Carole Carson - An Apostle for FitnessCarole Carson - An Apostle for FitnessThe blog includes fitness-related articles, inspiring quotes, recipes, and opportunities to connect with others who are enhancing their lives through healthy living habits. 
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Insight of the Day
2008-01-09 00:00:00 "It is hard work, but there is happiness in it." Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata More About: Insight
Insight of the Day
2008-01-05 00:00:00 "We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing." R.D. Laing More About: Insight
New Year Resolution: Change your Perspective and Your Proportions
2008-01-03 00:00:00 Earlier in our country?s history, when many Americans engaged in farm work or other demanding physical labor, they sat down to meals with plates filled with heaping portions of meat and potatoes. Almost as an afterthought, a cooked vegetable, maybe... More About: New Year , Change , Year , Perspective , Resolution
Insight of the Day
2008-01-03 00:00:00 "You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces-just good food from fresh ingredients." Julia Child More About: Insight
Three Tips for Making New Year?s Resolutions Stick
2008-01-03 00:00:00 Who hasn?t sat down on New Year ?s Day and come up with a half-dozen changes they would like to make in their life? Common ones include losing weight and exercising more. All of our good intentions, though, can pass as... More About: Tips , Stick , Resolutions
Not Exactly a Book Club Selection
2007-12-28 00:00:00 At last?I finished The Fat to Fit Meltdown Manual: Create Weapons of Mass Reduction in Your Community (ISBN 978-0-9766030-5-4) and I have the published book sitting next to me as I write this. What started out as a 30-page spiral-bound... More About: Book , Club , Book Club , Selection
Insight of the Day
2007-12-28 00:00:00 "Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can do is take a complete rest." Unknown More About: Insight
The Five Don?ts of Exercising
2007-12-28 00:00:00 Exercise advice usually comes in a list of do?s rather than a list of don?ts. Yet unless we don?t sweep away the cobwebs in our thinking, we may not reap the benefits of regular exercise. Here?s a list of don?ts... More About: Exercising
Insight of the Day
2007-12-28 00:00:00 "A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise." Pooh's Little Instruction Book More About: Insight
From Fat to Fit Trivia Answer
2007-12-28 00:00:00 What is the number one killer of women? 1. Breast cancer 2. Houseworkitis 3. Heart disease 4. Old age Answer : 3. Heart Disease according to the American Heart Association. More About: Trivia
Insight of the Day
2007-12-20 00:00:00 "Freedom, then lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all of our lives." Sri Madhava More About: Insight
Take a Vacation from Your Body: Meditate
2007-12-20 00:00:00 Ever wake up in the morning, step on the bathroom scale and then feel discouraged and resentful because your body weighs more than you want it to? If you?ve suffered this experience, you aren?t alone. A lot of us struggle... More About: Body , Vacation
One Step Holiday Eating Plan: Let Your Fork do the Heavy Lifting
2007-12-18 00:00:00 If you?re committed to hosting or going to parties throughout the holidays, you face a never-ending array of tempting food choices. Some of us are very strict. We bring our own food in a plastic container and eat it while... More About: Holiday , Heavy , Step , Plan , Eating
Insight of the Day
2007-12-18 00:00:00 "It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations." Walter Bagehot More About: Insight
Fitness Gift Ideas for the Holidays
2007-12-17 00:00:00 Do you receive those wonderfully attractive catalogs in the mail for calorie-laden cheese-and-sausage gift baskets? If you?re like me, you?ve sent these gifts in other years, hoping to please the palates of those you care about. Today, almost all of... More About: Ideas , Holidays , Fitness , Gift Ideas , Gift
Insight of the Day
2007-12-17 00:00:00 "If you can give . . . only one gift, let it be enthusiasm." Bruce Barton More About: Insight
Insight of the Day
2007-12-12 00:00:00 "I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out." Steven Wright More About: Insight
Exercise Is the Best Medicine
2007-12-12 00:00:00 Laughter used to be the best medicine, but given the rise in obesity, exercise has replaced it. In a national initiative designed to improve the health and well-being of our nation, the American College of Sports Medicine and the American... More About: Exercise
A Global Perspective on a Personal Matter
2007-12-08 00:00:00 Forty years ago, who would have predicted that obesity would become a more critical global health issue than malnutrition and starvation? The World Health Organization coined the term "globesity" to describe the current phenomenon. Today, the total number of overweight... More About: Personal , Global , Matter , Perspective
Insight of the Day
2007-12-08 00:00:00 "You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." Beverly Sills More About: Insight
My "First" Calendar and "Little Proofs"
2007-12-06 00:00:00 I have a "first" calendar. No, it isn't the first calendar I ever owned. Rather, it is a calendar on my desk which I write down the very first time I have a new activity in my life. For example,... More About: Calendar , Proofs
Insight of the Day
2007-12-06 00:00:00 "Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather, to skid in, broadside, throughly used up, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming, "Wow-What a Ride!" Attributed to... More About: Insight
Finding a Road Map on the Superhighway of Internet Health Information
2007-11-30 00:00:00 As you can imagine, I spend a fair amount of time doing research on the Internet -searching for ideas, innovators and resources that promote fitness, well-being and health. In doing so, I join the 8 million Americans who also search online... More About: Health , Information , Road , Heal
Insight of the Day
2007-11-30 00:00:00 "I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way." Franklin P. Adams (1881-1960) More About: Insight
From Fat to Fit Trivia- Answer
2007-11-30 00:00:00 Results of a new study done by researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Control and Prevention and Britain's University of Liverpool show the incidence of heart disease in women 45 years and under is increasing. For further... More About: Answer , Trivia
Insight of the Day
2007-11-30 00:00:00 "The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention." Anthony J. D'Angelo More About: Insight
Body Talk
2007-11-30 00:00:00 I met a remarkable physician, Dr. Marisa C. Weiss, at the 2007 Curves' franchisee convention in Orlando, Florida. During the convention, I was honored to serve on a panel discussion with her. Dr. Weiss is the director of Breast Radiation... More About: Body , Talk
Insight of the Day
2007-11-23 00:00:00 "On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment-halftime." Unknown More About: Insight
Living Contentment: Giving Thanks
2007-11-23 00:00:00 Walking into the living room, I caught a few brief minutes of Dr. Wayne W. Dyer on the public television channel. He was lecturing from his book, Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life, in which he expounds the views of... More About: Living , Giving , Hank , Contentment
Insight of the Day
More articles from this author:2007-11-23 00:00:00 "Holidays are an expensive trial of strength. The only satisfaction comes from survival." Jonathan Miller More About: Insight 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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