Archive for August, 2009
My daughter running half marathon for cancer
My Daughter is running the Walt Disney Half Marathon on 9 January 2010 to raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Team in Training. She is trying to raise $5000 by November. She is running this half marathon in honor of one of her high school classmates, Sara Cooper, who died from Non-Hodgkin’s Anaplastic Large [...]
August 27, 2009
Tags: donate, fundraising, half marathon, running, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Team in Training Posted in: Uncategorized
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Reasons to not drink soda pop
Several years ago, my husband, who can be the king of unhealthy, having grown up in a house where they ate eggs, bacon, gravy, and biscuits for breakfast nearly every morning, spent 2 months in the hospital with the worst case of acute pancreatitis that his doctors had ever seen. Acute pancreatitis is inflammation of [...]
August 19, 2009
Tags: blood pressure, diet, fatty liver, health, high cholesterol, P90X, Power 90, triglycerides Posted in: Natural health, P90X, cholesterol, diet, high cholesterol, natural treatment, triglycerides, weight loss
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The meaning of fitness
Fitness is a matter of perspective and means different things to different people. To me it means to be as healthy as you can be given your given set of circumstances. For me, fitness is about maintaining a healthy weight and avoiding unnecessary and avoidable illness such as type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and [...]
August 13, 2009
Tags: blood pressure, diet, health, healthy, high cholesterol, weight loss Posted in: arthritis, back pain, diet, fibromyalgia, healthy diet, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, type 2 diabetes, weight loss
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Lower your blood pressure and cholesterol naturally
It amazes me how many people take for granted that as you get older you will be on medication for high blood pressure and/or high cholesterol. They think that it is an inescapable part of growing older. Doctors and pharmaceutical companies reinforce this with adverting. Doctors even more so when the first thing they do [...]
August 4, 2009
Posted in: Natural health, Uncategorized, healthy diet, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, natural treatment, weight loss
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Why I am a beachbody coach
News just in on the quarterly winners in the Miliondollar Body Contest. Jim Figgins, 71 years old, just won $1000. He is on his thrid round of P90X. If he can do it anyone can. Thanks to Beachbody Jim has avoided the use of medication to treat his high blood pressure. Good health the natural [...]
August 1, 2009
Tags: blood pressure, health, high cholesterol, seniors, weight loss Posted in: Million Dollar Body Game, Natural health, P90X, Winners, high blood pressure, seniors
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