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HOW MANY STEPS A DAY?

How Many Steps a Day?

How many steps a day are enough? The recommendations for healthy adults (according to science-based information) are:

Fewer than 5,000 steps/day is a sedentary lifestyle index. Start here if you’re new to walking, and make incremental improvements over weeks and months.

5,000 – 7,499 steps/day is typical of daily activity without sports/exercise and is considered low active.

7,500 – 9,999 includes some physical activities and active jobs, and is considered somewhat active.

More than 10,000 steps/day indicates an active individual.More than 12,500 steps/day is classified as highly active (and applies to most children).

Move On with Your Life

Move On with Your Life

by Dr. Polly Cooper Brown

Moving on is a phrase often used to encourage acceptance of the current reality. In your situation, you no longer have the life you once had with your husband. Moving on may mean giving up your expectations that life will be similar to what it had been before his death. It may mean that you will be open to new and different things that can fill your life and make it meaningful.

Moving on means that you make a great effort to live in the present and not in the past. It also means that you do not live in the future, simply waiting for that time when you will join your husband in heaven. The healthy thing to do is to regard each day as a new day and an exciting gift to be explored with thankfulness and joy.

How do you do that? It is a decision you must make. When you consciously decide to move on in healthy ways, you will see things differently and you will recognize opportunities you have not seen before. You may find new opportunities to do things that have had meaning for you in the past. Though you no longer can share those things with your partner, you may still find joy in them. If those activities don’t bring you pleasure, let them go. Try new things until you discover what is right for you at this point in your life.

Is there some major change you need to make? Some other place you need to be? Something you need to do? Sometimes we don’t move on because we are reluctant to give up some things. It is often true that we must give up something in order to gain other opportunities. Are you missing the joy of moving on because you are unwilling to give up certain things? You might want to consider why you are clinging to those things.

You probably have heard it said that my husband would turn over in his grave if I did this or that. Could it be that you are letting that kind of thinking limit you? I would encourage you to free yourself from those thoughts. Of course, you want to be respectful of your spouse’s memory, but this is your life to live in a new and different way. God’s plans for you extend past the point of your husband’s death. Take all the time you need to wonder and explore what His future plans are for you.

10 Principles of Healthy Living

10 Principles of Healthy Living

Breathe deeply.
Drink water.
Sleep peacefully.
Eat nutritionally.
Enjoy activity.
Give and receive love.
Be forgiving.
Practice gratitude.
Develop acceptance.
Nurture your spiritual side.

Eat Right and Here’s How

Eat Right and Here’s How

It’s all about balance – how much and what you eat and how much activity you get. With healthful habits, you may reduce your risk of developing heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, and certain cancers.

New dietary guidelines, based on science, from federal government expert committees will help you feel better today and stay healthy for tomorrow. Fill your plate this way. This plan is based on a 2,000-calorie diet, appropriate for most people, and the guideline used on most Nutrition Facts (food) labels.

Go lean with protein. Bake, broil, or grill a variety of lean meats, fish and poultry. A three-ounce portion is a recommended serving size when you choose to eat meat. Beans, peas, and nuts are also good sources for protein.

Make half your grains whole. Check to make sure “whole” grain is listed in the ingredients of the product. Include three ounces or more of whole grains. An ounce is a slice of bread, ¼ of a bagel, or ½ cup of cooked rice.

Get calcium-rich foods. One cup of fat-free milk meets a third of the daily recommendation.

Limit intake of salt and sugars. Choose and prepare foods with little salt (sodium) and added sugars (caloric sweeteners).

Vary your veggies and focus on fruits. Think green leafy – such as broccoli. Go for more color with orange veggies such as carrots, and try to eat 2½ cups of veggies per day. Add another 2 cups of fruits by choosing fresh, frozen, canned, or dried.

Regular physical activity helps you control body weight by balancing the calories you taken in as food with the calories you burn each day. Engage in at least 30 minutes of moderate physical activity on most days of the week. To manage or lose weight, reduce the calories in the foods you choose and increase your physical activity to 60 to 90 minutes per day.

Coffee Filter Uses

COFFEE FILTER USES

Who knew! And you can buy 1,000 at the Dollar Store for almost nothing, even the large ones. Better than paper towels and a lot less expensive . . .

Cover bowls or dishes when cooking in the microwave.Coffee filters make excellent covers.

Clean windows, mirrors, and chrome.Coffee filters are lint-free, so they’ll leave windows sparkling.

Protect china by separating your good dishes with a coffee filter between each dish.

Protect a cast-iron skillet.Place a coffee filter in the skillet to absorb moisture and prevent rust.

Apply shoe polish.Ball up a lint free coffee filter.

Recycle frying oil.After frying, strain oil through a sieve lined with a coffee filter.

Weigh chopped foods.Place chopped ingredients in a coffee filter on a kitchen scale.

Hold tacos. Coffee filters make convenient wrappers for messy foods.

