Category: Cancer Recovery

Simple Fitness Benchmarks for a Long Healthy Life

It should come as no surprise that consistently practicing a fitness routine benefits long-term health and everyday functionality.  Most of us already understand, without reading research articles or sitting through a college course, that getting stronger, eating the right foods, and taking care of our bodies help us live happy, healthy, and strong lives.  Regular …

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Built to Last: Strong, Sharp, and Aging with Power

“Who’s that handsome guy?”  My grandpa remarked after looking at his reflection in the mirror after I gave him a fresh haircut.  It was nothing fancy.  I simply used his clippers, stashed in his bathroom drawer, to trim the back and sides of the scraggly, unevenly grown hair sprouting from his scalp in random places.  …

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Choosing the Best Foods at the Right Times

Eating decisions can create resolutions to circumstances that make us feel better and more productive.  Weight loss, gaining lean muscle mass, and fending off illness are commonly sought-after purposes of adhering to healthy eating habits.  Maintaining an optimal weight for our body type assists in managing a healthy fat mass to lean muscle mass ratio.  …

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Arthritis and Bone Mineral Density

Our bones are significant organs within our body responsible for the infrastructure and framework that keeps us upright and allows us to move in multiple planes of motion.  Similar to how rebar, cement, and two-by-fours hold buildings together, our bones supply an internal stabilizing factor to support our body.  Our skeleton offers us a magnificent …

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Recalibrating Health for the New Year

A new frontier of experiencing the next set of twelve calendar months is upon us.  As we set out to journey through 2022, we can appreciate the successes, times shared with others, and challenges we’ve overcome from the previous year.  We tack another digit onto our age.  Our kids might progress to the next grade …

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Healthy Dinners: Electronic Free Meals

Long days at the office require rest and relaxation.  Waking up at the early hours of the morning, commuting to job sites, and devoting energy and time to your trade requires significant psychological, emotional, and physical bandwidth.  As we make the journey home following a productive day, we look forward to seeing the inside of …

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Healthy Eating: Blood Sugar Crashes

“ Sugar is the devil.”  “I avoid sugar like the plague.”  “Sugar is poison to the body.”  To a degree, most of these statements pose a compelling argument.  However, sugar within our bloodstream is critically important toward the nourishment and functions of the vital organs in our body.  If we lack sugars in our blood, our …

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A Reminder for Sunny Day Physical Activities

Following the winter solstice a few months ago, we have the privilege to look forward to our longer hours of daylight.  We get to experience the sun illuminating the ground sooner in the day and observe the sunset descends below the horizon later in the evening.  Daylight savings time is a few days away.  The …

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Nutrition: Am I eating enough food?

Balancing the scale of weight loss and improving fitness can be tricky.  Losing weight seems to be a priority in most individual’s fitness goals when first entering a fitness routine to improve their health.  The focus on decreasing the number the scale represents is commonly associated with an individual’s ability to restrict how many calories …

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Post Retirement Fitness Routine

Having time on your hands after a long career and a slew of grandkids can be a blessing.  However, after those years of working hard are over, the mind can become complacent.  Who needs exercises anyway?  Perhaps you’ve proven that after a successful 40 plus year career without injury or illness, you know what you’re …

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