| Life coach: Exercise, proper nutrition benefits body and mind
Many of us automatically think of exercise and diet as the components necessary for physical well-being. Those components are important, however, as more and more brain research is completed, we understand that the mind and body are inseparable and our physical health is very important for our overall sense of well-being.Physical well-being includes exercise, diet, flexibility, endurance, safety, hygiene, personal responsibility, and use of medical services, preventive care and self care, including sleep, stress management and connection with others.
For the purposes of this column, the volume of information will be limited to exercise and diet, with links provided for those who would like more information.Let's start with the benefits of exercise for the body:Makes you stronger.Boosts the immune system.Maintains muscle and bone strength, which helps to decrease risk of osteoporosis and falls.Burns excess fat helping to maintain or reduce weight, thus reducing the risk of hypertension, type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke and obesity.Helps conditions such as arthritis and asthma.Improves sleep.Helps one work out emotions such as anger, frustration and anxiety.The benefits of exercise for the mind include:Enhancing mood and reducing depression and anxiety by stimulating serotonin production.Providing opportunities for interaction with people and nature.Reducing stress and sharpening concentration.Offering a time that is just for you (even when with a friend), which is important when you may be juggling many roles.From Tetleywellbeing4life.com.auFor more information on the benefits of exercise see:http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/exercise/HQ01676http://www.busywomensfitness.com/exercise-benefits.htmlhttp://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/physical/importance/why.htm.Psychological Benefits of ExerciseThere are many psychological benefits of physical activity.
Video: Gang members speak out
Full name the Invincibles, IVS claims to have more than 100 members in the Bexley and north Kent area. Members of the gang contacted News Shopper wanting to defend their friend - who they had known for three years - and to tell their own story. Reporter Jon Cheetham met them and heard how they are in jobs and college, and trying to make something of their lives. .
Who Do We Vote For This Time Around?
He says he's for the little guy, but then he votes for a corporate-backed bill to make it harder for the little guy to file a class action suit when his kid swallows lead paint from a Chinese-made toy. In fact, Obama doesn't think Wall Street is a bad place. He wants the insurance companies to help us develop a new health care plan — the same companies who have created the mess in the first place. He's such a feel-good kinda guy, I get the sense that, if elected, the Republicans will eat him for breakfast. He won't even have time to make a good speech about it. But this may be a bit harsh. Senator Obama has a big heart, and that heart is in the right place. Is he electable? Will more than 50% of America vote for him? We'd like to believe they would. We'd like to believe America has changed, wouldn't we? Obama lets us feel better about ourselves — and as we look out the window at the guy snowplowing his driveway across the street, we want to believe he's changed, too.
Banfield Announces Fittest Pet of the Year Winners
PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- The inspiring Pets that won the title of Banfield's Fittest Pets of the Year are a Labrador mix, named Tyson Collins, from Tucker, Ga., who lost an astounding 20 pounds and a feline, Boris Bivins from Overland Park, Ks., who lost 15 percent of his body weight. As the winners of Banfield's PetFit Challenge, each Pet receives grand prizes for their weight loss achievement, including a one-year Banfield Optimum Wellness Plan and a brand new refrigerator overflowing with Hill's Pet food! With medical guidance from Stacy Lettsome, DVM at the Tucker Banfield, long walks with his owner and Hill's Science Diet r/d Canine low calorie Pet food, Tyson Collins safely lost 20 pounds in 6 months on the PetFit Challenge. "Tyson has been my Pet, child and companion for more than seven years and thanks to the PetFit Challenge, I feel like I have prolonged our time together by improving his health," says Tyson's owner, Sarah Collins.
Ada's opening in North Naples where Fresh Market leaves
Ada's Natural & Organic Foods Supermarket plans to open at Airport-Pulling and Vanderbilt Beach roads in 2008. The 20,000-square-foot space in The Collection shopping center owned by Boca Raton-based Woolbright Development originally was planned for The Fresh Market, but the North Carolina-based grocer sued the developer and pulled out of the lease. Ada's, which has supermarkets already open in Cape Coral and Fort Myers and another planned for Estero, is a specialty retailer of natural, organic and whole fresh foods, meats, fish and poultry, nutritional products such as vitamins, herbs and supplements, cosmetics and beauty aids, cleaning products and pet products. “The signing of Ada's is a home run for residents in the surrounding community," said Pete Schlang, Woolbright's director of leasing, in a prepared statement released by Woolbright.
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