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As We See It!   What Does "Legally Blind" Actually Mean?  By Lynda Jones
All people who are totally blind are legally blind, but all people who are legally blind are not totally blind. Confusing?   Legal blindness is defined in two ways:   1) 20/20... Read More

  Friday, April 8, 2011 Simple Swaps for Clean Eating Back in the day, if you wanted to eat clean it meant spending a lot of time in the kitchen preparing your own food from scratch and at times, even deciding to sacrifice eating some foods because there just wasn't a healthy alternative.  Sure, supermarket shelves have long been stocked with food that seemed healthy, but now we know that when cookies have s... Read More

  Monday, March 28, 2011 Lessons from a Binge It's Monday, and I am willing to bet there are more than a few people kicking themselves thinking, "just water and lettuce today...I have to undo the weekend!" 

Binge eating is no joke, and can happen quickly when you're already on a slippery slope of restricted calories, over-training, and fatigue.  I know because I've been there.  I know how that Monday food hangove... Read More

Happy Mardi Gras! It's Mardi Gras!  I love this season, it is so full of life and fun and always reminds me of home and my family.  And the food.  The food...yeah, not the healthiest.  I have yet to actually travel home to Louisiana and last longer than three days of healthy eating before I totally cave and give in to the delicious food found at every turn.  Luckily my brother and sister are usually up for a run to burn off the calories or I would be in trouble!... Read More

The Diet Soda Dance Over the weekend I heard a news report about new research showing that drinking diet soda every day increases your chance of a stroke by 61%. And when I sat down to Google it, I naturally found this article urging caution about taking the results too seriously because there hasn't been enough work to establish a true link between the two.


Of course we should keep drinking diet soda! A refreshing and filling beverage... Read More

Authored by Ryan Cohn, CEO of What's Next Marketing 7Share On February 17th, LivingSocial went live in Tallahassee with its first deal campaign. The initial restaurant was Kiku Japanese Sushi with a spend $25, get $50 in food deal. I personally purchased this deal, as I'm quite a fan of Kiku's sushi and will most likely redeem it by the end of the week. I have, however, purchased quite a few deals from LivingSocial's direct competitor, Groupon. Both LivingSocia... Read More

Injury Prevention: Not just for muscles anymore I've got a half marathon coming up on Sunday, and I've got a sore achilles tendon. So I've been resting a lot this week, which has made me feel kind of ornery and blobby. I don't like resting.
I also have a wonderful friend who sent me this helpful article on preventing common running injuries. It has some good examples of exercises you can do every day to strengthen the muscles that usually get hurt while running to prevent gettin... Read More

Fitness: It Just Has to Be Any given day you can find stories of amazing people doing incredible things in the name of fitness.  My Twitter feed each day is filled with people posting euphoric updates about their grueling workouts and cheering each other on to achieve more. It can be inspirational as all get-out and I love it!

It can also be intimidating.  I mean, sometimes exercise isn't amazing. Sometimes the workout is just a means to an end: calories burned,... Read More

 RIP Jack LaLanne I still remember the first time I saw Jack LaLanne on TV. This compact, pompadour-wearing muscle man dressed all in black, teaching housewives of America how to exercise at home had me staring at the screen in dumbfounded awe.  I didn't know whether to laugh or take notes. His earnest, optimistic, positive, and can-do attitude mesmerized me and endeared me to him for years after. Over the years I have grown to respect Jack LaLanne as a cham... Read More

Have fitness, will travel: being healthy on the road For the past five days, I have been doing some hard-core hotel living. One of the easiest ways to derail your fitness is to disrupt the routine, and going out of town can easily do it. Unless!  Unless!  Unless you think ahead and make a plan for staying true to your goals despite being in a less-than-optimum locale!  Believe it or not, you can be healthy on the road.  Here's how: b... Read More

Your Strongest Fitness Tool: Intention to Change   We've come to the final tool in our fitness toolkit!  I think this one is the opposite of the no-brainer: it's your brain. You have to decide to make change in your brain. You have to have intention.

So many people say they want to change their lives for the healthier, but what they really want is what every diet commercial tells them they can have: the benefits of change without really having to change.  Has that ever... Read More