Fitness & Nutrition Tips

Yesterday is gone.  Tomorrow has not yet come.  We have only today.  Let us begin.  ~Mother Theresa

Trot off the Tryptophan!!   Find a turkey trot. If up for the challenge, run a race Thanksgiving morning! Find a Turkey Trot in your town (they range from a totally doable one-mile to 10K), sign up, and add crossing the finish line to your holiday to-do list.  Here is a list of some of the…

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.  They somehow already know what you truly want to become.  ~Steve Jobs

‘Be grateful for what you have, while in pursuit of what you want.’  ~ Jim Rohn

Possible Health Benefits of Bananas This week’s IFD has Banana and here are some great benefits of the delicious yellow fruit!! 1) Blood Pressure Maintaining a low sodium intake is essential to lowering blood pressure, however increasing potassium intake may be just as important because of its vasodilation effects. 2) Asthma A study conducted by…

‘The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not of fighting the old, but on building the new.’  ~Socrates

5 Tips for a Healthy Halloween Wondering if it’s possible to have a healthy Halloween? Here are some tips from dentists and nutritionists Halloween is that sweet time of year when children can collect and eat as much candy as they want. But with the obesity rate triple what it was a generation ago, and…

Strength doesn’t come from what you can do.  It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t  ~Rikki Rogers

  ‘It doesn’t matter if we were down 3-0. You’ve just got to keep the faith. The game is not over until the last out.’  ~Big Papi #34

‘If you put your mind to something, if you give 100%, if you sacrifice, and if you dedicate yourself, anything is truly possible.’  ~Apolo Ohno