Beating the Heat During Your Summer Activities

It’s important any time of year to try to stay as active as you can. While it’s easier to stay inside when it’s cold out, looking outside during a beautiful sunny day can be heartbreaking if you’re staving off physical activity due to the heat. Even just a little bit of moving around can help you stay healthy, especially if you have a sedentary lifestyle or job. Taking a little bit of precautionary steps can help you stay safe even during the hottest of weathers.

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Surviving the No Good, Horrible Spring Allergy Season

Purple Spring Flowers

This year has been extremely bad for a lot of allergy sufferers. Blooms have just begun, leaving a ton of pollen to begin circulating into the air. Lots of people are suffering through the symptoms of seasonal spring allergies. Here are some tips to help you through the worst of it:

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Avoiding Stiff Necks & Backs: 3 Stretches You Can Do at the Office

Stretching at the Office

Sitting for long periods in the office can be a terrible strain on your back, neck, and arms. To avoid that kind of ongoing strain, take a few minutes out of your break time to stretch. When you feel stiff or sore, stand up and try out a few of these office-friendly stretches to help limber up your back and neck and keep you out of spinal misery.

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Sickness in the Summer? Watch out for Summer Illnesses

Beach in the Summer

When someone gets sick in the summer, whether it’s with the common cold or flu, we often ask “who gets sick in the summer?” Just because it isn’t flu season, doesn’t mean it’s impossible to get sick in the summer. In fact, there are possibly even more places that you can pick up a sickness from in the summer than in the winter. Continue reading Sickness in the Summer? Watch out for Summer Illnesses

Avoiding the Flu: 3 Tips for Staying Healthy during Flu Season

Virus

This year has been a terrible year for the flu. It’s luckily not the worst ever recorded flu year, but it’s definitely brutal. This flu season seems the worst because it started early — according to the CDC, it started in November. 49 states were hit with the flu, and of course it just keeps spreading from there.

Keeping yourself healthy when you’re surrounded by the flu — people coming in to work when they’re sick, people in the general public being sick, or being in a healthcare industry dealing with sick people — can be hard. We’ve got some tips to help you stay safe during this brutal flu season.

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