Crap, my lifestyle was catching up to me. Well there you have it. Like many of you my cholesterol was hovering close to the 200 mark. So there I was, facing a change in my diet. Yep, a few too many cheeseburgers and fries and I wasn’t about to go cold turkey. In fact, I [...]
Archive for August, 2009
LDL, HDL and the Curse of being a Guy
August 26, 2009
Sweating is good for you!!!
August 25, 2009
Yes, sweat is yucky. It smells. It gets on your clothes. And it is usually not attractive or fun to touch when it is on someone else. But, with these negatives, it is one of the best things you can do for yourself and your skin. 30% of your body’s waste is carried away by [...]
Strength training and its affects on aging
August 24, 2009
Part of looking younger is feeling younger and being able to carry yourself like you did earlier in life. This is one of the areas where weight training helps holding on your age. Weight training may pull in images in your mind of incredibly muscular people lifting cars and houses to keep their knuckles from [...]
Holistic Approach to a Healthly Lifestyle
August 20, 2009
As I sit back and formulate my life plan in what I am calling TheChiLife I am looking at taking a holistic approach. This is pretty evident in my previous ramblings. I wondered in what may have appeared to be an aimless direction in a discussion on balance. I waxed philosophic in an attempt to [...]
Why TheChiLife?
August 3, 2009
Chi or Qi is the Taoist word for the energy or life force with any living thing. This is the the energy that flows through the living. Western religions may relate this to include ones soul. With this said, TheChiLife is a term that I coined to reference the basis to support one’s energy, vitality [...]
