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First purpose of today’s post is to wish each of you a wonderful Thanksgiving week. Whether in the physical company of family and friends, or not, may you at least enjoy heartwarming Zoom video or phone conversations with loved ones. Today’s Stay or Go? Yes or No? title and Up-Down Hands graphic pertain to our […]

Continuing November’s liking for food….today we celebrate Squash in all its Fall vibrancy. Squash comes in Summer and Winter varieties, is relatively inexpensive and nourishes our body, skin and eyes with Vitamins A, B6, and C, folate, magnesium, fiber, riboflavin, phosphorus, and potassium. Genus name cucurbita, squash can be cooked any number of ways. A couple

About 10 o’clock one morning the Righteous Brothers song hummed in my mind. Was I singing of some past or future lover? No… Warm feelings surged through me because I was cutting in half my favorite daily Food For Life sprouted grain English Muffin for inserting into the toaster. Once crunchy brown, the chewy delectable

Life Force. Sometimes we feel it roaring through us. Other times we wonder… “How deep inside do I dig, just to stand up?“ From yogic traditions of the chakras (centers of spiritual energy in the human body) to words gleaned from an internet thesaurus. Life Force is our friend, our closest buddy. It’s who and

Sometimes health and fitness goals run into bumps, even roadblocks, on our way to doing the best we can for ourselves and loved ones. We start to wonder…”What is going on?” The mind protests through self-talk…”I’m doing everything I can and it’s just not happening.” How about if roadblocks become opportunity to dig deep and

First time I heard the words “‘power down’ your device” I did not understand the term and wondered why the flight attendant didn’t just say “turn it off.” The internet clarifies the phrase by stating that “power down” means to shut down (a computer system) in a methodical way, concluding by switching the power off.

During last Tuesday’s Zoom Zumba Gold® class, the ladies and I were laughing about body parts and realized how much we needed to love every muscle, organ and bone with tenderness and affection. Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary defines tender as marked by, responding to, or expressing the softer emotions – a tender lover or showing care,

Last Saturday evening, for the first time in months, I felt a chill in the air. The seasonal clock said…”Autumn is showing up exactly on time.” The Fall months are Great News for the “hate to exercise in the heat” folk among us. The air feels crisp. We feel like moving forever. Where to start?

What did practicing the piano, a sport or some other pursuit when we were kids have to do with health and fitness today?We learned the benefit of repetition as practice. Today the body’s basic movements, shown below as the Daily Eight, need constant repetition – or we lose the ability to do them. Standing Tall.

September is when apples, malus domestica, attract our attention and appreciation. Apples beckon us, crisp and shiny, from grocery store aisles. The phrase “An apple a day keeps the doctor away” pops to mind. Google tells us that Pectin, a fiber found in apples and other fruits, is used to make medicine. People use pectin