Healthy Eating: Getting Support When Changing Your Eating Habits

Having support from people in your life is one thing that helps make healthy eating a lot easier. Support for healthy eating can come in many different forms. It might be: A friend who notices how you're eating better. A family member who doesn't tempt you when you're trying to eat less of certain foods. A coworker or...

Healthy Eating: Helping Your Child Learn Healthy Eating Habits

Childhood is the best time to learn the healthy habits that can last a lifetime. Healthy eating can help your child feel good, stay at or reach a healthy weight, and have lots of energy for school and play. In fact, healthy eating can help your whole family live better. Return to topic: Healthy Eating for Children...

Healthy Eating: Making Healthy Choices When You Eat Out

When your goal is healthy eating, dining out can be a challenge. But there are things you can do to make healthy choices when eating out. Plan ahead by thinking about healthy options you could choose. Be mindful of portion sizes, which are almost always larger at restaurants. Look for ways to reduce the amount of...

Healthy Eating: Making Healthy Choices When You Shop

Healthy eating starts with smart food shopping. These tips will help you get started. Plan ahead. Before you shop, decide on the healthy meals and snacks you want. Make a list of the ingredients you will need to buy. Don't shop when you are hungry. Eat a snack or a meal before you shop. This way you won't be as tempted...

Healthy Eating: Overcoming Barriers to Change

One of the important steps in changing your eating habits is figuring out what your barriers are. A barrier is anything that causes you to slip up in your goal to make a lifestyle change. The best way to overcome barriers is to identify them and make a plan to deal with them. What has stopped you from changing your...

Healthy Eating: Recognizing Your Hunger Signals

Explains hunger, fullness, and appetite signals. Provides steps to get back in touch with your hunger signals so that you don't reach for food when you're not hungry. Explains keeping a food journal and using a hunger scale.

Healthy Eating: Starting a Plan for Change

When you're ready to make some changes to your eating habits, having a plan for how you'll get started can help you succeed. Healthy eating is about balance, variety, and moderation. It means that you eat enough, but not too much, and that you eat a variety of foods that give you the nutrients you need to stay healthy...

Healthy Eating: Staying With Your Plan

It can be easy to get off track with healthy eating plans. If this is true for you, just think of healthy eating as a work in progress. When you learn from experience, you get better at it each time you refocus your plan. Here are two important ways you can get yourself back on track and stay there. Update your goals...

Healthy Eating: Taking Calcium and Vitamin D

Discusses taking calcium and vitamin D to prevent or treat osteoporosis. Includes info on how much calcium you need based on your age or life stage. Offers list of calcium-rich foods and calcium supplements.

Healthy Habits for Kids

Habits are hard to break. That's why the sooner in life we build good, healthy habits, the easier it is to keep them and stay as healthy as possible. And when good habits are in place, it's easier to resist bad ones. The most important thing to remember is that you are your child's role model. Your habits affect your...

Healthy Habits to Prevent Osteoporosis

Here are some things you can do to build and strengthen your bones: Get enough calcium and vitamin D. Eat foods rich in calcium, like yogurt, cheese, milk, and dark green vegetables. Eat foods rich in vitamin D, like eggs, fatty fish, cereal, and fortified milk. Get some sunshine. Your body uses sunshine to make its own...

Healthy joint vs. damaged joint

In some types of inflammatory arthritis, such as rheumatoid arthritis, the body's immune system attacks the joint lining (synovium). This causes inflammation. Over time this inflammation can damage the cartilage and bone. It can also loosen ligaments and tendon attachments.

Healthy Muscles

Explains strength training and its benefits. Provides tips on how much and how often to do strength training. Offers sample exercises.

Healthy Pregnancy Advice

Making a decision to have a child—it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. —Elizabeth Stone Select a topic: Birth Defect Prevention Moms-to-Be: Fish May Prevent Allergy Morning Sickness Omega-3s for Baby's Brain Pregnancy & Postpartum Support Supplement Safety in...

Healthy Weight: Thought-Tracking Journal

The upsetting situation Stop: My discouraging thought Ask: Is that a helpful thought? Choose: My new, encouraging thought Example My diet isn't going well right now. I can't lose weight. Why should I even try? Who says I can't lose weight? How am I going to lose weight if I keep thinking like this? I can make good...

Hearing Aids

Hearing aids make sounds louder. There are many different styles of hearing aids. And you can add special features to your hearing aids. But almost all hearing aids have these parts: A microphone, to pick up sound. An amplifier, to make the sound louder. A speaker, to deliver the sound into the ear. How to get hearing...

Hearing loss

Hearing loss is a sudden or gradual decrease in how well you can hear. It can happen slowly or suddenly. And it can range from slight to profound. It's often a natural result of aging. But it can affect people of all ages. Long exposure to loud noise can make it worse. If hearing loss is caused by something that can be...

Hearing Loss

Includes info on hearing loss. Discusses causes and symptoms like tinnitus, muffled hearing, and vertigo. Covers exams and tests used to diagnose hearing loss. Discusses treatment with medicine, hearing aids, or cochlear implant.

Hearing Loss in Babies, Ages 4 to 6 Months

You can watch your baby's behavior to check for hearing loss. If you notice a change, your baby might have hearing loss. Does your baby: Respond to changes in your voice? Look around for the source of sounds? Notice toys that make sound?

Hearing Loss in Babies, Ages 7 Months to 1 Year

You can watch your baby's behavior to check for hearing loss. If you notice a change, your baby might have hearing loss. Does your baby: Listen when spoken to? Turn or look up when you call their name? Respond to requests like "come here" or "want more?" Recognize words for common items like cup, shoe, or juice?

Hearing Loss in Babies, Newborn to Age 3 Months

You can watch your baby's behavior to check for hearing loss. If you notice a change, your baby might have hearing loss. Does your baby: Listen to speech? Turn to you when you speak? Smile when spoken to? Seem to recognize your voice? Quiet their crying when you speak? Startle or cry at noises? Awaken to loud sounds?

Hearing Loss in Children, Age 4 Years and Older

By the age of 4, your child may tell you they are having trouble hearing or understanding others. You can ask your child questions about their hearing. You can also watch your child's behavior to check for hearing loss. If you notice a change, your child might have hearing loss. Does your child: Follow complicated...

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