SPRING AHEAD: Residents of our Northern Hemisphere just celebrated a vernal equinox. Yeah for our Sun's ascension to the equator - with our days and nights being equal in length. Yeah for the thematic spirits of this spring season. Yeah, with fervent hopes for "spirit...
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Regular Sleep, Healthy Future
Here's to an eminently successful World Sleep Day 2021. This 14th annual Day of Recognition offers an undeniable link between restful, restorative sleep and HEALTH. Recall how many pages I devoted to SLEEP (Mimic Morpheus) in KABOOMER - and my rationale for that...
Rational Numbers
Some of us may remember that our mathematics teachers labeled PI, or 3.1415... as an IRrational number. Happy belated PI Day, by the way. Credit: Bill Nye And, on a public safety note, these first days after DAYLIGHT SAVING changes can be unhealthy ones. Do not...
Choose to Challenge
Today is a special shout-out day for gender equality -Â International Women's Day 2021 #ChooseToChallenge. Credit: buzzfeedladylike In my lines of work, IÂ hopefully enable and I definitely admire women's demonstrated fitness, persistence, and achievement. I'm blessed...
Physically Banking on a strong 69th Lap
Ah - the days of American Heart Awareness Month and Black History Month are waning as are remaining days 'til springtime. And now, another Anniversary (#76) of that iconic WWII photograph snapped by Joe Rosenthal on Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi is in our rearview...
Xs and Os – Winter to Spring
With the Day of Cupid in our rear-view sights, we can and should still relish those XXXOOO symbols for lovin' spoonfuls:. How about the OX paired letters? Â As in this new Chinese Lunar Year of the OX? I learn new things every day, such as this is now the Year of the...
Falstaff? Not.
How did I choose an overweight, flawed, and boastful character from the Bard for today's weblog? Well, February IS Heart Health Awareness Month. Though Sir John Falstaff fell in battle; he likely would have died prematurely from clustered Metabolic Syndrome (MetS)...
I’m wearing RED this Friday for Heart Health awareness
Our short February is a month of many "National" awareness campaigns, such as National Black History Month. Today's blog focus, now that we got past Ground Hog's Day, is for February as National Heart Health Month, or American Heart Month. 'Tis truly amazing that this...
Know how to PB&J
Few baby boomers in yesteryears managed to skip quick and filling peanut butter and jelly (PB&J) sandwiches - at home or on-the-go. Credit: giphy Perhaps you, like I occasionally enjoy natural peanut (or another nut) butter on whole-grain bread. Satisfying...
Healthy Waist to Hip Ratios for KABOOMERs
I commend to you this blog post about Waist to Hip Ratios (WHR). Why? Body Mass Indices (BMI) do not credibly gauge healthy body composition for many Americans - female and male. If you are a muscular, "big boned" KABOOMER - BMI might label you as a statistically...
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