Before I became an Interaction Designer at Eliza, well, before I really did anything in my life, I was born with a congenital hip defect. My hip sockets did not develop correctly and starting at six months old, I wore a hip brace that looked like a very stiff and not so fashionable oversized diaper [...]

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We’ve all seen those sneaky little web ads, “One old weird tip for reducing belly fat” or the magically airbrushed weight loss ads with the small print that says “results not typical.”
Yet there are also some very reputable sources of diet advice out there as well. Michelle Obama has replaced the Food Pyramid with the [...]

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Some of us compete daily with the vending machine in our efforts to improve our health, while others set their sights on a different sort of competition.
Congratulations to Eliza’s own Ian Watters – pictured below – for finishing in the top 10 in his category at the recent “Mainiac” Triathalon. As you can see, [...]

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By Kaitlyn Beauregard, Eliza summer intern
Nutritious food. Exercise. A focus on health. From the moment I was born, I was surrounded by an emphasis on health and well-being. My mom bought—and still buys—only organic food. My dad took me on bike rides and had me hooked on running by the time I was seven. Our [...]

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My family and I just returned from four days in Las Vegas - my husband and I were renewing our wedding vows with Elvis. Too much partying and when I got home I could have slept for a week. On Sunday morning I realized that I haven’t been the picture of health for [...]

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As we’ve discovered through our work with Engage With Grace, almost everyone has (or knows someone who has) an end-of-life story that didn’t align with the individual’s or their family’s values. To help ensure we all better understand, communicate, and have honored our end-of-life wishes, this year we are once again participating in  National Healthcare Decisions Day — which [...]

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There is something wistful about watching the Mad Men tv series – all that casual smoking and drinking. It’s the realization that all the pleasure people got from those habits back then is now just not worth the risk to our health.
Our modern-day equivalent might be our incessant cell phone use. You’ve seen the studies [...]

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The numbers don’t lie – providing care for aging adults is a huge societal burden that’s only getting bigger. But it’s the experiences we hear from friends, family, co-workers, and even the members and patients we engage with over the phone that make care giving into one of the Unmentionables that sap time, money, and [...]

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Few of us really eat as well as we should.
It’s especially tough in the office.  Tough to get the right food prepared.  So often we end up grabbing junk — and taking a long time to do it.
We’ve found a solution that’s working for us: the office snack bar.
Bring in some healthy, quick stuff: bread, peanut butter, oranges, [...]

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It seems everywhere I turn I hear conversations about choices people are making that reflect their current reality – often with direct reference to how their choice today differs from what they might have decided if we rolled the clock back 12 months.
My own take on this was a recent decision to give up the [...]

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