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Ruth, is gone from this world but, We will keep her memory alive.We have formed a Ruth Hamilton Foundation..in Tribute of Ruth. Ruth loved to to talk about the education and nourshment of children, and the elderly. Ruth, would love to hear about our ministry trips, to help bring educational needs and good nutrious foods to thoes in need. Local and povity areas right here in the...

Wow, this is my very first blog ever. I haven't a clue as to what you are suppose to write in a...

ALICE HORNBAKER “Life After 50” column ON AIR wmkvfm.org and WMKVFM. 89.3 FM/Cincinnati 10-3-11 Hello again. This is Alice Hornbaker for WMKV 89.3 FM and wmkvfm.org streaming around the world in the Internet Mondays and Thursdays at 2:20 p.m. and Fridays at 8:50 a.m. and as a blog on growingbolder.com under blogs/life after 50/ajhornbaker. It is also on Twitter,...

All of us are vulnerable to an irresistible urge to eat a particularly fattening or unhealthy food. My particular downfall is a craving for sugar late in the afternoon when both my energy and spirits sag. According to one study, women are more susceptible to these urges than are men. But whatever your sex, at some point you’ll be tested. Having a strategy for coping is essential. Here are three...

A very informative article from everyday health.com LINK: http://www.everydayhealth.com/weight/eating-a-healthy-breakfast.aspxARTICLE: A Healthy Breakfast for Weight-Loss Success Your breakfast choices lay the foundation for your entire day and your long-term health. But you don't have to stick with the traditional options....

I was talking with a friend yesterday and asked "What would you like to read about in my Friday Message?" She said "Why do I continue to do what I shouldn't, and why don't I do what I should?" Yipes! I was hoping for something easy!! Let me say right off that I don't like the "should" word, yet oh my - how I relate!! So let's look at these two questions: 1. "Why do I continue to...

I haven't posted recently because my creativity is at zero. It's odd, because normally, I would think to myself: hey, something's not right here. My thought processes have slowed. But when your thought processes slow, you don't have those thoughts...and you don't know you're sick. So this week I came fairly close to death and didn't even know I was sick. Welcome to life with diabetes....

For 40 years, I wandered alone in the harsh and unforgiving wilderness of diets and tried desperately to lose weight. I tried every popular fad diet in an effort to return my body to its youthful shape so that one morning I could look down and see a number on the bathroom scale that wouldn’t send me into despair. The most memorable diet was the “three-meals-of-cabbage-soup-a-day” diet—if...