Are midlife metabolism changes making you feel like your body has new rules you don't understand? Struggling to find the consistency, motivation, and pain-free options to maintain your health after age 40, 50, 60 or beyond? Looking for a walking companion who truly understands your health challenges and helps you cut through the health information overwhelm to discover what actually works for your midlife body? Join Health Coach Carolyn for Wellness While Walking—your 30-minute movement comp ...
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299. Food: Fun or Fuel? Exploring Why We Eat Beyond Hunger + What To Do About It
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38:24Hunger, cravings, emotional eating —discover how to distinguish between physical hunger and the urge to eat for comfort or pleasure. In this episode, we unravel the signals your body can send if we’re paying attention, and we’ll explore practical strategies for responding to them. Tune in to reclaim control and find balance in your relationship wit…
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298. Counteracting Limiting Beliefs, Ageism + Anxiety with Walker/Podcaster/Ageism Fighter Ande Lyons at Age 69
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47:35Walking transformed anxiety into vitality for 69-year-old entrepreneur Ande Lyons, who discovered from a book-on-cassette that 35 minutes daily helped manage her symptoms and eventually led to her current six-mile routine despite facing osteoporosis. Ande argues that movement is a privilege rather than a chore, and that community connections matter…
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297. Fresh-Start Fall: Walking Against Traffic to Build Lasting Health
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49:56Transform your health this fall! Feeling that September urge to get your life together? That energy is real, but so are the convenience culture, workplace demands, and distractions working against your wellness goals. Today we're turning that autumn reset feeling into your game plan for "walking against traffic" toward lasting health! LET’S TALK TH…
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296. GUIDED Interval Walking Training #2: How to Supercharge Japanese IWT to Benefit Your Brain As Well As Your Body!
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44:20IWT or Interval Walking Training (or Japanese 3x3 walking) is something that’s taking the fitness world by storm, and with good reason! It provides a framework for getting the most out of interval training while walking, one of our most essential, enjoyable and beneficial modes of movement. Many have praised it for its heart health benefits, for we…
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295. Variety is the Spice of Walking, Health + Life! Plus Mindful Walking and Gratitude (Re-Release)
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45:38Hunter-gatherers ate dozens of different plants each day! How can we use variety to maximize our health in the modern day, even while the American Heart Association asks us to limit the variety of what we eat?!? Also, how do you react when you take health-affirming steps? Do you diminish their power or do you celebrate and elevate them? Regardless,…
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294. My Trial + Error Health Journey: Years of Wrong Turns Before Finding Relief
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31:00When I consulted the wrong practitioner, it resulted in years of an overwhelming search for solutions and a multi-thousand dollar bill. I’m taking you along on my journey so you can avoid a similar one! We’ll also talk about why chewing is so important to our cognitive health, and how we can keep our indoor air clean and why we should care to! LET’…
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293. Can You Lose Weight and Still Be Happy? Ditch Depressing Diets + Do This Instead
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25:46Alarmist headlines claim dieting leads to depression—should you let that stop your changing up your eating pattern to achieve your health goals? In this episode, we’ll examine those “sad diets,” and you’ll discover actionable, mindset-based strategies to make real, lasting changes to what you eat—without the pitfalls or misery. Ready to turn dietar…
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292. Just One Can a Day Can Be a Problem: The Surprising Effects of Diet Soda + How to Quit or Cut Back (on Anything)
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34:07Think your daily diet soda is keeping you trim and healthy? A shocking new study reveals that just one can increases diabetes risk by 38%, while artificial sweeteners disrupt gut health, trigger belly fat storage, and hijack brain chemistry – all for zero calories! Today, we expose diet soda myths and share proven strategies to break sweetened beve…
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291. Your Health Non-Negotiables: Getting Past Mindset Hurdles with Grace + A Daily/Weekly/Monthly Guide to a Healthier Life
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27:52Mental roadblocks can sabotage our health goals. The key to success is identifying them, and replacing them with clear, empowering strategies. We’ll also introduce a powerful framework to help you stay consistent with what you’ll do daily, weekly, monthly—and what you’ll never do again. We’re moving forward on our health journeys in a big way today…
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290. Avoiding the Wake-Up Call: Abigail’s Health Crisis + the Small Preventive Steps We Can Take Today
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33:21Don’t wait for a health crisis or an unfortunate diagnosis. Let’s take steps now to get on the path to health. It’s not about perfection, but it’s also about not waiting until we have more time or anything else. Something is always better than nothing, and extra stars for doing that something today! LET’S TALK THE WALK! Wellness While Walking on In…
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289. Add This to Your Walk for Better Brain Function + Judy Benjamin’s Walking Tips (From Her Walk Across the US!)
