Category: Health & Wellness

Lululemon and Peloton join forces to make a Super Wellness Brand

Lululemon storefront, mannequins posed in running positions dressed in activewear

Lululemon and Peloton have announced a five-year strategic global partnership through which Peloton will become the exclusive digital fitness content provider for lululemon, and lululemon will become the primary athletic apparel partner to Peloton. Together, the brands will engage their global community of members in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany and Australia […]

Travis Kelce Encourages Fans to get Both the COVID and Flu Shots Simultaneously

Travis Kelce

Travis Kelce is making news for more than just his rumored relationship with Taylor Swift — or his moves on the football field. As Yahoo News reports, the tight end for the NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs is also partnering with Pfizer to encourage fans to get COVID and influenza shots simultaneously — a decision that experts say is the right […]

New Study shows Morning Exercisers have Healthier Habits and Lower Weight

A new study finds that people who tend to exercise early in the morning also tend to have healthier eating habits and lower weight. As ABC’s Good Morning America reports, the study, published last week in the medical journal Obesity, looked at at the activity and health data of over 5,000 people in the United States. […]

Do Young, Healthy People Need to Get the New Updated COVID-19 Booster?

young girl showing off her vaccine bandaid while nurse looks on

Last week, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that everyone ages 6 months and older should get the new COVID-19 vaccine this fall, and kids under 5 may be eligible to receive two doses of the new vaccine if they haven’t been vaccinated previously. The new COVID-19 mRNA vaccines are […]

Should you get the New COVID Booster and Flu Shot at the Same Time?

Last week, health officials approved updated versions of the COVID-19 vaccines that protect against coronavirus strains that emerged more recently. And, as was the case in previous years, you’ll have the option to get this booster and your usual flu vaccine at the same appointment. As NBC‘s Today Show reports, summer’s COVID-19 resurgence has lingered into fall, and […]

Not being Perfect may be the Key to Diet Success

What if you didn’t have to be perfect with your diet to see results? Researchers have looked at what happens to your mental health when you go on a restrictive diet plan. They found that people who went on extremely restrictive plans had higher levels of binge eating, more food cravings, less control, more preoccupation […]

How are People living in “Blue Zones” Increasing Longevity?

Older couple plays ping pong

Sunny California, known for its golden beaches, palm trees, and surfers, is also home to a small community filled with Super Agers: Some of the longest-living people in the world. As Insider reports, the city of Loma Linda, home to just over 25,000 people, is seated roughly an hour east of Los Angeles, and is the United […]

Setting Realistic Expectations Could Be the Key to Happiness

Do you set unrealistic expectations? If so, it might be an unexpected cause of distress and dissatisfaction in your life.  According to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Pump Club, recent studies show how countries that consistently rank as the happiest tend to have lower, or at least more accurate, expectations.  In a landmark study of happiness published in the British […]

Paqui pulls ‘One Chip Challenge’ from shelves as teen’s death investigated

Paqui, an Austin, Texas-based chip company famous for its viral Paqui “One Chip Challenge” product, is working with retailers to pull the tortilla chip from shelves, the company announced on its website. The decision to remove the chip comes after a 14-year-old — Harris Wolobah — died in Massachusetts on Sept. 1, which his family believes […]

CDC Issues a Health Warning after 5 People Die from Flesh Eating Bacteria in a month

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a health alert warning people about the risks of flesh-eating bacteria across the U.S. East Coast after five people died following infection. One person in Connecticut, another in New York and three people in North Carolina, died between July and August this year as a result of infection with Vibrio vulnificus, a […]