Health Articles
Get the latest tips, news, and information on a healthier lifestyle in or out of your truck! Take control of your health, and learn how to make positive changes that will last a lifetime.
Diabetes on the Road
1: Plan your meals - Most poor diet choices are made due to lack of planning. Meal planning really applies to anyone living with or without diabetes. Most poor diet choices are made due to lack of planning. Creating a routine with meals and having a general idea of...
Summer Heat Creates Health Risks for Truckers
The cab of your truck is probably pretty cool and comfy when you have the key on. The 2018 Land Line Reader Survey says 56 percent of respondents do not yet use an alternative to idling. So, while heat stress is a rare issue when the truck is running, there is clear...
Four Ways to Alleviate Back Pain
Dr. John discusses four ways that truckers can alleviate back pain that truckers can do while out on the road. Read all about it here.
Yoga For Truckers – Yes, You CAN Do it!
Yoga for Truckers: 3 Moves to Help You Feel Better, Wherever By: Hope Zvara of Mother Trucker Yoga Yoga and fitness for everyone else, but nothing truly for truckers. WHAAAT... Yoga for truckers? You heard correct! Yoga-For-Truckers! A hard life, filled with constant...
What is Yoga and How Can It Help a Truck Driver?
What is yoga? By Hope Zvara, Mother Trucker Yoga® A question that a few years ago could have been more easily answered. But in todays modern western world one that is a bit more complicated to answer. Many equate yoga to stretching, or even impossible poses followed...
What is “Rhabdo”? Bet You Can’t Guess!
This may be the first time you have ever heard the term, Rhabdo. You may be asking yourself, "What is it? Can I get it? Is it contagious?" In this article, written for Landline, Dr. John McElligott tells us all about "Rhabdo". Take a few minutes and get your...
The Voice of Cancer
Guest blog contributor, Carolyn O'byrne, shares her thoughts on oral cancer causes and ways to prevent it! Read all about it--- The Voice of Cancer.
No Shortage of Stress in Trucking
Truckers provide a very important service to all of us. If you've got it, a trucker brought it, as they say. This extremely important career often sets the stage for relationship problems, depression, stress, and physical health problems. Lack of vacations, being away...
National Nutrition Month – How’s Your Health?
March is National Nutrition Month. What's the big deal? Why would there be a month dedicated to this? Nutrition equals health. We all want to be healthy, and we all want quality of life. Truckers obviously don't have the most active job because we just sit down all...
This One’s For The Girls – Cervical Health
The cervix is an organ that we only think about when something goes wrong with it! It is the passage between the vagina and the uterus. Among other things, it's also a barrier that keeps vaginal bacteria out of the uterus itself and it holds the baby in when a woman...