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| OUR VISION : Develop hundreds of local walking clubs across America walking their own neighborhoods and communities. OUR GOAL : "America Walking Together as friends" and finding walking partners for members. OUR COMMITTMENT : To provide a club which will help average people live above average lives, by encouraging Americans to walk & talk together as friends. Please see why, view our MISSION STATEMENT |
___________________________________ Health Links ** Holistic Health and Wellness Link Directory ** FB Health - Your online resource for Health! ** Healthwalkers.com - " Offers online statistical tracking of fitness activities and goal progress for clubs and individuals. Also provides events to help set and achieve personal goals." Researchers Say.... Exercise Can Boost Brain Capacity ! ... (The Boston Globe) - Reading, 'riting, 'rithmetic. And runningEmerging new research in animals and humans suggests physicalexercise may boost brain function, improve mood and otherwiseincrease learning, according to findings presented Monday at a meeting of neuroscientists and educators. Read More... www.intelihealth.com |
 Visit one of our new friends...Health News has the latest information on health and healthy living. A BIG New Walkablock Benefit(NOW!! Book your Travel through WALKABLOCK) (Ever Tried a Walking Vacation?) Our membership size has given us buying power Tickets & Tours Travel Planner Website Walkablock's size has risen to something to be proud of. We are now able to offer our members a travel benefit for anywhere in the world and at the lowest rates possible without sacrificing quality. Please be our guest and look through the site and then tell a friend. Be sure to check out the Condo Hot Weeks. Try it Out!! "A Quiz for Women" ...Women's health quiz: What makes you uniqueBy Mayo Clinic staff Test your knowledge about issues that affect your health as a woman. www.mayoclinic.com Pumping Iron Improves Heart Health ...Weight training can be good for your heart health, according to a new Scientific Advisory published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. Medical College of Wisconsin Health Link Exercise and Your Mood!... - If you're not exercising regularly, you may be missing out on an easy, inexpensive way to improve your overall mood as well as your ability to cope with stress and anxiety. About.Com New Route To A Healthy Heart The Boston Globe said in an editorial: Time and again, researchers have offered tips for warding offlife-threatening diseases by suggesting that we eat certain foods or avoidothers, or take this hormone supplement but not that one. Much of thisadvice is based on incomplete experimentation, and sometimes it doesnt holdup when better work is done. Lately, scientists have focused on a newvillain in our blood, homocysteine, and are proposing that we keep it athealthy levels by passing up animal protein and getting more of the Bvitamins. Chastened, perhaps, by the recent finding that a high-fiber diet does not infact protect against colon cancer, researchers are less emphatic than theymight once have been in calling for dietary changes to keep homocysteinedown. What they do know is that high levels of this amino acid, a product inthe bodys breakdown of protein, are associated with arterial disease. Stillto be proven is that eating less animal protein or more vitamin B6, B12, orfolate (another B vitamin) will actually reduce our risk of cardiovasculardisease. While the jury is still out on that count, the evidence of the benefit offolate (also known as folic acid) in preventing birth defects is so strongthat for the past two years bread, pasta and cereals have been fortifiedwith it under a mandate from the US Food and Drug Administration. Inaddition, homocysteine has been linked to miscarriages, Alzheimers disease,strokes, and osteoporosis. All of this builds a strong case for eating foods rich in folate or vitaminB6: asparagus, broccoli, spinach, cabbage, orange juice, bananas, avocados,wheat germ, lentils, oatmeal, chicken, and egg yolks. The last two items onthe list show that dispensing with animal proteins altogether is tricky,especially since vitamin B12 is found only in liver and other meats, fish,eggs, and milk. Vitamin supplements are an alternative. Not to be forgotten is the meditation factor. A study at Ohio StateUniversity shows that stress can raise homocysteine levels. The message issimple: yoga and yolks. Now if only someone would invent an egg with a lowcholesterol content. ----- (The Boston Globe web site is at www.globe.com ) c.2000 The Boston Globe New York Times Syndicate on June 19, 2000 "Thinking Old" May Make The Elderly Shuffle ... WASHINGTON (AP).... - Negative stereotypes about getting old can hurthow people function, says a study that found healthy elderlypeople could suddenly walk faster when they were subconsciouslyfed positive images of aging. Read More....www.intelihealth.com " Adjuvant systemic therapy: What is it? "...Adjuvant systemic therapy can be thought of as a type of insurance policy — a backup plan, just in case things don't go as hoped. In this case what you are insuring against is the chance that your initial treatment for breast cancer may not have removed all cancerous cells from your body. www.mayoclinic.com Disease Self-Managers:...Welcome to the Disease Self-Managers. If you are interested in learning how to live with a troublesome condition or illness, you've arrived at the right place. First, decide which self-manager fits your needs — Asthma, Depression, Headache, or Low Back Pain. www.mayoclinic.com Doctors Are The Third Leading Cause of Death 7/30/00!This article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) is the best article I have ever seen written in the published literature documenting the tragedy of the traditional medical paradigm. Read More...  **Do you know someone with Cancer? Click Pic...Walkablock Member, Raised $1020.00 in Donations for Subaru "Ovarian Cancer" (Early Detection) Triathlon in San Diego. Congratulations to Sybil!! She finished the race. She is two years out from Stage 3 and She's still Cancer Free. Praise God! Download Adobe reader to view this .PDF file. |
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