Tag: plant based nutrition
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Blogpost: Keep the Walking Streak Going
This is day 20 of our wellness 5 k challenge. One member did a half marathon today. One member went for a bike ride and swim and a 5k. For others, this is the longest streak of 5ks that they have ever completed. As we go along there is a community that is starting to…
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Podcast: Lunch Salads, Walking, and Vitamin D: You need them all
Welcome! and Thank you for listening. My favorite lunch is a salad, and not the same salad every day. I like to change things up. Restaurants know that a salad is not exciting so they spruce it up with high calorie toppers and dressings. Often, they have more calories than a sandwich and fries. But,…
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Blogpost: TGIF
Being tired is not a reason to cancel the morning walk according to my inner rules. But I really didn’t feel it this am. So I made a deal that I would only walk our 5 k challenge and then call it. Out the door we went. I was a little out of kilter from…
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Blogpost: Walking Challenge Participation
This month’s Wellness Practice Challenge is walking a daily 5k or 3.1 miles. I have encouraged people to post their documented walk distances and times each day on our private FB page. We have had several participants and even more people watching their posts. As the month has progressed, a few people have dipped their…
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Blogpost: When Do You Choose to Not Run
When do you decide not to walk? Is it the night before, are there specific criteria, or is it on the morning of the walk? The biggest flood of reasons or excuses will come the morning of the walk. There is less time to negotiate before you jump back in bed for an additional hour…
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Blogpost: Back Pain and Walking
Everyday. Everyday. Why not practice moving everyday? Your knees don’t wear out from walking. They wear out from muscle loss and imbalance that leads to wear and tear on the joints. Inflammation causes pain. Take inflammatory foods out of your diet and those bad knees will not hurt so much. Back pain is one of…
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Blogpost: Celery Fields Running
Our next race is in the mountains of Georgia. Up and down over 56 miles with somewhere around 16,000 feet of climbing and equal descending. So we decided to do our Sunday long run at a place called Celery Fields in Sarasota, Florida. It is a county owned park that began as flooding mitigation fields. …
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Blogpost: Walking to Fix Your Cholesterol
I read an article published by a Cardiologist this week that listed all of the combinations of medications to lower cholesterol and the percentages of reduction they achieved. There was not a a row for diet or exercise. He did not list the cost of those medications or the side effects. I have heard many…
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Podcast: What’s New with MamaSezz with Meg Donahue
Welcome! and Thank you for listening. Today I have the founder of MamaSezz healthy food company. As many of you know, MamaSezz began as a plant based whole meal delivery service. Meg had been in the food industry and retired only to discover the need for easy plant based meals for those not able or…
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Blogpost: April Walk Challenge
I am so enjoying the participation of our membership in the wellness challenge. Some folks are not facebookers so I have decided to up my blog posts to share my experience. It was a beautiful start at 6:15 with Three-o. Temperatures in the low 60s. The wind from yesterday was gone. The dirt mound over…