Source: American Heart Association
Stroke patients have a high risk of falling after leaving the hospital. Researchers suggest prevention programs such as exercise, home hazard assessment, appropriate lighting, removing obstacles and installing transfer rails can reduce falls. Increased awareness of fall prevention is needed among family members of stroke patients.

By RONI CARYN RABIN

Can you be fit and healthy, even if you’re overweight? And will working out, despite the extra pounds, reduce your risk of a heart attack?The idea that you can be “fat but fit” has long been controversial. While health experts endorse physical activity as beneficial, many doctors view the concept of being “fat but fit” with suspicion.Now a new study, believed to be the largest of its kind, suggests that even when overweight or obese people are free of health complications, they are still more likely to develop heart disease than their peers who aren’t overweight.

It didn’t matter whether obese people were free from diabetes, high blood pressure or high cholesterol, a condition sometimes referred to as “metabolically healthy obesity.” As long as they were obese, they were at modestly higher risk for having a stroke, at nearly 50 percent greater risk of coronary heart disease and had nearly double the risk of developing heart failure than people who were not overweight and in similar metabolic health.

By JANE E. BRODY
After two hourlong sessions focused first on body awareness and then on movement retraining at the Feldenkrais Institute of New York, I understood what it meant to experience an incredible lightness of being. Having, temporarily at least, released the muscle tension that aggravates my back and hip pain, I felt like I was walking on air.I had long refrained from writing about this method of countering pain because I thought it was some sort of New Age gobbledygook with no scientific basis. Boy, was I wrong!

I’ve been talking about Feldenkrais Methods and leadership key principle for professional for a long time.

The Teal Pumpkin Project

Our friends at Food Allergy Research and Education (FARE) are encouraging everyone to raise awareness of food allergies by painting your pumpkins teal (the color of food allergy awareness) and handing out non-food treats for trick-or-treaters to ensure everyone has an allergy-friendly Halloween.

Learn all about the program and how you can take part and support the project here.
Download a copy of FARE’s Teal Pumpkin Project posters, pumpkin stencil and fun kids activities here.
Meet Becky Basalone, the woman who started the teal concept on her Tennessee porch.

KThe Transportation Security Administration (TSA) confirms to Allergic Living that heightened security measures for carry-on items, which are now being rolled out at U.S. airports across the country, can include food screening. While the focus has been on the fact that any electronics larger than a cell phone must go into security bins, TSA agents may additionally ask you to put carry-on foods into these bins.

Putting food and electronic devices in separate bins helps TSA officers to get a clearer X-ray image of the items.

The food measure, which affects allergic travelers since they must carry-on their own safe foods and avoid cross-contact, was drawn to Allergic Living by a travel agent serving families traveling to Disney World in Orlando. On her Facebook page, Jennifer Hardy also warned that the TSA is “checking all food (candy, snacks, fruits)” at Orlando International Airport.”

Create, cook, stretch, eat, and learn with fellow teachers during this free day co-sponsored by the NYC Department of Health.
The day includes:

• A keynote address by Dr. Robin Nagle, Anthropologist-in-Residence for the New York City Department of Sanitation
• A tour of New York at Its Core, the first-ever exhibition showcasing the history and future of our city
• A light, healthy lunch

Afternoon breakout sessions include:

• Classroom-based yoga to help students prepare their mind and body for testing
• Cooking – and eating! – “brain-powered” food while reinforcing STEM standards
• Writing, documenting, and disseminating school wellness policies
• Exploring the historical, geographical, and cultural environment of El Barrio

Consumer Technology Association (CTA)

LAS VEGAS, NV
JANUARY 9-12, 2018

Discover the latest developments in digital fitness that aim to make workouts and outdoor activities more fun and more informing.
Explore fitness tracking devices, smart fabrics for heart-rate monitoring, and other solutions and products targeted at these specific lifestyle markets.
Fitness & Technology Marketplace Exhibitors
See which exhibitors showcased the ever-advancing products, services and solutions that use technology to make workouts and outdoor activities fun, safe and effective.

Video: Explore the Fitness & Technology Marketplace

Source:University of Surrey
Healthy people who consume high levels of sugar are at an increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease.
A ground-breaking study from the University of Surrey found that a subject group of otherwise healthy men had increased levels of fat in their blood and fat stored in their livers after they had consumed a high sugar diet.
The study, which has been published in Clinical Science, looked at two groups of men with either high or low levels of liver fat, and fed them a high or low sugar diet to find out if the amount of liver fat influences the impact of sugar on their cardiovascular health. The low sugar diet contained no more than 140 calories a day worth of sugar — an amount close to the recommended intake — while the high sugar diet contained 650 calories worth.