SINGLE Best Thing to DO for Your HEALTH! (Video)

Clever, Factual Presentation 

is Research-based!

Entertaining and highly informative whiteboard illustrations by Liisa Sorsa helps Dr. Mike Evans make his point, showing the ultimate way to seek higher physical, mental, emotional and social well-being.  Watch this 23 and ½ Hours presentation – then take 30 minutes to fulfill the challenge!

Join the Muvement

Muve Towards Gruve Solutions

Gruve is not the latest fruit, and Muve is not a dyslexic version of move. These terms are part of a fascinating way people can track their daily exercise on line. Instantly, people can see how they are tracking toward their daily caloric burn goal. I am eager to try this out. What a brilliant way to use technology to inspire Muvement!

Physical Activity Campaigns

Recommended ways to promote

physical activities and physical fitness

Task Force on Community Preventive Services provides free research and publications helping people choose programs and policies to improve health and prevent disease within their community. More than 200 interventions have been reviewed by the Task Force on Community Services. Free Community Guides are available addressing 19 health topics including physical activity. Strong evidence suggests using a community-wide campaign to increase physical activity and improve physical fitness among adults and children. Now is the best time to act using these best practices.

Wellness Wheel (graphic)

The goal of wellness is balancing all seven areas

Don Alsbro, originator of Dump Your Plump motivational wellness program, perfectly represents the meaning of wellness using a graphic taken from his book, Take the Wellness Road. Spend time reflecting on this Wellness Wheel. Estimate what you have done in the last 24 hours to foster each of the seven wellness areas – Physical, Intellectual, Social, Environmental, Spiritual, Emotional, Nutritional, and Vocational. Determine your strengths and areas needing attention; joyously seek total well-being today.

Take New Fitness Steps

Wellness QUEST for YOUR BEST! With the New Year fast approaching, consider how you can improve your physical fitness. If you are not sure, consult a fitness specialist or knowledgeable friend who is physically active. You might want to improve your strength, flexibility, or stamina with aerobic training such as walking. Read the web links highlighted above and consult with your health care provider if you are just getting started. Make sure you start well within your fitness level for safety and ease into any new exercise for maximum enjoyment.

Health BENEFITS: Aerobic training strengthens the heart, lungs and circulatory system for disease prevention, helps boost body and brain energy throughout the day, regulates insulin, burns excess calories for weight management, and improves restfulness and sleep. Flexibility training, such as yoga and pilates, keeps muscles and joints supple for greater range of motion, injury prevention and relaxation. Strength training builds muscle tone, making your daily work easier to manage.

QUOTE: To follow without halt, one aim; there’s the secret of success. Anna Pavlova

HUMOR: He’s developing a more active lifestyle. Now he sits and watches aerobic shows on television.

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Note: The Health Cartoon shown above is taken from the perpetual Health Care-toons Calendar by Jeff Haebig and cartoonist Ed Fischer.

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Pedometer Walking Programs

Top 10 Pedometer Walking Programs are suggested

Wendy Bumgardner writing for About.com has done her homework, describing free and fee online walking programs that use pedometers and journaling to keep on track. Assistance is provided, helping people choose the right pedometer.

Yoga for All Ages

Older Adults Increasingly Turn to Yoga for Health

John Hanc writing for the AARP Bulletin Today offers good reason for older adults to practice the physical type of yoga designed to keep the muscles and joints resilient. I agree wholeheartedly with John about picking a knowledgeable yoga instructor sensitive to the aging body. Every pose has its variations suitable to people with stiff joints and those most supple. The key is keeping within your own daily comfort level. Proper breathing is also essential.

Goldmine of Health Resources

Free online source of health information abounds with facts

Medline Plus delivers information about health topics, journal articles, illustrated medical encyclopedia, drugs, and the latest health news. Check out the 750 health topics and resources on physical fitness. This keen comprehensive source of information is provided by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institute of Health.

Earthly Family is Tops!

Visit this amazing website for family-fun and much more!

Earthly Family is a precious jewel of a website offering fun-filled family activities, scrumptious healthy recipes, many insightful articles, parenting tips, travels, good reads, links, and special ways to celebrate each day! This amazing site is full of wholesome ways to foster family wellness – it is a rich resource that will pay great physical, mental, emotional and spiritual dividends.

Physical Education and the Brain

Daily Movement and Exercise improves academic performance

Physical Education is redefining itself. Now that neuroscience has shown how movement and exercise enhances brain function, more physical educators are seeing themselves as key players in the current learning revolution spurred by brain research. Naperville Central High School has led the nation. Phil Lawler and Physical Educator Paul Zientarski have worked with Dr. John Ratey, author of SPARK – The New Revolutionary Science of Exercise and the Brain. They have created a daily program that has proven its effectiveness. Read the stories – then insist your schools offer daily Physical Education designed to boost body-brain fitness. Test scores, social-emotional health, physical well-being and motivation will rise.

Attend the 2009 DuPage PE-Heatlh-DrEd Institute in Naperville, Illinois on February 27, 2009 and hear Dr. Ratey, Bill Hubert, Jean Madigan Blaydes and others address these exciting changes. For more conference information visit DuPageInstitue

Jeff Haebig

Seek Wellness through Physical Fitness

Seek Total Physical Fitness described on Seek Wellness!

Seek Wellness http://www.seekwellness.com/fitness/index.htm offers a complete understanding of what it means to be physically fit. This amazing website suggests the most effective ways to achieve it. Before you start a fitness program… make sure you are on the right pathway, visit Seek Wellness. It is free and full of useful ideas designed to elevate your social, emotional, mental and physical wellness.

By all means, check out Don Ardell's archive on Seek Wellness as well. Don launched the Wellness Movement with his best selling book High Level Wellness years ago -- he continues to be a dominant force in the wellness movement. Don's keen humor reminds us that wellness is too important to be taken grimly -- lighten up!

http://www.seekwellness.com/wellness/daily_reports/search_reports_results.htm?text=physical+fitness&type=or hosts Don Ardell's extensive Wellness Archive. Enjoy!

Jeff Haebig