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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2017
Health and fitness hacks
for the New Year
I tried to keep these clips as condensed as possible...
1. Our body craves: clean air, water, balanced diet, sun
shine, activity, rest and less stress. The basics still work, are
not expensive and are the best medicine.
2. Fat and mucous helps shield us from toxins: detoxing
helps with weight loss and helps keep these toxins from aging
us while we’re shedding fat. Eat plenty of fiber while detoxing
and losing weight, or the toxins will reab
sorb into your system. Fiber helps drag
toxins out through your waste.
3. Sugar makes you fatter then fat: your
body has to pull excess sugar from your
blood that you’re not burning and it will
store the extra in your fat cells.
4. Your body is made up with a com
pletely new generation of cells every year:
your lifestyle habits pretty much dictate
their revitalization or deterioration.
5. When trying to find out which
exercise program is best for you, look to your lifestyle specific
needs: when we know exactly what we are wanting, (whether
it’s weight loss, strengthening, building, cardiopulmonary
conditioning or a combination of either of the above), all we
have to do is add in the program that works best for us and fits
into our life. We are not designed to fit in someone else’s shoe.
6. A shrinking of muscle decreases physical capabilities, in
creased muscle and tone increases capability: regular activity
tones and conditions the muscles to continue handling this
level of stress.
7. We have free fat burners available: 1. Temporary calorie
restriction causes your body to release calories from fat cells.
2. Our body bums calories to keep us warm.
3. Our body bums a lot of calories when we eat foods that
break down slower vs. foods that turn to a starchy or sugary
mush as soon as we eat them.
8. Instead of treating inflammation, how bout we get rid
of the aggravation that is causing the inflammation. Inflam
mation is actually a part of the healing process, but if not
turned off, will continue festering until it turns into a diseased
condition. Get rid of the aggravation, you then get rid of the
inflammation which dries out the chronic diseased condition.
9. Antidepressants are known to give people suicidal
thoughts: have you tried healthy diet and exercise?
to. Supplements are gap fillers: knowing what gaps you’re
trying to fill can save you money and keep your body from
having to detox itself from things it doesn’t need.
11. Instability in exercise (free weights and bodyweight
exercises) helps us with greater stability in real life. Machines
do not do much in strengthening our stabilizer muscles.
12. Pushups, squats and planks are some of the best exer
cises you can do at home. Your body is your universal gym.
And by the way, we should practice getting up from the floor
more often; it exercises most of your body’s muscles when you
do this.
13. Heart Disease and Cancer are the leading killers: the
leading cause of heart disease and cancer is lifestyle.
14. Green leafy vegetables help gives us clearer vision:
they contain large amounts of the eye’s favorite antioxidants,
(lutein and zeaxanthin).
15. There is a bonus payout on jobs that require manual
labor: you get to exercise on the job and probably have better
health then the average person that sits behind a desk, (espe
cially ones who do not exercise).
16. Pain pills are blinders of fact: they desensitize us to
a body part that is screaming out in pain. It’s like putting
earmuffs on when your child is screaming and acting like
everything is okay because you can’t hear anything. Wrap it,
support it, massage it, cool it, being nice to it your hurting
body part helps heal it.
17. If health seems to be getting off track: start a food,
hydration, activity and sleep journal.
18. Buy produce as much as you can from people you
know: when they grow foods for their own consumption, you
can trust it much more then produce that comes through food
market logistics.
19. Up and down movement is what stimulates the flow
of lymph fluid in our lymphatic system: this is a big part of
our waste removal system and much of our immune system.
Jumping jacks, trampoline, most free weight and bodyweight
exercises that cause intense muscle contractions, will help
move lymph fluid upwards as well.
20. All disease begins in the gut: if we have digestive prob
lems, we should get to the bottom of it as soon as possible.
Antibiotics are anti-gut health; probiotic rich foods are pro gut
health. If you need to take antibiotics, eat probiotic rich foods
and take a probiotic supplement to restore gut and digestive
health.
21. We should research for what’s causing things instead of
trying to cure them.
