Let’s begin by saying what gardening is not. Generally speaking, it is not a rainy day activity. Sure you can have a home or office full of indoor plants, but you’d have to have a lot of them to get much exercise and activity. And very few of us are lucky enough to have a green house large enough to provide 30 minutes or more of strenuous exercise each day. It would take a green house of that magnitude to supply us with all the groceries we need, especially year around. So we can pretty much say that gardening is not going to make us independent of the grocery store unless you have a large garden and want to can things way your grandmother or great-grandmother once did.

That’s the down side. For ninety-nine percent of us, we won’t be able to garden every day, nor will we be able to provide all our own groceries. But we can, “make hay while the sun shines,” and, “enjoy the fruits of our labor,” as the old sayings go and help describe the benefits that gardening provids. I much prefer the Vitamin D my body makes from being outdoors on a sunny day and to me, nothing tastes better than the fruits and vegetables that are consumed just minutes after being harvested from my garden.

However you might ask, is gardening strenuous enough to be considered exercise, or is it more of a keep busy sort of activity – merely an outdoor exercise on the level of playing solitaire on the computer? In my opinion it certainly can be.

In fact, if you’re new to gardening, or haven’t done it in awhile, I should caution you to take the same precautions with gardening that you would before beginning any other strenuous exercise. Just about everyone with an ounce of brains knows you don’t go to the gym for the first time and begin with heavy weights. You start with the light ones and make it increasingly more difficult as the muscles rebuild stronger. That’s not always possible with gardening. Quite often you have to begin by digging out or moving heavy rocks or other obstacles; to say nothing of toting those big cumbersome bags of composted manure and other soil amendments.

Then too is the digging and turning of the dirt and all the other preparations that it takes to make a bed ready, and using containers won’t get you out of that entirely. Actually, I find turning a bed, even a large bed with a spading fork to be easier than filling and moving around a bunch of five gallon containers of moist potting soil. Even a completely dry container is too much for someone not used to manipulating something like that. In the gym you can get a knowledgeable trainer to show you the correct lifting techniques to prevent injury. Unfortunately there isn’t that kind of help available for the home gardener. As a result, each year there are thousands that require medical attention due to doing the right thing the wrong way while working in their garden. Think before you do! Lift with care, caution, and balance.

Now a word or two or three about the mental or emotional aspect of gardening – another of the benefits of gardening. Stress really is a killer. If you’ve been listening to the “Wellness Wednesday” series of the “Older & Active” show on Blog Talk Radio, you’ve enjoyed Dr. Pickering’s programs on “Attitude” and more recently on “Nutrition.” Coming up soon is the series on Stress and he’ll be telling us what causes it and how to avoid it. Physical activity is one of the best preventive measures that I know of, and I’ll also rank gardening right up there too. There is something incredibly peaceful about gardening that I can’t explain, I only accept and enjoy.

Finally, a few words about another significant perspective to work in the garden – good nutrition.

In this day and age of Monsanto’s GMO produce and pesticide polluted groceries, there are only two choices left to the wise consumer: buy produce that you know is grown organically, preferably at a local farmer’s market from a vendor that you’ve learned to trust, or grow your own. I do both because as I stated in the beginning, I’m not lucky enough to have a large garden and a big greenhouse. And what doesn’t grow locally I get from a grocery store that specializes in having organic produce. I wish I had the facilities to grow as much Kale, Spinach, and Swiss Chard as I consume year around, but I don’t and have to rely on others.

Now maybe it’s just my imagination, but I happen to think what I grow tastes much better. So give gardening a try – your body, as well as your mind, will be glad you did.

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You’ll Discover the Greatest Gold-Mine of Proven Advice Ever Crammed Into One System and You Can Laugh at your Health Worries – If You Follow These Simple, Easy Tips that we cover in this 12 month Tele-Seminar Interview Series titled “How to Get Well Then Stay Well for Life”!

