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Build a Healthy Heart with a Healthy Social Life

Researchers have always known the importance of a healthy social life, but up until recently, the focus was on the emotional benefits. Now, we know that people with vibrant social lives also tend to live healthier and longer. Read on for three ways to have a healthy social life while improving your physical well-being!

Career Wellness: Is Your Job Helping...

Let’s start with a question: Do you like what you do each day? Although career well-being is one of the most vital areas of the five pillars, only 7 percent of us can answer “yes”...

10 Ways to Prevent Childhood O...

It may sound simple, but the key to childhood obesity prevention is managing the amount of calories that go in and increasing the amount of calories that are used up with exercise. Easier...

Ah-Choo! Welcome to Spring Allergy...

As allergy sufferers know, spring brings in more than April showers and May flowers. It also brings hay fever. But what we call hay fever, actually has nothing to do with hay or fever. The...

Raising a Child with Diabetes:...

I don’t know many mothers who don’t know exactly when they found out they were pregnant. I was no exception. I was nervous and scared, but after a few weeks the news was finally...

COPD: When Lungs Break, the Heart...

“To breathe is to live, and without breath there is no life” is a basic view of yoga. This is very apparent for those who struggle to be able to breathe. If you suffer from...

Fulfilling the Wishes of Our Loved...

We know that preparing for end of a life is a difficult conversation to have, and many do not want to think about or consider these decisions when health is good. When we are Young and healthy...

Facts to Know about Heart Dise...

Heart disease, or cardiovascular disease, is one of the leading killers in the U.S. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 600,000 Americans die of heart...

Meet your Endocrinologist! Going...

You’ve been dropped a bomb. You’ve been diagnosed with diabetes. Your Primary Care Physician (PCP) tells you that your hemoglobin A1c test is over that of the average percentage...

What does Blue Cross do in your...

At Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oklahoma, we’re proud to insure more than 800,000 people. But we do so much more. For instance, in 2016 we continued our long tradition of community...