Science of Movement

Strength Training: Lift Your Way to Better Health

If your workout doesn’t include strength training, you’re missing out. Strength training can ward off age-related muscle loss, keep your bones strong, promote mobility and function, and even help combat depression and cognitive decline.

Thinking About Drinking?

Acronyms and Sobriety

Acronyms that facilitate awareness in sobriety.

Food Facts

Blueberries

Michigan fresh blueberries are the best you can get from mid-July through mid-September. "Eat blue. Go green."

Antibiotic Treatment

Do I really have to take the antibiotics that long?

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Emotional Wellness

Avoid the Avoidance Cycle

How to recognize the powerful pull of avoidance so that you can find ways around it.

Kitchen Skills

Grilling 101: Rubs & Marinades

Nothing says summer like cooking outside, which may harken back to our primitive nature. Over the years, we’ve added grills and gadgets but the concepts are the same. Build fire. Put food over it. Cook until done. Enjoy rich smoky flavor.

Fun Fitness

Join Team MSU for the 2018 Capital City River Run Half Marathon/5K Corporate Challenge, Receive Free Personalized Coaching!

Want to walk or run your first 5k? How about achieving a new PR in the Half-Marathon? Whatever your goal or fitness level, MSU Moves can help you get there!

Fun Fitness

Take a Hike!

Thinking about ways to get outside, get moving, and improve your health? Lace up those hiking shoes and head for the hills!

Thinking About Drinking: Tips & Tools

Being Aware "Just for Today"

Consider “Just for Today” and behavioral change.

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Mental Fitness

What Happens When We Eliminate Boredom?

Right there in your pocket, you have a device that can entertain your brain any time you want, and you'll never have to feel bored again. But, is there a cost to never being bored?

The Truth About Diets

Diet Talk Carries On

Talking to kids about diet or about weight...it may seem like a good idea, and may even be the advice from a reliable source. While well-meaning, encouragement to diet passed along from parent to child can have unintended and lasting consequences.

Move @ Work

Fitting in Fitness

With a little planning and a shift in perspective, you may find that improved health is closer than you thought. We make the case for the lunchtime workout

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Food and Nutrition Counseling Services

Food and Nutrition Counseling Services provides you with access to accurate health and lifestyle information, helping you to explore new behaviors and skills, and identifying useful campus and community resources.

MSU community members eligible for food and nutrition counseling services include faculty, staff, graduate assistants, retirees and the spouses/partners of members of these groups.

To schedule an appointment with Health4U you are not required to email us from your MSU email address; please email us from the email address you are most comfortable with. 

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Departmental Services

The goal of department based services is to provide work units and colleagues the opportunity to learn about health and wellness as a group activity or exploration.  

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