Healthquest 2010
Updates
Doug Walker top 'loser' of Week 28; Angie Hicks leads top 10
Week 28 brought more weight loss for Health Questers. The group has now lost almost 830 pounds. The top weight losers at the Sept. 1 weigh-in were: Doug Walker: 1.70% Lee Roy Parker: 1.57% Donate...
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Angie Hicks has lost more than 35 pounds during Health Quest and was treated to a makeover in the summer edition of Magnolia magazine. Week 25: Angie Hicks continues to lead the pack
In the 25th week of Health Quest, the diehards who are committed to getting healthy and losing a ton of weight are really showing themselves. Angie Hicks dropped another 3.6 pounds for 1.82 percen...
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Avoiding portion distortion
The speaker at the June Health Quest meeting at the Rome-Floyd County YMCA was from the Georgia Public Health Department. She talked to the group about portion control and shared a presentation ...
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Health Questers after a walk May 5 at Ridge Ferry Park in Rome. See Video: Walker shares benefit of getting outside to walk
Doug Walker spoke to fellow Health Questers about the benefits of walking and some of the best places to walk in Floyd County at the May 5 monthly meeting. The group met at Ridge Ferry Park in Rom...
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Meet the Questers
<b>Kimberly Oney — </b> “I ve been carrying this weight too long!” says Kimberly. “I want my energy back.” She s a manager and a Florida Gator fan. As she approaches 50, Kimberly is looking to walking and Weight Watchers as well as the “moral support and accountability of Health Quest” to help her succeed. Meet the Health Questers
Health Quest 2010 is under way and more than 100-plus people are aiming to lose 2,010 pounds over a 36-week period. Health Quest is an initiative created by Magnolia magazine and the Rome-Floyd C...
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Fitness Forum
Study: Belly bulge can be deadly for older adults
CHICAGO (AP) — If your pants are feeling a bit tight around the waistline, take note: Belly bulge can be deadly for older adults, even those who aren’t overweight or obese by other measures. One...
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Prevent colorectal cancer through screening, understanding
">Colorectal cancer might not be a topic for polite conversation, but it should not be ignored by anyone. In fact, this form of cancer is one of the most deadly in Georgia and in 2007 alone, ...
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Tales from the Treadmill
Let's make this month STEPtember and get out there and walk!
A couple of months ago Anne Kaiser, regional VP at Georgia Power who is our Health Quest sponsor, and I were talking. I was sitting on the recumbent bike at the YMCA and she walked in and sat do...
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Sometimes we just need to dance
Sometimes when I hear music, I just need to move! I love to dance, but I really don’t do it that often, unless you count sashaying around my living room with my yorkies. But this weekend at my 30t...
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Charlotte Atkins (in orange shirt) runs the Gary Tillman Memorial Clocktower 5K in Rome on Aug. 21. It was her first official 5K. (Photo by Stan Foxworthy of Foxworthy Studios) 5K: For some, it was a simple run. For others of us, it was a personal feat
Saturday was the 25th annual Gary Tillman Memorial Clocktower 5K Road Race. About a half dozen of us Health Questers signed up for the 5K, noting that we’d likely be mostly walking some of the rou...
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Clocktower 5K an opportunity to challenge myself ... and my lungs
It sounded like a good idea when organizer Gail Johnson called. She invited participants in Health Quest 2010 to participate in this year’s Gary Tillman Memorial Clocktower 5K Road Race and 2-mile...
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Food for Thought
Barbara Carter Barbara Carter On Nutrition: Three keys to good nutrition
Editor’s Note: Rome nutritionist Barbara Carter is lending her expertise to the Health Quest mission by writing a column twice a month. I am excited about beginning a new part of my li...
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Sweet on stevia: Taste testers find little separates the plant-based sugar substitute from its rivals
As stevia products vie for shelf space along with other sweeteners, the Free Press wanted to know how the plant-based sweetener stacks up. So, we tested a handful of no- or low-calorie sweeteners ...
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Study reveals top nutrients we look for in packaged foods
Got iron? You may want to check. The top five items that Americans are seeking to maximize when they scan the Nutrition Facts labels on packaged foods are, in descending order: whole grains, dieta...
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Blueberries: They aren't just for pie anymore
BALTIMORE , Md. – Think blueberries, and you think pie. But these blue beauties, at the height of their season in Maryland right now, are ready to break out of that familiar lattice-topped ...
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Recipe Box
Some recipes for Father's Day and the rest of the summer
Celebrity chef Bobby Flay explains our love for outdoor cooking by saying “grilling takes the formality out of entertaining. Everyone wants to get involved. The process and the great smells ...
