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The WOPS, Barbara Payne (from left), Nellie Justice, Melinda Rose and Cathy Dominy, was the winner of the team competition during Health Quest II, dropping 17 percent of their combined body weight. (Doug Walker, RN-T)
Health Questers drop half a ton overall
Health Quest II participants dropped more than half a ton during the past six and a half months. While close to 300 people started the campaign, which ended Saturday, Amy Patterson at the YMCA sai...
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Health Quest 2011 finale scheduled for Sept. 24
When we’re trying to lose weight, we all wish we had a few more days or weeks to reach our goal. Participants of Health Quest are getting just that — an extra month to drop as many pounds as po...
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April’s Health Quest Subway Team Winner of the Month members are Melissa Rose (from left), Cathy Domino, Nellie Justice and Barbara Payne. (Contributed photos)
Health Questers have lost 931 pounds in first two months; April winners announced
Participants of Health Quest 2011 have lost a total of 931 pounds in the first two months. Teams have dropped 592 pounds of that and the other 339 was by those competing as individuals. Health Ques...
May 22, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 32 32 recommendations | email to a friend
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Weekly weigh-ins are each Wednesday at YMCA
A reminder to Health Questers that weigh-in day is Wednesday of each week. Official weigh-ins take place at the Rome-Floyd County YMCA on 810 E. Second Ave. in Rome from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. To maint...
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Standings
Jenny Ward was the Subway Winner of the Month among the 114 individual participants, losing more than 9 percent of her body weight. (Contributed photo)
Health Questers lose 696 pounds in first month
The first month results are in for Health Quest 2011, the public weight-loss initiative being presented by the Rome Floyd-County YMCA, Floyd Medical Center and the Rome News-Tribune. About 270 peo...
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Tales from the Treadmill
Pictured at the 2011 Peachtree Roadrace are Bobby Howerton (left), Ellen Garrard, Hayley Garrard Howerton, Mike Snow, Connie Nolan, Ansley Nolan and Kyle Doegg.
Peachtree Road Race – check!
I’m getting over a bad attitude. It had less to do with my actual real life experiences and more to do with my reaction to them. A fall here, a tweaked back there, a comment taken the wrong way, a...
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Doug Walker is a cycling fan. One of his dreams is to go to Europe to watch the Tour de France. He was the 2010 Health Quest winner, losing more than 72 pounds. (Ken Caruthers/rn-t)
Understanding own body critical to weight loss success
One of the best assets of aging is experience. Note that I did not say wisdom. I’ve packed more than my share of weight-losing experience into my almost 58 years on the planet. One of the things I’...
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Tara Nolan like to kayak. Sometimes paddling is easy; sometimes it's hard work...just like her weight-loss journey. (Ryan Smith/rn-t)
Years of dieting didn’t work, but something just clicked with Health Quest
Let’s see, where do I begin to tell the story? Diets have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. I have read about them, talked about them and been on one in some sort way before I e...
Jun 07, 2011 | 1 1 comments | 59 59 recommendations | email to a friend
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Ellen Garrard was one of the top 10 performers in Health Quest 2010.(Daniel Varnado/rn-t)
Adversity can make us stronger; the important thing is not to quit
What a busy spring this has been! With all the nasty weather, I have spent a lot of time working in my yard — picking up limbs and branches, raking up leaves and pine needles — and finding time to ...
May 24, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 70 70 recommendations | email to a friend
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Food for Thought
Your Health is an ongoing monthly series about health issues that impact the lives of many area residents.
Doctor: Being overweight puts you at risk of 35 major diseases
We all want to look and feel better. And millions of us in this country are carrying around extra weight,some just an extra 10 or 15 pounds, some of us as part of the nation’s growing obesity epide...
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Your Health is an ongoing monthly series about health issues that impact the lives of many area residents.
Peanut allergies can be deadly
For most people, peanuts are a tasty snack. But for some children, they can be deadly. Jhareel Dillard, a 15-year-old from Stone Mountain, died on Aug. 16 when he took a bite out of a cookie he tho...
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Barbara Carter
Why we should eat fruits and vegetables
Phytochemicals are being discovered to help prevent many diseases. Today, we are going to take a quick look at these fruits and vegetables so that when people (especially children) ask why they ...
