It’s Friday Night – Try Mexican Black Bean Soup for Supper
It’s Friday night – finally – and it’s been another long, hard week. The last thing you want to do when you get home is figure out what to make for supper. Instead of digging another frozen pizza out of the freezer, why not spend a few minutes more making a dinner that’s not only quick, easy, and inexpensive, but is also delicious AND nutritious! My recommendation – Mexican Black Bean Soup, with whole wheat toast and a green salad. Black beans are without a doubt one of nature’s super foods. High in both soluble and insoluble fiber, black beans help...
Read MoreTraining Schedule for Your First Half-Marathon
Continued from page one of Your First Half-Marathon – A Detailed 20-Week Training Plan. Training Schedule Note: the speeds provided correspond to a 2 hour half-marathon finish. If you plan to finish faster, or slower, adjust your speed accordingly. This training schedule further assumes that you are already able to complete a 10km run – it is geared toward taking you from the 10km to a complete half-marathon. Week 1 – This is a ‘getting started’ week. 3km easy run on Tuesday, 5km easy run on Friday, 7km easy run on Sunday. Format each of the next 18 weeks Monday –...
Read MoreYour First Half-Marathon – A Detailed 20-Week Training Plan
You’ve been running for a while, and still enjoy it, but maybe it’s getting just a little bit boring? What you need is a goal to work towards, like a half-marathon. The half-marathon is a long enough race that it’s important to go into it properly prepared. Without proper conditioning, your race experience may be a painful one, and that pain may last for days after the race. Consider, for the moment, that during a two-hour half-marathon, you are going to be taking over 20,000 steps. That’s over 10,000 times that you’re going to be lifting your right leg, driving...
Read MoreWhole Brain Synchronization
I just came across this, and found it interesting enough that I wanted to share it with my readers. * * * * * * * To understand the inner workings of the human brain, we must first study the structure of this incredibly complex organ. Inside the skull is the Corpus Callosum which is a group of over 200 million nerve fibres connecting the two sides (hemispheres) of the brain. The Corpus Callosum provides the main route for the transfer and integration of information between the two hemispheres of the brain. In the vast majority of people one hemisphere is alternately dominant over the other,...
Read MoreRecommendation – NutritionData.com
As I browse the web looking for information about various wellness-related topics, I occasionally come across websites that I return to again and again. I’ve decided to share those websites with you, my readers. Each week, I will tell you about a fantastic website that’s out there, including my thoughts about what in particular makes it so fantastic. This week, I am going to tell you about nutritiondata.com. As a single place where you can get an extremely detailed nutritional breakdown on pretty much everything you would ever consider eating, it’s hard to beat...
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