Are You Sleeping Enough?

by: Kimberly Mayo, MA, CCC-SLP With the increased demands the world has put on us today, the majority of Americans find themselves sleeping less and less every night. While there may be many reasons for this lack of sleep such as work, technology, stress, kids, or just trading in sleep for leisure activities, one thing is [...]

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How do you weigh in? – Calculate your BMI

by: Leonard Achan RN, MA, ANP BMI (Body Mass Index) wasinvented between 1830 and 1850 by the Belgian mathematician Adolphe Quetelet. He was not a physician and was not looking for a way to label or diagnose individuals. He was actually looking at how create a tool that could identify weight problems within a population. Since [...]

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