Nutrition Corner

Mangoes to Bananas - Fruits with most sugar, their benefits and risk factors: Discover the sugar content in popular fruits and how to enjoy them guilt-free.

Salad Jars Are The Meal-Prep Hack For Total Freshness: With the right layering process, mason jar salads can be an easy, healthy way to prep lunches for the week - and best of all, there's no soggy lettuce.

Recipe for The Day

These Lemon-Blueberry Oatmeal Bars Will Make Breakfast Your Favorite Meal of the Day: These lemon-blueberry oatmeal bars taste like a hearty bowl of oatmeal that you can hold in your hands. Each square is bursting with fresh blueberries and infused with lemon zest.

Lifestyle & Fitness Focus

5 easy ways to drink more water

• Set a daily goal: It’s a lot easier to accomplish your goals when you actually know what they are! Take the time to consciously set a daily amount for how much water you want to drink, then hold yourself to it. If you need a bit of motivation, decide on a reward you'll treat yourself to after a week of drinking more water.

• Flavor it: Find the taste of water to be just blah? If you’re drawn to more flavorful drinks like sodas and juices, try adding a bit of a kick to your water. Add lemon, lime, or berries to create your own at-home spa water, or find a brand of flavor drops or powders to help you reach for that glass.

• Eat water-filled foods: Not thirsty? Try a snack instead. Foods like cucumber, celery, lettuce, broth, and even plain yogurt all contain high amounts of water that help keep you hydrated.

• Keep a reusable bottle with you: How can you drink more water if you don’t have a container with you? When you do your phone-keys-wallet check while heading out of the house, make sure also to grab your reusable water bottle.

• Set reminders: Use your phone as your hydration reminder buddy. Try setting an alarm for specific times throughout the day when you may need a nudge to reach for your water, like post-lunch or after your cup of coffee.

4 Strategies For Sustaining Motivation In Your Fitness Journey

• Set Realistic Goals And Establish A Clear Timeline: Setting reasonable goals and creating a schedule for reaching them is the first step in maintaining motivation in your fitness quest. When development doesn't meet your expectations, having unrealistic goals can cause irritation and demotivation.

• Identify Your "Why": Maintaining motivation for your fitness journey depends on understanding the underlying causes. Your reason for pursuing your goals comes from understanding "why" you are doing it.

• Break Down Goals into Smaller Targets: Reaching a fitness goal can be complex and protracted. Break down your main goal into smaller, attainable targets to avoid feeling overwhelmed.

• Embrace Accountability: Accountability is an effective technique for keeping people motivated. Ask a buddy who is also interested in fitness, a training partner, or a coach for assistance.

4 Food To Eat for Diabetes-Related Macular Edema

• Orange-colored fruit and vegetables: This suggestion isn’t based on a random color preference. It’s all about the massive amount of vitamin A found in orange fruits and vegetables. When it comes to vision, vitamin A wears a superhero cape. The antioxidant protects the outer surface (or cornea) of your eye. Your body also uses vitamin A to form pigments essential for your retinas to work properly.

• Leafy Greens: These salad-bar mainstays also are solid sources of lutein and zeaxanthin, a pair of vision-aiding carotenoids, says Knapp. Research shows that both help slow the overall process of macular degeneration.

• Citrus fruits: Moving through the vitamin alphabet, let’s talk about vitamin C, another antioxidant linked to better vision. (Maybe it should be identified as Vitamin See?) Studies show that vitamin C may help delay age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in the eye. In addition, vitamin C seems to guard against the development of cataracts.

• Nuts, seeds and legumes: What do various nuts (almonds and hazelnuts, for example), seeds (sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds) and legumes (peanuts and beans) have in common? They’re all high in vitamin E and zinc, antioxidants that are beneficial for your peepers.

4 Isometric Exercises You Should Be Doing and Why

• Planks for core muscles: Planks are a type of isometric exercise that helps strengthen your core (abdomen) muscles.

• Dead hangs and isometric bicep curls for arms: These two isometric exercises to maintain arm strength

• Glute bridges and squats for leg and butt strength: To target your gluteal muscles.

• Wall squats: To target your gluteal muscles and strengthen your core.

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