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Local veterans in-need invited to receive free health services on Memorial Day

Local veterans in-need invited to receive free health services on Memorial Day

What: Free health services including comprehensive eye exams and glasses will be provided to veterans during the Third Annual Memorial Day Health Fair hosted by VSP Vision Care and the Sacramento Community Veterans Alliance (S.C.V.A.). VSP will supply a state-of-the-art, 40-foot-long mobile eyecare clinic on May 27 in Old Sacramento from 9 a.m.

Frustrated with the Food Chain

Frustrated with the Food Chain

I'm frustrated.

Every time I go to the store I'm just dumbfounded by the lack of isles I can't bring myself to go down.  There is row after row of crap offered as food.  I suppose our definition of food is somewhat loose these days.  No wonder America has health issues.  Seriously.  We are slowly killing ourselves, one spoonful at a time.

Have you ever looked at the foods that are offered on the shelves of the local store? Lots of MSG, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Nitrates, Perservatives I can't spell and I won't even bother to pronounce... The super sad thing for me is knowing that it's there because people buy it, demand it.  It's all about the law of supply and demand.  Americans demand crap food, so that is what they are getting. Crap food.  And then we're supposed to be surprised when people get sick?... Read More

Public Invited to Pink Truck Dedication

Public Invited to Pink Truck Dedication

Vacaville resident Christine Franklin may have lost her battle to breast cancer in 2011, but her feisty spirit lives on - in the form of a bright pink fire truck that is being dedicated in her honor.

The truck - which belongs to the Solano County Chapter of the Guardians of the Ribbon/Pink Heals - will be dedicated at a ceremony at 10 a.m. Thursday, May 23, at NorthBay VacaValley Hospital, 1000 Nut Tree Road in Vacaville.

The public is encouraged to put on pink apparel, attend the ceremony, and then stay to sign the truck.

Double-Duty Berry Beauty Parfait

Double-Duty Berry Beauty Parfait

Kristen Arnett

A Treat for Skin (and taste buds!)

Summer brings warm, sunny days and berries in abundance! Does anyone else wait all year to scarf down nature’s good-for-you, sweet snacks by the handful – or is it just me?

As a natural beauty devotee, the line is constantly blurred between food I want to eat and food I want to put on my skin. Whenever I make a mask at home with delicious, healthy ingredients I end up licking it out of the mixing bowl and sometimes off my face, too!

So I gave in and created one scrumptious, berry-filled, all-natural, skin-beneficial recipe to be both a facial treatment and a healthy treat - that’s actually easy and fast to make.

Meet the Summer Berry Beauty Parfait!

 

Ingredients you’ll need - and their benefits:... Read More

City of West Sacramento Blood Drive, May 23

City of West Sacramento Blood Drive, May 23

You’re invited to give to the City of West Sacramento Blood Drive, Thursday, May 23, 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m. The BloodSource mobile unit will be parked in the City Hall parking lot, 1110 West Capitol Ave., West Sacramento 95691. For appointments, contact City Clerk Kryss Rankin, (916) 617-4500.

Note: the Bloodmobile will be closed for lunch, 11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. on May 23.

Earn “rewards” points–redeem online for a Baskin-Robbins ice cream
coupon; or save rewards and redeem for other great items.

On Blood Drive Day, remember to eat and drink plenty of fluids. For eligibility questions, call BloodSource, 1-(866) 822-5663. Any reason is a good reason to give blood!... Read More

2013 Weekly Challenge #17: Express Workout!

2013 Weekly Challenge #17:  Express Workout!

Think you don't have time to exercise? Guess again! In just 10 to 20 minutes, you can get an excellent full body workout. Its called the Express Workout, and you can do it wherever you are, whenever you want!

For a quick workout at home, on vacation, or even in the office, try this circuit (repetitions in parenthesis are for beginner, intermediate and advanced, respectively:

Pushups - box-style, on your knees or on your toes (20, 25, 30)
Dips (20,25,30)
Butt Bumps (20, 25, 30)
Wall Sit (60 seconds for all levels)
Flutter Kick Hold 10 kick, 10 hold (3 sets, 3 sets, 4 sets)

Repeat entire circuit 3 or 4 times.

Your challenge:  Do the Express Workout every (non-Bootcamp) day this week.  Your body will LOVE you for it!... Read More