Staying Healthy Today

Staying healthy is more important today than ever.  One way I have tried to regain my health is with the Isagenix products.  It has helped me lose weight and the nutrition is great.

Other was are getting plenty of exercise each day.  My main way to get exercise is through walking or swimming.  I find both of those methods both enjoyable and relaxing.

Of course, if you smoke, stop smoking today.  We all know of detrimental smoking is to your health.  You also want to avoid excess drinking also.  One or two drinks a day can help your health, but more that that is bad for your health.

Eat 5 servings of fruits and vegetables a day.  The fiber and roughage is great and the vitamins are tremendous.  Filling up on them also keeps your appetite down and it is easier to avoid reaching for those bad foods with sugar and empty calories.

Practice stress relievers like exercise, mediation, prayer or accupunture.    Relax and let the little things go.  It is not what you are going through, but how you react to it.

And last of all, have a great day!

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What can you do without the internet?

Guest post of the week by Brittany Booker

The other morning I was at a friend’s house and we were planning to look up some great places in the area to go eat brunch. The only problem was her internet was not working for whatever reason. Of course neither of us had charged our smart phones the night before so we were trying to conserve battery which meant that using our phones to look up places to go was out. We had to just go out on the street and start walking to find a place. It got me thinking about what it would be like to live in today’s times without having access to the internet. These days everyone just assumes that you have a computer and access to the World Wide Web. As it turns out not everyone does have a computer or access to the internet. I decided I was going to try to live a week without it and see how I felt at the end of that week. I own a small business and need small business internet to run my company. I only lasted two days without the internet before I caved.

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Maintaining Weight Loss - Keeping Busy

I have been trying to maintain my weight loss from last year - I lost 48 lbs. last year and then the holidays hit.  I ate and ate and then after they were over I continued to eat.

I have kept off about 35 lbs and have settled down with the overeating and am getting ready to get headed in the right direction again.

I have been keeping busy - working on a lot of sewing projects.

I have also been hosting a weekly craft club - but this has developed into an eating club too - everyone brings something to munch on - an naturally alot of this is sweets and high fat items.

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Lutheran Senior Services in St. Louis

Lutheran Senior Services in St. Louis was recognized by the St. Louis Business Journal as one of the "Best Places to work".   They strive to improve the quality of care for their residents.  One way they do this is by implementing a program called Electronic medical Records Software.

Using the Optimus EMR^® system for their electronic medical records saves time because the staff does not have to waste time searching for the patient information.  It is all there at their fingertips on the home page when they look at the computer.  They can access real time, up-dates on the residents, census, quality indicators, operational performance data and more.


Lutheran Senior Services utilizes the Optimus EMR system because it is the only automated system for long term care.  This system helps them achieve the goal of quality patient care.

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Unemployed

I appreciate the guest post, Jamie Guy After 8 long months without a job, it is finally over. Unfortunately, so is living in the town that both my wife and I grew up in. Oh well, beggars can’t be choosers, right? Anyway, my new job has us moving 6 hours south of everything that we’re used to. There’s nothing like starting anew, right? Luckily the town that I got a job in looks likes something out a Norman Rockwell painting, so I really can’t complain. The kids’ school is only about five minutes down the road, there is a park 2 blocks away and there is even a white picket fence around the little house that we’re renting. The only downfall to our new rental is that utilities are not included. So after getting the electricity, water, gas and internet turned on, it was time to start looking for a cable provider. Personally, I would be fine without cable since I’m rarely at home to watch tv and I get most of my news from the radio and internet. However, since my wife stays home all day with the baby, there’s only so many times she can watch Cinderella in any given day before going out of her mind. Luckily, I found http://www.directstartv.com/ and was able to get a great deal on satellite tv. And wouldn’t you know it, I seem to watch more tv than I originally thought.

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Skin lightening - help for you age/sun spots

I have noticed lately quite a few blotchy spots on my skin.  Are these age spots or sun spots, or what?     Age spots are brown patches which commonly appear on the back of the hands the face and the back.   It seems that more and more of them appear everyday

There are natural treatments like  rubbing red onion or lemons on them to will make them fade.  One product that is good is  Luminaze - it is an all natural product.  I works in only 7 days.


Products, such as Luminaze, use enzymes to break down the pigment in the darkened area of you skin.  It doesn't cause white spots on your skin either.  This product works great.  It is highly recommended for people of all ages.

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Fiance and me

This guest post from Zack Hinton

I love living with my fiancé but boy do we have different taste in TV. We’ve got directv lexington and while I would rather watch pretty much anything on BRAVO (think Housewives or Flipping Out or Millionaire Matchmaker) he’s all about the stuff like CSI and Criminal Minds which really just give me the creeps. I can’t believe some people actually like watching shows like that because they’re so dark and it’s so hard to imagine there are such evil people in the world but my fiancé says it’s because he likes knowing what it would be like to be part of a police force.

 I think it’s remarkable so many people are so good at this kind of thing but that lifestyle is something I couldn’t ever get used to, always thinking about dead people and wondering what was going to become of the victims I found. Anyway, I know it’s just TV but I don’t know why we can’t just watch Top Chef instead of all that gory stuff before we go to sleep!

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