Here is a special article for young people, especially teenagers who are rapidly coming up to adulthood.  Many of you at this point have no trouble with your weight.  You can eat anything you like and not gain a pound.  Some of you laugh and joke about how you can …

What can we do to train our kids so that they will make better food choices?   
#1. Show them how.  You are the one in control with what foods come into the home if you are the one doing the shopping.  Start buying foods that you know are good.  Fruits …

 
 
Everywhere we turn, there is a “magic pill”…supplement or vitamin that promises if you take it, you will receive the benefit of that particular product.  For strong, healthy hair, take this!  For better eyesight, take this!   For your memory, skin, nails, internal organs, take this!  The market offers a supplement …

GRUMPY BLOBS!!
Daily we move our bodies in many ways.  Examples are walking to the car, doing house work, moving around where we work.  This is what you would call the needed daily moves that we do not even think about.  Even if we sat all day in a chair watching …

Breaking bad habits continued…
 
Our eating choices for the most part are developed out of habit.  Maybe it is your habit to have coffee in the morning, a salad or sandwich for lunch, (usually at the same lunch places) dinner, and then after dinner snacking.  There are times when you are …

Breaking bad habits.  Oh, if we could only break those bad habits, how much more free our lives would be.  Since this is a fitness column, ofcourse, I must write about the bad habits of eating that sabotauses our fitness goals.  But first, let’s look at other bad habits we …

Having struggled with my own weight and being successful in keeping it off for over 30 years gives me the experience, knowledge and compassion to know what works. Being certified in Personal Training over 10 years has given me plenty of hands on experience one on one. I do not …