is a Sports & Nutrition Specialist, Elite Personal Trainer, and Habit Transformation Expert. He is also the Founder of LifeBoostFit and accompanying application.

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Chronic Inflammation:

Chronic inflammation is slow and insidious. Unfortunately, a constant state of inflammation over time can be very dangerous for our health. It lingers in the body, and it can be years until we start to feel the impact of it.

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Psychological Fitness: Adapting to the Accelerating Work & Life Pace

Available for Interviews: Dr. Karen Doll

Karen Doll, PsyD, is a licensed psychologist, professional coach, and the author of the forthcoming book, Building Psychological Fitness: How High Performers Achieve With Ease.

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Adapting to the Accelerating Work & Life Pace:

- The state of the workplace now is described as VUCA-volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous.
- We are living in an unstable time of rapid change, uncertainty, confusion, and the reality that much of it we can’t control.
- This makes it challenging to plan, prepare, or anticipate the consequences of our actions; therefore, it generates fear. Humans do not like feeling as though they have control.

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