Would you like to improve your life just through simple movements and coordinated breathing? Would you like to decrease stress and increase positive energy? Would you like to relieve muscle tightness and improve flexibility? Would you like to refocus in the middle of your workday and counteract the stresses of poor posture and daily chores?

Here’s something to chew on: only 43 percent of families eat together every day. Should we be concerned? Does it really matter if most families aren’t eating together? Researchers have been taking a very close look at this question. Not surprisingly, they have found that family meals have a very positive impact on children and their nutrition habits, education and their ability to communicate. Here are some of the benefits they have identified:

As one dermatologist observed, “Just like the eyes are the windows to the soul, nails can be windows to your health.” So symptoms of dry, brittle, ridged or peeling nails could indicate other internal conditions. Five common factors impacting nail health are:

Do you often eat more than you should? Join the club. Many of us mindlessly munch out of habit or occasion (e.g., movies, parties). Even the repetitive motion of hand-to-mouth can take on a momentum all its own. Researchers at USC wanted to see if they could break up such unconscious eating behaviors by changing things up on study subjects who were habitual popcorn eaters -- simply by getting them to switch the hand with which they scoop their snack.