YOUR HEALTH Inflammation continues to rise to the top of the list for causing diseases. When in balance, inflammation is an essential immune response within the human body. Its role is to limit physical damage from illness or injury by responding to invaders like viruses, bacterial infections, toxins, and something as simple as a splinter. […]
Not today
It was 93 degrees—the heat of the day—and I decided to run the steep hill located near our house. It’s a road that leads to a cell tower. It isn’t anything special, but the switchbacks are a butt buster. My goal was up and down three times for a total of three miles. The pavement […]
March 2019
YOUR HEALTH Most people have already given up on their New Year’s resolutions. Whether you call them resolutions or goals, you set yourself up to fail if you do not know the why behind them. For such a small word, “why” has a big punch. It can be the difference between huge success […]
January 2019
YOUR HEALTH How are you feeling? The holidays can often leave us feeling sluggish. What better way to start the new year off than cleansing our bodies and detoxing? Tons of products on the market are designed to accelerate this process, but you don’t have to spend a lot of money. In fact, simple is […]
Kuma hosts a Christmas party!
My mom is really good at making sure I get plenty of exercise, as you know from reading all my blogs! She takes me out on all sorts of adventures, and I am grateful. What I didn’t know is that those times when she leaves the house in fitness gear but doesn’t bring me with […]
Kuma enjoys canoeing right behind his League City home
I’ve lived in three states and in three different houses in my short ten years. Yes, can you believe I will be 10 this year? Anyway, what I have learned is that each state and house has it positives and drawbacks. In Colorado, we had a smaller house with a tiny yard yet right […]
Kuma hikes around Bastrop Lake in Texas
While in the Bastrop area, just south of Austin, my family and I took a hike around Lake Bastrop South Shore Park, located at 375 South Shore Road in Bastrop. They aren’t part of the State Park Pass, so you have to pay a fee per human. Dogs are welcome, of course! The 900-acre lake […]
May 2018
YOUR HEALTH Newer research is finding that 48,000 diseases can be linked to Mitochondrial dysfunction. Our Mitochondria generate most of our cell’s supply of adenosine triphosphate or ATP, which 80 percent of our energy comes from. Think of it as a charge or voltage. As Dr. Steven Davis describes, “free radicals damage our […]
February 2018
YOUR HEALTH My husband and I both got some kind of crud back on October 23 after visiting a relative in the hospital. We kept getting worse, and it wasn’t the flu. By Christmas, we had pneumonia. My husband was so frustrated, having to wait hours and hours at urgent care to get help. […]
December 2017
YOUR HEALTH One of my traditions is baking cookies and breads. I don’t have a huge sweet tooth, but I partake. Between Thanksgiving and Christmas, my goal is that of maintaining. This is not the time of year to decide to lose weight! Talk about setting yourself up to fail! In fact, I love what […]
