Category Archives: information

Good better best [reprise]

What brands do you associate with?

There are things, services, and people that are good. Then there are those that are [or do] good for you. They are not necessarily branded, although this one uses an email brand that’s on point.

This article is in praise of a particular podiatrist. First, I want to thank her for the good service provided over many years.

Since feet are our transportation, you don’t want to experience unnecessary discomfort. Your podiatrist can do you a world of good.

Join me in welcoming Dr. Neda Khoobyar, myfootdoctor@gmail.com, to my immediate neighborhood.

She is moving into the medical spaces at 341 East 79th Street Suite 309 as we speak. You may want to save the welcome wagon for next week. Or give her a call or text at +12126793131.

https://allthebest.fitness.blog/2023/09/27/good-better-best/

Addendum: I visited the medical space at 341 East 79th Street (Ste 309) today and found it quaint and charming.

There are any number of professional psychologists at the location.

I attribute the bathroom design to Dr. Neda’s neighbors.

Opening?

Soon! Maybe.

Grubbs on York are being coy about when (maybe even if) they will be opening. This was cute. Originally. After months of seeing the tease, it’s beginning to grate. Open already, I want to shout. Or don’t.

The irony on this corner is that several months ago, the restaurant in question was open. Then it shuttered with this promise of it “coming soon.” I am puzzled.

Once upon a time

Your life without a computer: what does it look like?

So, yes, back in the day, we just did not have connecting devices. We used to type. On a typewriter!

We didn’t have email, so we took our typed letters to the post office; we put them in an envelope, affixed a stamp, and mailed them. Mail not e-mail. No instant messages or texts either.

Social media? Ha. To be social, we’d have parties with our friends.

Invitations to those were either via mail or we’d call. There was a time when there wasn’t v.m. even on those clunky land lines.

Oh, and you had to stand still while on the phone because (get this!) It wasn’t portable. There was a wire connecting it to the wall.

Good better best

What brands do you associate with?

There are things, services, and people that are good. Then there are those that are [or do] good for you. They are not necessarily branded, although this one uses an email brand that’s on point.

Since feet are our transportation, you don’t want to experience unnecessary discomfort. Your podiatrist can do you a world of good.

This article is in praise of a particular podiatrist. First, I want to thank her for the good service provided over many years.

Join me in welcoming Dr. Neda Khoobyar, myfootdoctor@gmail.com, to my immediate neighborhood.

She is moving into the medical spaces at 341 East 79th Street Suite 309 as we speak. You may want to save the welcome wagon for next week. Or give her a call or text at +12126793131.

Sedentary

It’s increasingly apparent that leading a sedentary life is bad for the health.

When I say “the health” I mean yours and mine. But women’s health in particular. The statistics suggesting just how bad inactivity is- especially for women- are grim.

Now I recognize that this is not exactly news to any of us.

Movement is necessary.

Since the pandemic began, we’ve been introduced to a lot of online programs. We also have spent more time in our jammies and slippers.

I used a site strategically-named Fitness Blender to get in enough supervised push-ups, squats, and lunges.

With the return to a more conventional workweek, we have even fewer opportunities to stay active.

In the spirit of helping us to maintain a healthier body and mind, Melissa Painter’s women-founded Breakthru has developed an immersive, interactive app.

Breakthru: Movement Microbreaks for the Modern Workday are 2-minute long movements guided to inspire a mood.

A User’s Guide on How it Works

1. start by picking the mood you are looking for- confident, joyful, energized or centered. Each mood is accompanied by a color – the experience is interactive and multi-sensory, with spatial sound.

2. push away from the computer and follow the guide, created by motion capture from movement experts whose expertise ranges from akido, tai chi, physical therapy, yoga and dance.

There’s no right or wrong way to play- the movement of your body affects the sound and the visuals! Each mood contains a series of different break options – there is a world of movement behind each mood option, each of which hold an entire series.

Breakthru invites you to set custom reminders and allows you to see your history. It also uses interactive feedback – machine vision (AI) – so the movement of a user’s body changes the sound and visual.
You can set team challenges, send appreciation to a colleague, use Breakthru as an ice breaker in meetings, win streaks, and unlock new breaks over time.

For more information on Breakthru visit their site.

Dated

The year before I completed college.

1971 draws a blank for the moment.

In 1967, I had a roommate who matriculated. She was finished with her studies a year ahead of me.

It’s a little game, silly, really, that I like to try. The universe hands me a date and I connect it to a memory.

The idea is not just to stay sharp but also to keep the timeline of my personal history fresh.

The latter has a way of slipping as time passes. It comes in handy, keeping a grip on who I am.

I am still puzzling this out

Darwin was wrong. Or only partially right.

We aren’t descended in a straight line lineage from one hominid or another.

I Need the Cliff Notes.

Our ancestry, that is, human ancestry, is more complicated than that.

This is intriguing and fascinating, and I don’t have time to fully realize where this fact leads.

Send me the “for dummies” crib book. Please.

This’n and that’n

Things I learned from Nat Geo and CNN Science newsletters this week

Aging pandas

Talking plants

Yolk-based paints

Stressed lizards

Mexico is home to a 33-year-old panda named Xin-Xin, who was born by artificial insemination.

It appears that plants respond to life events by making sounds. There is no evidence that they have actually developed a language.

The egg yolk found in your da Vinci is not accidental. Painters seemed to have used it to “stretch” the life of expensive paints.

Living near a noisy military base has made these lizards nervous.

Passing on knowledge gives, I think information an added value!