Eeeeeeh-hhhaaa… it’s back! I’ve waited all year for the Vegas HHH (Health Healing Happiness) Conference.
Why??? What’s the big deal?
Is it the high energy opening meet & greet?
Could it be the wealth of informational download emphasizing health, wellbeing & personal expansion?
Some of that information is alarming, to set us straight, like this video:
https://youtu.be/Qo6QNU8kHxI
… some empowering like these promos for the new upcoming film, “EATING YOU ALIVE” :
https://youtu.be/BZJLsDEIx-M
How about the creative array of health vendors filling the hall?
Is it the two full days of wild fitness activities (like this weight room plant-based meetup)?
(In addition to the weights, I was taking quick powerwalks about the resort grounds between speakers… never miss an opportunity to move!)
Maybe it’s the evening entertainment factor on the sidewalks of Las Vegas!?! I found this guy “playin’ real good for free“, as Joni Mitchell would say. He had engaged a most appreciative crowd for over 30 minutes & we were happy to toss $$ into his bucket.
Apparently there was some clandestine filming going on because the next morning I found this brand new youtube post. This dude ain’t no street musician… but we got an outstanding professional concert under the gorgeous evening desert sky for a drop in the bucket! Enjoy!
https://youtu.be/-OcAEjzRze0
It was ALL these reasons, each one is enough to draw you back next year!
LUNCH!
All of these events are highlighted by the Low-SOS, mouth watering vegan buffet prepared by Chef Lonnie Beals & his staff at the Vegas Tuscany Resort!
Our Two Day Vegan Lunch Buffet:
* fresh fruit with coconut cream
* Thai salad with spicy peanut vinegarette
* macadamia nut rice
* curried potatoes
* vegetable mango stirfry w/ lomein noodles red bell pepper, tofu, mushrooms, broccoli, mango
* veggie kebabs w/ panzu glaze
* pita bread
* fresh veggie platter w/hummus
* sautéed green beans w/ olive oil with hint of garlic
* potato salad
* avocado/chickpea salad
* green salad w/ almond vinegarette (oil-free)
* Spanish rice
* pinto beans
* guacamole
* grilled veggie enchiladas w/ corn tortilla
* black bean burrito (w/ plantains, mango salsa & tortilla)
* fresh fruits tossed in agave syrup
THE MESSAGES
If you missed this conference I want to take you on a virtual tour of the messages from some of our 2016 presenters. I will provide links to youtube presentations similar to their HHH talks below their photos.
TrueNorth Health Center founder & author Dr. Alan Goldhamer:
* naked brc burrito (beans, rice, cabbage, but no tortilla) w/ XL-sweet beverage
* cilantro salad (had XL-oil in vinegar dressing)
* curry veggies w/ tamarind sauce (bell pepper, tomato, broccoli, cauliflower, green bean, potato) served w/ wild rice
* wonton soup ramen (had XL-oil, see photo)
Trouble w/ savory restaurant dishes is their liberal use of XL-oils & XL-salt! I will be wrestling w/ this reality all weekend, but not at lunchtimes b/c they will be low-SOS vegan catered events… yippee!! 🙂
EXERCISE:
# Lift lunch sisters @ gym (dropsets)
# Walk the dog 15 min
# Kickbox 90 min @ home
# deep tissue massage (abs, thighs, lower back, upper arms, neck, face)
(Photo credit: singlemindedwomen.com)
WATER: (goal: > 75)
(3) × (25.4) = 76.2 oz
EATS:
* watermelon
* rolled oats, grapenuts, ground flaxseed, water, strawberries, blueberries, apricots, martian milk
* homemade patchwork quilt soup (various lentils, split peas, brown jazmine rice, potatoes, sweet potatoes, onion, various chopped root veggies from Trader Joe’s Healthy 8 (red and green cabbages, carrots, broccoli, jicama, bell peppers, radishes, celery), Volupta brand organic ancient grains from Costco (white quinoa, millet, amaranth red quinoa), green salsa, seasonings) served w/ sourdough wheat XL-toast w/ XL-avocado
* cherries
Ok, enough with the accusations of personal vanity. It is becoming increasingly clear that deemphasizing the regularity of “party-mouth” (insisting that every meal produces an oral hyper-euphoric episode), losing excess fat & participating in regular exercise is no longer a simple matter of improving one’s attractiveness… it is a matter of survival!
The CDC (Center for Disease Control) says 40% of U.S. women are now obese. I didn’t say 20… and I didn’t say overweight… that’s the big four-0 percent, a figure that is closing in on HALF of us being obese!
Women who are overweight or obese have a higher risk of breast cancer. But accumulating evidence suggests that becoming fitter and losing some pounds after a diagnosis could cut the chances of a recurrence and even lower the risk of death.
A number of small studies looking at the benefits of exercise and weight loss on cancer by researchers at Yale University in the US are being presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting (ASCO) in Chicago.
Prof Melinda Irwin, associate director at Yale Cancer Center and professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health, said: “We found a strong connection between exercise after diagnosis and mortality afterwards.”
“Most interestingly, it showed the impact on changes in activity on mortality – even if you’ve never been active before taking regular exercise seemed to show a great impact.”
[…]
Among these small studies is one involving 144 women with ovarian cancer who did 150 minutes of aerobic exercise each week for six months. Early results show they had a drop in the levels of certain hormones linked with the growth of tumours, compared with women who did not exercise.
Another study of 221 women with breast cancer found those who lost weight on a diet had a drop in the levels of a protein that fuels tumour growth.
[…]
“We have known for many years that women who are overweight or obese and diagnosed with breast cancer have a higher risk of their cancer recurring and ultimately dying from breast cancer as compared to leaner women with similarly sized tumours at a similar stage with similar treatment,” said Dr Jennifer Ligibel, of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston,who is leading the breast cancer (study).
“We don’t really know why that is the case but it’s been seen over and over now in more than a hundred studies. […]
“… try to get them more up to 220 to 250 minutes (of weekly exercise) if we can because that’s really the level that’s been shown to help keep weight off after you’ve lost it,” she said.
They can choose any activity they like and she expects walking to be popular. “It’s a very accessible form of exercise. It doesn’t cost anything. You just need a pair of shoes. My patients always ask me what’s the best form of physical activity and honestly the answer is the one that you’ll do,” she said.
