Navigating the Holiday Hustle: Easy Tips to Manage Prediabetes
Approximately 98 million American adults—more than 1 in 3—have prediabetes. Prediabetes is a serious health condition where blood sugar...
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Jan 5, 20233 min read
Exercise for the Fun of It: How to Turn Your Workouts From Blah to Awesome!
Exercise is one of the best things you can do for yourself. It's natural, preventive medicine literally at your fingertips. It can help...
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St. Andrew's Family Fitness
Sep 16, 20224 min read
Step-by-Step Guide on How to Make Your Self-Care a Process That Sticks
Think back to a time when you were overwhelmed. Did you receive some well-meaning advice to "just breathe" and take better care of...
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St. Andrew's Family Fitness
Aug 26, 20224 min read
Gentle Nutrition: How Kids Benefit From a Kinder Relationship With Food
As caregivers, we want the best for our children. To have them grow up healthy and happy is the primary goal. At times, this can be a...
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St. Andrew's Family Fitness
Aug 12, 20224 min read
The Importance of Self-Care For Children and Teens; Plus 6 Ways to Help Them Learn
When it comes to self-care, the majority of the conversation centers around adults. Justifiably so as 2,000 American adults recently...
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St. Andrew's Family Fitness
Jul 15, 20222 min read
Why Your Social Wellness is as Important as Your Physical Wellness
Social wellness refers to our relationships with others and ourselves. Being socially well means you cultivate and maintain healthy,...
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St. Andrew's Family Fitness
May 30, 20223 min read
You Are What You Think: How Your Thoughts Impact Your Health
What you think about can greatly impact your health and well-being. Despite this, an estimated 80% of our thoughts every day are...
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St. Andrew's Family Fitness
May 13, 20224 min read
Life in a Pressure Cooker: Generalized Anxiety Disorder and 4 Simple Ways to Cope
Anxiety is your body’s natural threat response system. When your brain believes you are in danger, it sends out a series of signals to...
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St. Andrew's Family Fitness
May 5, 20225 min read
Gentle Nutrition: Rethinking Emotional Eating with Intuitive Eating Practices
We all know that food serves a necessary role for survival, but food also serves a much deeper, emotional purpose. Celebrations,...
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St. Andrew's Family Fitness
Apr 15, 20224 min read
How Diets Set You up For Failure
Ever try to lose weight by going on a diet? According to a recent Harris Poll/HealthDay survey, nearly 2 out of 3 American adults are...
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St. Andrew's Family Fitness
Mar 28, 20225 min read
The Rising Costs of Obesity: How Unhealthy Weight Gain Impacts Your Health and Your Wallet
Obesity, a disorder characterized by unhealthy amounts of body fat that contribute to other health complications, has become a huge...
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St. Andrew's Family Fitness
Mar 11, 20223 min read
MyPlate: How to Make the USDA Nutrition Recommendations Work for You!
Do you remember sitting in grade-school learning about the different food groups? You may have memories of the Food Wheel, Food Guide...
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St. Andrew's Family Fitness
Mar 3, 20223 min read
The Best and Worst Types of Exercise for Arthritis
Arthritis has the unfortunate power of changing your entire life. Everything from your ability to work, to your emotional well-being, can...
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St. Andrew's Family Fitness
Feb 10, 20223 min read
Wellness and Menopause: Why it’s Important to Get Moving and Practice Self-Care
Menopause is one of many normal, inevitable, and important transitions women go through in their lives. Typically, menopause transition...
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St. Andrew's Family Fitness
Feb 1, 20224 min read
Getting Real About Self-Love and Self-Care
Self-love and self-care have become common health and wellness buzzwords in 2022. Despite their popularity, there is some confusion...
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St. Andrew's Family Fitness
Jan 14, 20223 min read
Crossing the Finish Line: How to Set and Achieve Resolutions
The tradition of setting new year resolutions has been around for at least 4,000 years. The ancient Babylonians were the first recorded...
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St. Andrew's Family Fitness
Jan 7, 20224 min read
The Reality of Fitness Challenges and 3 Things to Consider Before Joining One
The beginning of a new year is a pivotal moment for many to plan goals and create new habits for themselves. There is an almost...
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St. Andrew's Family Fitness
Dec 10, 20214 min read
Do You Have Chronic Stress? Signs, Symptoms, and How to Handle It!
Stress is one of the most commonly shared feelings amongst human beings. We all deal with stress at some point in our lives, some of us...
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St. Andrew's Family Fitness
Nov 11, 20214 min read
10 Ways to Soothe Seasonal Affective Disorder
Learn more about seasonal affective disorder and 10 ways to help soothe symptoms!
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St. Andrew's Family Fitness
Oct 29, 20213 min read
What is Gratitude, Why is it Important, and 10 Ways to Help You Practice it More Often
Gratitude is essentially an emotion that recognizes the unearned value that is given throughout your life. Sometimes these life "gifts"...
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