Healthy And Simple


Archive for the 'Exercise & activity' Category

Getting Back to Basics

A few years ago, when I was working as a producer in TV, doing health and medical news, my reporter and I used to joke that our health segment every day could consist of her sitting on the set and saying “eat right, exercise regularly, see you tomorrow.” That’s because most of the issues and […]

Monday, September 29th, 2008

How Can Something So Simple Be So Complicated!

I love trying new things. I remember the first time Shirley got me to try horseback riding, it was amazing. It’s a completely different relationship with nature when you are riding through the hills on a horse. The pace, the rhythm, the feel, even just the perspective is different than anything you’ve experienced before. It […]

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Big Fat Deal!

Dear Diary,
Last week, after playing squash with Kevin, I was walking past the gym lobby and noticed a few people crowded around a little machine taking turns measuring something.  Since I am perpetually curious I stopped and watched as one by one folks stood on the machine and held on to 2 handles.
The gal running […]

Monday, September 15th, 2008

A Step In The Right Direction

I love watching people move. There is something fascinating in observing something so simple, yet so complex and so varied. If you go to the park or beach and see people jogging you can watch 20 or 30 runners go by and each one has a very different style, very different stride.
The same is true […]

Friday, September 5th, 2008

Here’s a thought

I live a kind of schizophrenic existence. On the one hand I’m a journalist who writes about health issues. On the other hand I also work as a media relations manager at a big city hospital where part of my job entails pitching stories to health journalists, like me! See what I mean about […]

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Why Do We Make It So Hard for Ourselves?

I recently moved to a new office. It’s nothing fancy, just a cubicle in a fairly ordinary looking office block. But several things that have happened since moving in have highlighted for me the problems we all face in trying to lead healthy lives, even when we really want to.
My cubicle is on the […]

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

How To Save Your Knees, One Step At a Time

We never really appreciate something until we no longer have it. That’s particularly true of our knees. For most of our lives we take them for granted. They help us get around but we don’t really pay much attention to them. They’re uncelebrated and unsexy; after all, when was the last time you heard someone […]

Monday, July 28th, 2008

Headlines Don’t Lie…Do They?

So I was down in our Research Library going through some old files on all the studies and headlines we have accumulated. You know, processing the data dump. Okay, so I was actually just shuffling through the stack of print outs that are sitting on the dining room chair, okay? But look […]

Monday, July 21st, 2008

Not quite ready for posting

What do you do when you really don’t feel like doing anything. The other day I really just felt like taking a nap. Getting through the afternoon without falling asleep was tough and I certainly didn’t feel like going to the gym or going out to a formal dinner afterwards. But in the end I […]

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

Rediscover Your Childhood

When I was a kid I remember that the one gym class everyone dreaded was circuit training. It was as if it had been designed by sadists with small boys in mind. Get the kids to run around and use every single piece of equipment in the gym till every single muscle in their body […]

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008