a 100-mile ride around Lake Tahoe…on a bike!

Padded cycling shorts, foldable tire tubes, CO2, custom fit road bike, sunscreen, headband…and more. If you like buying “gear” and “gadgets” you’ll love road biking!  Not only that, but the health benefits of cycling on a regular basis include greater cardiovascular strength and strong leg muscles.
Always ready to try a new sport, especially that I’m [...]

Better Sleep: The Next Feminist Issue!

Spark the dialogue!
From Healthcare 2.0, to summer sun and skin cancer prevention, to sleep and sex, to a 6-time Olympic winning Guinness World Record holder….Real Women on Health! May 19th radio show runs the gamut of guests and conversations.
The health consequences of sleep deprivation are already known, how cheating your body of the R&R it [...]

Boomer women fight “frump” (and give back!)

How do women find the time to “do good” these days and have fun?
Enter Mary Jo Wallo.
Mary Jo Wallis is your basic renaissance woman.  In addition to surfing, snowboarding and running her own investment company in San Diego she has taken on the mantle as a national leader to Fight Frump (and Give Back!), or [...]

Who’s Your Muse?

Have you ever wondered why anybody these days would need a muse?  They don’t pay the bills, they don’t find you a job, and they don’t take care of your awfully well-behaved teenagers.  They’re well…just pure inspiration.
Boy, do I have a muse to share with you…actually, I have more than one!
It all started last year [...]

How I Reinvented Health

My 5 foot ten inch frame has always seemed more naturally built for basketball, yoga or cross country running but I found a sport 30 years after those dreadful high school phys ed classes that is absolutely perfect for me at this point in  my life.
Ladies…I am keeping my day job but  the sport of  [...]

Healing Chronic Pain: Hillary's Transformative Journey

Have you met Hillary Rubin yet? She is our featured “real woman” who has committed her professional and personal life to empowering others to transform their troubled past into opportunities for personal growth and healing.
I recently spoke with Hillary and learned about her struggles, her triumphs and now, her determination to help others heal through [...]

Beyond Empowerment to Results

“Controversy. Conflict. Words that I have heard over and over again. I have heard that women avoid confrontation and conflict. That they historically have been quiet, conforming, polite. That certainly has not been my experience with the National Breast Cancer Coalition and its network of activists across the country. These women embrace controversy and conflict, [...]

Hot, Maybe- But Not Smoking

Marketing health to women received a boost thanks to Tyra Banks and her reality show America’s Next Top Model. And Tara Parker-Pope is hip to it in Hot, Maybe, but Not Smoking – Well – Tara Parker-Pope – Health – New York Times Blog.

Since the guidelines issued last year by the fashion industry’s [...]

Health is Beauty

With my handfuls of fabulous women friends born after or around 1956, the Dove website proage.com and Dove’s amazingly successful marketing campaign hit it big with us.

Research on women over 50 has found that only 2% of women considered themselves “beautiful” and only 5% “pretty.”The now famous Dove ads aim to change that.
Though the [...]

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