22. When your body is fighting the flu, lighten up on the
foods you eat (soups, jello and broths) this will let more ener
gy go to your immune system, instead of digestion.
23. Less medicine and medical access would make us more
proactive in adopting healthy preventive lifestyle habits
24. Muscle does not care what it looks like: it only cares
that it is able to better handle the stress we regularly put it
through.
I hope your New Year is one that you can decrease your
dependency, or future need for medical intervention, while
increasing your level of health, fitness, mobility and physical
capabilities! Wade Yoder
WADE YODER is a Master Trainer and Fitness/Nutrition Specialist.
Contact him atwww.wadeyoder.com
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New Year wishes to all
What a year! Where it went I
do not know. So many changes
everywhere; some good, some not
so good.
Crawford County ended the year
on a positive note with occupying
the CGTC building. What a show
case for the county and what
savings for taxpayers. This
building will suffice for years
and years to come and of
course, could be modified,
saving lots of taxpayer mon
ey from having to be spent
on building a government
complex. I’m not sure the
community has let this fact
set in. It’s somewhat of a
miracle.
The Development Author
ity having an office at the
complex surely will be impressive
to potential clients interested in
locating in Crawford County.
City of Roberta ends year with
its mayor and two councilmen
attending their last meeting. A new
mayor and councilmen take seats in
January.
City of Byron ends the year with
work about to begin on redoing an
outdated city charter and adopting
a new budget.
There are so many positives if
we only look around. The economy
seems to be rebounding and that
is good news for all of us. We now
have a new tax
reform bill which
I am praying gives
some relief to the
middle class. While
some complain
about it being
geared toward
businesses, we
must remember
the premise is that
if the businesses are doing well,
they in turn can grow and hire more
employees and impact the economy
positively. I haven’t read the new
draft yet, so really can’t say only
that I have high hopes.
Hope. It’s one thing we can al
ways have for the future. In begin
ning a new year, it is always good to
look back at the past year, reflect on
the good and build on it; reflect on
the bad and learn from it and move
forward.
In the new year, I want to deepen
my relationship with my Lord and
Savior. It’s something I work on all
the time and many times fall short.
Even though I know He forgives
me, it pains me when I fall short
of where I think I should be in my
walk. I know that He doesn’t see it
that way though.
It’s relationships that matter and
in the new year, I urge you to take
care of those relationships you cher
ish. Whether it be family, co-work
ers, friends or others you associate
with on a regular basis.
We value our relationship at
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community and the community
movers and shakers but with our
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year. It makes us smile every time
we receive a renewal notice. Some
of our readers have been with us
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something to us. Something we
never take for granted.
Newspapers have taken a huge
hit over the years with the age of
everything digital. But we keep sur
viving and doing the best
we can trying to keep up
in the age of technology.
It’s not always easy and
our website sometimes
is down more than it’s
functional. We will con
tinue to work on that and
looking forward to some
success in that area.
Even in the digital age,
we publish stories you
can’t get anywhere else.
Like stories from the government
meetings and stories about people
in our community who do great
things or are making a difference or
have a great achievement in their
lives. You can’t find those stories
on the web and they are localized to
our area. We will continue to do our
best with those stories each week.
Some weeks we get really strung out
trying to cover meetings and occa
sionally, we can’t make one, but it’s
not for lack of trying. There is just
only so much of us to go around.
We welcome suggestions for
improvement from our readers.
Our door in always
open and we are
always looking for
ways to improve.
We especially like
it when we get a
pat on the back
for something
someone thinks
is a really good
story. We rarely get
those and cherish the ones we do.
So thank you to those people who
appreciate what we do.
My husband starts a new adven
ture on a new job this year as his old
place shut down with 160 employ
ees having to find new jobs. It’s in
Columbus and at our age, it’s kind
of like having to start all over again
at the bottom. But I am proud of
how he handles things and his abil
ity to bounce back. One good thing
is, during his off time, he has gotten
a lot of things done at the house,
even some on my “honey-do” list so
that was a real blessing. Of course,
he’ll never reach the end of it and
that just keeps things interesting.
