10 Signs You Need To Reserve Women in the Rockies Adventure Retreat
1. You feel a deepening ache for the mountains in the fall. They are calling you.
2. Your dream mountain adventure takes place in a beautiful location with luxury accommodations. Roughing it is not your style.
3. You want to live a more healthy life and are at a loss of how to do it.
Read MoreTop Five Secrets of Slender Women
Many women spot a slender woman and think her weight management must be effortless or maybe it’s just genetic. But that is far from true. As we age our metabolism gets slower and slower. Weight begins to creep up for ALL women unless we work harder on weight management.
Jumpstarting an Aging Brain
As we age, many of us want to keep our brains as healthy as our bodies. How do we do that? It turns out our brains are neuroplastic. Neuroplasticilty is the brain’s ability to repair damage by reorganizing and forming new connections between intact neurons. The catalyst for neuroplasticity is stimulating the neurons through cognitive activity.
It’s The Food Not The Calories!
After attending the Food As Medicine conference in Minneapolis, I have a new perspective on weight loss and eating strategies. The faculty who taught the program asked attendees to “walk their lifestyle talk,” during the conference, and we did.
Breaking Up With Gluten, Again
Last fall I under went IgG and IgE blood testing for food allergies with a functional primary care doctor. Only a few foods that I rarely eat came back “positive” for being allergic. Surprisingly, the test was negative for antibodies to wheat. I assumed that being off wheat for almost three years had repaired my gluten sensitivity. So of course, our family was back on the wheat train.
