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Apanel of healthcare experts were on hand at the Marriott at Legacy in Plano, TX for the presentation, discussion and dissemination of ideas and solutions for the challenges of our businesses and communities. Dennis McCuistion of KERAs McCuistion Show moderated the program. The event is presented by the Collin County Business Press. The panel included Akram Khan MD, Center for Preventive Medicine; Jeffery Canose MD, president, Presbyterian Hospital of Plano; Mildred MacAfee MD, Baylor Regional Medical Center of Plano; David Atkinson, Cooper Aerobics Center at Craig Ranch and Amy Grimmer, president and CEO, Centripetal Consulting Group.

‘Healthy Highlanders’ in Braintree win Kids Fitness Challenge
Spirits soared at Highlands Elementary School on June 17 when the Massachusetts Amateur Sports Foundation announced that Highlands was one of the four winners of the statewide Spring 2011 Kids Fitness Challenge. Some 30,000 students from 75 schools across Massachusetts participated in this challenge, which ran from May 31 to June 3. Highlands won for its innovative program, “Healthy Highlanders …

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Young Yogis ~ Happy Hearts in Motion ~ is a Comprehensive Program for Preschool Children Teaching Social Skills and …
Young Yogis ~ Happy Hearts in Motion ~ founder, Dr Nadia Delshad, integrates developmental psychology, social skills training techniques and family coaching methods with yoga sequences and poses, storytelling, social and emotional skills building games, music and other arts into a complete curriculum that engages the body, mind and heart in a way that honors all the ways children learn. SW …

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Students can find remedies at WOLF Center, Student Health Center or Counseling Center
By: Ashley Ramos According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), college students are at high risk for serious health problems including sleep deprivation, substance abuse, sexually transmitted diseases, eating disorders and unhealthy diets, lack of …

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Pinnacle Career Institute to Hold Open House to Celebrate Health Information Technician Program
Pinnacle Career Institute (PCI) will hold an open house to celebrate its Health Information Technician (HIT) program. The event will take place at two of the Pinnacle Career Institute campuses on April 26 and April 27.

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Community Calendar – Saturday
JOHN TUDOR’S MAGIC THEATER: With special guests Alternacirque, 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. today, Midlands Technical College Theater, Harbison Campus, 7300 College St., Irmo. “Pre-shows” start half hour earlier than showtimes. Tickets: $12, with discounts for children; family four-pack, $30. Available online. (803) 213-2025; www.smartarts.info

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Take care in beginning a new exercise program
Starting an exercise program is a feat that should be congratulated and admired. However, it is also something that should be done with thought and concern. It is important to implement an appropriate exercise program that is safe and conducive to an individual’s health.

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Detour® Protein Bars Endorsed by Star Pro Football Players
Nutrition bar company Forward Foods, LLC, today announced that professional football players from the New York Giants, Pittsburgh Steelers, Denver Broncos and Jacksonville Jaguars have endorsed the company’s award-winning Detour protein bars.

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East Brunswick marks 25th year of Meals on Wheels program
EAST BRUNSWICK — Sharon Reilly-Marosy remembers her initial reaction when the township started its nutrition outreach program for elderly, homebound township residents in 1985.

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1) Don’t “go on” diets. When you “go on” a diet, the underlying assumption is that at some point you have to “go off” it. This isn’t just semantics, it’s one of the primary reasons most diets fail. By definition, a “diet” is a temporary and often drastic change in your eating behaviors and/or a severe restriction of calories or food, which is ultimately, not maintainable. If you reach your goal, the diet is officially “over” and then you “go off” (returning to the way you used to eat). Health and fitness is not temporary; it’s not a “diet.” It’s something you do every day of your life. Unless you approach nutrition from a “habits” and “lifestyle” perspective, you’re doomed from the start.

2) Eat the same healthy foods consistently, all year round. Permanent fat loss is best achieved by eating mostly the same types of foods all year round. Naturally, you should include a wide variety of healthy foods so you get the full spectrum of nutrients you need, but there should be consistency, month in, month out. When you want to lose body fat, there’s no dramatic change necessary – you don’t need to eat totally different foods – it’s a simple matter of eating less of those same healthy foods and exercising more.

3) Have a plan for easing into maintenance. Let’s face it – sometimes a nutrition program needs to be more strict than usual. For example, peaking for a bodybuilding, figure, fitness or transformation challenge contest requires an extremely strict regimen that’s different than the rest of the year. As a rule, the stricter your nutrition program, the more you must plan ahead and the more time you must allow for a slow, disciplined transition into maintenance. Failure to plan for a gradual transition will almost always result in a huge binge and a very rapid, hard fall “off the wagon.”

4) Focus on changing daily behaviors and habits one or two at a time. Rather than making huge, multiple changes all at once, focus on changing one or two habits/behaviors at a time. Most psychologists agree that it takes about 21 days of consistent effort to replace an old bad habit with a new positive one. As you master each habit, and it becomes as ingrained into your daily life as brushing your teeth, then you simply move on to the next one. That would be at least 17 new habits per year. Can you imagine the impact that would have on your health and your life? This approach requires patience, but the results are a lot more permanent than if you try to change everything in one fell swoop. This is also the least intimidating way for a beginner to start making some health-improving changes to their lifestyle.

