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The National Park Service Rocks!
A great way to get out there with your family! Great News: The National Park Service is waiving entrance fees, so visitors can enjoy all 392 national parks for free April 17-25. In addition, many national park concessions are offering special promotions. National Park Service
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Woe is I
Oh how I wish I could do yesterday over. Back pain is bad and the meds the doctor gave me knock me out — so in between sleeping, I have been getting up to walk around so I don’t stiffen up. Needless to say, I did not workout this morning. I am hoping a rest…
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Workout of the day
Late on the posting today because I had to visit a wonderful location called: Urgent Care. If you remember last week, I tweaked my neck a bit. Well this week -it was my back. Not sure exactly what I was doing at camp this morning, but the back tweaked when I was finishing the last…
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Notable News
Mental health providers should prescribe exercise more often for depression, anxiety, research suggests. Exercise is a magic drug for many people with depression and anxiety disorders, and it should be more widely prescribed by mental health care providers, according to researchers who analyzed the results of numerous published studies. Workout in Less Time with HIT…
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I so did not want to go…
I really, and I mean really did not want to get up and go to camp today. The alarm went off at 5a and I wrestled with the sleep monster — one day won’t hurt me, i am so tired, i can find time after work to go run — but then I told myself…
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Ten Things You Didn’t Know Are In the Health Care Bill
I’m sure it’s not so simple, so please read with your own comfort level of skepticism… Menu labeling. Restaurants with over 20 employees must include calorie counts and other nutrition information on the menu. SWAG reporting. Doctors must report valuable goodies they receive from health vendors. Right to Pump. New moms must be given space…
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Visiting a National Park
So why don’t we eliminate the junk food machines from schools and add in a simple 30-minute break for fitness during the school day. Even if it meant extending the school day for 30-minutes, most evidence has shown that allowing kids a break during the school day to burn off stress and energy would result…
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Flexible Spending Accounts Getting Slightly Less Flexible
Something we should all be aware of… lawmakers have changed the way flexible spending accounts are treated in order — they say — to discourage wasteful health care spending at the end of the year. The government will now cap annual contributions to FSAs at $2,500 and consumers will no longer be able to use…
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No excuse really…
I have begun on occasion to do some grocery shopping at Walmart. I hate to even admit it but it is cheaper and they do have some organic selection of produce so when I have time, I go there. The lines are too long and there is no one to help you if you have…
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Monday, Monday
Here’s a pic of me after my work out this AM and the April documentation. It was a tough one and the change in season seems to do a wonder on my asthma. I had a lot of issues breathing today but got through it. Weigh in day and I apparently lost 3lbs but I…