Archive for the 'Behavior Change' Category
It’s YOUR Journey
Posted on May 4, 2010 - Filed Under Behavior Change, healthy lifestyle | 5 Comments
Making healthy changes in our lives takes time. It takes patience, determination, and dedication. The key is actually starting and staying consistent.
No matter where you are in your get-healthier journey, remember that it’s YOUR journey and no one else’s. It’s easy to want to compare yourself to other people’s health/fitness levels, and that can sometimes be [...]
Food Revolution
Posted on April 19, 2010 - Filed Under Behavior Change | 1 Comment
This is my daughter:
She 14 months and just awesome to be around. She’s the reason I signed Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution Petition. It seems to me that school lunches have become something of a disaster (see Fed Up with Lunch).
Hopefully some changes can be made with the school lunch system and all kids can at [...]
It all Matters
Posted on March 26, 2010 - Filed Under Behavior Change, healthy lifestyle | Leave a Comment
From a letter to the editor in The Ottawa Citizen (found via Obesity Panacea):
The science of obesity is complicated and there are many regulatory and counter-regulatory mechanisms at play biologically, psychologically, behaviorally and environmentally.
But the fundamental laws of health will always be scientifically and intuitively valid: eat and drink healthy foods, get regular physical activity, sleep [...]
In-School Workouts Help Kids Focus
Posted on March 2, 2010 - Filed Under Behavior Change, Exercise | 3 Comments
Some excerpts from this article about how some schools in Canada have put in treadmills and stationary bikes in classrooms to help students focus:
“If I feel antsy during the day, or feel like misbehaving, I ask if I can use the treadmill or the bike. I have so much energy built up in my body and [...]
Let’s Move
Posted on February 10, 2010 - Filed Under Behavior Change, healthy lifestyle | 1 Comment
Just heard about this new site from the gov’t called Let’s Move.
“Let’s Move! has an ambitious but important goal: to solve the epidemic of childhood obesity within a generation.”
Will be interesting to see if this campaign, the first lady and the task force can make any headway on this issue. I hope they can. But like [...]
Individual Choices
Posted on February 9, 2010 - Filed Under Behavior Change | Leave a Comment
“Change starts with the individual choices Americans make each day for themselves, their families and those around them. To help achieve and maintain a healthy lifestyle, Americans of all ages should: reduce consumption of sodas and juices with added sugars; eat more fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and lean proteins; drink more water and choose low-fat [...]
Your High Blood Pressure and What You Can do Right Now to Lower It
Posted on February 2, 2010 - Filed Under Behavior Change, Blood Pressure, healthy lifestyle | 1 Comment
“Lifestyle changes can help you control and prevent high blood pressure – even if you’re taking blood pressure medication.”
– via Mayoclinic.com
I know I’ve talked about this before about a thousand times, but it’s still important. You can do something about high blood pressure. You can start right here and right now (don’t have high BP? [...]
Two Choices
Posted on January 18, 2010 - Filed Under Behavior Change, motivation | Leave a Comment
“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.”
– Denis Waitley
Have a great Monday!
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Frustrating Time of Year
Posted on January 7, 2010 - Filed Under Behavior Change, healthy lifestyle | 1 Comment
This is a frustarting time of year for me. With the new year come resolutions to lose weight, get healthy, eat better, move more, etc., etc. While those are great resolutions for all of us, as long as we create a good plan and stick to that plan, it also means the snake-oil salespeople are [...]
First Post of 2010
Posted on January 4, 2010 - Filed Under Behavior Change, healthy lifestyle | 2 Comments
2010 is here. Let’s make this year better than the last, in all aspects of life. I’m sure most of us (along with everyone else in the world) have made at least one resolution about our health/fitness. Hopefully we won’t forget about them after just 2 weeks or so.
One thing to remember as you get going [...]
