Thrive After Corporate

03/11/2024

Kick-Off! Today we all gathered for our first meeting for planning this year’s Alzheimer’s Association walk. Every person in this room, the majority of which are volunteers, has a personal story of lossand heartache due to the devastation of cognitive disease. 10s of billions of dollars in research money has been spent and still there is no cure nor even effective pharmaceutical intervention.

02/26/2024

OUR MISSION TO ENSURE ACCESS TO ALL:
I recently joined the Board of Directors for the San Diego County YMCA-Mottino Branch/Oceanside. This year, my branch has a goal of raising $123,000 for the purpose of ensuring that everyone has access to the YMCA.
The money we raise is totally dedicated to supporting our scholarship program so low-income families, youths, and seniors can participate in the multitude of valuable programs offered at the YMCA.
MATCHING CAMPAIGN: Every dollar that you contribute to this year's campaign, up to $2,500, will be matched 1:1! Every gift is 100% tax deductible.
Your generous donation will help to make sure that no one in our community ever has a door closed on them and is never turned away from access to a healthier and happier life!
Please use the link below to go to my Classy page to make your life-altering contribution.

Empowering Our Community: San Diego County YMCA Board Members Lead the Charge for Raising Record Funds for Health, Youth, and Well-being initiatives. Help Me Reach My Goal!

02/23/2024

OUR MISSION TO ENSURE ACCESS TO ALL:

I recently joined the Board of Directors for the San Diego County YMCA-Mottino Branch/Oceanside. This year, my branch has a goal of raising $123,000 for the purpose of ensuring that everyone has access to the YMCA.

The money we raise is totally dedicated to supporting our scholarship program so low-income families, youths, and seniors can participate in the multitude of valuable programs offered at the YMCA.

MATCHING CAMPAIGN: Every dollar that you contribute to this year's campaign, up to $2,500, will be matched 1:1! Every gift is 100% tax deductible.

Your generous donation will help to make sure that no one in our community ever has a door closed on them and is never turned away from access to a healthier and happier life!

Please use the link below to go to my Classy page to make your life-altering contribution.

Empowering Our Community: San Diego County YMCA Board Members Lead the Charge for Raising Record Funds for Health, Youth, and Well-being initiatives. Help Me Reach My Goal!

02/20/2024

OUR MISSION TO ENSURE ACCESS TO ALL:

I recently joined the Board of Directors for the San Diego County YMCA-Mottino Branch/Oceanside. This year, my branch has a goal of raising $123,000 for the purpose of ensuring that everyone has access to the YMCA.

The money we raise is totally dedicated to supporting our scholarship program so low-income families, youths, and seniors can participate in the multitude of valuable programs offered at the YMCA.

MATCHING CAMPAIGN: Every dollar that you contribute to this year's campaign, up to $2,500, will be matched 1:1! Every gift is 100% tax deductible.

Your generous donation will help to make sure that no one in our community every has a door closed on them and is never turned away from access to a healthier and happier life.!

Please use the link below to go to my Classy page to make your life-altering contribution.

Thank you for your support!

Empowering Our Community: San Diego County YMCA Board Members Lead the Charge for Raising Record Funds for Health, Youth, and Well-being initiatives. Help Me Reach My Goal!

04/29/2021

On Saturday, the US will start May Mental Health Awareness Month. Let's all commit to making vibrant mental health a priority not just in May, but everyday.

08/18/2020

KNOW THY ENEMY: If you are ever so unfortunate to be accosted by an intruder or a thug on the street, your body goes through a checklist of responses. Your sympathetic nervous system kicks into high gear, the pulse races, the brain hyperfocuses on the enemy, and bloodflow shifts. You recognize your danger and your body responds to protect you to remove or avoid the intruder.

Now, there's a new intruder called novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. It is so tiny that 500M of them fit on the head of a pin. And one of the deadliest viruses to ever take over the world. The first picture is an electron micrograph of this bu**er. The red areas are the "spike proteins" which attach the virus to your cells.

The second photo shows one of your cells (green) under attack by CV19 (red). The spike proteins are burrowing into your cell, harnessing your cell genetic material, and making thousands of copies of itself so it can take over your lungs, your heart, all your organs, inflame your blood vessels and make your life miserable (if you live to tell about it).

The third photo shows white antibodies covering the red CV19 spike proteins to prevent it from intruding into your cells. These antibodies are your Superheroes.....stepping up to protect and disarm the intruder. A proper antibody and T-cell response by a healthy body prevents you from having a major CV19 attack.

