Author: Judi Jones

WEIGHT LOSS WITH AN APPLE A DAY

       WEIGHT LOSS is possible by eating apples as they are considered complex carbohydrates. These help keep you fuller longer as they take longer for the body to digest. Other foods in this category include brown rice, brown pasta, wholegrains, and other fruits. In comparison to simple carbohydrates, like cookies, white bread, soda, […]

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CONSIDER THE PISTACHIO

   MISERY      I am, hoping, the menopause symptoms that have arrested me and made me absolutely miserable for the past ten years are on the way OUT! The prodromal symptoms, like that of an aura before a migraine or a seizure, are a sense of unease, uncomfortableness, anxiety and doom. Once I feel […]

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TAKE A BEET

     Have you ever wanted to know a little something about a food, particularly a vegetable, you didn’t like? Well, maybe you haven’t, but I have. As a child, I bit into a beet, decided it was too odd-tasting and bitter for me and immediately put it into the category of ‘yuck.’ But as […]

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SEARCHING FOR ME IN ALL THE WRONG MEN

     What would I tell this young lady today?      According to the NATIONAL COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, domestic violence is the willful intimidation, physical assault, battery, sexual assault, and/or abusive behavior as part of a systemic pattern of power and control perpetrated by one intimate partner against another. A mouthful. But for […]

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DO IT SCARED

judi in the pink      DO IT SCARED      This is me, at 63, learning how to swim. I decided last year at 62 I wanted to be not afraid of the water. I love the beach. But didn’t know how to swim. I suppose I could blame my parents for not throwing […]

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