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February at One.
To all of our new subscribers from Naptown Scoop, welcome to our February newsletter. We hope you enjoy everything that we share this month, we only send out one publicatio a month, so we promise not to overload your inbox ;)
If you enjoy what you read, please feel free to share with your loved ones, it is our biggest compliment!
If you already are one of our fans and haven't had a chance, or you just shelved it to complete at a later date, February is the last month to vote for all your favorite people at One.! Hit the Vote Now button above to show One. some love during this month of romance, Winning Best of is an honor and really helps to get the word out about ALL that we do for our community. Thank you as always for taking the time out of your busy life to help us to promote what we do!
During the month of February, if you are looking for the perfect gift for Valentine's Day, there is nothing better than the gift of wellness, get your gift certificate with us for any of the many services we provide including massage, acupuncture and Pilates.
We hope that you started taking control of your health at the beginning of this year, but if you have already slipped on your New Year's resolutions and need a little extra help to get back on track, read on. Our newsletter is chock full of information on ways to improve our health and things to add to make small positive gains. We hope you enjoy it, and as always (and if you are new to us), please give us your feedback, we love hearing from you!
Yours in Wellness,
Jennifer Balducci and Christina Thomas
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BEST OF 2025 VOTING IS NOW LIVE!
Looking for something small you can do to support local business?
What's Up? Annapolis Best of 2025 voting is live through February 28th
If you haven't already, please take a moment and give us a shout out and vote for us for best of
-Acupuncture
-Massage
-Yoga
-Personal Training
-Physical Therapy
-Pilates
-Nutritionist
and more!
Click here to vote for One.!
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Struggling with Incontinence or ED? Strengthen Your Pelvic Floor! | |
As we age our pelvic floor weakens which could lead to incontinence, painful intercourse, or Erectile Dysfunction. One of the best ways to strengthen your pelvic floor is with Pilates. Try one of our virtual classes or schedule an introductory session on the reformer with Mary Christhilf to see how basic exercises can lead to dramatic health benefits.
Click here to check out our schedule of classes
Click here to request a one on one Pilates session
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Looking for a Gift for Valentine's Day?
Give the Gift of Massage!
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How Important Is Sleep?
As most Americans feel pulling an all nighter is a badge of honor, check out this TED talk that demonstrates how even losing one hour of sleep a night can be detrimental to your health.
Sleep Is Your Superpower | Matt Walker | TED
Sleep is your life-support system and Mother Nature's best effort yet at immortality, says sleep scientist Matt Walker. In this deep dive into the science of slumber, Walker shares the wonderfully good things that happen when you get sleep -- and the alarmingly bad things that happen when you don't, for both your brain and body. Learn more about sleep's impact on your learning, memory, immune system and even your genetic code -- as well as some helpful tips for getting some shut-eye.
Click here to watch TED talk
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Did you know many brands of Cinnamon contain high levels of Lead?
Consider using these instead
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Google Brain Afflication
When we can Google the answer to everything, why rely on our memory for recall?
By Mary Ann Sternberg
January 1, 2025
Memory Retrieval
The ability to recall information from memory is scientifically referred to as memory retrieval or ecphory. I knew mine had diminished but this was emphatically affirmed when, as one of hundreds of volunteers in a long-running brain study sponsored by the local biomedical research center, I had a consistent problem.
In the before-days, when we had to remember things, much of it was memorized. I can still spout my childhood home phone numbers: the main number (University 3221) and my grandmother's line, which my brother and I inherited (University 4115). These have not been part of my life since 1968, yet they were imprinted. Today, I do not know any of my three children's phone numbers by heart because my cellphone knows them.
Will younger generations build their own internal memory banks? Or do they believe they need to neither remember nor recall because all information is at the touch of a keypad? If so, I would warn them, in this world of climate change, what will happen when the power goes out more often? Or their digital systems are hacked and only information inside their own skulls is retrievable?
My precocious great-nephew, now 20, was asked by his kindergarten teacher if anyone knew what an encyclopedia was. He replied that it was "Google in a book."
So my self imposed Google diet is because I don't want that for myself, especially after the brain study revealed my weakness. Before my 80th birthday this year, I decided to steadfastly resist the urge to do a digital search whenever I can't think of something. I will simply sit and ponder. And sometimes ponder and ponder. Occasionally, I am delighted when the answer magically pops into my head. I feel like the cartoon characters when the lightbulb comes on over their heads, expressing "idea!"
Often, however, the phrase "it's on the tip of my tongue" applies. (Is this once-common expression in peril since everything is within a tap of your fingers?) So now, when I can't remember the word, the name, the information, after a bit I give up. And, quite miraculously, some hours, or a day, later, the answer often pops into my head.
I introduced my Google Diet to my Sunday afternoon friends who are amused, and somewhat intrigued. We laugh when we've talked about those familiar subjects that we all know and throw in our bits of memory, eventually devising the answer.
Click here for full article
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Short on Time? Try The 7 Minute Workout
This workout is Jennifer Approved (minus the crunches)
Substitute those for double leg lowering
In a 2023 study, a small group of normally sedentary men and women tried the workout for the first time, followed on alternate days by 30 minutes of moderate cycling or seven minutes of a traditional interval session on a stationary bicycle. All of the workouts raised the inexperienced exercisers’ heart rates enough to improve their fitness over time, said Eric Tsz-Chun Poon, an exercise scientist at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, who led the study.
But more of them told the researchers they enjoyed the 7-minute workout more than the other routines, Poon said, finding it “less boring.”
It is a go-to for whenever you are traveling, pressed for time, or have been spending too much time writing about exercise and too little time doing it. It still delights me to know that in barely seven minutes, we can make our fitness better.