I don’t make resolutions for the
new year as you feel like a failure at
times if you don’t succeed in keep
ing them. I just strive to be better
and do better than the year before.
I wish all of you blessings in the
New Year and will be praying for
each of you to have a successful
and prosperous year full of God’s
blessings. He always provides.
Wishing you and yours a very
Happy New Year. Please be safe
out there.
VICTORIA SIMMONS is an author, col
umnist, motivational speaker, minister and
publisher of The Georgia Post/Byron Buzz.
Contact her at: vsimmons54@gmail.com
Hope. It’s one
thing we can
always have
for the future.
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Trenesia Stubbs
I’ve noted a decided lack of wishes for a merry
Christmas this year. I think some of my fellow cel
ebratory brethren have been cowed by social con
vention. The horribly bland “Happy Holidays” just
doesn’t do it for me. Rather than feeling alienated
by the prevailing fear of offending
someone, no matter how rushed, I’ve|
made it a personal mission to wish
everyone a merry Christmas.
We can do inclusion without
adoption. I’ve been wishing people
a “Merry Christmas and whatever
you may celebrate.” There’s nothing
wrong with recognizing not every
one is just like us. And realize that
doesn’t mean anything is wrong with |
them. So why not wish them well?
Every man, woman and child is God’s child, made
in His image, no matter his politics or faith. To love
others is to love God. You know, God is love. It is not
up to us to decide when the Lord gives light to others.
When we wish each other a merry Christmas we’re
celebrating God loving us enough to send His son for
our salvation. Baby Jesus was the absolute, hands
down, bestest gift of all time.
How that joy to the world that is Jesus got mish-
mashed with frenzied merchandising and shopping
I’m sure I’ll never know. I do know, though, wishing
folks a merry Christmas and acknowledging they may
celebrate something else garnered reciprocal merry
Christmas wishes and gratitude from those celebrat
ing differently or Tl ,
It s us pew
sitters I
wonder about.
at all.
Oh yeah, I wanted
to remind everyone
that liberal, conser
vative, comatose—
we’re all Americans.
That point seems
to have gotten jumbled up or forgotten. Christmas
doesn’t end until Epiphany on January 6, 2018—wher
the Magi bring gifts to the greatest gift. You’ve got
time. Try out the inclusive merry Christmas.
You know how sometimes you’re in the middle of
doggedly doing some task and something brings you
up short? That happened last week while I tidied
my office. The television was on and a news anchor
announced that Macon-Bibb Parks and Beautification
were cleaning up Central City Park, Rotary Park and
Gateway Plaza. Specifically, homeless folks were beinj
routed so obviously taxpaying citizens can better
enjoy the parks.
The tents and self-made shelters were taken away.
Their meager belongings were photographed, cata
logued, stored in clear plastic bins and warehoused.
Sam Kitchens, Director of Macon-Bibb Parks and
Beautification, stated the displaced homeless (isn’t
that repetitively redundant?) could come and pick up
their belongings any time.
Wow! Even the homeless get evicted. There’s
something terribly wrong with that. One of the evicted
was quoted as saying, “...they told us everybody had
to leave, but they didn’t tell us where to go.” It’s not
so much the wonderfully bureaucratic Macon-Bibb
Parks and Beautification people doing their thing that
disturbs me.
It’s us pew sitters I wonder about. Why do we, one
of the richest countries in the world, have people
living on the street and in hunger? Isn’t addressing
those things part of the Christian charter? To quote
Michael Jackson’s song, “Man In The Mirror:”
I’ve been a victim of a selfish kind of love
It’s time that I realize
That there are some with no home,
Not a nickel to loan
Could it be really me
Pretending that they’re not alone?
I’m starting with the man in the mirror
I’m asking him to change his ways
And no message could have been any clearer
If you wanna make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself and then make a change
TRENESIA STUBBS is a contributing columnist. You can
contact her by email: trenesia@pstel.net
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