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Ways to Lose Weight – A Baker’s Dozen
We welcome our guest blogger, Sandi Thompson, a nutritional therapy practitioner and certified wellness coach who is here today sharing her tips about how to lose weight: There was an article in the Los Angeles Times about the grim data on U.S. obesity. There’s only one state with an obesity rate under 20% – Colorado squeaked in at 19.8. Compare that to Mississippi with a rate of 34.4%. That means over a third of their population is not just overweight but downright FAT. What can you to do? Here are … Continue reading
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Tagged diet, exercise, nutritional therapy practitioner, obesity, sandi Thompson, wellness coach
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Are Your Kids Hooked on TV?
The latest Nielsen figures indicate that children are watching more television than ever – those aged 2 to 5 are watching more than 32 hours a week while for those 6 to 11, it drops slightly, probably due to school hours, to more than 28 hours a week. That’s still, on the average, more than 4 hours a day. These numbers include VCR and game console usage but not time on the computer or playing hand-held video games. Are you concerned about these numbers? Children’s healthcare advocates certainly are. They … Continue reading
Listen up, Sandwiched Boomers. For the first time since the influenza epidemic of 1918, life expectancy is falling for 1 in 5 American women. The downward trend, more evident in rural and lower income areas, seems to be driven by an increase in deaths related to high blood pressure, smoking and weight. More than 30% of the U.S. population is obese and 60% is overweight – which is often asociated with diabetes and heart disease. There is some speculation that stress also plays a part in these new statistics. And … Continue reading
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Tagged diet, exercise, family stress, heart disease, life expectancy, obesity, Sandwiched Boomers, women's issues
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