Southwestern's "Wednesday Walkers" from left to right: Georgia Montgomery, Carol Sasek, Doreen Sterling, Don D'Orto, Principal Mamie Oatis, Lori Smith, Michelle Baldwin-Moore, Sharon Keaton-Brown, Colleen Winburn, Julie Taylor, Sharon Smith, Tana White, Vice Principal Kathleen Hammer, Barbara Spear, Kathy Alford
The Wednesday Walkers trekked a total of 100.9 miles during the 2008-2009 school year!
Who are the Wednesday Walkers? We are a group of teachers, administrators, and clerical staff members from Southwestern Middle School in DeLand, Florida, who care about fitness. Every Wednesday afternoon we don our walking shoes after school and speed walk through the streets of our neighborhood, waving to folks who know us as we pass by. It’s good PR for our school, and it’s great for our health and bone strength!
We’ve been posting our mileage on OsteoDiet’s Walk Around the World tracking chart. Just click on “WATW” logo at the top to check us out.
If you work in a school, why not join us on Wednesday afternoons this coming year? You’ll be glad you did! For details on how to participate, write me a “comment” below. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Walk Around the World, weight bearing exercise; osteoporosis
Earlier this month I attended a fascinating conference at Standard Process, Inc., makers of the whole food supplements I now take to maintain my bone strength and general health.
On the first day of the conference, we were taken on a tour of the organic farm in Wisconsin where the ingredients of the supplements are grown and harvested. Next, we visited the factory where the harvested foods are naturally processed to preserve their nutrition, prepared for consumption by consumers, and then shipped to health providers for their patients. Subsequent talks on health and nutrition served to outline body processes that lead to disease and recovery, as well as accenting the superior benefits of whole food supplements. After visiting Standard Process, I feel even more confident that the nutrition provided by their whole food supplements is the highest quality, most easily absorbed supplements that I can buy.
Which supplements do I take to maintain bone health? Currently, Dr. Bourne has recommended Calcifood® and Calcium Lactate, along with other supplements that strengthen the adrenal and thyroid glands, provide omega-3 oils, and support the joints and other connective tissues, and balance the overall health of the body. As we’ve learned over the past few years, healthy bodies make healthy bones!
Standard Process supplements are available only through qualified health care professionals because “their knowledge and experience allows them to recommend both Standard Process products and health regimens that meet each patient’s unique health needs.” To learn more about Standard Process supplements and how to order them, visit http://www.standardprocess.com and click on “How to Order” at the top of the page.
Tags: bone health, osteoporosis, Standard Process, whole food supplements
Now that summer is here and school is out for a couple of months, I have some definite goals for OsteoDiet.
First, a ton of information will be coming your way about nutrition and its effects on our bones. I recently accompanied Dr. Bourne to a convention at Standard Process, maker of the whole food supplements I now take. What I learned there about bone health and nutrition may surprise you.
Second, several readers’ questions have come in that are of general interest. I’ll be addressing those inquiries day-by-day. If you have questions or comments, please feel free to leave a comment below or to write me at kathleen_alford@yahoo.com.
Third, I’m in the process of creating and publishing our first OsteoDiet cookbook! If you have favorite recipes you’d like included in Volume 1, be sure to let me know.
Fourth, it’s time for a one-year progress report on my shoulder fractures that healed in record time. Coming soon!
Fifth, I’m enjoying a bouquet of exercise activities this summer! You can, too! I’ll tell you all about it.
Finally, well…the rest is a surprise. Stay tuned!
Tags: bone health, osteoporosis
A friend referred me to another great website for information about building bones naturally: Better Bones!
At The Center for Better Bones , directed by Dr. Susan E. Brown, PhD., the staff promotes an all-natural approach to bone health using consultation and guided programs that include nutrition, diet, exercise, and lifestyle education.
You can check out Dr. Brown’s website by clicking on this link: http://www.betterbones.com.
Tags: bone health, natural cures for osteoporosis; BetterBones.com, osteoporosis
Breakfast: Boiled egg, handful of almonds, Greens Shake with Biochlor, raspberry tea with Beyond C powder, supplements
Snack: Apple
Lunch: Veggie salad with tuna (tuna and canola mayonnaise), carrots, celery, organic baby greens, and cucumbers; fruit salad with strawberries, pineapple, grapes, and apple; water
Supper: Chicken and mushroom gravy, diced potatoes sauteed in olive oil, green bean with onions, almonds, raspberry tea with Beyond C powder, water, supplements
Tags: osteoporosis diet
I have found a new mantra that helps me maintain my resolve to eat only healthful, bone-building foods:
“No one puts food in my mouth, but me.”
At work when the faculty and staff lay out a covered dish luncheon, complete with fried foods and sugar-laden dishes, I repeat:
“No one puts food in my mouth, but me.”
When I haven’t packed a snack, and vending machines are staring me in the face, I recall:
“No one puts food in my mouth, but me.”
When I’m having company, and I’m tempted to cook the way I used to, rather than the way I do now, I remind myself:
“No one puts food in my mouth, but me.”
It’s true. No one force feeds me. Temptation is not the same as choice. I am the one who decides what goes in my mouth. I have the control. I don’t have to conquer anyone else, just myself. I am only dealing with one person, not a crowd, and I am willing to do what it takes to be healthy and strong.
“No one puts food in my mouth, but me!” That’s worth celebrating!
Tags: bone health, Motivation, osteoporosis
We’re back! Let me tell you, visiting Costa Rica was a true adventure! We stayed in Nosara, a town on the Pacific west coast, where there is an “American project” near the beach. The older part of the town is where the “Ticos”, or natives, live. The newer part near Playa Guiones (a great beach!) is an area where Americans have built houses and set up businesses that mostly cater to tourists, but also to American residents.
Jungle life has its counterparts in farm life. For example, we went to bed with the sun and woke up to–not the crowing of roosters–but to the King Kong-style hoots of the howler monkeys! Fresh produce abounded in the neighborhood markets, too. I learned to cook a new veggie, called yuca, which was not “yucky”, but “yummy”!
The beaches were incredibly beautiful! Costa Rica has some sort of rule about not building hotels or condos on the beach, so the natural surroundings were undisturbed. George and I surfed and boogie boarded, respectively, just about every day. All that exercise and the negative ions from the ocean breeze were most certainly great for my bones!
We made some friends while we were in Nosara, too, through the local Catholic church and the local Christian Surfers group. We’ll stay touch. Hey, we might even go back for a longer stay!
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