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House Call
Lange House is the wellness director for the Rome-Floyd YMCA. The “run" around
I’ve been looking around the cardio room at the YMCA the past couple of weeks and I have noticed people using the treadmills that I would normally see on another piece of equipment such as the ...
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Myths and Misinformation
I was at a convention two weeks ago and had the opportunity to interact with top-notch professionals in the group fitness, personal training and exercise science fields. Besides being a little sta...
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Sweat it out
How many of you have ever made the comment “I don’t sweat, I glisten?” I know for a fact I have said that on numerous occasions…..but let’s get real! These are the dog days of summer and anyone wh...
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Stressed Out
STRESS ! That six-letter word that all of us have uttered when referring to work, family, friends, etc. Stress is something that each one of us can relate to on some level. We tend to think of it...
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Standings
Week 23: Health Questers have lost 800 pounds
  Health Questers have lost 800 pounds over 23 weeks. Week 23 had three Health Questers and two tag-a-longs lose weight this week. The top three losers at the July 28 weigh-in were Deborah Porterf...
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<b>Doug Walker —</b> Doug, longtime respected radio news man and now associate editor at the Rome News-Tribune, says he wants to give up about 60 pounds. “I have probably lost 600 pounds in my life. Unfortunately, I’ve generally managed to find most everything I lost.” He says at his highest he weighed 371 and at his leanest in adulthood he weight 192. “I feel best around 225-230,” says this 6’ 5” guy. “It’s time to end the yo-yo.” When Doug’s not covering our local community in the newspaper and hosting the video program Studio Central’s Face to Face, he loves to travel. He’s also an avid landscape and wildlife photographer. His exercise plan is simple: “Walk, walk, walk” plus he likes to cycle as well. And his eating plan includes trying to eliminate French fries and fried food. He’s hoping Health Quest will provide him basic support in his endeavor. And as we saw at the Health Quest kickoff, Doug is a wealth of information about places to walk and bike in the area. Week 21: Doug Walker top performer of the week
In week 21, Doug Walker was the top peformer, losing 4.8 pounds. That puts Doug over the 38-pound mark and at a percentage loss of 13 percent overall. This week’s top 10 were: Doug Walker: 1.63% A...
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Lance Cole – Lance wants to ditch 80 pounds in order to “look better, feel better, get off these medications (blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol), be healthy and live long.” Lance is a minister of music who enjoys his work, his family, reading, computer and TV and playing tennis. He uses MobileFit three days a week plus mixes in three days of cardio workouts as well as some tennis and biking. He decided to join forces with Health Quest because he says he needs “the competition, the weekly accountability and the encouragement.” Week 20: Some Health Questers stay on course during holiday week
Week 20 was the July 4th holiday week so many Health Questers were gone and didn’t weigh in. But there were some participants who stayed the course. So far the group has lost about 730 pounds. The...
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<b>Tara Nolan — </b>Tara is an inclusion parapro at Rome Middle School who helps students to “mainstream” in regular classrooms. She wants to shed more than 30 pounds for “health reasons and to look and feel better.” She also teaches Sunday school at West Rome Baptist Church and enjoys reading and spending time with friends and family, especially her husband Jeff and her three boys Corey, Russell and Nick. She does spin and sculpting classes at the YMCA and walks and she’s doing a low-carb low-carb eating plan. She’s looking to Health Quest for encouragement to keep on track and for health information and “looking forward to a healthier me!” Week 19: Health Questers continue weight-loss journey
Health Questers have lost more than 730 pounds to date, just past the half-way point time wise. But the group is still shy of the half-way point weight wise, so organizers are hoping for a resurge...
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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) Rice is nice!
No doubt you have noticed the many different kinds of rice on the grocery store aisle. We all have our favorites — Basmati is from India and has a distinctive smell (that smell is due to basmati r...
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Try Meatless Mondays
I heard a story on NPR this week about Sid Lerner, a 79-year-old New York former ad man who founded a movement to change the way we eat one day at a time. Well, make that one weekday at a time: ...
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Blueberries are delicious fresh, but you can freeze them too
A very dear friend recently proved just how great a friend she really is when she presented me with a ½ gallon zip bag almost full of blueberries she picked herself. She got up early one Saturday ...
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No-oven recipes because it's so darn hot!
Some like it hot, however, those of us living in Georgia are tired of it hot! Being outdoors in this heat, whether for your career, your garden or just to get from one place to another can be dr...
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Health Quest Tagalongs
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