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Barbara Carter
On Nutrition: Fruits and veggies best RX for fighting disease
The new math: Fruits plus Vegetables equal BETTER HEALTH. If you had not gotten that message before, here it is again. Today we are looking at the diseases that these two food groups can help pr...
Jul 04, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 23 23 recommendations | email to a friend
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Recipe Box
This photo shows sweet and sour chicken, which can can be served over white rice, but consider trying it as a grinder or tossed with soba noodles. (AP Photo/Matthew Mead)
A Hawaiian pizza-inspired sweet-and-sour chicken
For quite a while we couldn't quite put our finger on what was missing from sweet-and-sour chicken. With all the tangy sweet goodness from the pineapple, peppers, onions, sugar and vinegar, it was...
Apr 19, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 23 23 recommendations | email to a friend
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This photo shows stout-braised chicken. This recipe, which is perfect for St. Patrick’s Day, combines two techniques: flash browning over high heat and a quick, low-heat braise. By switching around the sauce ingredients you can turn this method for cooking thighs into an endless variety of dishes. (AP Photo/Matthew Mead)
The breast vs. the thigh. Healthy cooks enjoy both
Most health-conscious cooks focus on boneless, skinless chicken breasts. It makes sense. This ubiquitous piece of the bird is convenient, versatile and virtually fat-free. But there are other — an...
Mar 04, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 26 26 recommendations | email to a friend
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YMCA on Wellness
Lange House is the wellness director for the Rome-Floyd YMCA.
Who is holding you accountable?
We’ve all heard the word accountable before and it basically means an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility. For most of people, we do this on a regular basis. We are accountable at ho...
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Lange House is the wellness director for the Rome-Floyd YMCA.
Change up your exercise routine
Throughout the week, I encounter a number of questions about exercise, but there has been one question that people this week have repeatedly asked. “Why is it that I constantly work...
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Lange House is the wellness director for the Rome-Floyd YMCA.
Building better bedtime behavior
This summer is quickly passing by and if you’re like me, your evening outings are getting a little longer which can mean a decrease in the amount of sleep you get during the night. I’m normally an ...
Jul 08, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 21 21 recommendations | email to a friend
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Lange House is the wellness director for the Rome-Floyd YMCA.
Feel the burn ... not the burnout
If you exercise for any length of time, you'll probably wake up one day, take one look at your running shoes or whatever’s in your workout arsenal and consider burning it, just to get it out of you...
Jul 06, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 22 22 recommendations | email to a friend
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Healthy Gourmet
Kathy Patrick is a personal and entertainment chef in Rome. She writes the weekly Healthy Gourmet column for Health Quest. (Photo by Lindy Dugger Cordell/RNT)
If you can't take the heat, try no-cook dishes this summer
It’s hot outside and heating up any precious air conditioned space in my house is just not acceptable (especially since we saw our last electric bill!). Plus there is something about eating heavie...
Jul 10, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
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Kathy Patrick is a personal and entertainment chef in Rome. She writes the weekly Healthy Gourmet column for Health Quest. (Photo by Lindy Dugger Cordell/RNT)
It's summer so it's time for yellow squash
If the recent sweltering heat has not convinced you that it’s summer, then the onslaught of one of summer’s most bountiful harvests – summer squash – surely convince of the season! A friend of min...
Jun 21, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 21 21 recommendations | email to a friend
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Kathy Patrick is a personal and entertainment chef in Rome. She writes the weekly Healthy Gourmet column for Health Quest. (Photo by Lindy Dugger Cordell/RNT)
Summertime, and the eating is easy
Summertime here in Georgia really is a great time to eat. Strawberries have been wonderful, blackberries and blueberries are almost here, tomatoes and corn will be here before you know it, and don...
Jun 12, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
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The kumato is a green to reddish brown tomato that is sweeter than typical tomatoes due to a higher fructose content. Kumatoes have a longer shelf life than typical tomatoes and are considered a gourmet variety.
You say tomato, but I say kumato
You say tomato, but you might want to start saying “kumato” instead. I recently visited an enormous fresh produce distribution company and they gave me some kumatoes. I must admit that I was not t...
May 15, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 23 23 recommendations | email to a friend
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