The original 7-minute workout
Overview: 12 exercises, 30 seconds each, with 5-second breaks
Equipment: Wall, chair
- Jumping jacks
- Wall sit
- Push-ups
- Double leg lowering
- Step-ups
- Squats
- Triceps dips
- Plank
- High knees
- Lunges
- Push-ups with rotation
- Side plank
Click here for full workout
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Francis Scialabba
If tap water had a head of marketing, they would be whipping their shirt around in the air right now: A study published this week found that the typical plastic bottle of water contains up to 100 times as many plastic fragments as scientists previously thought.
The new research is the first to scour water bottles for “nanoplastics,” which are even more minuscule than microplastics and may account for the vast majority of plastic contamination. That’s especially concerning because nanoplastics are small enough to enter the bloodstream, breach cell walls, and pass into a fetus.
Here’s what researchers at Columbia University and Rutgers University found after testing bottled water from three popular (unnamed) American brands:
- One-liter bottles of water contain anywhere from 110,000 to 370,000 plastic particles—90% of them are nanoplastics.
- Much of that plastic comes from the bottles themselves, but particles are also present at every stage of water production, the researchers wrote.
We’re eating plastic, too. Consumer Reports recently found a “widespread” presence of plastic in foods, with plastic showing up in 84 of the 85 foods it tested, including in many popular items found at grocery stores.
What now? There’s still no concrete data on how plastic affects our bodies, but if you’re worried, you can
1) swap plastic for glass when possible-use those glass jars you usually recycle to store leftovers instead of Tupperware
2) drink filtered tap water, which has fewer microplastics
3) avoid microwaving plasticware.
Click here for consumer reports article
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Book Recommendation
This book may forever change the way we look at causes of cognitive decline and disorders of the brain. They all share a common pathway of mitochondrial dysfunction. This book lays out the foundation of the root causes of dementia, autism and mental illness and how we can take control of our own health.
Drawing on decades of research, Harvard psychiatrist Dr. Chris Palmer outlines a revolutionary new understanding that for the first time unites our existing knowledge about mental illness within a single framework: Mental disorders are metabolic disorders of the brain.
If you or someone you love is affected by mental illness, it might change your life.
Click here to purchase book
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Making a Difference One Bowl at a Time
Donation-only lunch to benefit the Light House
– Just hours before two teams face off in the “super”
NFL championship game, volunteers at Heritage Baptist will kick off their own SOUPerBowl, a donation-only lunch to support homeless prevention and related educational training services to those in need.
Sunday, February 9, 11:30am-1:30pm, Heritage Baptist (1740 Forest Drive,Annapolis) will host the 19th Annual SOUPer Bowl Lunch for the Light HouseHomeless Prevention Center. Volunteers will ladle soups prepared by guest chef Brian Shallcross, HBC member and general manager of the Chesapeake Baysox.
Menu
soups include Chicken Noodle, Baked Potato and Chili. Guests will also enjoy salad,
fresh rolls, and dessert.
The public is invited, and admission is free, but donations are requested to benefit the Light House. This year, SOUPer Bowl volunteers hope to raise $10,000. Donations can be made at the event or online now at this link and selecting “SOUPer Bowl” as the reason for your donation. One hundred percent of the money donated goes directly
to the Light House. Since its inception in 2007, this event has raised over $60,000 cumulatively.
Attendees are encouraged to wear their favorite NFL team jerseys that day, whether your team is in the big game or not. Guests are welcome to attend worship service with
Pastor Scott Shelton at 10:30 a.m., prior to the lunch.
Click here for details
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Let's Reduce Maryland's Recidivism Rate!
Reentry refers to the transition of an incarcerated individual from prison or jail back into the community. Reentry programs in correctional facilities are not created equal, with some institutions committed to preparing individuals for their return home, while others provide little to no reentry services or programs.
Check out the Maryland Reentry Resource Center
As a former educator in the Maryland Criminal Justice system, primarily at the Maryland Correctional Institute for Women, I learned a few things about the system. I started the journey with preconceived notions that the system was one of rehabilitation but soon realized that prison is our most closed system and thus we don’t know what we can’t see. Our criminal justice system is a very broken system. Despite downward trends in criminal activity, the U.S. still has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Although number one in incarceration, we are failing at rehabilitation and preparation.
Click here to learn more and find out how you can help
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ST. JOHN’S COLLEGE BRINGS WORLD-CLASS SPEAKERS TO ANNAPOLIS FOR SPRING FORMAL LECTURE AND CONCERT SERIES - month of Feb
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Black History Month at the Museum of Historic Annapolis
February 8, 2025 11-3 pm
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Profs & Pints Annapolis: “Kink” or “Disorder”?
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
5:00pm-7:30pm
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Virtual Lecture – Frederick Douglass Speaks on American Democracy
February 11, 2025
Price: FREE!
Time From: 07:00 PM to 08:30 PM
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Valentine's Day in Annapolis
Celebrate LOVE in Annapolis with these Valentine's Day specials and events!
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English Country Dance comes to London Town
February 15, 2025
Price: London Town Members, $12. Non-Members $15. Students, $5
Time: 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
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Annapolis Restaurant Week
Feb 22nd-March 2nd
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Valentine's Chocolate Mug Cake | |
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- Whisk all of the ingredients together in a measuring cup.
- Pour the batter into your mug and microwave for 1-2 minutes, or until the cake is cooked through.
- Enjoy plain or top with coconut whipped cream (whip full fat coconut milk with vanilla) or berries.
Click here for full recipe
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