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Give Where You Live<br />
By: Jamillah Ali-Rahman / Friends of<br />
Parkinson’s<br />
As we enter this season of<br />
giving, I encourage you<br />
to reflect on what matters to you and what you can<br />
do to make a positive impact on the city we all call<br />
home. Give where you live is our mantra at Friends of Parkinson’s<br />
because it makes sense and it truly makes a difference.<br />
Every dollar you give to us stays here to help your neighbors,<br />
colleagues, strangers and friends.<br />
As head of this non-profit, my mission is to help Parkinson’s victims<br />
move, write, laugh, sing and dance their way to a better quality of life.<br />
However, while raising awareness and money for Parkinson’s is my<br />
purpose, I know it may not be yours.<br />
I am striving to grow the culture of donating in Las <strong>Vegas</strong>. My<br />
goal is to inspire you to experience the joy, satisfaction and personal<br />
enrichment of giving your time, talents and dollars to a cause that<br />
touches your heart.<br />
So look around, do some research, ask some questions and give,<br />
give, give where you live. When we live in a community of givers, we<br />
all prosper. As the saying goes, no one has ever become poor by giving.<br />
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.<br />
To learn more about our mission or to make a donation visit: www.<br />
friendsorparkinsons.org.<br />
Jamillah Ali-Rahman is the Founder/CEO of the Friends of Parkinson’s<br />
Inc, a Nevada 501(c)3 nonprofit. www.friendsofparkinsons.org.<br />
How Do You Eat an Elephant?<br />
By: Aaron Phillips / Healthy <strong>Voice</strong><br />
At my one year gastric sleeve anniversary<br />
appointment with my surgeon, he shared<br />
some sage advice. He said that the only way to<br />
the benefits of the gastric sleeve surgery was to stay compliant to the<br />
program.<br />
Makes sense, doesn’t it? Any successes we have had in our lives,<br />
we tend to continue to do regularly in order to maintain the level of<br />
success that was achieved.<br />
In order to make changes in your life, you need to start crawling<br />
before you can walk. So, when it comes to a healthy lifestyle, pick only<br />
one thing that you can easily change and stick to it for a week.<br />
For instance, instead of having a bag of candy in the house, exchange<br />
it for a bag of pre-sliced apples to have at the ready. By the end of that<br />
week, that one small step has become a habit.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n going into the next week, select another nutritional step to be<br />
changed to build upon that first step. Step 2 can be drinking six 8-ounce<br />
glasses of water a day. This is important to protect against dehydration<br />
as well as keeping your kidneys healthy.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n add another step the next week and so on. After a month of<br />
habit building, you will be surprised as to how easy it was to start a<br />
healthy life. And more importantly, to continue building on your<br />
healthy foundation by staying compliant.<br />
<strong>The</strong> answer to the headline is well known: “One bite at a time.” <strong>The</strong><br />
same can be said for healthy living.<br />
You cannot get healthy overnight. It takes one “step” or one “bite at<br />
a time” to become healthy and to “eat the whole elephant.”<br />
Aaron Phillips is a member of <strong>The</strong> LV Entertainers Hall of Fame,<br />
podcaster, producer, author, emcee, broadcaster, and talk show host<br />
on <strong>Vegas</strong> <strong>The</strong> Network. Feel free to contact him Aaronphillipslv2018@<br />
gmail.com<br />
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