Laura Greenhow is the founder of Summerfield Custom Wellness, a Wilmington-based nutrition firm counseling employees toward a shift in health-consciousness.She and her team facilitate programs wherein healthy choices begin to come
We all know the scene. Nov. 1 strikes, eggnog starts flowing and our social calendars start to fill with holiday parties. We make our favorite indulgent foods and eat the leftovers all week. ...
Remember Jan. 1? You decided to trade in your pumpkin pie for chicken salad and your party dress for your sports bra. New Year’s Resolution Mode was engaged. Researc ...
As with all other things, we believe that we need to know where we are, where we have come from and how we got here to know where we should go next. Before we embark on another journey togeth ...
March is National Nutrition Month and this year's theme is “Go Further with Food.” On the national level, the campaign is focusing on the importance of making informed f ...
Over the past several months, I've shared the foundational building blocks of creating successful corporate wellness programs. We've talked about: why you should care about corporate wellness; ...
A lot of people aren’t completely sure about what a dietitian does. Some people think we are the food police. Some people think we are going to take away all of their cupcakes. Some people th ...
Wellness programs are useless if they are unsustainable. People are well-equipped to yo-yo diet without the help of their employer. Your best hope for success in creating effective programs is to p ...
As with anything worth doing, analysis of success and failure is important. When it comes to improving your health, refining the process is key to landing on an approach that works for each individ ...
Creating a company’s mission and vision statements is harder than you think. Encapsulating all you hope to instill in your patrons, all your wishes for them, and capturing that essence in one se ...
I just got back on the grid. Over the weekend, I was at Camp Grounded, a four-day digital detox summer camp for adults. I first heard about Camp Grounded in summer 2015 through a friend’s Fac ...
The benefits of worksite wellness programs for employees and employers have been discussed over the past five articles. Are you ready to dive right in? Before you move forward, consider these quest ...
Remember Sally? She’s our friend we met two months ago in “Wellness Programs at Work: Why Bother?” who, as a general rule, leads a sedentary lifestyle and eats take-out mindlessly mo ...
Maybe your company has 70 employees with a mean employee age of 32, and the biggest health concern is migraine headaches or acid reflux. Maybe your company has 300 employees with a mean age of 5 ...
Imagine having a nutrition concern like a digestive problem or a desire to lose weight. Or maybe you are a busy parent trying to juggle healthy eating for yourself and your family. You’ ...
April 1 is like New Year’s Day revisited for dietitians. Come what may, every April brings an onslaught of people who suddenly realize that shorts and tank tops are just around the corner. So ...
Meet Sally. Sally eats breakfast in her car or at her desk when she gets to work …if she eats breakfast at all. She forgets to pack lunch most days, so she is at the mercy of food available ...
Ashworth Joins Mincey Bell Rhoades Law Firm
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"We love Wilmington and the live music scene here, and we wanted a way to be a part of the music community without having to start work at 9...
Funded by donations, offerings and grants, Hope Recovery is permanently housed in the former Devon Park United Methodist Church and hosts mo...
Rising food costs have hit low-income families particularly hard, a nonprofit organization official said, while cuts and other changes to th...
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