Entries from September 2008

September 28, 2008

Farmer’s Markets

Ray Salomone-The Global Ambassador of Wellness
www.GrecoRomanWellness.com

FARMER’S MARKETS
In many of my writings, I mention Farmer’s Markets. I go out of my way to find these markets as I’ve come to the realization that this should be the way we all buy our food. Large industrial processed food companies are selling crap, concocted imitation food that is [...]

September 27, 2008

JOGGING ALONG THE HUDSON RIVER

I wanted to sneak in a run before the rains came. The Northeast is supposed to get soaked today. I was all alone on the Hudson River as the dense fogged settled around me.
 
I waved to a few policemen who were in their patrol boat and to a fisherman who was hoping for an [...]

September 26, 2008

Ray Salomone-Personal Trainer and Wellness Crusader
www.GrecoRomanWellness.com
 
I began working out 25 years ago. (WOW! Times flies.)
I began to seriously workout as I was preparing for my enlistment in the US Army. All my life I had been athletic, despite the Pediatrician’s warning to my father “I wouldn’t expect too much physically from the boy.” I ignored [...]

September 25, 2008

FAKE FAT IS BAD FAT. REAL FAT IS GOOD FAT

REAL FAT DOESN’T MAKE YOU FAT
It’s the fake fat you must worry about
 
Ray Salomone
www.GrecoRomanWellness.com
 
This I knew long before I read Nina Planck’s book, REAL FOOD. But the book served as a nice reminder as to why so much of the United States and now sadly the rest of the world, is so dangerously overweight, much [...]

September 23, 2008

If you love food, please read REAL FOOD by Nina Planck

You may know how difficult, almost impossible, it is to get me to endorse anything.
 
But please pay attention to this if you love food, love to cook it and enjoy the pleasure of a good meal shared with family and friends.
 
Please read REAL FOOD by NINA PLANCK.
 
I read it twice in a row, word for [...]

September 20, 2008

DEFENDERS OF HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP

 
 
DEFENDERS OF HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP
(How do these people sleep at night?)
 
I was recently tipped off that the nice folks who try to poison us with High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) were preparing to launch a massive publicity campaign designed to make the weak among us think that their beloved HFCS is not only NOT [...]

September 17, 2008

EXERCISING DURING A CRISIS

EXERCISING DURING A CRISIS
Ray Salomone
Personal Trainer and Wellness Crusader
www.GrecoRomanWellness.com
 
 
I’m in the middle of a family health crisis. A close family member was recently rushed into emergency surgery to remove a blood clot that was putting pressure on her brain.
 
I spent several days alternating between her ICU bedside and the waiting room.
For someone who is [...]

September 14, 2008

PLEASE DON’T IDOLIZE CELEBRITIES

Ray Salomone
Personal Trainer and Wellness Crusader
www.GrecoRomanWellness.com
 
 
Why a post about Lindsay Lohan in a wellness blog?
 
Because I work with celebrities and I see what their influence, intentional or not, has on the masses and it sickens me. Please believe me when I say this, celebrities are among the most screwed up people on the planet. Their [...]

September 12, 2008

How To Grocery Shop

I had a great conversation today with a potential client who wants to eat healthy but doesn’t know how. She’s been inundated with complicated plans from Weight Watchers, LA Weight Loss and other organizations of these types. Hey, Valerie Bertinelli looks great but for every Valerie, there’s ten Kirstie Alleys. Ads in the magazines she [...]

September 11, 2008

BEWARE!

Beware! The nice people who brought us HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP (the Devil’s Potion)are about to launch a major advertising campaign to try and convince that their brew is not only NOT bad for us, but is actually GOOD for us.
 
Just a guess on my part, but I think the soft drink industry might have [...]