Healthy Lifestyle


How to Use Your Entire Support System to Reach Your Goals
When your goals are to manage weight or make healthy changes, your support system matters. A strong support system can boost motivation and accountability, make healthy choices easier for you, and ..


Healthy Gluten-Free Diet Meal Plan
Fuel your week with a delicious, balanced, and totally gluten-free meal plan! Enjoy nutrient-packed breakfasts, wholesome lunches, and satisfying dinners—all designed to fuel and nourish.


Gluten-Free Diet: Why people follow it, and what to eat
Gluten is in wheat, barley, and rye—safe for most but problematic for some. While gluten-free diets are trendy, they aren’t always healthier. Know the facts, risks, and benefits before making the swit


Strengthen Your Support System for Better Health
Living healthy is a round-the-clock, long-term endeavor. It takes a lot to make changes and plan healthy foods and activities.


Make Your Game Day Party Healthy and Fun
When it comes to Game Day, food choices can be unhealthy and unlimited. For example, over 100 million Americans typically watch the Super Bowl, and average food purchases include 6,000 calories...


10 Ways to Boost Immunity Naturally
What are you doing to stay healthy this year? The average adult gets 2-4 colds annually, and that’s in addition to potentially more serious infections like the flu and COVID-19. Nobody can prevent all


Dry January: Should You Limit Drinking for a Month?
If you’re thinking about your goals for this year and how to achieve them, consider alcohol consumption. If you regularly consume alcohol, you might want to think about going dry this January.


30 Tiny Changes You Can Make Now to Reach Your Goals This Year
It’s always a good time to make a healthy change, especially if you want to progress towards your goals. It’s easy to get overwhelmed if you try to change too much at once. Instead, choose 1-2 tiny ch


Eggplant Artichoke Pesto Whole-Grain Pasta Salad
This pasta salad combines whole-grain pasta, roasted eggplant, tomatoes, artichokes, and a deconstructed pesto. Customize it as needed for low-carb, gluten-free, or high-protein diets.


Reflecting on a Year of Healthy Living: Mistakes Made and Lessons Learned for the Future
The end of one year and the start of another offers a good time for reflection, including on your wellness journey. Everyone makes mistakes while losing weight or chasing other health goals, but each


Give the Gift of Healthy Food this Holiday Season
While any gift can be a welcome gesture of appreciation and love, healthy gifts go a step further. They show that you care about the person’s health and well-being.


Leftover Turkey or Chicken Salad with Mashed Potatoes
Turn leftovers into a healthy salad with turkey or chicken, cooked vegetables, and a creamy mashed potato dressing. Add herbs, nuts, and fruits for extra flavor, or make it vegetarian or plant-based.


10 Ways to Practice Gratitude for Health and Wellbeing
According to a growing body of research, feeling grateful has a wealth of physical and emotional health benefits.


20 Healthy Items to Have on Your Holiday Table
What are you thankful for on Thanksgiving? Many of us show our gratitude for loved ones and food with a big meal.


10 Ways to Have Happier and Healthier Holidays
The holiday season can be a joyful time, but it can also bring stress. Social events, time with family, and special meals can all create lifelong memories, but they can also challenge you.


Spooktacular Tips to Stay on Track This Halloween
Halloween isn't just for children. It’s an occasion that some adults look forward to all year for spooky scares, fun costumes, trick-or-treating, and, of course, candy.


New Fitness Goals
Whether you want to turn physical activity into a long-term habit, or you’re ready to take fitness to new heights, setting goals can help increase motivation and focus.


Actions to Get Back on Track
Lapses can happen to anyone who’s making healthy changes. After identifying factors leading to a lapse, it’s time to address them.


Bouncing Back After a Setback: Anything But Failure!
It can be frustrating to fall short when there is something you could have done to prevent the setback.


Turn Setbacks into Steps Forward
That is especially true when you’re making changes to manage weight or improve health because it’s an experience that’s full of challenges and self-exploration.


Valentine’s Day Gifts
Valentine’s Day can lead to mixed emotions for many people, and we’re not talking about relationships. We’re talking about health. Chocolates, candy, and decorated cupcakes and cookies can be ...


16 Tips for a Healthier Game Day
The Big Game can be a fun and exciting event, but it can also include high-calorie, low-nutrient foods.


Guide to Getting Ready for Your Healthiest New Year's
Happy New Year! You’re in the right place if you’re ready to make this one your healthiest yet - without deprivation. Small changes to your daily life and having treats you love, can lead to long-term


20 Healthier Swaps for Happier Holidays
With the holiday season in full swing, high-calorie foods are everywhere, but you can make small changes to stay on track. Here are 20 healthier swaps you can make to enjoy delicious holiday foods whi


18 Tips for a Healthier Holiday Season
The holidays are here. Office parties, gift giving, social events, and family gatherings are all common nowadays. While this can be the most wonderful time of the year, it can also be overwhelming, bu


All About SAD and Mental Health in Winter
Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD, is a type of depression that is linked to seasonal changes. The National Institutes of Mental Health say it’s also known as the “winter blues,” and it comes on as


10 Tips for a Healthy Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Day can be one of the best days of the year, and the whole weekend can feel festive. Thanksgiving celebrations often center around food, including high-calorie foods that you may not usua


Get Back on Track After Halloween
Happy Halloween! As you get ready to trick-or-treat, hand out candy, or host or attend a party, you might be spooked when you think about your health and weight goals. From pizza and mac and cheese as


Simple Hacks for Creating Triggers for Healthy Habits
Establishing habits can make healthy choices easier by turning them into automatic behaviors. That way, you can work towards your goals without feeling like you’re working hard.