5) Make goal setting a lifelong habit. Goal setting is not a one-time event, it’s a process that never ends. For example, if you have a 12 week goal to lose 6% bodyfat, what are you going to do after you achieve it? Lose even more fat? Gain muscle? What’s next? On week 13, day 1, if you have no direction and no long term goal to keep you going, you’ll have nothing to keep you from slipping back into old patterns. Every time you achieve a short term goal (daily, weekly and 12 week goals), you must set another one. Having short term goals means that you are literally setting goals continuously and never stopping.

6) Allow a reasonable time frame to reach your goal. It’s important to set deadlines for your fitness and weight loss goals. It’s also important to set big, ambitious goals, but you must allow a reasonable time frame for achieving them. Time pressure is often the motivating force that helps people get in the best shape of their lives. But when the deadline is unrealistic for a particular goal (like 30 pounds in 30 days), then crash dieting or other extreme measures are often taken to get there before the bell. The more rapidly you lose weight, the more likely you are to lose muscle and the faster the weight will come right back on afterwards. Start sooner. Don’t wait until mid-May to think about looking good for summer.

7) Extend your time perspective. Successful people in every field always share one common character trait: Long term time perspective. Some of the most successful Japanese technology and manufacturing companies have 100 year and even 250-year business plans. If you want to be successful in maintaining high levels of fitness, you must set long term goals: One year, Ten years, Even fifty years! You also must consider what the long term consequences might be as a result of using any “radical” diet, training method or ergogenic aid. The people who had it but lost it are usually the ones who failed to think long term or acknowledge future consequences. It’s easy for a 21 year old to live only for today, and it may even seem ridiculous to set 25 year goals, but consider this: I’ve never met a 40 or 60 year old who didn’t care about his or her health and appearance, but I have met 40 or 60 year olds who regretted not caring 25 years ago.

Burn The Fat, Feed the Muscle (BFFM) is a fat loss program which acknowledges the simple truth that going “on diets,” entering “Fitness challenges” or competing in “Transformation contests” without having long term goals and a lifestyle attitude, is a recipe for failure. Don’t let yourself be part of the latest fitness dropout statistics: visit the Burn The Fat website for more details on how to change your lifestyle… and keep the change!

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Encompassing various modalities of health care to balance mind, body and soul for its harmonious functioning, today holistic medicine is one of the major alternative medical sciences that have gained enough popularity in the last few years. In fact, it is one of its own kinds of alternative medicine that emphasizes on the preventative medicine and maintenance methods. The best feature of this medicine system is that it primarily utilizes various types of healing methods such as Yoga, Tai Chi, Acupuncture, Reiki, and herbal and plant remedies to achieve balanced mental and physical health. Today there are more than 100 medical conditions that can be helped with holistic medicine, including migraines, chronic fatigue syndrome, and even cancer. Making a career in this field definitely seem to be very promising as the demand of holistic medicine doctors are even expected to grow more in the next few years. Talking in context of job responsibilities, the work of a holistic medical doctor actually represents the best of both worlds, i.e. the unique mingle of conventional western medicine and alternative medicine. Holistic medical doctors are majorly involved in offering solution to patients and follow natural approach advocated by complementary modalities. They address all the standard medical needs similar to a traditional medical doctor, however, they adhere to holistic principles and use a variety of alternative methods to promote the spiritual health and encourage a better quality of life. Moreover, they generally follow treatment methods that draw together the wisdom from a variety of different health care modalities and cultures. Perhaps holistic approach is one of the major forms of alternative medicine that recommends a person suffering from a disease to be treated not only for its illness, but the whole self in order to reach a higher level of wellness. A good holistic medicine program is essential to acquire sufficient knowledge on the modalities of natural health and wellness. A holistic medicine course prepares you with various elements of alternative medical system such as naturopathy, nutrition, anatomy, psychology, etc. all of which that play a major role in healing mental and emotional health. The key benefit of holistic medicine courses is that it helps you in understanding the philosophy of holistic health and living. A holistic medicine correspondence course from an alternative medicine institute helps you learn how to animate the vital force within to bring mind, body, emotions and spirit back into balance. Apart from this, the courses also enable you to learn different types of holistic therapies that are excellent for treating illnesses and stress. An alternative medicine school teaches you about the positive balance between body, mind and spirit, and how to practice medicine in a natural, drug-free way. As a student you also learn about the various uses of natural vitamins and other nutritional supplements that can help the body function efficiently. In today’s world, there are numerous advantages to holistic medical therapy, and the career prospects even seem to be very promising. It is useful to learn holistic medicine not only for the various advantages it has as a practitioner but also for your own self being and health.

www.dustinmaherfitness.com for more info about MamaTone Fitness. Dustin Maher is a Fitness instructor at Supreme Health and Fitness on Odana Road in Madison, WI. This video is an interview that aired live on NBC 15 in Madison, WI on January 4th, 2008. MamaTone Fitness is a fitness program specifically designed for new and older moms who desire to get back to their pre-baby shape. The program helps moms learn how to burn fat by gaining muscle, how to adjust your eating habits and is also a great place to network with other moms. For more information about the MamaTone class schedule, contact Supreme Health and Fitness at 608.274.5080. Free child care provided. NO MEMBERSHIP NECESSARY. Visit http