Happy New Year! Tonight you’ll be enjoying the end of year festivities, we hope. Tomorrow, you’ll be planning for what comes next in 2011. Will you set resolutions, or are you one of those in the room who says, “I don’t do resolutions”? No matter how you frame it, I bet you’re thinking about how […]
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Party Season Get Real Strategy
By Gillian Pieper | Published:Given what we wrote on Wednesday, today’s post may be a non-issue but take a look at our strategy anyhow. We love handy hints and we believe repetition makes a lasting impression (even when your mind is at its dullest – or especially then. That’s an old Oscar Wilde saying). So… It’s the party season. […]
Read moreQuit Mocking Me! Are You Mocking Me?
By Gillian Pieper | Published:Today I got two silly holiday mass emails. You know them both. The first was about the wine in a recipe. The quick and dirty, to all our Julia Child fans, is that you’re supposed to test the wine periodically to see if it’s worthy of being put in the batter. By the time the batter […]
Read moreStretch and Strengthen Airplane
By Gillian Pieper | Published:Look up in the sky! It’s a bird, a plane… Because of our Trek the Himalayas Adventure program, we’ve been thinking a lot about Mt Everest lately and the superhuman effort it takes to summit. We last delivered the “Tree Pose” to you and this next exercise builds nicely upon it. We call it the “Airplane.” This is a […]
Read moreAway In Maine
By Gillian Pieper | Published:Ode to Wellness Champions… “You find small melodies wherever you look and listen.” ~ The Vegetable Orchestra. We’ve missed our standard blog posts this week because we’ve been out on the road training more than 80 Maine school district wellness leaders to be PATH Adventure Coordinators. While traipsing across all corners of the state, from […]
Read moreSay Hello to Kale
By Gillian Pieper | Published:In the spirit of our philosophy ‘one degree change’ we want to introduce you to nutritionally rich foods each month and encourage you to begin incorporating them into your everyday diet. This month we’re suggesting Kale – a wonderful, nutritionally rich vegetable that we hope you’ll enjoy. Kale is tasty, easy to prepare and incorporate […]
Read moreWhole Grain Fiasco
By Gillian Pieper | Published:From the Mixed Messages Files: The Center for Science in the Public Interest reported this month that belly fat increases when we eat refined grains like white bread, white rice, white pasta. So we need to eat whole grains like quinoa, bulgur, Kasha, brown rice, oatmeal (Framingham Heart Study, Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 2009) — […]
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