Last week I finished up my ‘practicum’ for my Masters in Public Health degree. During my practicum I worked at the TX Dept. of State Health Services, doing a project with the privacy officer to review the trainings about protected information. Here’s my badge.. I decided to do this [...]
These days most everyone is aware that obesity is a problem on many levels. We hear about how it is raising the cost of healthcare, how being overweight is a risk factor for many diseases, most notably diabetes and cardiovascular disease. In some ways, this is really simple. We need to eat less, and then [...]
Many of us do yoga to be healthier. We’re not entirely sure why or how, but we sure feel better! Thankfully, as western science progresses, the eastern ways of understanding health and the western ways of understanding health continue to get more aligned. For example, when you go to yoga class, we often talk about [...]
I know I’m the only one of us (snark alert!) who ever struggles with planning to act smarter, eat healthier, walk more, do more yoga, etc, etc, etc…and still struggles with it all! Well, maybe not. Especially as we head into Thanksgiving, and then we quickly find ourselves in the annual New Year’s Resolution foolishness, [...]
This graphic lets us see in an obvious, elegant manner, the SAD (Standard American Diet). Exercising my ‘veganism’ these last few days, I have noticed how big a range of diet is still possible while I eat no animal products. Its not very hard to eat crappy food, and have it not be animals. However, [...]
Today was a journey..mostly movement…dancing……an community. I listened to Bitsy talk about Om on the 6th day of the Challenge. I’m still getting started changing my diet…after so many years of paying attention to food, this is really the first concerted effort I’ve made to be strictly vegan….so far, I continue to struggle with the [...]
Okay – another day as a vegan….and continuing to watch my behavior as I attempt to change. This work to track myself as I try to change is my most active focus in my professional work in the last few years. As I pursue my Masters in Public Health at UTHealth. My focus is on [...]
Today I’m noticing the habit of change I am living with. At 56, I’ve noticed patterns I carry with me…some are historic, and not present when I began a few days ago, some were there and are now not as present….but all seem VERY familiar. They are VERY personal patterns! For example, I have noticed [...]
Today is the 3rd day in my 40 Day Challenge. I taught yoga, in my new class at 360 at 7:30 tonight, and I spent some time today allowing my focus to shift to ‘how can I eat as a vegan’? Focus is one of the 4 main areas of health behavior that are integral [...]
For the last few years I have been moving my focus towards change….and primarily (though not exclusively) change that is associated with improving personal health. So much is going on in this area…..new insights in neuroplasticity, exciting new technologies for tracking personal behaviors exemplified by the Quantified Self, and all kinds of new approaches to [...]