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31:09Recent research found a way to enhance movement that allowed study participants to reduce their levels of cognitive decline, and we talk about how we can incorporate that add-on activity to our own walks or other movement activities we do! And we're back with Judy Benjamin, the 81-year-old walking across America to highlight how we can affect the i…
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288. Lifestyle Medicine Success Story: The Steps Judy Benjamin Took to Reverse Cognitive Decline (and to Power Her Cross-America Walk)
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40:52Want to know the lifestyle protocol that reversed Judy Benjamin's Alzheimer's diagnosis and transformed her from a sleep-deprived, mold-exposed humanitarian worker into an 81-year-old powerhouse walking across America? In this revelatory episode, we dive deep into her comprehensive transformation strategy—from optimizing sleep habits and eliminatin…
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287. Walking Across America to Highlight Reversing Cognitive Decline! Judy Benjamin Joins Us From the Road
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28:22Does an Alzheimer’s diagnosis mean it’s all downhill? Well, today’s guest has something to say about that commonly-held belief! LET’S TALK THE WALK! ***NEW*** Facebook Group for Our Community! Join here for support, motivation and fun! Wellness While Walking Facebook page Wellness While Walking on Instagram Wellness While Walking on Threads Wellnes…
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286. Can Carbs Help You Age Better? Plus Practical Ways to Make Pasta Healthier
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35:45The headlines tell us to eat more carbohydrates in midlife, but should we? Let’s dive into the story of carbs and how they fit into our diets. And then we'll figure out how we can eat pasta while we strive for vibrant health! LET’S TALK THE WALK! ***NEW*** Facebook Group for Our Community! Join here for support, motivation and fun! Wellness While W…
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285. The Dark Side of Wellness: How Your Favorite Health Influencers Might Be Influenced Themselves and By Whom – Editor’s Choice Episode/Re-Walk
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32:12As I spent time with my family at the college graduation of our youngest child, editor extraordinaire Emily Prokop chose an episode that she felt was important to air again – hear from Emily herself why it was the one she landed on! LET’S TALK THE WALK! Facebook Group for Our Community! Join here for support, motivation and fun! Wellness While Walk…
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284. GUIDED Interval Walk (IWT): Fighting Afternoon Food Fumbles, Safe Grilling + Small Tweak for Overall Health, While Doing the Japanese 3x3 Method with Me!
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38:25Try the Japanese 3X3 Interval Walking technique with me today! Today, we've got beeps (of course!) to prompt you to speed up and slow down for five powerful but not too-challenging rounds. Last episode, we talked about the incredible health effects of this interval walking method so today, we'll easily put it into action while we talk about: smarte…
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283. Japanese Interval Walking (IWT): This 30-Minute Walking Technique Could Out-Perform 10,000 Steps!
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36:27Want transformation in a 30-minute walk? Coming right up! A Japanese-inspired walking approach that surprised researchers in its efficacy in building aerobic fitness, reducing blood pressure and blood sugar, and elevating mood, all in a way that research participants did more of than asked because they enjoyed it so much! This isn’t your latest wal…
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282. Declutter for a Healthier You: From Swedish Death Cleaning to Systematic Solutions
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35:51Is the chaos on your countertops sabotaging your health? Let’s explore the deep connections between clutter and health – including brain fog, overeating and increased stress -- by unveiling two transformative approaches to decluttering: the philosophical Swedish Death Cleaning and the practical "Organizing from the Inside Out" method. With insights…
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281. Your Total Health Transformation Journey: Weight Watchers' Best Tools Without the Drawbacks
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38:53What if the $1 billion bankruptcy of America's most iconic weight loss company revealed the exact tools you need—and the pitfalls to avoid—for your own health transformation? This revealing analysis strips away Weight Watchers' outdated approaches to uncover the powerful frameworks that actually drive lasting results, while exposing how the notorio…
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280. Plastics, Weight Gain + Water: How Environmental Toxins Impact Metabolism, Hormones and Immunity with Dr. Aly Cohen
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38:01Citing plastics in our bodies, tainted and under-regulated drinking water and the other toxins we and our families experience daily, Dr. Aly Cohen motivates us to prioritize what’s important to us. We can walk through her 21-day program as outlined in her new book, Detoxify, or just listen to her guidance here and take the next step to health witho…
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279. Our Bodies are Pissed! Why We Need to Detox with Dr. Aly Cohen
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29:19When Dr. Aly Cohen’s golden retriever got a very rare autoimmune hepatitis diagnosis 15 years ago, she started to explore environmental toxins and their health impacts. As a practicing rheumatologist, she’d noticed increasing rates of autoimmune diseases in younger patients with no family history, suggesting environmental factors might be at play. …
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278. Beyond Diet Wars: What a Dentist Discovered About Traditional Eating 100 Years Ago That Can Help Us Make the Best Choices Today
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33:00Please take the Wellness While Walking survey! CLICK HERE! · If you can’t click on the survey and take it, please write to me at [email protected]. · PRIZE GIVEAWAY: If you fill out the survey by May 14, 2025, and leave your contact information, you’ll be entered into a drawing for my Roadmap Jumpstart coaching offering! o The lucky wi…
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I Need Your Help + the Brain Fog/Walking Connection!
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8:29Please take the Wellness While Walking survey! CLICK HERE! · If you can’t click on the survey and take it, please write to me at [email protected]. · PRIZE GIVEAWAY: If you fill out the survey by May 14, 2025, and leave your contact information, you’ll be entered into a drawing for my Roadmap Jumpstart coaching offering! o The lucky wi…
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277. A Family's Warning: Turning Teen Tragedy Into Awareness + Action in Our Wireless World, with Theodora Scarato
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30:39Justis was an avid gamer who loved his friends and family. His parents seek to make his tragic passing meaningful and so we’ll listen to their warnings, as we delve into the potential health risks posed by wireless radiation from devices like cell phones and Wi-Fi routers. We’ll learn about some precautionary measures being embraced by other countr…
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276. Invisible Danger: Your Cell Phone and Other Devices Might Be Diminishing Your Health, with Theodora Scarato
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32:52Are you wearing wireless ear buds right now? Your beloved wireless devices emit radiation that penetrates your body, creating biological changes scientists now link to serious health concerns. Environmental health expert Theodora Scarato reveals how the $30 million National Toxicology Program study found this radiation caused cancer in lab animals,…
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