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Do we really need to make a Devil-or-Angel decision this Wednesday, October 28, which is National Chocolate Day? Not according to Harvard School of Public Health articles on Dark Chocolate Flavanols and Primordial Prevention. (click on both links for easy-to-digest reading.) Primordial means existing from the beginning of time. Thankfully, nature’s healthy heart dietary advice […]

World Statistics Day will be celebrated around the globe on Tuesday, October 20, 2020, with the theme “Connecting the world with data we can trust”.  We can put ourselves in a statistics frame of mind by clicking on the Moneyball movie trailer and tuning in to this week’s Major League Baseball (MLB) World Series championship games. In

With these words…How do I love thee? Let me count the ways…Elizabeth Barrett Browning began the most famous love poem in the English language. Here we are 170 years after publication applying her world-famous phrase to how many ways we can count the Benefits of Walking. Let’s thank Elizabeth by heading out the door, to

October 5-11, 2020, has been pronounced Active Aging Week by organizations serving and marketing to the 50+ crowd. (Focus really is on age 60+ individuals; but since many of us like to think we are 10 years younger, fifty sounds like a better gateway age whenever Boomer/Senior populations are referenced.) Most readers of this post

ALTO. STOP. HALT. Pause. Time out. Catch our breath. Smell the roses.Why does nature dictate that we pull back on activity, particularly when it comes to intense exercise? According to Pete McCall, CSCS,** a day of rest allows our bodies to repair tissues damaged from the mechanical stresses of exercise. Specifically, rest allows time for

I was 25% up the side of a beginner’s rock climbing hill in 1981 and could not pull myself an inch higher. Defeated, blocked – STYMIED by not enough strength – I scrambled to the side path and walked, dejected, up the easy grade to the top. Consoling me afterward the climbing guide said…”You need

When it comes to annual lab results, we’re assailed with numbers: HDL, LDL, Serum Glucose, Triglycerides and TSH (thyroid-stimulating hormone) to name a few. Is there any ONE no-lab-work-needed number that can give us a clue if we are preventing Metabolic Syndrome* and making deposits into our health bank? Yes. We can calculate the ONE

You’ve heard the children’s ditty… I scream. You scream. We all scream for ice cream!What do we do this Labor Day to share in the frozen, favorite end-of-Summer treat and still protect our waist line? How about beginning with negotiation: Walk the frozen dessert aisles looking for lower calorie, low sugar options. Maybe non-fat frozen

During a golf fitness webinar I attended last Thursday, a one sentence reference to Dr. Andy Galpin, (click on name) kinesiology professor at Cal State Fullerton, sent me scrolling through his website and other deep dive fitness sites until eureka* – the picture for today’s post appeared. Dazzling my eyes were eye candy health benefits

It’s August – heat and humidity hang heavy. How can a psychedelic winding road inspire us to keep going when only at-home air conditioning knows our name? Weather notwithstanding, with every step, imaginary or real, we’re going somewhere. We’re creating the color of our life. Will it be a Masterpiece? The long road says yes.