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PCOS, Fatigue, and Chronic Pain: What Women Need to Know

This May, Joyful Wellness turns its focus to the women who so often put themselves last. In celebration of Mother’s Day next Sunday, we’re dedicating a full week to stories, insights, and conversations centered on mothers through the lens of health, wellness, and everyday living. From physical health to emotional well-being, we’ll explore what it means to care for others while learning, gently, to care for oneself. A small invitation, this time, is for mothers to be included in the care they so freely give.

What Doctors Wish You Knew About Preventing Disease

A physician’s perspective on what actually prevents disease, grounded in research and everyday choices that shape long-term health.

Eat Like It’s Summer (Part 2)

A Filipino table, observed. This photo essay explores how simple, seasonal food from sinigang to fresh fruit quietly supports health and wellbeing.

Eat Like It’s Summer

From sinigang to fresh fruits, the Filipino summer plate offers science-backed benefits for hydration, digestion, and overall health.

Backyard Wellness

Gardening is more than a hobby, it’s a powerful way to improve health, nutrition, and mental wellbeing. Here’s how to start simply and effectively.

Rising Fuel Costs Raises Prices of Healthy Diets

In Benguet this month, the story of nutrition did not begin in a clinic or a classroom. It began in a cabbage field. Reuters reported on April 7 that some farmers in the province were leaving vegetables unharvested because rising fuel, labor, and transport costs made it harder to earn back what they had spent. […]

Philippine Data Show Maternal Nutrition Shapes Child Health

New Philippine nutrition data show that a child’s health risks often begin before birth, as maternal anemia, poor nutritional status, and low birth weight continue to shape stunting, growth, and long-term health outcomes across generations.

Poor Diet in the Philippines: How It Drives Obesity, Diabetes, and TB Risk

As poor diet quality drives both obesity-related disease and undernutrition-linked TB risk, the Philippines is confronting a double nutrition crisis that is making illness more deadly at both extremes

How Grief and Social Isolation Can Change Women’s Eating Habits

Research shows that social isolation after the loss of a loved one can alter women’s appetite, diet quality, and metabolic health, revealing grief as both an emotional and physiological experience.

7 Wellness Lessons from Pooh and Piglet That Still Make Sense Today

Sometimes the simplest friendships reveal the deepest lessons about how to live well. The friendship of Pooh and Piglet offers surprisingly modern lessons about wellness. From nutrition and mental health to longevity and joy, their quiet wisdom reminds us that living well often begins with the simplest habits.

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