What is it? Fad diets have been around since the mid 1800’s. They’ve been around forever and they’ll be around forever, and they keep getting more and more plentiful, seemingly appearing and gaining staunch supporters overnight. A funeral director created the first low-carb diet in 1862 and we repackaged it as the keto diet in 2018. A kaleidoscope of low-carb diets sprang from various sources since Atkins in the 1970’s, too many to mention. Ketogenic, or “keto” diets, are currently the most popular low-carb diets. No doubt you’ve heard of the diet and seen the myriad of “keto” foods on …
Help Save the World. Go Plogging.
Grab some friends and try this new fitness trend. What is plogging, you ask? If you love to run, jog, hike or walk for exercise, listen up–try plogging. It’s a fitness craze that started in Sweden and is spreading across Europe and through North America, and it’s spread globally as a way to combine exercise and community service. It’s a combination of two words: jogging and the Swedish phrase for pick up, ‘plocka upp’. Created by Erik Ahlström in 2016, plogging is an eco-friendly exercise through which people pick up trash while jogging or brisk walking outside. You can also …