Now you can be Eating Smart, Being Fit, Staying Well and You WILL have Tons of Energy; LESS Body FAT while Staying Younger Longer as you reverse the hassles of aging all in 12 1-Hour Interviews G~U~A~R~A~N~T~E~E~D!

Healthy People have MANY goals,
Unhealthy people have only 1 goal….

In this series you will enjoy:

• Sleeping soundly and awaking more rested
• Coping with stress, fatigue and depression with ease and style
• Having TONS of Energy with Improved Sexual Vigor
• Greatly improved mental abilities
• Decreased wrinkles, sags and loose skin
• Improved Vision, Speeds injury recovery
• Heightened creativity and learning ability
• Feeling Good while Staying Younger Longer
• Being 100% totally free of all aches, pains, stress & disease

Our Special Guest is Dr. Wayne Pickering “THE AMBASSADOR for HEALTH” from Daytona Beach, Florida and this week his topic will be What Causes Disease and what Health Really is and What it is Not!

In this 1st of 12 series you’ll discover:

1. What Health is NOT
2. What Health truly IS!
3. What Doctor’s Aren’t Telling You
4. 20 Tips to help Prevent Medical Errors
5. 6 Things to Consider about your Health for the Long Haul
6. Health Care in the Work Place
7. The Best DEFINITION of Disease
8. The BENEFITS Of Disease
9. The REASONS for Disease
10. The CAUSES of Disease
11. The 2 TYPES of Disease
12. The 6 STAGES of Disease so you’ll know that Disease is to be Revered NOT to be Feared
13. Healing Disease verses Curing Disease
14. “The Germ Theory” Exposed
15. The Ongoing War on Cancer

Dr Wayne is an

Author of 10 Health Guides; several C/D ROM’s; 8 Books; 22 Audio Learning Programs; award winning Video Series titled “Is Your Diet A Riot”, 32 Special Reports, over 400 Articles on Fitness, Stress & Nutrition, a weekly e-zine that goes out to over 13,000 opted in subscribers as well as 18 Websites & 10 Health Systems all distributed in 37 countries!

Nutritional Performance Coach, Life Management Consultant & Disease Prevention Specialist.

International Professional Speaker (Past President of the National Speakers Association in Florida) who has spoken in five countries and has shown thousands how to enjoy life totally free of health problems caused by Stress and Poor Nutrition and lack of Fitness

His prognosis was death at age 30. Now, at 63 years young, Dr. Wayne is an award winning Triathlete and a double nominee for the Healthy American Fitness Leader Award.

As a licensed Florida Nutrition Counselor, he improves human performance by sharing several secrets on “How to Get Well then Stay Well for Life!”

His nutrition programs are approved for continuing education credits by the Florida and Alabama State Boards of Pharmacy and most recently by the Florida Board of Dentistry.

His purpose is teaching you how to be the Healthiest Person on the Planet and not the Wealthiest Person in the Grave with easy steps that focus on Nutrition and a basic philosophy, “If you want to be tough, you have to eat good stuff!”

He is the founder of the Daytona Beach based Center for Nutrition & Life Management, Inc. He’s an amazing man with an awesome story. Give him a minute and he’ll give you a lifetime!

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Join us Saturday morning, Oct. 9th,  for the 2nd part of the 2nd of a series of 12 Interviews to answer ALL your questions about “How to Get Well then Stay Well for Life”

Get The Facts On These Closely-Guarded Secrets of this Tele-Seminar Series That Are Finally Being Revealed In The next 12 month (one each month) That Shows You How to Get Well Then Stay Well for Life so you can get Older and Better and NOT Old and Bitter as you only do good when you feel good knowing that sickness doesn’t take a holiday! Remember, growing old doesn’t make us sick, it’s growing sick that makes us old! So never let age be your cage!

Paying Too Much for those Boosters to gain Energy & Tools to boost your VITALITY … Find Out How To finally take charge of your health and Harness the power of your Inner Magic to Stay Young (Almost) Forever… you will learn how to get fit, stay healthy and have great looks for life!

