I keep a small bag of baby carrots in the house as a snack that I can nibble on, usually in the afternoon. I'll even take the carrot bag in the car because carrots don't make crumbs. I am on a personal campaign to eating real food, not food products. Even if a low fat …
Category Archive: Healthy Aging
Dec
13
What Can Physical Acativity Do For You?
I am definitely on an exercise,physical activity kcik. I suspect it's because it is winter in Michigan, the daylight hours are short, outdoor activities are few, and I need to make a mindful effort to do a variety of physical activities. I know physical activity is important for me and I believe it is important for …
Dec
10
Getting Started with Physical Activity
A wellness program was started at my neighbor's office several months ago. A walking program at lunch time was part of the program. My neighbor probably walks slower than most of the people out walking but this was her very first attempt at doing something physical since high school which was 35 years ago. If …
Dec
08
Exercise for Cardiovascular Fitness
In my last post I started talking about fitness based on the information I had given you on osteopenia. Fitness is also part of the process of increasing bone density as well as for increasing muscle strength, endurance and balance. Actually how complicated fitness is depends upon which fitness you are discussing. Cardiovascular fitness is …
Dec
05
Fitness For Health
Everyone agrees that it is important to be physically fit. However, the answers are many and varied for questions such as: What exactly should we strive for? And how do we get there? Again, like so much of everything in life, the answer is not black or white. …
Oct
20
Changing Our Eating Habits to Prevent Disease
Most of us understand that the American diet is harmful to cardiovascular health. Even so we keep on eating and put on the pounds. Some say the cause of this overeating is our stressful lives and the advertising industry that encourages overeating. That coupled with the chance to eat poorly at every corner enables us …
Oct
18
Balance Your Diet – Know What You Eat
There is so much information everywhere about eating the right way, eating the right foods, mindless eating, dieting, more dieting and more dieting. It probably seems ridiculous that I'm writing about dietary imbalance; but I am.
Aug
06
Put Nuts Back In Your Diet
It wasn't that long ago when you were told to keep nuts off your diet; they not good for you. They were high in fat, they added on calories, and they had little nutritional value. Well, that information was wrong! Recent studies found that eating nuts was associated with a lower risk of weight gain …
Jul
30
Improving Your Diet As You Age
In my last post I explained why a poor diet, low in nutritional value, can have negative impact on an aging baby boomer. The pieces and parts just don't work as well. I also made some quick suggestions about what you can do to take in more protein. The fact is getting older does affect …
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