Stairway to Good Health

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If your apartment house, office building or out-of-town hotel has a stairwell, you have another exercise outlet.

A study by the Mayo Clinic indicates significant calorie loss by exercising on a stair treadmill for an hour.  It ranges from 657 for a 160-pound person to a 240-pound person losing 981 calories.  The same holds for stairwell exercises.

Prior to doing a simple squat or running up a flight, ascertain it is a safe location. Be aware cell phones often cannot find reception in these enclosed spaces – so do a scouting trip.

Obviously, if dubious characters are hanging around – keep moving.

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Eating Emotional Triggers

Your commute home was a bumper-to-bumper crawl or cheek to cheek with strangers, some without an intimate relationship with deodorant.

All you want is peace upon arriving home

Instead, your lover start snarling about work, your children have drawn pictures on your newly painted walls or your mother calls with concerns on your stale social life.

Click, click, click…your emotional triggers are setting set off like a string of firecrackers on July 4.

Gone are aspirations for a healthy balanced meal.

Instead, with your dejected self seeks out old comforts. Cheese laden macaroni and ice cream head most emotional eating lists.

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