Where to Find Yoga Flavored Life
Blog URL: http://www.yogaflavoredlife.com/
Category: Fitness, Health

Yoga Flavored Life

Yoga Flavored Life is a site created by Charlotte Bradley, a woman who discovered yoga after a knee injury forced her to take a break from her beloved sport of karate. Always a fitness buff, the author had learned to relieve her daily stress through workouts. Her body and her mind suffered after a knee injury sidelined her, so she decided to try yoga. Since that time, yoga has become her primary fitness routine and she is dedicated to helping others become familiar with the practice.

Yoga Flavored Life – Why You Should Go

Charlotte is passionate about yoga and the improvements it has made in her life – both mentally and physically – and she is dedicated to teaching others how to use yoga to improve themselves, too. You need not be yoga guru to enjoy this site – in fact, it’s a great site for those just beginning to explore how yoga can help their body and their mind.

One of the most helpful features of the site is the posts Charlotte has about single yoga poses and their benefit to the body. These are poses you could perform standalone to help stretch or align a particular part of the body. Even if you’re not planning to do a half hour session of yoga, you can benefit from single poses that strengthen you.

Summing Up Trying Fitness

Today, there are many yoga websites out there, and some are a bit metaphysical for many readers. This is a yoga blog, however, that can appeal to anyone who wants to use yoga, whether a little or a lot, to improve their mind and their body.

Go here to check out Yoga Flavored Life.

Mary Ward
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Where to Find Trying Fitness
Blog URL: http://www.tryingfitness.com/
Category: Fitness, Weight loss, Lifestyles

Trying Fitness

Trying fitness is a site created by a woman who struggled with her weight for years. She hated to exercise, but finally realized that getting fit was the only way she would ever keep her weight in check. She blogs about her own struggles and gives thorough information on new types of fitness activities and exercises so that her readers don’t get bored with their fitness routines.

Trying Fitness – Why You Should Go

This blog is, of course, one of the thousands out there on eating right, losing weight and staying active. However, it’s different in its honesty. The site’s tag line is “Trying Fitness – Because You’ve Tried Everything Else”, which sums up weight struggles for most people who have faced them.

In addition to the author of the site, Eartha, being someone many people can relate to, the site is also full of great information. It seeks out new and unusual forms of exercise so that readers find it easy to change their routines up on a regular basis to avoid boredom. The site also has regular interviews with different types of fitness experts and there’s a regular weight loss blog.

Summing Up Trying Fitness

In short, this is one of many weight loss and fitness blogs out there, but it’s refreshing because it’s honest and written from the point of view of someone who has struggled with weight issues rather than a personal trainer who’s been buff for 20 years.

Go here to check out Trying Fitness.

Mary Ward
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Where to Find Criminal Justice Online:
Blog URL: http://criminaljusticeonlineblog.com/
Category: Education, Careers, Personal Interests

Criminal Justice Online

Criminal justice is a field that is growing, in demand, and seemingly constantly evolving. To keep up with the changes as you maximize the potential of this field, you need good, quality resources. For a Criminal Justice degree online or even off, this site is the place to go.

Criminal Justice Online – Why You Should Go

Radek Gadek is the mind and experience behind Criminal Justice Online. Having earned a Master’s Degree in Criminal Justice from the respected Boston University, and having also studied with various online universities and online criminal justice schools, Radek is in a unique position, possessing both the experience and the knowledge to help you make the best educational and career decisions for a criminal justice career path.

Gadek’s blog covers the criminal justice career and education topic from all angles, including the basics of understanding the paths available in the career field and the finite differences between oft-confused disciplines (for example—do you know the difference between Criminal Justice and Criminology?) and the more practical aspects of pursuing a degree in the field (for example, choosing Criminal Justice schools by state, or learning answers to essential questions like, How long does it take to get a criminal justice degree?). From articles about the possibility, potential, and demand of the field to the how-to’s of accomplishing career goals, it’s all here on this blog.

Summing Up Criminal Justice Online

Criminal Justice Online is one of the few truly useful and comprehensive resources for this career field on the web. Get ahead by starting ahead and benefitting from the collected knowledge and experience of this blogger.

Go here to check out Criminal Justice Degree Online.

Mary Ward
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Where to Find EMax Health Blog:
Blog URL: http://www.emaxhealth.com/
Category: Health, Fitness

EMax Health Blog

We’ve covered many blogs with practical health and fitness topics as the focus. This blog is in line with those good companions, but with slightly different flair.

