Hip-Hop Your Way to Health: How to Support Hips as We Age

The Social and Health Research Center

Whether you’ve had hip pain for years or are just looking for new workout moves, these hip exercises will help strengthen your hip muscles and increase mobility over time. Stretching and building up muscles that move our hips will aid in creating more stability and flexibility that will allow for us to move easier and…

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Pumpkin Pudding

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Some people like to hate on PSL and all things fall and pumpkin-y… BUT, making your own pumpkin recipes at home provide a great source of Vitamin A, fiber, and contributes to our daily vegetable count! Pumpkins are also a great source of antioxidants which help keep our cells healthy and the Vitamin A, Vitamin…

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Butternut Squash Soup

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Fall is here! And while it may not be cold outside (yet), we can still start embracing soup season! This butternut squash soup is seriously the best and new staple in my fall cooking arsenal. My boyfriend always raves about his mothers Butternut Squash Soup that she makes for Thanksgiving dinner, and she told me…

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Pumpkin Pie Breakfast Smoothie

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Fall Is Here! Let’s Embrace It! This Pumpkin Pie Breakfast Smoothie is sure to get your day started off right. I mean it has a serving of vegetables! When was the last time you ate vegetables for breakfast?! Scroll to the bottom for a printable PDF Pumpkin Pie Breakfast Smoothie Ready in 5 min or…

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Where is your Protein coming from?

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As we continue along our healthy lifestyle journey, many people start to wonder, “How can I make sure that I’m buying healthy meats and proteins to contribute to my healthy lifestyle?” We often hear about buying Organic, Cage-Free, No Antibiotics Added meats and think they may be better for us; but what do those labels…

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What is Mental Health?!

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Mental Health includes ones emotional, psychological, and social well-being and affects how we think, feel and act. (1) Many things can affect our mental health, such as biological factors, positive or negative life experiences, and the stressors of everyday life. Are you experiencing any of these early warning signs of excessive stress that may be…

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May

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Here we are…. 5 months since everyone made those resolutions. 5 months since those infamous get fit goals. and in between these 5 months numerous holidays have passed through. With the ever changing months our resolutions change and become altered. BUT have no fear cause we are here to make sure that everyone’s health goals…

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April Showers Bring May Flowers

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According to the ADA, April is Physical Activity Month! Of course here at the Research Center we are thrilled! We love getting out in the community are soaking up all nature has to offer. While perusing some workouts we stumbled across this total body workout! If you notice there are REST DAYS labeled. Have you…

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Marching into March

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Can you believe its March already?!?! OH MY GEEZERS!! I feel like we just rang in the New Year and yet here we are 90 days later! How are those weight loss resolutions holding up? I know for us here at the center we have kids, work, and some of us returned back to school…

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