Cornerstone Garfield Family Practice

02/02/2026

Make breakfast a priority. 🥓
Breakfast is often said to be the most important meal of the day and it is! By eating a good morning meal, you kickstart your metabolism and replenish your glucose levels which helps you burn more calories throughout the day.

01/26/2026

A flu vaccine is needed every year for two reasons. First, a person’s immune protection from vaccination declines over time, so an annual flu vaccine is needed for optimal protection. Second, because flu viruses are constantly changing, the composition of flu vaccines is reviewed annually, and vaccines are updated to protect against the viruses that research indicates will be most common during the upcoming flu season. For the best protection, everyone 6 months and older should get vaccinated annually.

01/19/2026

When we are overwhelmed, we can become agitated, struggle with decision-making and experience chronic aches and tension in our bodies.

On the days when you're feeling super stressed out, it could be a result of overwhelm. Here a therapist shares 5 simple things you can quickly do to navigate these feelings.

01/12/2026

Exercise and eat better - we hear it all the time. It can be challenge but one might influence the other!

Both exercise and diet can improve your health, boost weight loss, and more. This article looks at diet versus exercise to see if one is more important than the other.

01/05/2026

Throwing together a quick, nutritious meal requires a well-stocked kitchen. However, many popular healthy foods are highly perishable and must be used within a few days, causing many home cooks to burn through their food stores quickly.

Throwing together a quick, nutritious meal requires a well-stocked kitchen. Here are 15 healthy staples that you should always have on hand.

12/29/2025

While fruits and vegetables are best known as being a source of fiber and nutrients, many varieties contain protein as well.

Eating high-protein fruits can help support gut health, reduce your risk of chronic disease, and aid weight loss. Here are the fruits to add to your diet.

12/22/2025

Tomatoes offer various benefits and contribute to heart, cognitive (brain), and prostate health.

Raw tomatoes and cooked tomatoes both contain plenty of essential nutrients, vitamins, and antioxidants that can help with anything from cancer prevention to exercise recovery.

12/15/2025

Stretch every day. 🦵
As you age your muscles tighten and lose flexibility. Stretching will make it easier to perform daily physical tasks.

12/08/2025

Take a moment to relax. 😌
During busy days it can be hard to take a break from something but giving yourself even 5 minutes to relax can be a great stress reliever and help your mental health in the long run. Breathing exercises, meditating, and journaling are just a few of many ways to decompress at the end of the day.

12/01/2025

Cornerstone Medical Group is a multi-specialty group consisting of primary care and specialty physicians in the metro Detroit area. Our physician group began in 1997 with a vision to provide integrated quality care to the local community. We have grown to over 80 physicians and midlevel providers in 28 locations that include family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, endocrinology, hospitalists, podiatry and colorectal surgery. All of our physicians are on staff at an Ascension hospital. To meet the needs of all patients, we are also on staff at most local hospitals in the community.

11/24/2025

Move More, Sit Less 🚶
Get at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity every week. That could mean 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week. Do muscle-strengthening activities 2 days a week.

11/17/2025

Even though you may not have to show your vaccine card now as much as you did during the height COVID-19 pandemic, experts say you should still hang on to your vaccine card.

COVID-19 vaccine cards may not matter as much as they did during the pandemic, but does that mean you can throw yours away? Here's what experts say.