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Benefits of Organic Food: Did You Know…?
Like many of you, I prefer organic food to industrial; made-from-scratch to processed. I will freely admit to being biased. Yet my preference is based on science and experience. Whether you have a...
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Carmel-by-the-Sea Might Be Cooler than the Beach Town Where I Grew Up
I went back home this past weekend to a town I’d never actually visited. In other words, I went to a place that took me back to my childhood. It so happens that Carmel-by-the-Sea is similar to my...
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7 Healthy Lifestyle Tips: How Can You Create Better Habits?
Feel on top of the world when you embody a healthy lifestyle “I want to change my life. I need to change my life.” If this is you, wondering how to create a healthy lifestyle, then feast on these...
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Are You Safe Exercising in the Heat? Stay Hydrated, but How?
Stay Hydrated When You Exercise in Heat Are midlife exercisers safe to exercise in the heat? Is it enough to simply stay hydrated? What are the dangers (and solutions) for active boomers who face high...
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Top 10 Fitness Trends: Aging Actively is SOooo 2016
And the Top 10 Fitness Trends are… Who loves tracking fitness trends? (Besides my sis and me, though we’d love to think we start them). Are you a baby boomer fitness trendsetter or trendspotter?...
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How Can I Speed Up My Metabolism?
What can I do to crank up my metabolism? Donna, San Diego Well, Donna not only are we going to tell you exactly what to do and how, but also stick around to discover one mistake exercisers make when...
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Dried Plums: Your Grandma Was Right About Them
I’ve been working on a magazine article about the top healthy food trends for 2016, so this is a perfect time to team up with California Dried Plums, as people are finding so many creative ways to...
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Perfect Body Season is … Never In Season
Trying to lose weight over the holidays before you see any judgy relatives, grandkids who want to play, or the crotchety old uncle who said you’d never amount to much? Fuggetaboutid! Give yourself the...
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10 Tips to Avoid Holiday Weight Gain
Every year about this time we are asked for our “best” tips to avoid weight gain over the holiday season. So every year we share what we believe to be some simple and easy tips. As many of you know,...
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How Do I Get Healthy Habits to Stick?
Are you striving to improve some of your habits? To say good-bye to some old ones and “come on in” to new, good ones? Aren’t we all? If you had the opportunity to easily and permanently change a few...
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Healthy Heart: Improve Your Circulation and Flexibility
You probably have a heart, but is it a strong one? Do you also have great circulation and flexible arteries? Bonnie Raitt was right when she sang Have a Heart. Hard to make that sound sexy and...
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5 Healthy Food Trends
Some say abs are made in the kitchen, others say they’re made in the gym. My abs were actually made by my parents, though I’ve managed to take good care of their creation through healthy food and...
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5 More Healthy Food Trends
In our recent post “5 Healthy Food Trends,” I listed five of ten nutrition trends that are driven by consumer preferences. As promised in that post, you can now read the other five from my article “10...
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5 Trends from the Annual Fitness Convention
I recently attended the IDEA World Fitness and Nutrition Convention, which is the annual event for fitness professionals. We come to learn the latest trends in fitness programming, healthy nutrition...
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What to Eat Before or After a Workout
For the past 30+ years, our fitness students have asked us to advise them what to eat before and after their workouts. Our answer is very simple, which makes it easy to remember and obey follow –the...
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Healthy Habits: Small Changes Lead to Big Changes
A recurring theme in our business of fitness and active aging is how to get from A to B – where you are now and where you want to be. Whether it’s weight loss, better nutrition, more energy, injury...
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Having Difficulty Losing Weight?
Are you having difficulty losing weight despite exercising and eating healthfully? It could be your weight loss is getting sabotaged by factors you’d never guess. Three sneaky saboteurs may be in play...
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Rüdesheim with AmaWaterways: Riesling, Castles and a Musical Cabinet Museum
Even if you cannot pronounce “Rüdesheim,” you’ll want to visit this picturesque German town that sits at the south end of the Rhein Gorge, a 41-mile section of the river that has the world’s greatest...
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12 Healthy Food Trends
Recently IDEA Food and Nutrition Tips, a magazine for fitness industry professionals, published an article I wrote for them about twelve healthy food trends. For this post, I thought I’d share a few...
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You Don’t Have to be Flying to Visit Hyatt Regency LAX
Last weekend we went on a road trip from Central California to the San Diego area. Rather than suffer through traffic and a long drive, we stayed at the Hyatt Regency LAX, which is… wait for it… across...
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