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Celebrate The New Year!!! The Green Smoothie Community Health REBOOT

   The Center for Healing and Holistic Counseling will be Hosting a Green Smoothie Community Health Reboot Event. Green smoothies provide Whole food nutrition and is an excellent method of detoxification and rejuvenation because they provide healthy fiber, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and they taste good too!!!!! So join us in this Wave of community change. Let 2012 be the year of change for you…Rebooting our Minds, Bodies and Spirits together.                                                                                                              Neferkare Khemre PhD will provide informational meetings and presentations on Saturday Jan 7, 14, 21 and 28^th from 12:30-2:30pm at The Center for Healing & Holistic Counseling, thecenterforhealing@gmail.com www.yourcenterforhealing.com        

525 Estudillo Ave.

Suite J San Leandro, CA. 925-325-5574.

“Whole Living Foods for a Whole Living Community and a Healthier You”                                                                                                                                                                                           

Value of Boot Camps

It is the first month of the New Year and everyone always has resolutions. The all too common resolution is the vow to loose weight by any means necessary. We tend to dust off our old workout clothes (the ones we bought last January when we made the same vow), and head out to our nearest gym with the lowest price or most convenient location. This always feels and sounds good for the first two or three weeks of the month, then we find ourselves surrounded by plenty of excuses to stop making the trip to the gym. Those pesky T.V. premiers, mother in law visits, or late days at work seem to all be in a conspiracy to stop you from releasing the weight you vowed nothing would stop you from doing. If this sounds familiar then you may want to consider the option of outdoor or indoor boot camps our small group personal training classes.

Boot Camps offer support in a healthy environment and is usually conducted by a health and fitness professional. Some boot camps are conducted in gym or sports club settings while others you may find at you local neighborhood park. They vary in duration, length and intensity. Many boot camps are great alternatives to actually gym membership and in many cases are less expensive per workout. Group classes also provide variety versus the mundane running on a treadmill.
Many of are Critical Mass Health Conductors are health and fitness professionals such personal trainers, yoga instructors, Tai Chi gurus, or just exercise enthusiasts that hold camps, classes or groups. If you are interested in getting information on local boot camps or class held by Critical Mass Health Conductors look for information in the next HC Newsletter.

1. Support from other participants
2. Accountability
3. Cost efficient
4. Effective
5. Variety and fun

Keeping the pounds at bay during the holidays

Happy Holidays! I don't know about you, but I tend to celebrate the holidays with food. Way too much food in fact! I and so many others like me tend to view the holidays as a time to eat, drink, be merry and over-indulge in so many areas of our lives. I'm not placing judgment on it as a bad thing. As far as I'm concerned, it's just a thing we do. However, the whole over-indulgence thing really can harm us if we don't use our self-control to bring balance back into our lives. Research has shown that most of us gain weight over the holidays and tend to hold on to that weight only to add on more the next holiday season. The end result ends up being that we get fatter every year -- and that's not good at all. That's why it's so important to exercise our self-control to bring balance and moderation into our lives during the holiday season. I like new year's resolutions because this is the perfect time to stop the madness and get back on track with healthy living. I want to share a few tips with you to help us stay on track or at least close enough to it to get back on it when Hanukkah is over, Christmas has passed, the Kwanzaa feast has been eaten, the New Year's Eve party is shut down, and New Year's Day is behind us: 1. Don't stop exercising. During the holiday season the gyms and fitness centers nearly shut down. Folks are just too busy working overtime so they can spend more money, shopping for loved ones and partying to give much thought to exercising. Still -- it's one of the most important activities we can do to keep that weight gain at bay. If you stopped exercising, or if you haven't been exercising in the first place, this is the perfect time to continue or start. Regular exercise will help you lose or maintain your weight and even help reduce the stress of the so-called happy holidays. 2. Eat healthy meals and snacks even if you plan to indulge later. If you fill up on fruits, vegetables, protein and complex carbohydrates you'll be much less likely to eat the many treats available, or at least you'll be more likely to eat less of them. 3. Among the many potluck parties you attend, remember to take a healthy dish that is on your list of favorites. Last night I attended my sister's potluck Christmas party and I took baked yams. Since I had attended a party at my daughter's house earlier that day and had eaten the oh-so-bad-for-me but delicious candied yams with marshmallows, tons of sugar and butter, it was easy for me to eat plain baked yams -- which are still delicious -- and collard greens only when I got to my sister's party. Truthfully, I had eaten so much crap earlier, that I simply didn't want any more of the unhealthy foods. 4. Make your plate Michelle Obama style. Fill half the plate with vegetables, then fill one-fourth of the plate with protein/meat and the other fourth with whole grains. Get full on the healthy stuff so you'll eat less of the sweet stuff. And when you do eat the sweet treats, taste them rather than devour them, eating smaller portions than usual. I'm not going to preach an entire message. I just wanted to share a few tips to help you -- and to help me -- enjoy the holidays without regretting them later. Be Blessed!
Health Conductor 798!

Stay Healthy during the Holidays

Remember to keep you vitamin C, Zinc and Magnesium levels up during the winter season. In the winter the weather is colder and we tend to be in doors and in closer proximity to each other which makes it easier for germs to spread, thus we have more probability of getting ill. Here are some clues to staying off the Cough medicine and full of action this winter.

1. Wash your hands more often: Through out the days we should be washing our hands 3-4 times. Increase your hand washing to 6-7 times, just to make sure we keep it clean.

2. Reduce Stress: Don't let the pressure of the Holidays increase your Stress. The holiday is a times of reflection fun and thanksgiving. It shouldn't feel like the worst time of the year. Don't worry about gift, in-laws, having the best party in the neighborhood, or any other non-sense. Just enjoy your family and let the season happen. Stay positive.

3.  Stay full of the right things: In the winter it is harder to seek out and find the summer fruits and vegetables we love. However they are out there. You may just have to try new stores. Stay full the vitamins necessary to keep your immune system riding on all cylinders.


Happy Holidays,

Frank Clayton, HC #389

Afro American World View Films

Afro-American World View Films

 

James Baldwin, The Price of the Ticket

An outstanding biographical video of writer James Baldwin

 

Thursday November 17, 2011

2 PM

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Buck and the Preacher

A Western directed by Sidney Poitier

Starring Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, Cameron Mitchell and Sidney Poitier

 

Sunday November 20, 2011

4 PM

 

1425 Oregon Street

 

(1/2 west of  Sacrament Street:88 bus)

 

Both films are free

 

Post screening audience participation discussion

 

(510)665 7880

World Diabetes Day in the Bay

Transportation to this event is available for those in need.
Please call (415) 507-1564 or email info@DiabetesDayBayArea.org

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Tel: (415) 507-1564
Find us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/DiabetesDayBayArea

info@DiabetesDayBayArea.org

www.DiabetesDayBayArea.org


Proceeds from World Diabetes Day will be used for scholarships to help those in need gain access to diabetes care.

To make a tax-deductible donation, visit www.DiabetesDayBayArea.org. Lift for Teens is  registered with the IRS as a 501(C)(3) corporation.