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The Challenge of Making Behavioural Changes

Behavioural change programmes are considered to be state of the art the treatment of weight management. In order to make permanent changes in ones lifestyle a person must possess adequate motivation, the correct knowledge and the appropriate skills. Behavioural intervention is an ongoing process in which individuals identify their habits, learn how they occur and […]

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WHY ADULTS GAIN WEIGHT

Why do we adopt a middle aged spread as we grow older??? Many adults do not eat more, or even as much as they did when they were younger.  So why does the average person add 1lb of body weight per year from around 30yrs old onwards? You might assume that more fat on our […]

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St. Paddys Day Run – Tacoma

PAINT THE TOWN GREEN WITH PADDY POWER… Activity 7 – 8:30 AM Packet Pick-Up – Information HERE<< No Day of Race Registration Gear Check There will be a place to leave your belongings (at your own risk, but attended by a volunteer) Find the GEAR CHECK banner near the start. 8:10 AM Half Marathon *3 […]

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ELVIS BIRTHDAY BASH DASH – 5/10km

ELVIS BIRTHDAY BASH DASH – 5/10km Saturday, January 16, 2016 – 9:30am The Strong Center – Olympia, WA Dig out your jumpsuit, don your sideburns, and order up your gold sunglasses – it’s time for the Elvis Birthday Bash Dash – the first costumed, and most amazing 5K/10K of the new year! As part of […]

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So You’ve Been Diagnosed Bipolar…

What is Bipolar? Bipolar is the term for a mental illness in which the sufferer alternates between states of manic euphoria and deep depression. This cycle tends to repeat itself and can do so over the course of years, or within a few weeks or days. How I Felt When I Was Diagnosed. I felt… […]

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Megan Foster – Mental Health Blogger

BIO: Hello! My name is Megan. I’m 22 years old, I’m married to a wonderful man, and I live in KY, USA. I enjoy reading, writing, taking walks outside, and blogging about things like health and mental illnesses. I was diagnosed with Bipolar 2 in the fall of 2014, however I’ve suffered with it most […]

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Pauline Quirk – Not So Light As A Feather Again…

Back in 2011 I wrote an article about Pauline Quirk from Birds of a Feather, and her weight loss. I said then knowing about the diet she not only did to lose the weight but even became the face of the diet – Lighter Life, that she would pile it all back on again and […]

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Jihadi in Germany: What could possibly go wrong?

Whether most Muslims are peaceable is irrelevant. The fact is that fanatics rule Islam now & act-out what the Qur’an truly says …maul, march, & murder every Infidel if they won’t convert!” ― Gary Patton Being Islamist in Europe is nothing new. It is an old term for those radical Muslims who have always wanted […]

07/01/2016 | 0 Comments More

More British jihadis slip out of UK to fight for evil ISIS

More British jihadis slip out of UK to fight for evil ISIS despite being on WATCHLISTS It is difficult to understand how someone on the terror watch list can walk into an airport in the UK, with a British passport, walk through passport control where surely the passport check on the computer would flag up […]

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SENIORS STRENGTH TRAINING

OSTEOPOROSIS: Osteoporosis affects one in three women in the UK and one in twelve men. A condition caused by estrogen loss, which causes bone to lose minerals. ROLL OF ESTROGEN: Estrogen levels drop after menopause, and calcium is lost most rapidly during the first six years. Estrogen levels decrease in younger women who exercise too […]

04/01/2016 | 0 Comments More