Lancaster, PA

Happy Monday Everyone! This week's Fit Bit from Mickey Glick has the simplest solution yet to losing weight, don't drink your calories! Check out the tips listed below
and as always, if you'd like more information about fitness or would like a personalized workout plan put together for you, call Mickey Glick and Body and Soul Fitness Studio 717-509-7777!

DUMP THE LIQUID CALORIES

If you're trying to slim down, ditch the liquid calories. And, yes, that includes fruit juice. Researchers from Perdue University found that, when people were allowed to choose to eat or drink as much as they wanted, they consumed 12-15% more calories in liquid form. For example, when the choice was made to drink fruit juice rather than to eat fruit, more calories were consumed. Soda, sweetened teas, juices. Liquid calories just don't fill us up as fast as whole food, but they add up quickly. Plus, whole fruit is better for you anyway.

ALCOHOL & DIETING DON'T MIX

If you're serious about dropping some weight, ditch the booze. According to researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, just 2 drinks (wine, beer or mixed) slows fat burning by 73%!

The reason? Your liver converts the alcohol into acetate and uses it for fuel instead of using your fat stores. Another reason to dump liquid calories.

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Jason Burkholder

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Happy Monday Everyone! It's time once again for the newest Monday Fit Bit from Mickey Glick at Body and Soul Fitness Studio. This week Mickey, wants you to know that back pain can be addressed through strength training:

STRENGTH TRAINING 5 TIMES MORE EFFECTIVE THAN AEROBICS AGAINST LOW BACK PAIN

According to research from the University of Alberta, you're better off using strength training rather than aerobic exercise to reduce pain and improve lower back function.

Study participants were people with chronic back pain. One group took part in a 16-week strength training program and used load-bearing machines, dumbbells, barbells and other resistance equipment. The second group engaged only in aerobic exercise such as using an elliptical crosstrainer, walking on a treadmill, jogging, etc.

The findings? The strength training group exhibited a whopping 60% improvement in function and pain levels compared to just a 12% improvement for the aerobicizers. The benefits of resistance training for back pain sufferers are clear but please get proper instruction before beginning. Remember, fitness doesn't need to be complicated or involve membership in a gym, you can do many strength training exercies in your own living room!

If you have questions about fitness or want Mickey to set up a personalized fitness routine for you, call her at (717)509-7777 !

I'd like you to be part of the conversation, so if you like what you read here please, comment, forward The Lancaster Connection to your friends, subscribe and as always, if you have questions, need real estate advice or want to buy or sell a home, you can call or text me at 717-371-0557, email me at Jason@JasonsHomes.com or contact me at the office at 717-490-8999!

Your Friend in Real Estate,

Jason Burkholder

Search for Lancaster County Homes for sale at www.JasonsHomes.com by clicking here!

Want to see local real estate values and home prices? Go to www.RealEstateCrystalBall.com !

Your tax dollars are being frittered away by your representatives in Washington. Actually they are flying away.

Well, what's new about that? Fact is this is not new. It's been going on since the 1970's. No blame is being placed on any administration.

One would think considering the dire economic straights we find our country in, our law makers would be looking to any and all excesses to reduce our deficit.


It's hard to picture Athens, Ga. — population 112,000, home to the University of Georgia and about 90 minutes from Atlanta — as an isolated, rural town. But the federal government does and pays Air Midwest $1 million a year in subsidies to provide 13 weekly flights between Athens and the airport in Charlotte, N.C., a scant 82 miles away.


Athens qualifies for the subsidized flights under a 1978 law, passed when airlines were deregulated, to maintain "essential air service" to isolated and rural communities that can't attract service.

Athens is one of 24 communities within 90 miles of a good-sized airport that benefit from $22 million a year in government-subsidized air service.


In 2003, Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa.,(now D-Pa) made sure that Lancaster, Pa., got subsidized air service, even though it's less than 70 miles from Philadelphia International Airport.

Congress has consistently ignored proposals to cut spending and serve only the most remote communities. Lawmakers also blocked a plan to require 10 communities to pick up a small part of the subsidies so they'd have a stake in marketing flights to residents.

A roundtrip in Montana, from Lewistown to Billings' airport — a two-hour drive — costs passengers $88 with a 30-day advance purchase on Big Sky Airlines. Quite a deal, right? That's because the government pays a subsidy of $1,343 per passenger. In 2006, just two people a day on average took the flights.


This is just an example of the 24 special deals that exist across the country. I've provided some other articles that have been written on this subject for further information.

It's pretty easy to drive 90 miles to a larger airport to catch a flight. Perhaps these rural subsidies need to go the way of the dinosaur. Millons in tax dollars are being wasted annually with no hope in sight of it being abated.

other reference

http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2008/01/our-view-on-sub.html

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/nation/story/68744.html

http://www.dailycomet.com/article/20090924/ARTICLES/909249982?Title=Thanks-taxpayers-for-the-cheap-airline-ticket-123-million-worth

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Lancaster PA Fall Fest

Are you a fan of country music? Here in Lancaster County, PA, country music is hugely popular - and 40,000 people proved it at the Big WIOV 18th Annual Fall Fest! Held at the Overlook Community Campus in Lancaster, PA, a spacious complex which includes a driving range, a restaurant, roller skating rink and a golf course.

The weather was perfect for a concert - partly sunny with mild temperatures and and a mild breeze...

Trailer Choir, Sarah Buxton, Chris Young, Darryl Worley headlined the concert, with Little Big Town as the final act.

Chris Young captured on the Jumbotron monitor, singing "The Man I Want To Be".

If it's in you, it's in you! An enthusiastic young cowgirl shows off her dance moves...

Does it get any better than this?

Here's an incredible value -- a full-sized, totally renovated home in the low 70s. 617 St. Joseph St., in historic Cabbage Hill.

On $/square foot, Lancaster city homes are often half the price of suburban homes. And this home is even lower than the city average.

There aren't many fully renovated homes available in this price range. It has an attractive facade, large rooms, a great floor plan, and a fenced yard that gets lots of sun. From the third floor windows you have an interesting view of rooftops, church steeples and large trees.

The Cabbage Hill neighborhood is perhaps under-appreciated in Lancaster. This home is closer to market and downtown restaurants than most of Chestnut Hill. Talk to neighbors on St. Joseph St. to form your own opinion about the neighborhood.