Better Eating, Better Health
Most health and wellness authorities agree that obesity and overweight are sabotaging many people’s efforts to be healthy. Many experts estimate the number of overweight people in our culture to be over 60%, with over 30% being classified as obese – the drain on our health care system and the suffering that these citizens experience […]
What’s In Those Energy Drinks?
A couple of weeks ago several of our office staff went to Clearwater, Florida for our almost monthly management workshop. The workshop starts at 9:00 on Thursday morning after our flight arrives in Tampa at about 10:30 Wednesday night. By the time we get our rental car and get to our hotel, check in and […]
Soda Troubles
When I was in college I was addicted to Diet Coke. I mean really addicted. When my roommates and I were moving to Hidden Cove Apartments one Summer we looked for two things when we chose the location of our specific apartment: the proximity of the swimming pool and the location of the nearest Coke […]
Digestive Health
In our Monday lunch staff meetings I usually make my best attempts to be inspirational or motivational but when we return from a seminar I always bring some tidbits home and share them with our staff so they can learn as we do about various topics. This past weekend we attended the Spring Conference of […]
Carbohydrate Addiction
The “battle of the bulge” is one I’ve been fighting all of my life. I can never remember a time when small was a word that was used by anyone to describe me. Short is a descriptive term I have heard a lot, but never small. Believe me, as a child growing up in the […]
Calcium Types
Many of life’s lessons I have learned the hard way. Actually I have had to learn most of life’s lessons the hard way! I am infamously stubborn. Sometimes that trait serves me well and sometimes it haunts me. I would not listen when my mother and grandparents told me to be careful when I was […]