Community Walk for Diabetes through the American Diabetes Association
Posted on July 11, 2013 Leave a Comment
Many healthcare providers will tell you that walking is the best medicine for improving your health, including losing and maintaining weight, improving blood circulation throughout the body, increasing and releasing the feel good hormones such as endorphins, and improving and maintaining blood sugar control. You always want to make sure that you get your provider’s permission along with an action plan before you start exercising, especially if you have diabetes. You will need to make sure you coordinate blood sugar checking and snacking.
Diabetes goes beyond affecting the individual, but it affects the families as well. The American Diabetes Association tries to reach out to families as well to be the resources for those with diabetes. Without proper treatment, diabetes can cost billions of dollars in preventative and treatment cost. Diabetes can be managed, as I have spent many years in helping those to manage their diabetes.
The American Diabetes Association has its Community Walk coming up in more than 125 cities taking part. You can participate in the American Diabetes Association community walk by joining a walk, starting a walk, donating, or you can do all three. It is up to you. Go to http://main.diabetes.org/site/PageServer?pagename=CW_homepage
to learn more information. You can also put in your state or zip code to find out when there will be an American Diabetes Association community walk in your city or within the entire state, in case you want to venture out. According to the American Diabetes Association website, if you are here in Canal Winchester area, the next walk will be in Columbus, October 12, 2013.
Until next time,
To better health
Timika Chambers RN BSN MSN CDE
Author of A mother’s words of wisdom. From my heart to yours. Building within
About the book: The author shares the importance of being the role model we need for our children, the future leaders of tomorrow. She shares 10 of the most important principles taught by her mother, a single parent of three.
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Listen to the message instead of judging the messenger
Posted on July 6, 2013 1 Comment
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Someone shared on Facebook how she received an important message from someone she did not think she would. Thank you…You know who you are.
This message she shared on Facebook brought back some memories of how all of a sudden I would be with someone, not looking for a message, and that person shared some knowledge with me that made whatever I was going through so clear or even gave me an answer to something that was puzzling me. I have thought on several occasions that “this person must be heaven-sent.” Evidently, I judged this person or else I would not have been surprised, knowing deep within that God will use anyone to relay a message. If I do not pay attention, I could miss out.
One still has to be somewhat cautious;however, one should not just think because this person:
1. is in a lower or higher socioeconomic class than I
2. has no high school degree or even a college degree
3. grew up in the south or in the “hood”
4. is younger than I, even a child
5. is older than I and not “up-to-date”
6. has not been through what I have been through
7. has been in jail, mental institute, or rehab
8. is from a different background whether race, religion, ethnic group
9. is blind, cannot speak or hear
10. is an alcoholic
Or any others, that I cannot learn from them.
Listen and learn from those that God chooses to teach you, not the ones you want to teach you….Wow!
I would always say listen to the message instead judging the messenger. It is one thing to say it and intellectually know it…It is another to be about it. Teach me!
Timika Chambers RN BSN MSN CDE
Author “A mother’s words of wisdom. From my heart to yours. Building within”
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Love or wishful thinking?
Posted on June 29, 2013 Leave a Comment
I had to read the quote more than once ‘To love is to recognize yourself in another’ Eckhart Tolle. I believe that love… if true love is practiced more, many of the distractions in life…anger, abuse in any form, bitterness, grudges, jealousy,racism, spite,war, and others would disappear eventually. It would not happen all at once. I know our beliefs and values predict our actions..How you treat others, comes from how you feel about others..For example, if you feel that others are stupid, and should be called stupid, you will not only call them stupid, but treat them as such.
Love…I am just going by a hunch, but if we truly worked at loving others, then, to me, it is much like treating others as you would like to be treated. To love means:
1. there is no need for intimidation or jealousy. We all have our own spiritual gifts/talents that we should all embrace and embody what we have been given. No one is destined to have the exact same life…We would then be robots and so bored to death. There is only one Michael Jordan, Barack Obama, Paula Deen, etc.
2. there is no need to call someone other than the name he or she is given or gives you permission to do so. This includes prejudice/racism. The excuse that I can call another a certain derogatory or racial name because someone else does it is just that…an excuse. As mentioned before, I never understood racism…to not like someone because they are a different color goes beyond the color or race to me…There has to be something beyond the color or race issue.
3. not standing in the path of others while they are walking in the same direction because you are conscious about your surroundings and want to respect others.
4. putting a leash on your dog because you truly do not know how your dog will act around another. Many deaths have been the result of a family dog attacking someone inside or outside the family because that person did not believe that the dog would. Leashing your dog, especially when it is a law or rule is out of respect for others, especially picking up the dog’s poop.
5. there is no need to push or shove another because you feel like it or want to impress others. You would not want the same done to you.
6. there is no reason to gossip about another because you would be too involved in your life, and you see no need to do so. Each has his or her own life to live and lessons to learn.
7. there is no need to damage someone’s possessions because if you truly love someone, you would be willing to let them go and not get back at them. You want to be with someone who loves you for you. This includes when you are living somewhere such as renting out an apartment or house. You would take care of the place as if it was your own.
8. there is no need of abusing or using another because you realize that life is a miracle…and everyone is here for a purpose and that reason is not to be your punching bag or anything else just to satisfy a “thought” need.
9. there is no need for murder, including wars, because it is not your right to decide that someone does not belong here. Life is worth living…
10. to have someone you call a friend do something he or she does not want to do. We do not push others to be or do something they do not want to do out of respect for their life. You should not have to prove yourself to a true friend. A true friend accepts you for who you are.
Timika Chambers RN BSN MSN CDE
A mother’s words of wisdom. From my heart to yours. Building within.
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