Month: August 2023

Healthy Lifestyle Tip ~ Looking for a Quick, Healthy Breakfast?

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Greek Yogurt is a Great Pick for a Quick Breakfast

Greek yogurt is made by straining whey and other liquid from milk curds, which produces a creamy product higher in protein than regular yogurt. It’s also lower in calories than many other protein sources. A 1-cup (245-gram) serving provides 25 grams of protein but only 149 calories.

Other nutrients in Greek yogurt include:

  • calcium
  • vitamin B12
  • zinc
  • potassium
  • phosphorus

Certain types containTrusted Source probiotics like Bifidobacteria, which support digestion. To ensure your yogurt contains probiotics, look for the phrase “contains live and active cultures” on the label. If you prefer an even creamier, higher protein product, Icelandic yogurt — known as skyr — is another great option. Eating Greek yogurt with berries and other fruits may add to its prebiotic or probiotic properties. Topping with dried fruit, oatmeal, or nuts can add texture, fiber, and other nutrients.

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Poem for Today ~ [The faint shadow of the morning moon?]

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[The faint shadow of the morning moon?]

Yone Noguchi

The faint shadow of the morning moon?
Nay, the snow falling on the earth.
The mist of blossoming flowers?
Nay, poetry smiling up the sky.

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Photo for Today ~ I’ve Got This!

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Word Jumble Challenge: Unscramble the Nutrition and Fitness Word

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Today’s Word: niotlyvge

Yesterday’s Word: Wellness

The Answer to Today’s Word will appear in tomorrow’s Word Jumble Challenge

Daily Inspirational Quotes ~ Love is All

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“Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment.

It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Joke of the Day

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Joe: “I’d like to meet the guy wiho invented zero.”

Pete: “Why?”

Joe: “I’d thank him for nothing.”

Daily Inspirational Quotes ~ Love What You Are Doing

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“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

Albert Schweitzer

Word Jumble Challenge: Unscramble the Nutrition and Fitness Word

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Today’s Word: elenswsl

Yesterday’s Word: Ginger

The Answer to Today’s Word will appear in tomorrow’s Word Jumble Challenge

Poem for Today ~ Joy

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Joy

Clarissa Scott Delany

Joy shakes me like the wind that lifts a sail,
Like the roistering wind
That laughs through stalwart pines.
It floods me like the sun
On rain-drenched trees
That flash with silver and green.

I abandon myself to joy—
I laugh—I sing.
Too long have I walked a desolate way,
Too long stumbled down a maze
Bewildered.

 

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Thinking Out Loud ~ Getting Outside is Good for the Spirit

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Let the Sun Shine

Thoreau writes in “Walking,” “I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth for a walk at the eleventh hour or four o’clock in the afternoon, too late to redeem the day, when the shades of night were already beginning to be mingled with the daylight, have felt as if I had committed some sin to be atoned for.” Pg. 736

Walking is available online and gutenberg.org under the Harvard Classics.

NOTE: When I read this passage I felt that Thoreau was speaking of me. I’ve always been an early riser. Once I wake, the sooner i get out of the house the happier I am. It may be one reason I moved to South Texas. I love the sunshine. If I go two or three days without sunshine I begin to get antsy. I recall extended periods of cloudiness when I lived in a northern climate and my joy when the sun returned. There is something to getting outside and letting one’s feet touch the earth and one’s eyes seeing the beauty that has always surrounded us.

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