EMax Health Blog – Why You Should Go

The EMax Health Blog is a blog that does include topics pertaining to practical advice and application of fitness, nutrition, diet, and more, but it is also one that expands it view to the wider topic of health news. In fact, the site is primarily focused on news, views, and related topics from the health world. All together, the EMax Health News Blog covers most every aspect of health and well-being.

The blog is smartly divided into three main sections:

• Health and Wellness
• Conditions
• Insurance and Money

This gives the blog the ability to bring you all of the essentials that matter for your continued good health and maintenance, including those all-important financial aspects that really do have a huge impact on personal health.

Summing Up EMax Health Blog

The EMax Health Blog is an intelligent collection of all the essential topics necessary for good health. Count on this blog to help you with your fitness and management of health conditions, but also the management of your related financial health for the continued ability to maintain your best health and fitness.

Go here to check out EMax Health Blog.

Mary Ward
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Where to Find Fun and Food Blog:
Blog URL: http://funnfud.blogspot.com/
Category: Food, Cooking, Health

Fun & Food Blog

Good food and good health are actually tandem partners, although when improperly managed they can potentially be arch-nemeses. The Fun and Food Blog works to make sure that’s not that case, and that the two can work collaboratively.

Fun & Food Blog – Why You Should Go

The Fun & Food Blog, developed and maintained by Mansi, self-described as a lover of good food and technology, serves as a reminder that good health, good food, and good times are not mutually exclusive elements. Rather, they are the cornerstones of life.

The blog works to make that connection and collaboration clear. It provides articles, recipes, tips and tricks, gadgets, and more for healthier, enjoyable cooking. Categories and topics include everything from gadgetry and health topics, to restaurants, recipes, fitness, entertaining, and even back to the basics of good, healthful, fulfilling cooking and eating.

Summing Up Fun & Food Blog

The best way to sum up this blog is just as it’s been described here—as a place to enjoy both food and good health, and as a timely reminder and enabler to show that you can have the best of both worlds of good food and living well.

Go here to check out Fun & Food Blog.

Mary Ward
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Where to Find The Daily Green:
Blog URL: http://www.thedailygreen.com/
Category: Green Living, Environment

The Daily Green

Greener living and working has been a recurring theme here in our blog reviews practically since the beginning. One of our first blog reviews was for Tree Hugging Family, and there have been many added to the category since. But no collection of green blog reviews would be complete without this site and its companion blog, the ultimate in green living education and information, all rounded up in one nice, neat place.

The Daily Green – Why You Should Go

The Daily Green was started on Earth Day in 2007. The simple mission of this site and blog was (and is) to

“broaden the audience for earth-friendly living by showing how going green is relevant to everyone.”

It has succeeded admirably and exceeded its own goals.

Through quality posts, articles, and information and the collective efforts of a number of contributors and guest posters, the Daily Green has become a one-stop shop for everything green. The blog shows how, in nearly every way, large or small, you can live better, greener, cleaner, and healthier—and do your part responsibly to help others and the planet do the same. With categories spanning from tips and advice to news, green homes, green cuisine, living green, and even a weird weather watch, all the things you want to know about greener living, and many you never thought to think about, are here at this blog.

Summing Up The Daily Green

What more can I say? The Daily Green is an award-winning blog that has it all, all in one place, and all in great style. It makes living green in every aspect of your life simple.

Go here to check out The Daily Green.

Mary Ward
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Where to Find Pilates Goddess:
Blog URL: http://www.pilatesgoddess.com/
Category: Health, Fitness, Personal Development

Pilates Goddess

The practice of Pilates has enjoyed a great surge in popularity lately, not least of all for its many health benefits. However, the practice remains somewhat clouded with confusion as the lay person seeks to understand the practice fully and learn how to maximize it for form, function, and lifestyle. Pilates Goddess was developed to clear that confusion.

Pilates Goddess – Why You Should Go

Pilates Goddess is the work of Lynda Lippin, a Pilates instructor with over 20 years experience to her name. Lynda is also an experienced Usui Reiki Master and certified Personal Trainer, as well as an accomplished author. To say that Lynda is well-qualified to deliver Pilates advice and information would be an understatement.

Lynda’s Pilates blog was developed for the express purpose of helping people better understand the practice and work their way through any difficulties related to it. On the blog she overviews workouts, health issues, proper practice and techniques; she also works to educate her readers as to just what Pilates is and how to best maximize the practice on a personal level.

Summing Up Pilates Goddess

In short, in Lynda’s words,

“The Pilates Goddess feels your pain, understands your confusion, and seeks to clarify all things Pilates related!”

