Athletes (and that includes those that try out for cheerleading and dance teams) often need to tryout or audition every year to stay on the team. For some kids, this can cause a great deal of stress or anxiety as they try to make sure they can continue to do Read more…
Full disclosure: I am a sorority girl. Not one that skulked around the edges, either — I was our philanthropy chair as a junior, and was in charge of retention as a senior. While I have drawn more close to my university alumni groups rather than Alpha Phi social groups Read more…
The holidays can be hard. Even the New York Times has acknowledged that the increased activity in December, plus the quantity of time spent with family, can lead to fatigue. And while you may want to turn to alcohol and coffee to get you through this, studies have shown that Read more…
The balance of nutrition and exercise is always difficult as it depends on a variety of factors. Height. Weight. Gender. Fitness level. Length of activity. And so on. But I do think there are some misperceptions about the ability to eat more food or less healthy food if one is Read more…
Apparently the nutritional guidelines put out by the government are like the software you use for work — just as you get used to something, a new version is produced and you have to adjust. The 2015 guidelines were released this past January, and while there weren’t any major changes Read more…