Stop the soil from leaking out of a plant holder.Line a plant holder with a coffee filter to prevent the soil from going through the drainage holes.

Prevent a popsicle from dripping.Poke one or two holes as needed in a coffee filter.

Put a few coffee filters in a plate and put your fried bacon, french fries, chicken fingers, etc. on them.They soaks out all the grease.

Use to hold dry ingredients when baking.It saves having bowls to wash.

THEY ARE GREAT TO USE IN YOUR COFFEE MAKERS, TOO

Discipline in the Word

Discipline in the Word

Have you ever read the Bible completely through? Statistics show that most Christians have not. Many begin but become overwhelmed at the task—that’s 1189 chapters and 31,102 verses! Actually, it is not as daunting as it may seem. You can read the Bible through in a year by committing 20 minutes of your time each day and reading only four chapters or less.

Our knowledge of the Scriptures can be extremely beneficial when facing adversity, but we will not have this knowledge if we have not first disciplined ourselves to study the Word of God. We have heard people say, “Pray the scripture when faced with trying situations.” This is impossible to do if we have not first committed those scriptures to memory. If there are certain areas of our life that seem to frustrate us more than others, we can find scriptures that relate to that subject and memorize them. You can start out by writing these verses on a card and placing them where they are visible every day. Once you have the verses in your mind, you can quote them on a regular basis so that they are not soon forgotten. The Bible is a source of wisdom and principles that guide us and give us an insight into life that is not available anywhere else.

The Bible, however, is more than just a source of information. It goes far beyond that. There is a transforming effect through the Word of God: “Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee” (Psalm 119:11). This illumination does not just come from the principles of the Word, but from the power of God. By hiding the Word in our hearts, we plug into an eternal viewpoint of life that raises the vision from the problems of today and ennobles the Spirit.

Measure Me

Measure Me

How do we take the measure of a person and know how big she really is? Is it from the tips of the toes to the top of the head? Or is it the waistline or head size? I do not think any of these simple measurements takes the true measure of a person into consideration.

I say, measure me by the size of my heart. Take your tape measure and go around my heart, and include all the things my heart is touched by, and you will know how large I truly am.

The actions you take that spring from your heart have a far greater effect than those that come only from the mind or body. Open your heart and allow it to guide you in your actions.

One can become famous for physical accomplishments, but only the accomplishments of the heart truly fulfill. When one heart touches another we have hearts beating in unison with no fear of rejection. A heart filled with love is eternal and not measurable by our hand.

Author Unknown

Three Granny Tales

Three Granny Tales

A grandmother was telling her little granddaughter what her own childhood was like: “We used to skate outside on a pond. I had a swing made from a tire; it hung from a tree in our front yard. We rode our pony. We picked wild raspberries in the woods.” The little girl was wide-eyed, taking this in. At last she said, “I sure wish I’d gotten to know you sooner!”

My grandson was visiting one day when he asked, “Grandma, do you know how you and God are alike?” I mentally polished my halo while I asked, “No, how are we alike?” “You’re both old,” he replied.

A grandmother was sitting on her porch watching her grandchildren as they played in her yard. Suddenly, a fire truck zoomed past. Sitting in the front seat of the fire truck was a Dalmatian dog. The children started discussing the dog’s duties. “They use him to keep crowds back,” said the oldest grandson. “No,” said the other grandson, “he’s just for good luck.” The granddaughter brought the argument to a close. “They use the dog,” she said firmly, “to find the fire hydrant.”

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Noah’s Ark

Everything I need to know, I learned from Noah’s Ark.

ONE: Don’t miss the boat

TWO: Remember that we are all in the same boat!

THREE: Plan ahead. It wasn’t raining when Noah built the Ark.

FOUR: Stay fit. When you’re 600 years old, someone may ask you to do something really big.

FIVE: Don’t listen to critics; just get on with the job that needs to be done.

SIX: Build your future on high ground.

SEVEN: For safety’s sake, travel in pairs.

EIGHT: Speed isn’t always an advantage. The snails were on board with the cheetahs.

NINE: When you’re stressed, float awhile.

TEN: Remember, the Ark was built by amateurs; the Titanic by professionals.

ELEVEN: No matter the storm, when you are with God, there’s always a rainbow waiting.

Steamed Vegetables

Steamed Vegetables

As we begin a new year, many of us attempt to eat more healthily as a new resolution. Steamed foods retain more nutrients, better color, and intense flavor. Ziplock provides bags especially for steaming foods in the microwave. Try this cabbage recipe for a simple, tasty, and healthy vegetable dish. If you do not especially care for cabbage, try cooking your favorite vegetable in the steamer bags. You will love it!

Steamed Cabbage

Chop cabbage into small strips, and fill a medium-sized Ziplock steam bag.
Sprinkle with salt, pepper, and Tony Chachere’s Creole seasoning.
Add one or two tablespoons of butter.
Seal bag and place in microwave.
Cook on high for only three minutes.

Delicious, perfectly cooked cabbage!