Wellness

I love to travel, especially for food. Some of my most memorable meals have been in Charleston, Chicago, Fiji, Finland, Montreal, Italy, NYC, San Francisco and Vancouver. When the news of Anthony Bourdain’s passing hit, I was stunned.

While paid vacation time has become an expected workplace perk, new research shows Americans are not always using it. In 2017, Americans gave up 705 million vacation days and forfeited 212 million – meaning they couldn’t be rolled over or paid out – equating to $62 million in lost benefits.

While others head to the beach, the women at Camp Divas X are headed to summer camp. More than just your typical arts-and-crafts experience, the week-long program from C.H.O.I.C.E.S (The Center Helping Obesity in Children End Successfully) is designed to help girls ages 10-15 with BMI’s over 26.

I’m not one for routine. Other than work there isn’t much in my life that’s conventional. Running a PR agency you get accustomed to that pretty early on. I realized quickly my day never goes as planned and I’m always ready for a crisis or change at a moment’s notice.

Therapy can be used in a variety of ways. Sometimes therapy is used to reach a goal; other times it’s used to achieve a life change or as a way to discover who you are at your core. Counseling is a tool to use as you wish, and your therapist is there to guide and assist in the process.

I recently had the pleasure of attending a small tasting event at BRASH Coffee where we sampled Teaney , a product line designed to not just react to, but to help prevent the risk of catastrophic disease. The line, created by former oncology researcher Anna Russ, combines honey with full plants to maximize health benefits. No steeping required!

Wellbeing is central to the Pinewood Forest mission, so it’s only fitting that the innovative Piedmont Wellness Center at Pinewood Forest is its first public building to break ground.

Professional networking is necessary for individuals and small businesses to get a foot in the door. In-person networking is effective for making connections. Nearly 100% of people surveyed by HubSpot said face-to-face meetings are essential for long-term business relationships.

It may not replace a visit with a doctor, but the free app Ada may help you get an assessment of your health. Use it to check symptoms you are experiencing by answering interactive questions about your condition.

Activated charcoal may not actually cure everything, but it’s currently one of the hottest health and beauty ingredients. Made from heated coconut shells and available as a powder or pill, it binds to toxins and flushes them out.

The battle of the bulge gets tricky when traveling. But there’s no need to ditch your routine and compromise your exercise plan when you’re on the road.

If the chaos of holiday preparations is beginning to consume you, take some time out to decrease your stress. Here are three tips for reducing holiday blues.

On average, men die six years younger than women due to largely preventable health issues. Thanks to the Movember Foundation, growing a mo can help save your bros. Established in 2003, the foundation’s widely known mustache Movember movement aims to spread awareness and raise funds to tackle men’s health issues like prostate and testicular cancer, poor mental health and more.

Atlanta is starting to see more group fitness studios popping up around the city, and Barry’s Bootcamp is the latest to join the city’s workout scene.

We all know eating healthy foods leads to healthier bodies, but what about the impact on the greater community?

According to breastcancer.org, one in eight women in the United States will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime. Because of this alarming statistic, October turns pink each year as it becomes dedicated to breast cancer awareness.

There’s great news for all the Pure Barre skeptics who like to say, “I like more cardio in my workouts; that class would be too slow,” – there’s a brand new class that includes just that – Pure Empower.

There are two basic ways to increase our energy: we can build our stamina through sleep and exercise, or temporarily boost ourselves with stimulants like caffeine.

Sunscreen should be worn year-round. But, now that it’s officially summer, we’re more likely to apply the guard at the beach or by the pool to avoid the vacation-ruining sunburn! Now that the shelves are stocked with the latest and greatest sunscreens, what should you buy?

Text, email, voice mail, instant message, social media … we love it and hate it.

Imagine preparing a cake with the finest vanilla, oil, eggs and cocoa money can buy. You proudly pop it in the oven, but out comes a flat, deflated mess. You forgot the baking soda.

Now that ClassPass has limited the number of classes users can take per month to 10, I’ve been hunting for other easy and affordable ways to workout. When I heard about a free HIIT workout with my favorite athletic apparel brand, lululemon, I was sold.

It’s easy to find excuses for why we couldn’t stick to our routine workout schedule — it was too hard, too much to do and we weren’t ready.

Workplace design is in the throes of a renaissance, according to Steelcase. Rapid advances in technology, innovation agendas, the war on talent, and employee disengagement are converging to create an “anti-corporate” backlash against traditional, uninspiring work-spaces.

Sitting is the new smoking. Meetings are the biggest time-wasters at work. Studies show walking meetings boost creativity and collaboration when done in groups of 2-4 people.

Atlanta’s lost artery has caused gloomy predictions of doubled commute times and economic turmoil. But my fellow millennials have reacted with curiously less concern.

As kids, upon discovering French fries, we may have thought, man, I could eat these all day! But somebody, likely our parents, stepped in to remind us that a healthy body requires balance and to eat our chicken and veggies.

Researchers at Harvard followed 268 men over the course of their lives from the 1930’s to old age. Their 72-year study of happiness led to the conclusion that the #1 indicator of our happiness is our relationships.

For decades, scientists believed 100 percent of our happiness was determined at birth. Now they believe genetics only account for half. Where’s the rest?

For the most part, this past Sunday’s humble acceptance speeches left me with even more respect for the tremendously accomplished actors and visionaries onstage.