De-Stress at the End of Summer
Stress can have negative effects on your physical and mental health, but you can manage stress to avoid these effects.


10 Tips for a Healthy, Fun, and Safe Labor Day Weekend
A healthy Labor Day weekend is possible if you plan ahead.


Tricks to Drink More Water to Help You Lose Weight
Drinking more can help you lose weight by reducing your appetite, increasing energy levels, and reducing the calories you consume.


10 Fast Food Breakfasts That Can Fit into Your Weight Loss Plan
More than 1 in 5 adults eat fast food for breakfast on a given day.


Healthy Late-Night Snacks for Weight Loss
People say eating at night can lead to weight gain, but what if you’re hungry? Here are some tips to keep evening snacks healthy so you can go to bed without being hungry.


Eating Well and Losing Weight While on the Road
It can be hard to eat well and lose weight while traveling, but it's possible! Here are tips for healthy eating on the road.


American Heart Month in Review: Lark Helps Patients Assess and Manage Their Cardiovascular Risk
By providing patients with the tools they need to improve their heart health, Lark supports their cardiac self-efficacy—their ability to manage and improve their cardiovascular health.


Ten Ways to Overcome Lack of Motivation to Exercise
Exercise is one of the best ways to improve health and manage weight, but does exercise ever stay on your “should-do” list instead of your “to-do” list? Staying motivated to be active is a common chal


Eight Tips for Healthy Eating on a Budget Plus Ten Healthy Low-Cost Meals
Prices seem to be going up every day, but there are some tips and tricks that can help you stick to your health goals. Here are eight tips to eat healthy on a budget.


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Diabetes and Rice | Can I Eat Rice With Diabetes?
When you have diabetes, what you eat is a large part of maintaining blood sugar levels. Is rice safe for diabetes? It depends on what kind!

Is Oatmeal Gluten-Free?

Foods High in Fiber and Low in Carbs?
Are you looking for help losing weight, lowering blood sugar and cholesterol, and making your diet healthier? Dietary fiber can help.

What type of multivitamins can a diabetic take?
Your multivitamin supplement can provide nutrients that you need and are essential for blood sugar control and insulin sensitivity.

Medication for Prediabetes
Certain medications can also help delay the onset of type 2 diabetes or prevent it altogether. But what medications for prediabetes are best?

WARNING: Prediabetes May Cause Vision Loss
Risks associated with diabetes are not offset before. Prediabetes, also known as borderline diabetes, increases your risk of diabetes and vision loss too.

Eyes on the Prize

Lifestyle for a Healthier You

Easy Lifestyle Changes to Make to Live Longer (and Happier)
Small lifestyle changes can make a huge difference in terms of years of your life! Here are easy changes to live longer and happier.

What Is Self-Care?
Self-care is a simple idea. It involves taking care of your health. Most people may agree with the idea, but do you actually practice them?

5 Lifestyle Patterns That May Explain Why Millennials Are Less Healthy Than Previous Generations
Millennials have proven to be a unique generation in many ways, and their health is no exception. The generation is at risk for chronic conditions.

Actions to Get Back on Track

Be Fit While Sightseeing

Staying Active on the Road

Does Your Commute Contribute to Your Health?
The average American commute is over 26 minutes each way, totaling 52 minutes per day or 4 hours and 20 minutes in a five-day workweek.

Five Ways to Remember to Break up Sedentary Time
Breaking up sitting time is another powerful way to lower blood sugar and improve insulin sensitivity.

How to Break a Weight Loss Plateau
As frustrating as weight loss plateaus are, they do happen. There are ways to fight back so you can see the progress you deserve!

Ways to Stand More Throughout the Day
Standing burns 20% more calories per minute than sitting, and has increased benefits. How can you stand more during your days?

Take Small Steps to Reach Big Goals
Small changes and gradual habit-building are great strategies for progressing towards larger goals by breaking it down.

Online Help for a Healthy Life
These days, it seems like everything is available online. Why not turn to the world wide web to lose weight and manage prediabetes, too?

What You Can Do About High Morning Blood Sugar
Morning blood sugar, or blood glucose, value refers to the measurement you might take when you wake up in the morning and are still fasting.

You Can Prevent Triggers

Your Thoughts, Your Health

Be SMART About Preventing Diabetes
SMART goals can be your guide on your health journey. Here is how to set SMART goals to help yourself succeed.

Making Fitness Social

Know Your Triggers

Get Out of Your Cooking Lull - Healthy Recipe Ideas
Often times one of the hardest parts of healthy cooking is continuously finding new recipe ideas that are easy to cook, and follow your DPP diet.
