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Break the Stigma, Eat Clean & Refresh Your Routine This May
May 6, 2026
Spending even a few moments outside daily can significantly improve your physical health by reducing muscle tension, regulating sleep, and improving your work performance. Experiencing the outdoors—specifically, green spaces—can also provide some mental health benefits, including reduced anxiety and depression symptoms, decreased stress levels, and improved overall mood.
It may seem difficult to incorporate fresh air into your daily routine, so here are a few tips to spend more time in the great outdoors this summer:
Find time throughout the day to be outside. Try walking or doing a similar activity before or after your workday. Alternatively, enjoy lunch outside instead of eating at your desk during the workweek. If working remotely, you could join virtual meetings outside in a quiet place with little background noise or try “walking meetings” with teammates. Focus on finding small ways to incorporate fresh air each day.
Move your workout outside. If you usually run on the treadmill, consider jogging around your neighborhood instead. Additionally, doing bodyweight or free-weight exercises in your backyard or at a park can give you the same workout you get in the gym while letting you spend more time outside.
Focus on the quality—not quantity—of your time outdoors. While outside, try to really listen to and look at what’s around you. Are there birds chirping? What color are the flowers? An intentional presence outdoors can help you feel more connected to nature and increase the benefits you receive from the fresh air.
Find someone to explore with. It can be much easier to start a new habit when you have someone to do it with. As such, consider getting together with a partner or a group of friends to participate in outdoor activities.
Bring nature indoors. Even when you can’t get outside for very long, you can still bring in little pieces of the outdoors. Consider purchasing a few houseplants to place around your home or starting an indoor herb garden.
Spending time outdoors can improve your physical and mental health, so take advantage of the longer summer days and get outside.
The Environmental Protection Agency reports that the average American spends only 7% of their life outdoors, leaving 93% spent indoors.
Protein is important for overall health. Health experts note that there isn’t one perfect time of day to eat protein. What matters most is how evenly you include it throughout the day. Instead of saving most of your protein for dinner, spreading it across meals and snacks allows your body to use it more efficiently for energy, fullness, and muscle repair.
Eating protein at different times of the day has certain advantages. For example, protein in the morning after an overnight fast supports steady energy, sharper focus, and improved appetite control, which may reduce overeating later in the day. Adding protein to snacks also plays a key role, helping stabilize blood sugar and prevent afternoon energy crashes. Similarly, protein is useful after workouts, as it helps muscles recover and grow stronger. Dinner protein remains important, but loading most of the day’s intake into asingle meal isn’t ideal, since the body can only use so much at once. Most people don’t need excessive protein supplements, as regular meals often provide enough.
In the end, a practical approach is to include protein at every meal, aim for moderate portions, and balance it with carbohydrates and healthy fats. Consistency delivers the biggest benefits.
The 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans prioritize protein at every meal, aiming for 1.2 to 1.6 grams per kilogram of body weight daily.
Summer brings more time outdoors, and with it, a higher chance of sunburns, bug bites, minor injuries, allergies, and heat-related issues. Medications can also lose effectiveness or even become unsafe after expiration, and heat and humidity can further degrade products that are already past their prime. When summer ailments or accidents strike, you want relief that works quickly and safely.
A cabinet check today ensures you’re prepared for common summer needs without last-minute store runs. Consider these 10 summer essentials:
Pain reliever and fever reducer
Antihistamines, nasal sprays and eye drops
Hydrocortisone cream for rashes and bug bites
Broad-spectrum sunscreen
Aloe vera or after-sun gel
Insect repellent
Oral rehydration packets or electrolyte drinks
Bandages and basic first-aid supplies
Antibiotic ointment for minor cuts
Instant cold packs
The average American opens their medicine cabinet 468 times each year. However, nearly 3 in 4 people admit they often forget to replace their expired products.
RECIPE OF THE MONTH
Trail Mix Bars
Makes: 28 servings
Ingredients
3 cups crispy rice cereal
3 cups toasted oat cereal
1 ½ cups raisins
½ cup no-salt sunflower seeds
1 cup honey
¾ cup sugar
16 oz. chunky peanut butter
1 tsp. vanilla
Preparations
Combine dry ingredients in a bowl.
Combine honey and sugar in a pan and bring to a boil.
Add the peanut butter and vanilla. Stir until the peanut butter melts.
Pour the mixture over the cereal and mix well.
Press into a 13-by-9-inch pan and cool.
Nutritional Information (per serving)
Total calories: 225
Total fat: 10 g
Protein: 5 g
Sodium: 106 mg
Carbohydrate: 31 g
Dietary fiber: 2 g
Saturated fat: 2 g
Total sugars: 23 g
