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No Walk in the Park

No Walk in the Park

October’s here and that means winter is right around the corner so go for a walk this weekend while it’s still nice out! Plus, when you add a walk in the park (or in your neighborhood) to the Minute Movement program you’ll see results even faster.  

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Is This Your Future?

Is This Your Future?

As I sat down to write today, this quote kept coming to mind. Whenever my mind keeps returning to something I always assume it’s important so I followed my intuition. Of course, I assumed I’d reflect about how much longer we live in the modern age than our ancestors did, but I thought that I’d better do a little digging to see if that was actually true.

I found these posts (here & here) that suggest that we don’t actually live longer than the ancient ones or even our great grandparents

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Alive & Well?

Alive & Well?

How many people do you know who are alive – technically?

People who are still with us physically but are limited in what they can participate in due to health issues or physical impairment.

Unfortunately I know a few people like that – enough to know that I don’t want to live my life like that. I don’t want to live my life waiting for it to be over. I want to live my life. I want to see everything, DO everything. I don’t want to miss a minute with my loved ones – especially not because I didn’t take care of myself like I should.

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Fitness = Intelligence?

Fitness = Intelligence?

It is remarkable how one’s wits are sharpened by physical exercise.  -  Pliny the Younger The mind/body connection is really sticking with me this week! Tuesday I shared information about a study suggesting a correlation between midlife physical fitness and dementia...

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