“If you don’t ski it this year, you’ll be another year older when you do!” say Warren Miller. If you're as inspired by his spirit as we are, take a look through this selection of iconic mountains and resorts that beg to be skied while you still can.
What’s your biggest worry When it comes to future health? For many adults, it is the loss of cognitive and physical function that comes with dementia. Though there's still no cure, medications now in trails may bring much-improved treatments.
We all have our annoyances with airline travel, but if people have chronic breathing disorders, flying can actually be dangerous to their health. A breathing test can clear you for save air travel, even if you have a lung condition.
Being in the hospital is no laughing matter—especially for a child. But the sound of young laughter can be heard in the halls of Saint Barnabas Medical Center—when the “clown doctors” come in.
With a realistic approach, you can be trimmer and healthier in 2015. Deanna Schweighardt, outpatient dietitian at Saint Barnabas Medical Center, shares her three-steps towards a new you for the new year.
According to the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one American dies from stroke every four minutes. Thanks to medical and surgical advances however, more patients are surviving 'brain attacks' and regaining good health.
Sure, you can whip up an apple crisp or a pecan pie. But we invite you to venture beyond your baking comfort zone and try one these five wonderful seasonal desserts—all classics, with a twist.
It wasn't the most difficult work, "oohing" and "aahing", but with 55 local babies, deciding on a winner wasn't easy. Meet the winner and 2 runners up of our Bergen's Cutest Baby contest!
What other food category is more variable and convivial? In any season, but particularly when that first autumn nip is in the air, soup can be a hearty warm-up and salve for the soul. What could be a tastier excuse for friends or neighbors to gather?
Have a festive recipe or story you want to share? Let us know and you may be featured in the upcoming Holiday issue of Bergen Health and Life magazine!
Saint Barnabas’ transformed radiation oncology department now offers a more soothing atmosphere “to make the environment as peaceful as possible, to minimize the ‘hospital’ feeling and help the patient feel treated in a more holistic way,”
A law intended to inform women, which requires they be told when mammograms show dense breast tissue, has confused many instead. Here's what you need to know:
It wasn't the most difficult work, "oohing" and "aahing", but with 55 local babies, deciding on a winner wasn't easy. Meet the winner and 3 runners up of our first ever Monmouth's Cutest Baby contest!
Some women are “100 percent convinced” they’ll get breast cancer. Others are confident they won’t. In reality, says the M. Michele Blackwood M.D., neither group can be sure.
The baby was in trouble, but it wasn’t clear why. Luckily Tyler's parents made the right call—sending him to the Emergency Department at Saint Barnabas Medical Center.
Have you ventured beyond the traditional way of preparing your bird? If you've tried deep frying, brining, smoking, we'd love to hear about your experience.
This months Win It: You'll catch great ZZZs on a luxury organic mattress from Urban Natural Home Furnishings. Their sleep experts will tailor-fit you to a mattress that is most comfortable and promotes proper spinal alignment!
You say you’ve discovered The varied delights of fennel? Don’t be too smug—Greek and Roman health practitioners beat you to it by more than two millennia. This aromatic herb is a cancer fighter... and an antidote to humdrum menus.
Patients in the Florham Park and
Morristown areas have long had access to Barnabas Health. What they haven’t had is a strong local network of Barnabas Health-affiliated primary care physicians—until now
Have you checked your credit score lately? This numerical rating can determine whether or not you’ll be approved for a loan or mortgage and what interest rate you’ll pay. Here are 5 ways to make sure it's a good one.
Have you checked your credit score lately? This numerical rating can determine whether or not you’ll be approved for a loan or mortgage and what interest rate you’ll pay. Here are 5 ways to make sure it's a good one.
On Ocean Drive in South Beach, a strip known worldwide for its concentration of art deco hotels, The Betsy stands out as a different kind of grande dame.
This month's Win it: Let the folks at 'Do Well Be Well' help you look better than ever with this $825 skincare package! Submit your form before it's over!
Moms and dads: Think your bundle of joy is the most adorable in Bergen County? Enter the Cutest Baby contest for a chance to have your baby featured in Health & Life!
In the past decade, there has been an alarming increase in cases of liver disease including liver cancer. This menace is on the rise, but treatments are better than ever.
Sometimes certain ethnic groups face particular health conditions. Heightened awareness-and screening- can help combat this scourge of the Asian community.
The cherry's got it all: handy size, pert round shape, ruby-red hue and a flavor so beloved it’s borrowed by everything from cola to cough drops. Not to mention health benefits galore.
If you're reluctant to try your hand at pickling because you think it's too complicated, fear not! This time recipe will get your started-and it could make you the start of the next family cookout.
Do you want to see your kids in Health & Life? With Halloween a few months away, we’d like you to share your favorite photos of the kids in costume to be featured in our October issue!
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