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Researchers love to study weight loss, and more specifically, fat loss in humans. Googling the term “weight loss research studies” yields 674,000,000 results in .50 seconds. Asking “Which research applies to me?” is a fair question. Confusion over what seems to be conflicting scientific findings, and what may be right for our particular body, may […]

Regular readers among us won’t have to check their calendars to know this is the beginning of January. How so? During the first week of every year we re-set health and fitness priorities by posting TEN TIPS for a HAPPY HEALTHY LIFE, shown below. Unexpected emotional and physical ups-and-downs occur every year. A review of

We made it to the final week of 2022. Although it happens every year – this empty time LULL between get-it-done and start again may feel unexpected or unsettling to some of us. During the Lull…Sands Run Out. Tablet Is Down to Last Few Pages. The Lull is good for us. It’s the catch-our-breath, look

This pre-Christmas week our thoughts turn to gifts – just right, satisfying, useful, helpful, enlightening, joy fulfilling, heart warming and treasured by the recipient. A majority of us reading these weekly posts might agree that Successful Aging would be a valued gift. In the book, Successful Aging, based on a MacArthur Foundation Study of Aging

Last week a building sold. I had been involved with that building and its family, at times my family, for over 50 years. One thing I have learned through life’s transitions is that physical movement, of almost any kind, brings balm (similar to balm in Gilead) to almost any person’s brain, mind and heart. A

We are feeling the Northern Hemisphere shortening of days. Fewer sunshine hours, occasional downpours and a nip in the Southern California air talk to the back of our mind… “It’s OK not to exercise today.” If our movement mojo flops around during these few weeks approaching the Winter Solstice, it might be Nature reminding us

Our exercise-dancer, shown in today’s graphic, captures the joy and freedom, the opening up, which movement gives us…– One reason our brightly clad dancer catches the eye is that she is wearing sneakers – heavier-duty shoes – than that normally seen on a ballet or modern dance enthusiast. Those shoes give us permission to get

Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s famous poem of “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways…” easily also could say “How thankful am I for Life and Love and You.“ As Thanksgiving well-wishing abounds this week, we are going to turn a few minutes attention to where gratitude may struggle. A few days ago while

Writing a Health and Fitness blog leads me in the discovery of excellent online resources for topic of the week. Today’s subject is Walking – which can be done while wearing my temporary healing buddy, an arm sling. While researching Walking this past weekend, , I discovered The Monday Campaigns website… “a public health initiative

Three weeks ago our email title said ABSENT due to my having impending right rotator cuff surgery. Today we re-call the roll and hear the word PRESENT. Surgery is done and I am working the body back. Physical therapy began last week. The right arm can’t do much because it is cradled in a cumbersome,