What a great conversation I had yesterday morning after class with 2 of my students. We were discussing all the pitfalls of middle -age and particularly peri-menopause and menopause. I WANT TO SHOUT FROM MOUNTAIN TOPS THAT IT DOES GET BETTER!!! Falling into the sleeping pill and anti-depressant cycle, in my humble opinion, just makes us hungover from the sleeping pill, … [Read more...] about Show Me the Stars
Time to Fall Back…but Never Fall Behind
Last night I was happy to catch up with Kyle and amongst other things, talk about getting back to doing some work on this site. I had asked him if he could put a search tool on here so readers could look up past recipes, or entries about Biggest Loser, or just search for fitness tips and he said that would be easy, but he has been thinking about redesigning the entire site. … [Read more...] about Time to Fall Back…but Never Fall Behind
Tatas Part 2
Looking through the newspaper and my bi-monthly Fitness trade magazine, earlier this morning, I was trying to find something interesting to blog about. I notice that stories about childhood obesity are everywhere. Planning on blogging about that, I first looked at some comments and emails regarding yesterdays entry and they led me right into more thoughts about the breasts … [Read more...] about Tatas Part 2
The Nutrional Link or Tatas and Dogs and More
October was breast cancer awareness month and everywhere we read about risk factors, tests, genetic pre-disposition, hormones, should we do this..or should we do that but basically NO WHERE (except in books like The China Study) do we read about the link between eating animal protein and the disease. Certainly we have all heard, over and over again, that if you have a family … [Read more...] about The Nutrional Link or Tatas and Dogs and More
The Few, The Proud
Well, I voted and nothing was more important than that, yesterday-but by last night I was really disappointed that election results were cutting into Biggest Loser AND the show was only and hour. This particular episode, training with the Marines, was one I was especially looking forward to. Watching on the DVR, a one-hour show becomes about 41 minutes, and then with the … [Read more...] about The Few, The Proud