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Healthy Airports

09/16/15
You can certainly spend you airport dwell time sitting in one place, eating junk food and being stressed out. But, as I detail in a story for the new Basil Health newsletter, you have better options. According to the 2014 Airport Food Review from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, 75 percent of airport restaurants […]

More mom-friendly airports

09/11/15
Fresno Yosemite International is the latest airport to add a special room where mothers may breast-feed their babies or pump breast milk. Created from a space once used for storage, the nicely-decorated new mothers room is located post-security, near the boarding gate area and has carpeting, a comfortable chair with footrest, power outlets, counter top […]

Airports offer free snacks, gifts to healthy travelers

04/29/15
  It’s Fit2Fly week at airiports in Boston, Baltimore, Pittsburgh and Cleveland and that means free healthy snacks, complimentary massages and giveaways that include Fitbit wireless activity-tracking wristbands and travel yoga mats through May 2. Coordinated by AIRMALL USA, which operates shops and restaurants at the participating airports, Fit2Fly Week also features free health and […]

Fit to Fly walking paths now at CVG Airport

12/04/14
In keeping with a healthy trend we’re glad to see popping up at airports, a set of walking paths has been marked off at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG). Walking routes are marked in the CVG baggage claim, Concourse A, Concourse B and the tunnel connecting passengers from security to the concourse. As an […]

Ebola and airports

10/08/14
Lots in the news right now about Ebola and airports. On Wednesday (October 8, 2014) the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Department of Homeland Security’s Customs & Border Protection (CBP) announced new entry screening procedures for the five U.S. airports that receive over 94 percent of travelers from the Ebola-affected nations […]
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