Category: Health and Wellness

If you already enjoy dining at Brody Square, why not learn a thing or two about cooking while you’re there?

MSU Residential and Hospitality Services and Health4U have partnered to bring the Recipe for Health Cooking Series to MSU faculty and staff. One day each month, over the lunch hour, chef Kurt Kwiatkowski will be in the Brody Square demonstration kitchen to present a cooking demonstration of that month’s featured recipe. Recipe for Health offers information and recipes to help you prepare healthy meals for you and your family.

Whether you call them muskmelons or cantaloupes, September’s featured recipe was the Fire and Ice Melon Salad. View a video of the demonstration here.

Be sure to check out the cooking demonstration of November’s featured food, turnips, at Brody Square on Wednesday November 16 at 12:10 p.m.

If you would like to receive future recipes and articles via email, please email health4u@msu.edu with your name, email address and “Recipe for Health” in the subject line. Archived editions of all the recipes from the Recipe for Health series are available on the Health4U website.

Visit health4u.msu.edu for more information and to register for future programs.

It’s easy to find health information on the Internet. But sorting through thousands of sites and trying to determine which ones are actually offering accurate and medically sound information is far from simple.

Luckily, MSU has a powerful weapon for cutting through all the cyber-clutter when it comes to searching for health information on the web. By visiting healthwise.msu.edu, you will have immediate access to accurate, reliable health information.Continue Reading… Try the Healthwise Knowledgebase for the Right Information, Right Away!

Are you ready to get out of your office and move your legs a little? Well, you don’t have to go very far!

There is beautiful scenery all throughout campus just waiting to be discovered. If you need ideas for where to walk, look no further than the Campus Walking Loops. This interactive map displays walking loops/routes on virtually every corner of campus. The map lists the distance of each loop so you know which will fit into your schedule, along with campus art features and emergency phones. If you want a copy for your desk, they offer a printable PDF version. The map was developed in partnership with MSU’s Health4U program and Campus Planning and Administration.Continue Reading… Go on a Walkabout…Without Leaving Campus!

Have you wanted to increase your amount of daily movement? Do you have health and fitness goals you’re striving to reach? The MSU Moves program can help! MSU Moves is a customized, online movement/fitness tracking system with the goal of encouraging participants to maintain or increase the amount of physical activity they engage in on a daily/weekly basis. MSU Moves is open to MSU faculty, staff, graduate student employees, retirees and their spouses/OEIs.

The MSU Moves program isn’t just for the already athletic. Anyone who wants to be involved in movement or fitness can join and benefit from the program. The program activities reflect the understanding that all movement counts. Activities range from jogging to grocery shopping, from weightlifting to folding laundry. You can expand your types of movement at your comfort level. No one is grading you and your information is confidential. The system gives you a clear understanding of how much or how little you are moving.Continue Reading… Get Moving with MSU Moves!

Did you know that two thirds of all Americans drink?  So many of us use alcohol as a part of our regular lives without spending much time thinking about it.  We just do it. But, drinking is something that we might want to spend a little time thinking more about, regardless of whether we drink a little or a lot or somewhere in between.

The University Physician’s office recently developed a website that offers MSU Faculty and Staff a great deal of good information about drinking:

ThinkingAboutDrinking.msu.edu Continue Reading… Thinking about drinking?