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January 2013

Get Healthy, Delaware!: BodyPump, Preston’s March for Energy, Grab & Go at Harvest Market

01/16/13

Get Healthy, Delaware!: BodyPump, Preston’s March for Energy, Grab & Go at Harvest Market

They Are Here to Pump … You Up We all know the drill. People flock to the gym in January to fulfill a resolution or feel better about their holiday feasting. These same people tend to work out too hard and too fast and are injured or discouraged by the last week of the month. People—it doesn’t have to be this way. A lot of blogs out there will give you the top five incentives to keep going to the gym, so I feel the need to go rogue. I want to let you in on a healthy strategy that may keep you in the game. Strength training is weightlifting with slow and controlled movements.  It’s designed for building and toning muscle with the added benefits of increasing your metabolism and preventing osteoporosis. For many, strength training means going to the...

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Healthy Gifts, Slow-cooker Recipes: Delaware Health

01/02/13

Healthy Gifts, Slow-cooker Recipes: Delaware Health

Health- and Wellness-Themed Gifts If you are reading this blog, it means the Mayans’ calculations were a bit off. Happy New Year, dear readers! This is the time of year people are either playing with new holiday gifts or plotting their exchanges.  I noticed a significant trend in the health and wellness themed gifts this season and thought I would highlight a few that sold like healthy hotcakes. Fitness video games. We’ve come a long way from Wii tennis. Hollywood Celebrity Trainer Harley Pasternak released his own fitness program for both the Wii and XBox 360 Kinect. Now, the rest of us non-Oscar winners can learn Pasternak’s “5-Factor” Fitness Program with choices of types of workout regimens and durations.   Fitness...

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Shari Short is a writer and consultant in healthcare and consumer psychology. A developmental psychologist by training, Shari has researched consumer decision-making and behaviors in the fields of health care, tourism, higher education and finance. With more than 15 years of experience in the field of strategic planning, research and marketing, Shari has held positions with the National Cancer Institute, Centers for Disease Control, and Aloysius Butler and Clark. A former standup comedian, Shari has been the opening act for performers such as Shawn Colvin and Sandra Bernhard. Shari earned a B.F.A. in cinema studies from New York University Tisch School of the Arts and received her M.A. in developmental psychology from Columbia University Teachers College. Shari is the President of The Short Answer Consulting organization and can be reached at shari@shortanswerconsulting.com.

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