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How to Jump Start Your Exercise Program By Sheri Colberg-Ochs, Ph.D. You may have started out with the best of intentions to become more fit, and you may even have invested in some new walking shoes—so why are they still sitting in the box next to your brand-new pair of polyester-blend athletic socks? My expert diagnosis is that your exercise program needs a jump start! Take it one day at a time Have you ever heard it said that the definition of insanity is repeating the same behavior over and over again, but expecting different results every time? Certainly, you don’t have to dramatically change everything about your lifestyle all at once, but effectively preventing and controlling your diabetes is going to involve doing something differently… permanently. If “exercise” is a bad word around your house, you simply have to change your way of thinking about it. For starters, call it “physical activity” or “moving more” or something else with a less negative connotation. The easiest way to get started is by just getting more active throughout the day: sit less, stand more, walk extra steps, and even fidget more consistently. You won’t even realize that what you’re doing counts as exercise. Start today, and take it one day at a time. Lose the diets If some weight loss is your goal, do yourself a favor and do not follow any drastic fad diet or unbalanced diet plan. The healthy nutritional changes that you implement for yourself should never be interpreted as “going on a diet,” which implies that the “diet” will end at some point. If you
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Volume XII, Issue 1
London’s new Robin Hood moves the homeless into city’s poshest mansions (pg. 5)
The World Just thinks we are Lazy!
A Call Away
Sean Cononie detox. Since we take these clients we have to e is laying on the ground full of blood. deal with seizures quite often. Security is screaming, “get the trauma A few years back we had three going on at kit...!” One of the other staff first responders’ one time. I felt like an Emergency Room screams, “someone get a pillow so he does not Doctor going between cases and shouting out keep banging his head!” More bumps, the orders to the first responders.... and these more bangs, first responders more blood. The are, guess what, Manager of the formally homeless Day shouts, “Get individuals who me a lot of four took an 80 hour by fours, where course to work are the gloves?!” a full code on These above people at the time screams are what of an emergency. is said at least From AED’s, Aironce a day at the way tools, oxygen shelter. and lots of trauma We take in people stuff these forwho have one seimerly homeless zure after another. people are saving When seizures lives. Heck they can’t be con- Mr. William Scott and the “Seizure Kit” even respond to trolled by meds bad accidents in the person usually becomes homeless. Why? front of the shelter on federal highway. No company is going to hire someone who It was News Years day and yes another forcan fall down and bang their head or in some mer homeless individual named Mr. William cases hurt others while they are having their Scott came into my office and handed me seizures. Liability, liability, liability- such a a “Seizure Kit.” Many months ago he told nasty word. By the way friends, let’s not asme he was going to make one but we both sume the seizures are drug or alcohol related got busy. “OK Sean what is a Seizure Kit?” because in most cases those ones can be conGuys it is that best of best tool kits you altrolled by meds or end a week or two past ways dreamed about. Gals it is the all time
by Kelly Robinson Me? Homeless? Really? Really The majority of Americans only think of homelessness when someone tries to clean their windshield at an overpass intersection or holds out a cup asking for spare change. Maybe it comes to mind when they see it on television or when a mother and her child are spotted sleeping in a storefront doorway. That is sort of how it started for me. I was in my twenties, on the trip of a lifetime in San Francisco when I was stopped short by the sight of a woman and her filthy baby sleeping away the heat of the day in a doorway. The baby opened its eyes and looked right at me. Something in that scene hit a raw nerve and I cried until the friend I was with finally was able to calm me down the next day. That vision of them huddled together stayed with me, but as things do, with time it faded away - lost to the misty memories, both good and bad, that make up a person’s past. For the next twenty years, my life ebbed and waned, splashed like huge waves hitting the breakers and then calmed, only to start the cycle again over and over. It is the story of many lives, especially those who have an artistic spirit and are given to follow-
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Our Purpose: To Help the Homeless Learn How to Help Themselves
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