Recently my boss, Ann Schreck, shared with me a very interesting article called, “Out of Energy”. It listed several things that can zap your energy.

They were:

1) Being Addicted to Email
2) Visual Clutter
3) Being Bored
4) Poor Posture
5) Toxic Indoor Air
6) Eating Too Much at Once
7) Living in Artificial Light
8) Listening to Negative Nellies
9) Holding a Grudge

Guilty, anyone? I know I am. To read about how you can rectify this problem read the article, here.

I think the article did forget one major thing that zaps energy, having too much to do and only 24 hours in a day. This is where Bios Life E comes in!

10 Healthiest Cities for Women

Sheila Monaghan and Kelly Mickle report on their findings:

From exercise to diet, health care to air quality—we've got the scoop on the spots where healthy women thrive.

Women everywhere are making healthy changes. Now we’ve found the people doing it best: With the help of an expert panel and BestPlaces.net, we crunched 7,700 bits of data from 100 metro areas to find the 10 top spots for women.

Click Here to read the article.

Enjoying Utah Weather

Ann, Kari and I enjoyed breathtaking views today at the Sundance Resort. It was gorgeous weather, the breeze moved the leaves on the trees and the colors were stunning. We're glad we took the time to enjoy the fall. Hope you do too. - Katharine

Barb Schuman Takes First Place!

The 2009 Fall Fling 5K Race
Tradewinds Park
Coconut Creek, FL
September 19, 2009

Top Three Grand Master FEMALE
Place O'All Bib First Name Last Name Age Finish Pace
1 41 275 Barbara Schuman 56 00:25:24 8:11
2 53 151 Pamela Richardson 56 00:26:19 8:28
3 61 39 Celia Sweet 52 00:26:59 8:41

Reuters – September 21, 2009 - This just in off the wire service:

On Saturday, September 19, 2009, at 7:00 AM, Tradewinds Park in Coconut Creek, FL was the site of “The 2009 Fall Fling” 5K Race (3.1 miles) sponsored by The Greater Fort Lauderdale Runners Club. (Yes, we know it was Rosh Hashanah, but she is not Sandy Koufax and the whole thing was over long before services started. Furthermore, the event turned into its own high holiday-equivalent religious experience.) 117 male (75) and female (42) competitors from throughout Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties assembled for battle in the Over the Hill (ages 40+) division.

In an unprecedented and unforeseen turn of events, Barbara Schuman, running her very first race ever – a true newbie – pulled off a monumental upset, claiming first place in the Grand Master Female (age 50 – 59) division hotly contested by 18 athletes.

When adding in the 21 runners classified as Master Female (age 40 – 49), Schuman finished 4th overall of the 39 women, a mere 17 seconds out of the third position. Of the 117 total male and female competitors, Barbara finished 41st overall in her initial foray into the world of competitive track.

Her 25:24 time (8:11 minute/mile pace) was accomplished after only 5 weeks of running training in preparation for her appearance in the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA) sponsored ½ marathon (13.1 miles), taking place December 6, 2009, on The Strip in Las Vegas. Barbara typically runs 3x/week with 3 to 6 mile jaunts on Tuesdays and Thursdays and longer Sunday runs. She is scheduled to tackle 9 miles this weekend.

Having been bitten by the racing bug, she is madly scouring upcoming 10K and 15K events, plotting her next appearance and conquest. Now, truth be told, lest you think Barbara is carried away with herself after this one stunning success, full disclosure dictates we acknowledge that she was bested by an 80-yr old man, who finished the race in 24.26 or a 7:52 pace!

As you know, Barbara has undertaken this challenge to raise critically needed funds for the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America. You can read her reasons for running on her website at http://www.active.com/donate/lv09florida/BarbaraSchuman. For those of you who have already generously supported Barbara’s efforts by making a contribution, we are very grateful. For those of you who have yet to contribute, we hope you will consider this worthy charitable cause and the tremendous amount of time and effort Barbara is investing on behalf of the CCFA.

Contributions can be made online on her website, or for those not wishing to use the online service, you can send a check made payable to CCFA to us at 6692 NW 25th Way, Boca Raton, FL 33496 and we will hand deliver it to the local CCFA office.

Again, thank you all for your support and we will keep you informed of Barbara’s progress.

Cordially,

Barbara Schuman & Neal Kaye

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Today kicks off the first day of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The battle to conquer this disease has made significant progress in the last twenty years. Having had a mother who defeated the disease I am extremely grateful for the strides doctors and researchers have made at treating breast cancer.
Since I have seen someone close to me undergo treatment for this disease I have often wondered what causes breast cancer and how it can be prevented. While I don’t know all of the answers to these questions since they have yet to be completely answered, I have learned a few things about the subject. I know that since my mother has had breast cancer I am at a higher risk to get it. I also have been told by our family practitioner that a healthy diet and body weight is a key factor in preventing this disease and many other chronic diseases that plague Americans today.

Recently in a Bloomberg.com article, I read that while modern medicine has improved tremendously over the last few years at treating this disease, “the U.S. may be threatened by a trend among women toward obesity, a risk factor for the disease.”

An article in the Examiner said this about breast cancer and obesity, “Rising obesity rates threaten to derail the decreased breast cancer mortality rate. To avoid breast cancer fatality, it is particularly important for post-menopausal women to maintain a healthy weight through physical activity and healthy eating. From cancer.gov, obesity increases the risk of cancers of the breast (postmenopausal), endometrium (the lining of the uterus), colon, kidney, and esophagus, in addition to increasing the risk of coronary heart disease, stroke, and high blood pressure. Avoiding weight gain is an effective way to decrease these risks.”

I have many amazing women in my life that exercise regularly and try to eat healthy, yet they still are overweight/obese. Losing pounds hasn’t happened for them yet and if they do lose pounds they struggle to maintain the lost weight. As a woman and with what I know about the obesity rate in America and in the lives of many women I know, I don’t want them to be in the high risk category for this dreadful disease of breast cancer.

Unicity International’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month Challenge
Introduce Slim to the women in your lives that struggle with weight and may be at risk for breast cancer. Ladies let’s do our part in the fight against breast cancer.

~Kari