Reality Check on Global Warming

Please read this early post of mine Global Warming: A hoax or a reality? as it describes how discouraged I was when I decided to delete my very successful environmental blog.  After over a year of putting up with the asinine and unfounded, specious and fallacious comments of climate change deniers I threw in the towel.

An overwhelming majority of the world’s climate scientists agree that the globe is warming – the world’s climate is changing – and that the indiscriminate burning of fossil fuels is to blame.    Continue reading

FMS, CMS Spring Conditioning Update

This winter I became sedentary as the pain of the fibromyalgia FMS flare-ups and the chronic fatigue CFS symptoms I experienced were severe, and I became severely depressed. Insomnia became a factor along with exhaustion. I lost muscle tone and weight and descended from being fit to becoming becoming unfit very rapidly. Continue reading

Tim Ferris: Smash fear, Learn anything

woman in swimming poolI like this video and it’s not only because I used to be terrified of swimming. It’s also because Tim Ferris has a unique approach to smashing fear and learning anything.

As a kid a couple of boys held my head under water in a pool for so long that I passed out and had to be revived by the lifeguard. That’s when my fear of drowning was created. Continue reading

Top Antioxidant Foods

Liz Weiss, MS, RD is a dietitian and co-author of THE MOMS’ GUIDE TO MEAL MAKEOVERS. In this segment, she serves up the latest information on the top-20 antioxidant foods everyone should eat! Her Meal Makeover advice & cooking segments feature everything from practical tips for getting picky eaters to try their vegetables to healthy makeovers for chicken nuggets, fish sticks, fruit smoothies and other kid favorites. Continue reading