Category Archives: Health
Book Review: Instant Recess by Toni Yancey
Book: Instant Recess: Building a Fit Nation 10 Minutes at a Time by Toni Yancey Genre: Public Health Policy Publisher: University of California Press Publication date: 2010 Pages: 263 Source: Library Summary: Instant Recess outlines a program and policy shift toward making people more active by breaking down social … Continue reading
Book Review: Paula Deen’s My First Cookbook
Book: Paula Deen’s My First Cookbook by Paula Deen Genre: Cookbook Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Publication date: 2008 Pages: 176 Source: Library Summary: This is an attractive cookbook with bright colors, a funny funky font that … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Weekend Cooking
Tagged Mollie Katzen, Paula Deen, Paula Deen's My First Cookbook, Pretend Soup
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Adventures on the Treadmill
When I bought my iPad, I didn’t have this use in mind — watching TV shows streamed from Netflix while walking on the treadmill. It’s been great. Sometimes watching the next episode is my primary motivator for exercising. I’ve been … Continue reading
Posted in Checkpoint!, Health
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Exercising in Virtual Hawaii
Last week’s exercise post (Gardening as Exercise and my weekly checkpoint) focused on gardening because I had been taking advantage of unseasonably warm weather to do some. Well, that ended. In the past week, I took advantage of a couple of … Continue reading
Gardening as Exercise and my weekly checkpoint
I feel like this post needs to come with one of those don’t-sue-me disclaimers. I’m not a doctor. I’m a librarian and a gardener. I have about two years of experience that I’m revealing in this post, experience that allows … Continue reading
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Books to Support a Healthy Lifestyle
In case you didn’t see it earlier in the week, I compiled a list of the recipes I posted on my blog in 2011: Wednesday’s Healthy Eating Judging by the number of newbies showing up at the 3 Fat Chicks Forum to … Continue reading
Wednesday’s Healthy Eating
Sheila of Team Kickin It that I wrote about yesterday (Joining Team Kickin It) has declared the Wednesday theme to be healthy eating. Since Joy’s Book Blog is 1 year and 2 days old, I thought it would be a good … Continue reading
Posted in Health
Tagged Daniel Leader, Diabetes and Heart Healthy Meals for Two, Eating Well for a Healthy heart Cookbook, Fast Fresh and Green, Good Food Book, Healthy Family Meals, Jane Brody, Jennifer and Jason Denton, Julia Child, Lauren Chattman, Love in the Time of Cholesterol, Martha Rose Shulman, Panini Express, Simple Italian Sandwiches, Susie Middleton, The New American Heart Association Cookbook, The Very Best of Recipes for Health, The Way to Cook
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Book Review: WomenHeart’s All Heart Family Cookbook by Kathy Kastan and Suzanne Banfield
Book: WomenHeart’s All Heart Family Cookbook by Kathy Kastan and Suzanne Banfield Genre: Cookbook Publisher: Rodale Publication date: 2008 Pages: 303 Summary: The first quarter of The WomenHeart’s All Heart Family Cookbook isn’t a cookbook at all but a primer … Continue reading
Book Review: Never Say Diet by Chantel Hobbs
Book: Never Say Diet by Chantel Hobbs Genre: Weight loss Publisher: Waterbrook Press Publication date: 2007 Pages: 223 Summary: Chantel Hobbs once weighed 350 pounds. After losing 200 of them, she is now a personal trainer and spinning instructor who regularly … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Health
Tagged Chantel Hobbs, diet, healthy lifestyle, Never Say Diet, weight loss
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