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Childhood Obesity Gets Hot As Summer Approaches
Topics Education Three Sticks: Childhood Obesity Gets Hot As Summer Approaches. It makes a lot of sense–processed food is cheap so those lower income families eat more of it — and summer time it can be worse because families can’t rely on the schools to handle some of the daily meals. It’s a vicious cycle…
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getting lost in the gluttony
Heading up to my home town, Cranford NJ for the weekend. A short weekend road trip to see my mom and my sister, Connie. We will hit NYC, the Jersey Shore and many many diners – I hope! 🙂 Nothing like New Jersey Diners.… If you have never been to one, you are missing a…
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Workout
One of the drawbacks of working with a single person business is that if he oversleeps – well we are all left to sit and wait, which is what happened this morning. One of the ladies actually had to drive to our trainers house to wake him. We need our bootcamp. So while we were…
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It is what it is..
Do you know the part each season of the Biggest Loser when the trainers push the players so hard intentionally so their emotions come out? Well I have had a very rough 2 weeks – day after day – feeling like I am getting beaten up. I have held it in with a smile on…
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Work it out.
A beautiful morning full of sun and that makes for great workout weather. The picture to the left is from my front yard – it’s clematis. What makes this picture really special – Scotty took it this morning and sent it to me and said: have a good day! He’s so darn sweet. Warmup 400m…
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Reflecting
At 25, AOL switches tracks: Creating content, not just connecting users. A few weeks ago, as Steve Case was flying above Sterling, en route to Dulles International Airport, he looked down and saw the sprawling campus that is home to the company he co-founded 25 years ago this month — the pioneering service that took…
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Michael Pollan’s “Food Rules”
7 Words & 7 Rules for Eating “Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.” Pollan says everything he’s learned about food and health can be summed up in seven words: “Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.” Probably the first two words are most important. “Eat food” means to eat real food — vegetables, fruits,…
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Great day, great workout!
What a great workout today. We mix up partners each week and this week’s partner had a ton of will! She pushed through no matter how hard it got. I love working out with people like that – makes me try harder. I am rockin the pull-ups. They are so hard but man, I love…
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What’s the Fittest City in America?
What’s the Fittest City in America? | SocialWorkout.com. Where do all the healthy people live? I’s gotta be San Francisco — everyone in the Bay Area is training for a triathlon, right? Or maybe it’Denver where everyone hikes to work or whatever. Nope, turns out it’s…Washington D.C. Apparently, the buttoned-up beltway crowd sweats it out…