During the pandemic I hosted free Happy Monday Get Strong half hour Zoom sessions for anyone who wanted to participate. Our purpose was to ward off sarcopenia – the loss of muscle mass – which is associated with inactive aging. Sarcopenia eventually leads to frailty, which includes five criteria: weight loss, exhaustion, low physical activity, […]
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Thirty Years ago in 1993, the first in a series of Chicken Soup for the Soul books, by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen, was published. Along the way November 12, which happens this coming Sunday, was designated as Chicken Soup For The Soul Day. A key theme in Chicken Soup for the Soul books
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Our One Day At A Time title serves as a health, including mental health, and fitness salvo throughout a variety of philosophies and religions. This time-bound phrase lifts the burden of too much to do, change, think about or emotionally carry into manageable perspective. Starting first with emotions and perhaps stinking thinking, which sometimes can
The prayer phrase…”Give us this day our daily bread,” serves as appropriate lead-in to this week’s October 24th, National Food Day celebration, which was established by the 50+ year old Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) in 2011. According to the online National Day Calendar® – the nationwide CSPI October 24, “celebration of
One of the most useful concepts I learned while sitting in an economics class at San Diego State (SDSU) were the words “Opportunity Cost.” The Opportunity Cost approach to decisions has guided me through many health and fitness choices. Copyrighted Opportunity Cost Image from https://economicsinhp.weebly.com/opportunity-cost.html One of Google’s definitions for the phrase is “Opportunity cost
October 8th was my birthday. Celebrations become more extended, meaningful and joyous each year. Extended means maintaining a celebratory attitude several days in a row. Or one could extend joy at her or his birthing into a season, or even let it become a lifestyle. The Birthday weekend included meaningful activities which all included Vibrant
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October 1st was World Vegetarian Day. Although I no longer am a full-fledged vegetarian, research of healthy, long-lived populations reveals that active nonagenarians and centenarians tend to have eaten a primarily plant-rich diet most of their lives. Often their family emphasis on vegetables, legumes, grains and fruit was due to economic and geographic circumstances of
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My upper left arm is tender and a little swollen from the high-dose quadrivalent flu shot I received yesterday. The intent next weekend is to obtain my second Shingrix vaccine – the first was received in early June, 2023. This would keep my body within the recommended two-to-six month, two dose shingles prevention inoculation window.When
The Autumnal Equinox happens this week on Friday, September 22 at 11:49 Pacific Time. The Sun will be exactly above the equator and day and night will be of equal length. Then in the Northern Hemisphere Daylight hours will start their decrease until we reach the December 21, 2023 Winter Solstice when longer days begin
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Perhaps the practice of health and fitness has been a moving target throughout our adulthood – depending on family and career circumstances. For some of us a “strong constitution” and normal weighted frame may have been such a gift, that we needed to do very little to move through life with ease. Formal exercise programs
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