Tag: Colorado
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When We Walk
I have always loved to walk and have accumulated many hours of memories and recorded thousands of impressions during my walking life. Walking always seems to have generated a heightened awareness in my senses stimulating my perception, my imagination, and my memories. My mind can at any moment wander back to walking home from Muhlenberg…
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More Healthy, More Happy!
Physical activity and movement, so important to humans, has somehow slipped away from us. We seem to have stopped moving ourselves around in our daily lives and started jumping into our cars to move us everywhere for everything. Many of us have jobs where we sit. We have cars that we sit in, and when…
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Temporarily Not Quite Least Obese
Back in October of 2010 I blogged about Colorado’s status as the country’s least obese state. I was happy to report that we maintained our status again in 2012. Well, the bad news is the new numbers are in and Colorado has lost our first-place rating as least obese to Montana! Montana??? Come on people…
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The Least Obese Again!
In October 2010 I blogged about an article in 5280 Magazine entitled “The Last Lean Americans” which reported Colorado’s obesity rates at about 15 to 20 percent to be the lowest in the nation. Well, Colorado has done it again in 2012. It’s not surprising that the state with a population as active as Colorado’s…
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