21 Days to Ultimate Health and Wellness

Erich C. Nall  |   OW Contributing Columnist
Sep 15 2011

An Ultimate Transformation Moment

This week’s Ultimate Transformation Moment re-establishes the basic fact that you possess the most tremendous power of choice.

You have the power to choose. You have the power to determine what the best alternative, path or decision is for your individual self, your family, and your community. You can choose, but in choosing, you must be willing to put in the work that is required by your choice.

Erich C. Nall  |   OW Contributing Columnist
Jul 21 2011

Ultimate Transformation Moment

This week’s Ultimate Transformation Moment focuses on nutrition after vacations or three-day weekends.

Typically, when on vacation two things happen—one, it is a time to relax, and there may be no exercise involved, and two, nutrition falls by the wayside. The food that is consumed tends to be higher in calories and larger portions. The increased calories and lack of exercise causes the metabolism to slow.

Erich C. Nall  |   OW Contributing Columnist
Jul 14 2011

An Ultimate Transformation Moment

This week’s Ultimate Transformation Moment reviews a power that, while simple, is the most tremendous power that humans possess. Today we review the power of choice.

Every individual has the power to choose, and you have that power to choose in every second of every moment of every day of your life. However, the power to choose is based upon a few fundamental truths.

Erich C. Nall  |   OW Contributing Columnist
Jun 16 2011

An Ultimate Transformation Moment

This week’s Ultimate Transformation Moment focuses on 21 Days to Ultimate Health and Wellness.

With less than a week left before the first day of summer, right now is a great time to fine-tune that summer body that you want to have. Take the next 21 days to really make sure you are in alignment with the body you want.

Erich C. Nall  |   OW Contributing Columnist
May 5 2011

An Ultimate Transformation Moment

This week’s Ultimate Transformation Moment continues to build upon the basics of exercise preparation. 

Once you have the proper equipment, it’s now time to get going. However, to assist you, it helps to have a system in place that prepares you and carries you through the workout.

Determine what your course of action will be. For example, will you walk three miles or 45 minutes? Before you set out, here are a few things to do.

Across Black America

Here’s a look at African American people and issues making headlines throughout the country.

California
San Diego college students and volunteers will carry out their sixth home restoration project on Wednesday, July 10 through Sunday, July 14. as part of the “Healing our Heroes’ Homes” (H3) program created by the nonprofit Embrace. The five-day effort will take place at the home of medically retired Marine Corps Capt. Sarah Bettencourt. Bettencourt served with many different units across the country during the Global War on Terrorism and developed a rare neurological disorder in 2008. With a focus to restore the homes of disabled veteran homeowners, H3 falls in line with Embrace’s mission to mobilize college-student volunteers and community members to serve less fortunate members of civilian and veteran communities. The project for the Bettencourts’ home includes kitchen and bathroom remodeling, building ADA-compliant disability ramps, widening their driveway to ADA standards, widening doorways and landscaping.
 
District of Columbia
The 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival will showcase its five-year community research project on African American identity with the program “The Will to Adorn: African American Diversity, Style, and Identity.” This multicity collaboration examines the history and culture of the aesthetics of African Americans. The festival will be held June 26-30 and July 3-7, outdoors on the National Mall between Seventh and 14th streets. “Whether we realize it or not, we are all dress artists. The way we compose our look is a creative expression of our ideas about who we are and who we aspire to be,” said Diana N’Diaye, program curator. “This program explores the diversity of African American traditions of style, but also teaches young people the importance of documenting their own culture and saving that information for themselves and future generations.”