Know thy enemy, focus on these photos and imagine what you would do to prevent them from entering your home if they were a 1,000 home invaders. Use a home protection system like an ADT alarm? Yeah, kinda' like wearing a mask. Make sure you keep your doors and windows locked? Yeah, kinda' like social distancing.

You get the point. Know thy enemy. Know it is a real threat. Know that you are responsible for yourself and the people you love.

Do your part.



(photos courtesy of National Geographic)

01/16/2020

Berries On The Brain: Berry fruits contain high levels of antioxidants, compounds that protect cells from damage by harmful free radicals. Equally important, berry fruits change the way neurons in the brain communicate. These changes in signaling can prevent inflammation in the brain that contribute to neuronal damage and improve both motor control and cognition. That's a lot of power in those sweet little treats so grab a handful each day for your brain's sake!

American Chemical Society: Chemistry for Life.

01/15/2020

Ponder Your Food: Portion control is easy when facing a plate of bland food, just not so much when your favorite food is in front of you. If you really want to be successful with weight control, ponder the health affects of your food before your eat. When you are looking at that chocolate cake, think about the fat and sugar it contains and it will help your cut a much smaller slice.

By David DiSalvo

12/04/2019

Dieting is OUT: So is counting calories. The new generation of wellness is all about eating mindfully and with purpose. Mindful eating is to be aware of the short-term as well as long-term effects of what you consume. It is about making a conscious decision of what to eat instead of giving into pleasure.

Eating mindfully involves eating slowly and appreciating your nutritious meal rather than quickly taking in non-nutritious meals at your work desk or standing up at the kitchen sink.

Eating mindfully means choosing high-quality food, not ones full of sugar and fat.

Eating mindfully means choosing a variety of foods from within each food group because different foods provide different types and amounts of key nutrients.

You can eat mindfully and still have a few unhealthy foods as long as you stick to a few you REALLY love and will satisfy food cravings. But, be mindfully of your cheat foods and don't overdo it.

How about we all have as a 2020 goal to ditch the calorie counters, fad diets and choose to be just be mindful of how we nourish our body?

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12/03/2019

Stuffing, Potatoes, Pies, Oh My: Now that we are in full Holiday Season in America, we are now also in the "fattening up" zone. We all say it: "I'll enjoy myself now and lose the weight in January." Yeaaaah, well it turns out most people likely won’t get back to their lowest weight until fall of the following year, at which point they'll proceed to gain it all back again.

I am not being a Grinch and trying to tell you to just veggie up over the Holidays, but I am recommending you eat mindfully when the table is collapsing under the weight of all that food. Do you really need second helpings of EVERYTHING? How about cut those slices of cake and pie a little smaller?

Think about that and remember your Holiday weight gain will stay with you until at least summer, when you really want to look good in your swim suit.



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11/24/2019

Our Addiction to Sugar: One of the pervasive topics when working with someone's nutrition is the excessive consumption of process sugar. When sugar is removed from its natural source, such as a tasty apple or bowl of berries, and added to other foods artificially or by processing, that is where the trouble begins.

Added sugar is in just about all processed foods....salad dressings, condiments, juices, and all those fat-free products. Studies have shown that consumption of sugary drinks can increase your chances of getting type 2 diabetes by 26%,

You can be more conscious of your sugar intake by reading labels and trying to stick with a diet that has no more than 10% of calories.

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11/22/2019

Creamy Avocados: When people incorporate one avocado a day into their diet, they have fewer small, dense LDL particles than before. While high overall LDL is a health problem, small, dense LDL particles are particularly harmful for promoting plaque buildup in the arteries. Nutritional advisers suggest people should consider adding avocados to their diet in a healthy way, such as in salads, on toast or in dips.

In one study, after five weeks on the avocado diet, participants had significantly lower levels of oxidized LDL cholesterol. A lot of research points to oxidation being the basis for conditions like cancer and heart disease. We know that when LDL particles become oxidized, that starts a chain reaction that can promote atherosclerosis.

Give your heart some love and make your taste buds happy by having a creamy, satisfying avocado each day!

New research suggests that eating one avocado a day may help keep 'bad cholesterol' at bay. According to the researchers, bad cholesterol can refer to both oxidized low-density lipoprotein (LDL) and small, dense LDL particles.