There is one new positive approach to improving your health in the New Year that can be provide immediate results … replace all soda consumption with pure water! Is making the switch from soda to water really that big of a deal?  Let’s see…

            I came across a very interesting and shocking article, written by Dr. Joseph Mercola regarding one of this country’s most commonly consumed food products.  Although, calling it a food is a stretch as the nutritional component is basically non-existent.  The average American consumes …57 gallons of soda a year, over 600 standard 12 ounce cans or about the same volume of liquid as in a barrel of oil!  Yikes, that’s a lot of soda!  (and plastic)

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We see the lights, smell the familiar fragrances and our favorite shops are decorated with all things seasonal.   The Holiday Season is afoot and what a wonderful time for family, reflection and service!

For most of us, although grateful for this time to spend with family and friends, there is a down side. All of the opportunities for enjoying (too much) Holiday fare and the extra demands on our time during the Holidays, stand ready to drain us of all our motivation to stay healthy and active.  We know we are in trouble when we start to hear those little words in our heads… “it’s okay…we have a New Year’s Resolution Plan.”  To that I say “Bah Humbug!” Resolutions are all hype and little substance. How else can we explain the familiar, sad pattern:  a “get back in shape” mentality that floods gyms and health clubs somewhere around Jan 2^nd and slowly ebbs to a trickle somewhere around February 1^st?

Instead of “Resolving” this holiday season, “Activate” this season – go against the grain with the ‘180 degree principle’:  do what most everyone else is not. Here’s how: Read More…

Our metabolism is a life-sustaining series of chemical reactions which occur within our bodies.  Simply put, our metabolism converts nutrients (calories from food) into energy.   Metabolic energy is used to fuel everything from our involuntary functions, such as breathing and digestion, to more complex voluntary movements involving our muscular skeletal system. When our bodies are young and growing our metabolisms are firing on all cylinders, using energy as fast as we can take it in. Our bones, muscles and organs are all growing at impressive rates and our bodies have to provide energy for these growth processes. As we age these processes gradually slow…so, if we want to maintain the highly active calorie-burning processes of our youth, we have to rev up our activity levels!   Here are some suggestions to help maintain a highly active and healthy metabolic system – keeping us strong and healthy.

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