Health

Think about how much money you spend on food each week. For me? About $75 a week. Now think about how much time and preparation it takes..all the shopping, all the cooking. For some with a crazy schedule like mine, it's too much time that cuts into my work day.

Being a female my entire life, I have never really understood what goes on in the minds of males. I have gained a little understanding having to live with five males, but I’m afraid I may never really grasp the strange things that testosterone makes them do. I sit back and watch my boys always try to one up each other. If one jumps off the bottom two steps, the next one wants to jump down five ste

After last year's flu season, which health officials say was one of the mildest in the past 30 years, the illness is back with a vengeance. Well, if you're unlucky enough to currently have the flu, at least a new Facebook app can help track down the diseased jerk who gave it to you in the first place.

If you’ve ever been awoke by a crying child saying, “I can’t stop puking in my bed.” Or if you’ve ever had puke in your hair, poop on your white shirt or have daydreamed about going on a vacation where all you do is sleep, then you are probably a parent...

Influenza appears to be making headway into Montana earlier than normal this year.

Coinciding with national diabetes month, The Center for Disease Control has released a national study looking at the growth rate of diabetes over the past 16 Years.

We all know about Wednesday being the "hump" day.  As soon as you are over that hump, things get easier. Well, working out/dieting is the same way. Week one is exciting, and everything is new. You have just created new goals, so motivation is easy to come by...

You might change your mind about letting your dog lick your face after you read this.

Standing outside of Access Fitness one day we got to talking about weight loss, and The Biggest Loser TV show. We started snowballing with ideas on how to create our own. With us both having highly competitive backgrounds in athletics, we thought it would be great to go with a title a bit more positive. Thus where we came up with the idea of bringing the Biggest Winner Challenge to Missoula.

This morning, October 17, the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services released the following recall notice for ALL products from the New England Compounding Center, which is the assumed source of the nation-wide meningitis outbreak: The Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS), public health agencies and private clinics in Montana are supporting the Food and Drug Admin

Montana's Department of Public Health and Human Services has officially confirmed the state's first cases of seasonal influenza in 2012.

After suffering through subfreezing temperatures all winter, it might sound silly to complain about hot weather. But just as “it’s too cold” is a common excuse to scrimp on exercise during the winter months, “it’s too hot” is a go-to reason to forgo a workout during the few months that it is actually warm in Montana ...