Setting aside some quiet time alone allows us to gather our thoughts and reflect on personal goals. Unfortunately, hectic schedules and endless to-do lists dominate many lives, often causing the sacrifice of personal time in order to get ever more tasks ‘accomplished’.
The More Philosophy: A Christmas Guide to Healthy Living
This Christmas I want you all to EAT MORE, and I want you to DRINK MORE, AND most importantly I want you to MOVE MORE… and I know if you commit to following these 3 little steps, you won’t have the Christmas weight gain blues.
Yoga for the Mind
How Yoga Calms the Mind and Body Leta Koontz-Stuyvesant What’s the difference between a cheerleader and a yogi practicing backbends and splits? From a distance, the two would appear to be doing the same thing. But if you looked a bit closer, you might notice that the yogi is breathing more smoothly, slower, and more [...]
Exercise Advice for the Beginner
Exercise Advice for the Beginner The strongest advice I can give the beginner is to exercise often. Lots of articles in magazines state that maximum benefits are obtained by exercising three times a week, an hour each session. Such statements are misleading. Moderately fit people can do fairly well with such a schedule, but not [...]
Binge eating and cheating on your diet
Binge eating. Do you do it? Do you know someone that does? I wouldn’t call myself a binge eater. More along the lines of a sweet tooth craver. I try and limit myself to one cheat day a week. Usually a Sunday. I thought it would be interesting to keep a track of what I [...]
Fitness and Snowboarding
I have been an avid snowboarder for the past 11 years trying to make it to the mountains at least 2 days a week snow permitting. The great thing about snowboarding is the constant challenge of the varying terrain, the surrounding scenery is a bonus. Being involved in fitness I started to wonder about the health [...]
Family Mealtime By Lori Rice
As family structures and priorities have changed over the years it is only recently that I have been introduced to research supporting an activity that was once taken for granted. I now know that those special meal times played a role in my development as a healthy adult.
Yoga as Exercise – Power Yoga
Let me start by saying to those who skoff at yoga and call it “sissy stuff”… I challenge you to a Power Yoga class. Power Yoga is not for the faint of heart. It is a vigorous, fitness oriented approach to a Vinyasa style of Yoga. A combination of traditional yoga with dynamic exercises, it places [...]
Teenage Smoking by Marcia Barhydt
Smoking kills…we all know that. So then, what’s happening with our kids? Each day, nearly 6,000 children under 18 years of age start smoking; of these, nearly 2,000 will become regular smokers, making for almost 800,000 newly addicted individuals annually. It is estimated that at least 4.5 million U.S. adolescents are cigarette smokers already and [...]
Thyroid Basics by Shawn Vint
Most of us don’t know much about our thyroid gland, understanding only peripherally the link between the gland and the body weight issues brought about by its dysfunction. But understanding the role of the thyroid in maintaining healthy bodyweight has important roles in our long-term wellness goals, and should be understood enough so that we [...]
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