Family Health

According to Stanford Children’s Health, there are over 3.5 million children who sustain sports-related injuries every year. Add to that the notion that around 70% of kids who play organized youth sports quit by the time they turn 13, and...

The Emmy Award-winning daytime talk show The Doctors headed to three different gyms – budget, mid-range and luxury – to investigate what germs and bacteria are lurking on your treadmill. What did they find? Bacteria on several pieces of cardio...

William Smith, MS, author of Exercises for Perfect Posture, has provided his top tips for better overall general posture. 1. Morning Wake-up Breathe deeply into your belly five times, expanding your chest, ribs, belly and lower back. Stretch your arms...

For more than a decade, Natural Baby and Childcare remains the essential parents’ reference guide to the best conventional and natural health and wellness options for their child. Now it has been updated in a new edition with the latest...

What should you do when you're diagnosed with Parkinson's disease? Author and Parkinson's patient Robert W. Smith has prepared an enlightening and engaging guide in his new book The Parkinson's Playbook to help answer this question. He has also prepared...

Exercises for Perfect Posture is the complete guide to achieving healthy posture, providing everything from fitness programs and exercises designed to realign the spine and strengthen shoulders, neck and back as well as guidance on how to redesign one's work...

Remember the saying, “Food is medicine?" Well, pull out your apples because we’re here to tell you there is merit in that saying, especially when it comes to your fertility! Did you know that 1 in every 8 couples struggles...

The diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease is not an easy one. The Parkinson’s Playbook is a complete resource for Parkinson’s patients and their caregivers, providing them with the knowledge needed to proactively defend themselves against the progression of Parkinson’s disease with...

These mobility exercises are best done as a warm up to your lower body workouts. They will prime the body for better performance by jump starting the correct muscles. These exercise will also keep you injury free and allow you...

The Big Toe and Your Health by William Smith, MS, NSCA, CSCS, MEPD Do you ever run, walk, navigate stairs, squat, lunge or jump?  Chances are you perform some if not all of these movement daily.  Involved in everyone is...