That is probably the best summation that anyone could give for this blog. If you practice Pilates, you would do very well to connect with Lynda through her blog and really achieve the fullest benefit of your efforts and practice.

Go here to check out Pilates Goddess.

Mary Ward
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September already and away we go!  We’re kicking off the month with a mix of topics on some really great blogs.

Week In Review, September 7, 2009

• Starting out the week we featured Bonnie’s Blog of Crime, where Bonnie Prisbey is taking the time to keep an eye on crime and those less fortunate victims of it.  Hers is not a blog that one would describe as entertainment, but is certainly one with an important purpose.
• Looking for a blog that brings together all the health and nutrition information you see?  You’re looking for the AstroNutrition Blog, your one stop for collected, collaborative health information.
• Shane Shirley-Smith is working hard to help us as consumers and citizens of the planet achieve the synergy between our various roles.  Environmental Health-Wellness-Beauty is working to make us the happiest, healthiest, most responsible consumers ever.
• Unraveling all the diet and nutrition advice that is out there is a tough job, and one that registered dietitian Melanie Thomassian is more than happy to do.  Learn from a pro in the know and get solid, factual nutrition advice at Dietriffic.

That wraps the first week of reviews for September, but you can go back in time and check out the last of August in last week’s Recap Review.  And do come back for a full schedule of great blog reviews next week!

Mary Ward
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Where to Find Dietriffic:
Blog URL: http://www.dietriffic.com/
Category: Health, Nutrition, Food

Dietriffic

Dietriffic is not just a blog for losing weight. It is a whole-health and nutrition blog focusing on evidence-based nutrition information to help you establish a healthy, balanced diet and eating habits.

Dietriffic – Why You Should Go

Dietriffic is the blog of Melanie Thomassian, a degree-holding registered dietitian in Ireland. Melanie certainly has the credentials to back her blog, not only from the perspective of education and licensing but also in communicating, blogging, and writing. Melanie is an expert writer for several nutrition sites and has been featured on still others.

Melanie’s blog was built and is maintained as a site where people can come for real, founded, solid information from a professional with a firm understanding of her field. Understanding that so much of the diet and nutrition information out there is simply mind-boggling to the lay person, Melanie developed her blog as a place to learn what’s real and what’s not, and cut the confusion out of maintaining good health through a healthy diet. She says,

“…as someone who is passionate about nutrition, my desire is to empower people like you to possess a better understanding of what it takes to live a healthy lifestyle.
If you’re after a personal blog, full of contradictory ideas and advice which isn’t founded on evidence, you’ve come to the wrong place.

Dietriffic is about evidence based information, equipping people with reliable advice.”

Summing Up Dietriffic

Dietriffic is a site that can finally help you make sense of the flood of nutritional and dietary information that is out there. When you want the real, whole truth on what’s good for you, come see Melanie and her site full of solid nutrition information.

Go here to check out Dietriffic.

Mary Ward
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Where to Find Environmental Health-Wellness-Beauty:
Blog URL: http://shaneshirleysmith.blogspot.com/
Category: Environment, Health, Self Improvement

Environmental Health-Wellness-Beauty

As people and as consumers, we all like to put the various elements that make up our lives into nice little categories, and tend to one at a time (or not at all, as something always seems to need to give). Shane Shirley-Smith takes a different approach to life.

Environmental Health-Wellness-Beauty – Why You Should Go

Shane Shirley-Smith understands the synergy between all aspects of our lives. She understands how the choices we make as consumers bear on our health and wellbeing, and also how those choices come to bear on our planet, our world, our economies, and on and on. As such, she has taken it upon herself to create consumers who are better informed so that we can make the best possible purchasing, consumption and use decisions—the best possible decisions for our health, beauty, inner beauty, wellbeing, our planet, and our personal finances. Shane explains her role and her ambition as this:

“Synergy needs to exist between your consumer choices, your health and a healthy world. Our mission is to educate and inspire people to make healthier, more informed consumer choices. Begin or continue your green lifestyle journey here with environmental news and health info about: organics, yoga, natural products, environmental toxins, vaccines, green jobs, carbon offsetting and ways to live chemical free. Our future depends on our knowledge and actions. What choices will you make today?”

Summing Up Environmental Health-Wellness-Beauty

Shane Shirley-Smith and her blog are succeeding in providing thought-provoking information and education for what may appear to be unrelated life elements at first, but really are very interrelated and supremely important to living our best lives. By showing us better ways to live better and more responsibly, she is paving the way for a brighter, cleaner, more sustainable future, both on the individual and global levels.

Go here to check out Environmental Health-Wellness-Beauty.

Mary Ward
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