You’ll Discover the Greatest Gold-Mine of Proven Advice Ever Crammed Into One System and You Can Laugh at your Health Worries – If You Follow These Simple, Easy Tips that we cover in this 12 month Tele-Seminar Interview Series titled “How to Get Well Then Stay Well for Life”!

Now you can be Eating Smart, Being Fit, Staying Well and You WILL have Tons of Energy; LESS Body FAT while Staying Younger Longer as you reverse the hassles of aging all in 12 1-Hour Interviews G~U~A~R~A~N~T~E~E~D!

 Healthy People have MANY goals,
Unhealthy people have only 1 goal….

In this series you will enjoy:

• Sleeping soundly and awaking more rested
• Coping with stress, fatigue and depression with ease and style
• Having TONS of Energy with Improved Sexual Vigor
• Greatly improved mental abilities
• Decreased wrinkles, sags and loose skin
• Improved Vision, Speeds injury recovery
• Heightened creativity and learning ability
• Feeling Good while Staying Younger Longer
• Being 100% totally free of all aches, pains, stress & disease

 Our Special Guest is Dr. Wayne Pickering “THE AMBASSADOR for HEALTH” from Daytona Beach, Florida and this week his topic will be “GETTING WELL”

In this 2nd of 12 series you’ll discover:

1. Alternative health treatments that work
2. The Power of your Inner Magic.
3. How to RID your Body of Disease once and for all
4. Guidelines on “Doing Nothing Intelligently”
5. Strategies to Improve your Sex Life at any Age.
6. How to Finally Eliminate the Expensive Pills, Potions and Lotions
7. Tips to Boost your Immunity
8. Ways to Feel Tremendous once again

Don’t Miss It!

Dr Wayne is an

Author of 10 Health Guides; several C/D ROM’s; 8 Books; 22 Audio Learning Programs; award winning Video Series titled “Is Your Diet A Riot”, 32 Special Reports, over 400 Articles on Fitness, Stress & Nutrition, a weekly e-zine that goes out to over 13,000 opted in subscribers as well as 18 Websites & 10 Health Systems all distributed in 37 countries!

Nutritional Performance Coach, Life Management Consultant & Disease Prevention Specialist.

International Professional Speaker (Past President of the National Speakers Association in Florida) who has spoken in five countries and has shown thousands how to enjoy life totally free of health problems caused by Stress and Poor Nutrition and lack of Fitness

His prognosis was death at age 30. Now, at 63 years young, Dr. Wayne is an award winning Triathlete and a double nominee for the Healthy American Fitness Leader Award.

As a licensed Florida Nutrition Counselor, he improves human performance by sharing several secrets on “How to Get Well then Stay Well for Life!”

His nutrition programs are approved for continuing education credits by the Florida and Alabama State Boards of Pharmacy and most recently by the Florida Board of Dentistry.

His purpose is teaching you how to be the Healthiest Person on the Planet and not the Wealthiest Person in the Grave with easy steps that focus on Nutrition and a basic philosophy, “If you want to be tough, you have to eat good stuff!”

He is the founder of the Daytona Beach based Center for Nutrition & Life Management, Inc. He’s an amazing man with an awesome story. Give him a minute and he’ll give you a lifetime!

Don’t Miss It!

Nutrition was the subject that caused me to discover the work of Dr. Wayne Pickering of Daytona, FL. He’d made a remark to the effect that you can’t supplement a poor diet. What he was talking about was that you can’t eat junk food and pop a few food supplements, no matter how good they are, and expect to see healthy results.

When I contacted Wayne to see if he’d like to be a guest on the “Older and Active” radio show on Blog Talk Radio, our conversation led to his consenting to do a whole series of shows titled, “How to Get Well then Stay Well for Life.” We’re currently doing the part on “Nutrition” and I hope you’ll join us live for the next show, and if you’ve missed the previous shows, please go back into the archives to listen to them. While the emphasis of the program is Senior Health and Senior Wellness, this is information that is appropriate for Boomers and their grand kids as well.

You’re never too young or too old to learn about health, fitness, nutrition, exercise and all the  things that go into wellness.