Live Streaming Classes & Personal Training For Active Agers 55+
Author: Irene Pastore
Hello! I am a Personal Trainer, Yoga and Pilates Instructor who specializes in fitness after 50. My service is Live Streaming. Connect with me from anywhere in the world. I look forward to helping you achieve your health and fitness goals.
Shopping in Whole Foods Market last week, I came across a vendor offering free samples of home-made Mu Mu Meusli. This product is made without added sugar, in upstate Sharon Springs, New York.
There are 8 ingredients, and it tastes great. It’s made with oats, cranberries, wheat flakes, coconut, raisins, dates, flax, and almonds.
Mu Mu Meusli is sold online, and in health food stores, including several in New York City. If you’re a meusli fan, and prefer avoiding added sugar in your breakfast cereal, check it out.
Meusli cereal originated around 1900 in Switzerland, by a doctor who wanted to offer his patients a healthy diet.
While there are variations, basic ingredients are rolled oats, dried fruits, nuts and seeds.
Other varieties of meusli may contain wheat or rye flakes, honey, spices, such as cinnamon, or chocolate. Yogurt, fruit juice or fresh fruit, and nut milks may be added to meusli.
Meusli provides a nutritious, quick breakfast, or a healthy snack.
Copyright 2013 Irene Pastore and Blue Moon Personal Training
If you’re a typical American, you don’t have a problem with starvation. You have problem with eating too much, and overdosing on calories.
Before you know it, you don’t want to look in the mirror. Just buy another XXL tee shirt and baggy pants, to cover up the excess fat.
Excess Fat Is A Walking Time Bomb
You know that the excess fat is making you into a walking time bomb for heart disease, diabetes, cancer, low backache, hip, knee and lumbar dysfunction.
There are hundreds of people like you who don’t want to carry around excess fat, but don’t know how to start losing unwanted pounds, or just can’t find the motivation to get started.
Hundreds Of People Have Lost Weight
When you click on this link, it will take you to a website where you can read hundreds of weight loss success stories from real people, like yourself. All the stories are different.
Breaking Points
On this list are typical reasons people begin a weight loss program in earnest. Read through the breaking points, to help yourself find the motivation to drop excess fat.
Tired all the time. No energy to care for children.
At 24, my doctor told me I had liver disease, and that I’d need a liver transplant.
At 30 I was taking blood pressure medication, and dealing with alot of anxiety and stress. I wanted to feel better, and was terrified of developing heart disease and diabetes.
At 54, I weighed 315 pounds, and sleeping 18 hours a day.
My business failed because of the way I looked.
I knew I was a high risk for diabetes. I didn’t want it to happen to me.
I took full responsibility for weighing 500 pounds, and decided it was time to take it off.
After looking at photographs of myself, I decided to make changes in my weight.
I suffered from backaches, had problems walking up stairs, and reaching down to tie my shoe laces.
I got out-of-breath trying to reach down to put on my socks. It was time for a change.
I weighed more than 475 pounds from compulsive eating at all-you-can-eat fast food restaurants, and no exercise. I wanted to live to see my grandson grow up.
At 34 I weighed 433 pounds. I took a pool exercise class with 60 year-old women, and couldn’t keep up. I could barely move. I was considering using a mobility chair.
I was obese when I got married, and was embarrassed by the photographs.
I was inspired by co-workers who lost weight.
Photographs of myself made me cringe.
In the Christmas party photos, I looked like I had 15 chins.
I was made fun of in high school because of my obesity.
My grandma’s sister was a fashion maven, who admitted that she disfigured her feet by wearing high heels. When I was old enough to notice, I asked her why her feet came to a point, her big toe lay on top of her second toe, and why she walked funny. She said her feet were messed up and ugly, from squeezing them into tight fitting high heels.
BUNIONS IN PROGRESS
She made me promise I wouldn’t wear bad shoes, unless I wanted my feet to look just like hers.
The Cruel Shoes
Fashion heels don’t have much to do with common sense. Steve Martin’s, “The Cruel Shoes,” is the story of Anna, who visits a shoe store, and gladly buys a pair of foot nightmares, that make her feet bleed. The premise isn’t really exaggerated. Most women buy heels based on emotional appeal, rather than foot health.
The Worst Shoes For Your Feet
While it may not overcome the powerful effects of advertising, WebMD, has a slide show to educate women. It’s called, “The Worst Shoes For Your Feet.” Incase you’re considering reconstructing your shoe wardrobe, here’s some inspiration to help you downsize the height of your heels.
High Heel Health Conditions & Injuries
Hammer toes
Corns
Ingrown toenails
Driving accidents
Calluses
Low back pain
Numbness
Achilles tendon damage (Morton’s Neuroma)
Bunions
Pump Bump (enlargement of the heel bone)
Sciatica
Blisters
Ankle injury
Leg pain
Osteoarthritis of the knee
Trip and fall accidents
The Armadillo Shoe
While I’m at it, I may as well comment on the Armadillo Shoe, because things like this have a way of influencing street wear. The late fashion designer, Alexander McQueen, came up with a risky 10 inch runway shoe, called the Armadillo. Some models refused to wear them.
THE ARMADILLO SHOE
The phrase, “to die for”, would be apt, when wearing shoes like this, or a facsimile. Toppling over, and hitting your head isn’t too far fetched. Fanciful shoes are the realm of art, rather than practical footwear.
Be kind to your feet. They affect the way you walk, and feel. Fashion shoes are beautiful in the box, but aren’t doing your two feet any favors. Corns, bunions, hammertoes, and ingrown toe nails aren’t lovely to look at. Healthy feet won’t embarrass you, when removing your shoes. You’ll never have to apologize for your corns.
Copyright 2013 Irene Pastore, and Blue Moon Personal Training.
Being fit includes taking care of your teeth. If you don’t, it may affect your overall health, and you might wind up losing your teeth.
When you lose teeth, they have to be replaced with artificial prostheses such as dental implants, or bridges, unless you don’t mind not being able to chew your food. Dental prostheses are very expensive. Preventive care saves money by avoiding tooth loss.
Practicing preventive care starts at home with brushing and flossing, and goes a long way to saving your teeth, and your overall health. Brushing and flossing are equally important.
Floss after you eat to remove food particles between your teeth. The longer you wait, the more bacteria will grow between your teeth. The bacteria forms plaque. Plaque hardens and eventually forms tartar. Tartar has to be removed by a dental hygienist using dental tools to do a thorough job. If tartar isn’t removed you’ll wind up with gum disease. Gum disease leads to tooth loss.
POOR ORAL HEALTH AND DISEASE
Poor oral health can cause serious illness, such as endocarditis (infection inside the heart valve), premature birth and low birth weight, diabetes, hiv/aids, osteoporosis, Alzheimer’s, and stroke.
ARTICLES ON DENTAL HEALTH
Mayo Clinic: Oral health – A Window To Your Overall Health.
ABC News: Man Dies From Toothache – Couldn’t Afford Meds.
JADA: Poor Oral Health Linked With Coronary Heart Disease.
CDC: Preventing Cavities, Gum Disease, Tooth Loss, and Oral Cancers.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s controversial ban on large soda was overturned on March 11, by Justice Milton Tingling of State Supreme Court in Manhattan.
The judge said the ban was arbitrary and capricious, with too many loopholes and exemptions, because it applied to some but not all food establishments, and to some sweetened drinks, but not others. Read more in the March 13, 2013 issue of the New York Daily News. Continue reading “Soda Wars”
cranberries, wheat flakes, coconut, raisins, dates, flax, and almonds.
