Tracking your progress is an important way to maintain your motivation while dieting. Scale weight can be a useful number to know but, even better, is knowing your body fat percentage. This is important because scale weight doesn’t always tell the whole story. This week’s Ask a Pharmacist podcast, with Shalena Putnam and John Abdelmalek, focuses on effective ways to track your dieting progress.
We live in an eat-and-run, super-sized food portions culture, which makes maintaining a healthy weight difficult—and losing weight, even tougher. If you’ve tried and failed to lose weight before, you may believe that diets don’t work for you. This week’s Ask a Pharmacist podcast discusses small but powerful ways to avoid common dieting pitfalls, achieve lasting weight loss success, and develop a healthier relationship with food.
In 1998, Kathleen Dowling Singh published The Grace in Dying, a groundbreaking work on the spiritual process that often accompanies dying. Now, in her second book, The Grace in Aging, Singh urges baby boomers to wake up to their spiritual selves before it’s too late. Singh’s book is meant to appeal to those who don’t want to live their last decades on spiritual autopilot. Her central premise is that aging (whether you are 40 or 90) is an opportunity for spiritual awakening.
A growing body of medical research is confirming the benefits of daily meditation for people who suffer from high blood pressure and are at risk for stroke and heart attack. The ancient practice of meditation creates neurophysiological changes in the body that help reduce stress and promote heart health. As a result, more physicians are now recommending meditation as a component in their treatment plans for cardiovascular disease.