We talk health, we join gyms, we buy exercise videos, and yet just 8% of Americans meet 5 healthy lifestyle benchmarks like exercising, eating right, and not smoking. According to a recent study from the University of South Carolina obesity is up from 28% to 38% and the people who eat five servings of fruits and vegetables daily dropped over the years from 42% to 26%. I’m one of them. I dream of lifting weights, but I only pick them up twice a week. I actually pay to go to a nutritionist, because it is the only way I’ll keep my mouth shut. In my next life maybe people will send me jewels instead of food and maybe my kitchen will become a gym. At any rate I’m 20 pounds lighter in the last eight weeks and still counting- calories that is.
In a previous blog, “A Runners Wife” I spoke about my husband training for the NYC marathon. All I have to say is that the months of training all came together of an amazing race. Race day is a grueling day for runners, and the family. But a miracle happened...
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder testified before the senate judiciary committee and basically shrugged when asked if any other enemy combatant captured overseas had ever been brought to civilian criminal court to face justice. Talk about an incompetent boob, not to mention a disgrace.
Here is a list of wines all from Spain, and menus from restaurants in Brooklyn where a crew of us did a food / wine crawl through Carrol Gardens and Williamsburg recently
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