Sky Centers Team Elite recently starred in The Fold’s music video “21st Century Ninja” for LEGO brand toys. The music video is viewable on Youtube and the music is available on iTunes. Today,
Team Sky Centers Team Sky Elite will be performing 21st century ninja live for you for the very first time at 12:50 PM. Come watch their awesome presentation.
Lisa McDaniel from Zumba with Lisa will host a FREE Zumba experience at the Healthy Lombard Fitness February Fair on Saturday, February 28, 2015 at the Yorktown Center in LOmbard. Come join in at 12:30 PM in the center court of the Mall.
Stage performances are being sponsored by Elite Training and the major sponsors for the Fair include Adventist Health Partners, Balance Weight Centers, and the Elmhurst Memorial Medical Group.
Suzanne Allard Levingston wrote in a special article for The Washington Post that the best advice for cancer prevention is to do what your mom always told you: Eat your fruit and vegetables, get some exercise and keep that weight in a healthful range, says Stephen Hursting, a professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Here are recommendations from nutrition experts for a balanced diet that will serve you well for avoiding a variety of diseases.
• Eat lots of leafy, colorful fruit and vegetables. They’re full of antioxidants — substances that help repair cell damage and may help prevent some kinds of cancer. These foods also have anti-inflammatory components that might play a role in fighting cancer.
Red, orange and yellow pigments of an antioxidant class called carotenoids are thought to be particularly important and are found in such foods as carrots, sweet potatoes and peppers. Tomatoes have shown some benefits against prostate cancer, says Walter Willett, chairman of the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health.
College Of DuPage Nursing Student Mindy Etheridge composed the following article especially for the Healthy Lombard Blog.
Are you someone who has experienced the pain of kidney stones? If so, not only should you be vigilant at trying to prevent a recurrence of kidney stones if you have a history of kidney stones, you should take initiative to prevent cardiovascular disease. According to an article in the January 30, 2015 edition of US News and World Report, recent studies have found that if you are prone to kidney stones, you may be at an increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease.
The article reports that extra calcium in your body that may be causing the formation of kidney stones as a result of calcium deposits in the blood vessels in your heart. And, once your body develops kidney stones, you are prone to developing them again. To prevent the reoccurrence of kidney stones, the research suggests increasing your fluid intake, and decreasing your intake of sodium, potassium and calcium.
According to the co-author of the study, Dr. Robert Unwin of University College London, “It’s becoming clear that having kidney stones is a bit like having raised blood pressure, raised blood lipids [such as cholesterol] or diabetes in that it is another indicator of, or risk factor for, cardiovascular disease and its consequences”.
If you are prone to kidney stones, you may want to consider discussing this with your physician at your next appointment. You may want to consider having a CT Scan of your heart to detect the presence of calcium in your blood vessels. In addition, a record of the size and location of previous kidney stones and what they were composed of is key to determine if cardiovascular disease is a realistic concern for you.
It’s almost time for the
2015 Healthy Lombard Fitness February Fair and it going to be fabulous!
We are very grateful to our three major sponsors:
Did you know there will be something different on stage for you to watch and/or participate in every 20 minutes.
Our presenters include:
10:40 AM Ageless Grace
11:00 AM Yoga Demonstration by Glenbard West Students
11:20 AM CustomFit Personal Training Demonstration
11:40 AM Hula Hoop & Jump Rope Contests (all ages)
11:50 AM Baby Boot Camp Fun for All
12:10 PM Elite X Training Demonstration
12:30 PM Zumba by Lisa
12:50 PM Sky Center Martial Arts
1:10 PM Health Hero Awards
Presented by the Kiwanis Club of Lombard and the <BR>
Red Stars Soccer Team Mascot Supernova
1:30 PM Raffle Drawing
(Winners need not be present)
| Lifestyle One of the best ways to determine whether someone is successful in a weight-loss program1 is how well they adhere to the program. The principle component of adherence is a serious commitment to making the necessary lifestyle changes. “Lifestyle” is a catchall phrase for many factors that generally consist of dietary changes, behavior modification, and activity level. |
Diet: They choose a low-fat, low-calorie diet.
Breakfast: They eat breakfast every day.
Monitor: They track their progress by weighing themselves about once a week.
Permanent: They view the changes they are making as permanent. They are not on a diet but are determined to make changes to their lives.
Activity: They maintain a regular exercise program.
