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The Basics: Building Your Base with an Active Lifestyle, Good Nutrition, and Preventative Care Part IV

Water. What about water?! Well of course water is important! Your body is over 50% water (ranges are from 50-75% on average). You can barely live for 3 days without water, especially if you are me, the perpetually dehydrated. I carry around a 24 ounce water bottle all day. Almost Read More

The Basics: Building Your Base with an Active Lifestyle, Good Nutrition, and Preventative Care Part III

Do you know about the 80/20 rule? Well, as far as nutrition goes, it is recommended that healthy eating occur a minimum of 80% of the time, leaving leeway 20% of the time. I have also heard that when it comes to changing your body, 80% of your weight management Read More

The Basics: Building your Base through Spirituality

My Story It is early in the morning. I awaken, and I have just a few moments of quiet thinking time. I am not caught up by the stresses of my day. I am simply thinking. What do I think about? I find these times to be the best opportunity Read More

The Basics: Building Your Base with an Active Lifestyle, Good Nutrition, and Preventative Care – Part II

Part II – Good Nutrition One of my favorite things in the world is food. Food, food, food!!! Let’s take some time and get down to the nitty gritty about food. You must be aware of the way you think about food. What is food to you? Is food a Read More

The Basics: Building Your Base with an Active Lifestyle, Good Nutrition, and Preventative Care – Part I

Part I – Active Lifestyle Throughout our lives we must learn to successfully interact with our environment in order to meet our wants and needs. Our bodies are beautiful and unique tools to utilize for this purpose! The human body is made up of 206 bones, and there is a Read More

The Basics: Introduction

Have you ever worked on a problem or project that had several steps? Let’s say you were trying to build a bookshelf. In the process of making the bookshelf, you were supposed to tighten some interlocking screws that would increase the stability of the bookshelf. Well, you forgot to tighten Read More

Welcome to Fortunes, Food, & Fitness LLC

  updated April 16, 2015 Welcome to Fortunes, Food, & Fitness LLC! I’m looking forward to sharing my knowledge and experiences in health and wellness with you. Good health and wellness are not things to be mastered. They’re made up of a series of habits and behaviors that require persistence, not perfection. Through persistently pursuing Read More