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Hello! We won’t have a post for two or three weeks. Please take excellent care of yourselves. My right rotator cuff surgery was postponed until Friday morning, October 21, 2022.I withdrew from all fitness activities last week to undergo lab work, EKG, chest X-Ray and other pre-surgical tasks. This week I’ll finish Medicare season preparation, […]

Last Thursday I was standing in the trail mix section of the Whole Foods Market®. Gratitude welled up as my mind flashed back over the last 54 years…”I’ve been shopping in natural food stores a long, long, time.” I gathered the rest of the coming week’s groceries – fresh fruits and vegetables, lentils, unsweetened soy

October features a lot of holidays. This week, in fact, tomorrow – Tuesday, October 4, 2022, is a particularly stellar day. As you can see from our graphic, courtesy of Chef Lola’s Kitchen website, this Tuesday we celebrate National Taco Day. Taco Tuesday! Affordable weekly, fast, flavorful, easy-to-say for the kids, nutritious family eating out.

Sometimes the mind LIKES to fight us. It particularly enjoys talking us out of exercise. “I’ll get going tomorrow morning.” The voice in our head assures us… Sure enough next day, we drag out of bed because we ended up not sleeping well; or we rush into daily activities because we overslept; or we realize

Many of us dine alone a majority of our days. The issue becomes eating nutritionally when we do not want excess left overs or to create a food preparation kitchen mess. Here is my favorite Lean and Green solution for solo meals. 1. I keep on hand a variety of Healthy Choice Power Bowls or

Since today is the first Monday after Labor Day, we may be yearning for, or feeling, that back-to-school or new job sense of energy – even if those activities no longer define our lives. Our human psyche and physiology are caught up in cultural and seasonal endings and beginnings. At Life’s most basic we are

As regular readers know, Federal Holidays mean a day off from our weekly health and fitness emails. HAPPY LABOR DAY! Last Wednesday at 7 a.m. the MRI technologist efficiently, patiently and professionally inserted my right shoulder under the camera so an exact diagnostic image could be obtained of torn biceps tendon and rotator cuff. I

Last March a close friend suffered a stroke which left her physically incapacitated and cognitively impaired. She died last week. Today I am word-for-word sharing a Harvard Health Publishing, August 18, 2022, article, by Robert H Shmerling, MD, Senior Faculty Editor, Harvard Health Publishing, entitled How good is your cardiometabolic health — and what is

A definition for our Dodging A Bullet title is…”manage to avoid a difficult or unwelcome situation.“ Today we talk about not being able to dodge wear-and-tear bullets or joint injury that can afflict both active and sedentary individuals. (Interesting that I chose this topic before additional shredding last week of an already-damaged biceps tendon and

Today’s post will be fast. I’m on the chemistry (not my background!) research hunt for sirtuins, myokines and other molecular items which regulate obesity and contribute to longevity. A partial definition of sirtuins from the Biogerontology article, Sirtuins, a promising target in slowing down the ageing process. “….it was documented that proper lifestyle including physical