Portion control: Most people are bad at determining the size of portions, but this is something that gets better with time.
Keeping a food record: While keeping a record of everything you eat and drink can seem cumbersome, it is actually a great way to learn where you may be eating more calories than you realize and can be quite helpful with your weight-loss progress.
Eating structured meals: The more you can take the guesswork out of eating, the better. Find a good stable of recipes that you can turn to when you are feeling hungry or pressed for time.
It is also important to remember that there is a strong emotional/mental part of eating. It takes practice to understand if emotions are driving you to eat more. Identifying and controlling stressors can really help! The participation of friends and family can add essential support in your weight-loss endeavors.
The good news about improving lifestyle factors is that they have an additive effect on your weight loss; when you exercise, you feel better mentally, and this, in turn, helps you avoid junk food. The more lifestyle changes, the better. Make lifestyle changes a partner in your weight-loss goals.
The DASH diet (which stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) is a diet that is low in sodium and emphasizes whole grains, fruits, legumes (beans), vegetables, and low-fat dairy products as the bulk of calories consumed. Some fish, poultry, and red meat are allowed. Sweets and fats are also allowed but only in small amounts.
Following the DASH diet typically results in 11/7 mm Hg (systolic/diastolic) drop in blood pressure, but when combined with a weight-loss program, those numbers are typically even better, with a 16/10 (systolic/diastolic) mm Hg reduction.1
Scientists have long wondered if there was something in vegetables that might account for the blood pressure lowering effects of the DASH diet. The DASH diet is naturally low in sodium and removing salt can certainly help reduce blood pressure, but so can eating foods high in potassium, calcium, and magnesium.2
On February 19, 2015, Sen. Mattie Hunter (D- 3rd District) and Rep. Robyn Gabel (D- 18th District) introduced the Healthy Eating Active Living (HEAL) Act [SB 1584 and HB 2667] to provide tools and resources for Illinois families to live healthier lives. The bill is expected to generate more than $600 million dollars a year for investment in communities across the state through a small tax on sugary drink distributors. Sugary drinks are the number one source of added sugar in the American diet and have unique and proven health hazards. “This is an important piece of legislation for the health of Illinois communities, especially those most devastated by sky-high rates of chronic diseases like type 2 diabetes and heart disease,” Sen. Hunter said. “African Americans have the highest heart disease mortality rates in the state and Latinos are twice as likely to develop diabetes as Caucasian Americans. Across Illinois, lowincome communities of all types face great barriers to being healthy. The HEAL Act provides communities with tools that help children and families live healthier lives by increasing access to more affordable fruits and vegetables, creating safe and accessible opportunities for physical activity and implementing other evidence-based measures to promote health.”
We came in 33 rd, of 49 states.!
A big thank you to everyone who worked so hard to rally participation, to those that put a lot of extra work into making this an event for your group(s), to everyone who stopped at that moment to JAM and for all the unique and creative adaptations for the day.
In a SELF Health article, by Alyssa Giacobbe it was stated that Wall Ball is a CrossFit staple, a multi-part exercise consisting of a full squat to launch a medicine ball vertically up the wall. You catch the ball in front of your face and then repeat the whole thing, squatting and launching again and again, often in multiples of 500, or so it seems.
I’m not especially new to CrossFit, and I’m not all that uncoordinated, and yet I can’t seem to Wall Ball without scraping the medicine ball against my face, often on the way up and then again on the way back down. When I think about what exactly I’m repeatedly brushing my mouth against—not just the well-worn ball but also everything that has touched the wall, the floor (where it rested before the workout began), my hands, and the hands of whomever handled the ball before me… well, you can see why I try not to think about it.
If you assumed plane travel had the lock on germ incubation, you’ll want to consider what happens at your gym this winter, and particularly at your CrossFit box, where packed classes of gung-ho athletes work with multiple forms of shared surfaces and hand held equipment, catching them, wheezing on them (or maybe that’s just me), and tossing them up again. At my CrossFit box, we’re given antibacterial wipes to clean up our sweat after we’re done, but that doesn’t do much to protect you during class, or in the case of partner WODs that have you sharing kettlebells with the neighborhood anti-vaxxer. What’s more, your body may be more susceptible to invasion during and post-workout, when it’s in recovery mode from all the physical exertion, while CrossFitters—a particularly type A lot—are often reluctant to take a day off from the gym even if they’re not feeling 100 percent.
