Well we will be starting home tomorrow. All are running around and seeing the sights are coming to an end. It has been great fun, and good times with my sister and niece. I’m not sure but I think Erin is ready for us to go home. Read Full Story
Hey, hello from New Orleans. We rolled in town Friday around 5:30 and have been on the run since. Spent most of the day yesterday in the French Quarters getting everyone at home T-shirts (you know the ones that says someone when to New Orleans and all I got was this lousy T-shirt). Spent last night on Bourbon Street in the Blues Company. We have had a great time, but the age thing seems to catch up with me around 10. We did take time to do our walk around the park yesterday but... Read Full Story
Well everyone tomorrow is the day. I am blasting off to New Orleans. That’s right world traveler that I am going to the big O. It’ going to be a 5 day trip, I am going with my sister. We are going to visit my niece who is getting her masters degree at LSU there. She has got some great plans for our week-end. I think I have everything packed, you know all the stuff you have to have to maintain the big D. I forgot how much you have to take to travel with diabetes. But one must do... Read Full Story
If there were a prize for achievement in the world of liquid nutrition, it would have to go to green tea. The reputations of other beverages—coffee, alcohol and milk, for example—have had their ups and downs. But so far no one has found a sinful side to green tea.
A study may have those other popular beverages turning, well, green with envy.
Researchers find that green tea may actually help prevent Alzheimer’s disease, a degenerative brain disorder that leads to dementia and eventual death... Read Full Story
Did you ever notice that every years that one day roll around, that makes you stop and reflect, think back over your life. All the what ifs and maybes come into play. The things you should of said and some you should have just kept you mouth shut. I try not do that but somehow I just happens. Oh I have tried not to have birthdays but they just seem to happen. It is funny, I think my worst birthday was when I turned 30, I mean hell I wasn’t 20 anymore. NO more 20 something I was 30 God... Read Full Story
Will this morning I check my mileage for the year and I have met the 1000 mile challenge. All I can say is “YYYYYEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!” I did it. I have as of today 1368.46 miles since Jan 1, 2008. That is 2,937,127 steps total for the year so far. Damn I’m Good ;>)
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If you find glucose tablets too sweet and you’re tired of juice, you still have options to treat low blood glucose. One of our favorite recommended treatments is a glass of milk.Milk contains lactose, which is broken down into glucose. It also contains fat and protein, which will slow the rise in your blood glucose and keep it steady over time. For this reason, milk can be even better than juice or glucose tablets.
Fat-free and reduced-fat milk have the same amount of lactose. Other studies... Read Full Story
Now this is something I could have told them if they would have just ask!!!
We know that men don’t suffer menstrual pain, but that’s not the only fun they’re missing. “Research is uncovering very dramatic differences in how the genders experience pain,” says Mark Allen Young, a professor at New York College of Podiatric Medicine and author of Women and Pain: Why It Hurts and What You Can Do.
It all starts with hormones. There is no getting around how profoundly hormones like estrogen and... Read Full Story
Here is another interesting article, wanted to share .
Eight minutes in the morning — that’s all it takes to help launch you toward a fitter, trimmer lifestyle, according to fitness trainer Jorge Cruise, author of “8 Minutes in the Morning: A Simple Way to Start Your Day That Burns Fat and Sheds the Pounds.”
While 30 minutes a day of any kind of physical activity is the most widely advocated prescription for getting active, strength training is an important key to weight management, Mr... Read Full Story
