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From The Professionals’ Desks

Healthy Answers–A Guide to Healthy Living:

“The Magic of Exercise!”

By Dale Brown, B.S., M.A., C.E.C. unwanted pounds. (Okay, maybe not!) Today, there are all blood sugar level, thereby reducing your risk of diabetes.
Dale is a motivational speaker who sorts of activities to help motivate people to exercise. It’s Exercise helps with weight management. For every 100
has spent many years as a Certified not hard to choose one that suits your mind, body and spirit. calories you burn while active, you continue to burn 15 after
Life Coach and has written numerous For example, the phone app, FitOn, offers opportunities to you stop. If you cut 500 calories a day through exercise and
articles and e-books relating to self- work out anytime, anywhere, and promises you will never follow a healthy diet, you could drop one pound a week.
improvement and ways to build a get bored trying a large range of workouts. Your muscle endurance and strength increase the longer
high-performance team. She is the Making lifestyle choices that are within your control you continue to exercise. After four weeks of regular
author of the recently published book, are some of the best things you can do to help prevent workouts, you begin to lose flab and build muscle, and your
“Small Steps...Big Changes: The disease and retard aging. Although studies document the heart pumps more efficiently.
Personal Stories of a Life Coach.” Her education and years link between a healthy diet as a prevention of age-related Why does exercise make you feel good mentally?
of experience in physical fitness and training of elite athletes disease, exercise is right up there as a key ingredient to You feel energized due to the release of endorphins,
has enabled her to sharpen her knowledge in many health- turning back the clock. which trigger a natural high. Serotonin, dopamine and
related areas. The following introduces a new approach to Regardless of age, exercise is one of the best anti-aging norepinephrine are mood-enhancing chemicals that flood
Ms. Brown’s series of columns devoted to many topics that things you can do for yourself. I like to think of exercise as your brain during exercise. This mood high lasts for a couple
deal with the mind/body connection and the importance of magic because that’s the way it works. Once you get into of hours after exercise and longer, depending upon your
living a healthy lifestyle. Dale, a Bocaire resident, can be it, everything changes. You feel better about how you look, level of exertion.
reached at dalebrown@lovingmondays.com. and it makes it easier to resist that piece of chocolate cake. Your mental sharpness increases due to the flow of
During the next 20 years, a total of 80 million Americans If you don’t believe me, hear what experts say about the blood and oxygen to your brain. After a workout your brain
born from 1946 to 1964 will make up the aging generation. health benefits of getting fit. It might be the incentive you operates on all cylinders, activating growth-stimulating
This may not mean much to the younger set, but if you are need to get up and get moving. proteins, which help new brain cells to form.
one of the iconic group of people known as a baby boomer, What are some of the anti-aging health benefits of exercise? By now, I hope you’re ready to throw on your gym
you know they do not take the aging process lightly. Right People who are physically fit have better telomeres—the clothes and sneakers and head for the gym. If you haven’t
at this very moment, boomers are looking for ways to look DNA that protects chromosomes from damage—thereby worked out for a long time, take it slow. Check with your
and feel younger than their years. slowing down the aging process. Exercise has been proven doctor before you begin a fitness program, just to be on the
What can you do now to improve the quality of your life? to significantly reduce your risk of cancer and other chronic safe side. You may have to redefine your fitness goals based
One way is to move your body! My mantra has always diseases. on your age and physical limitations--but you can do it!
been, “activity is better than no activity.” Even when Exercise boosts your immune system by elevating your Exercise is known to be every bit as good as prescription
you awake in the morning and feel the stiffness in your level of immunoglobulins, proteins that help fight infection. drugs to reduce depression and lift your spirits. Whether
joints, getting up and moving will help you feel better. The It’s been known that every sweat session you do can help you’re a member of the boomer generation or not, don’t
importance of increasing blood flow through stretching, strengthen your immune function for about 24 hours. wait. Exercise is a lifestyle choice you can easily make that
walking and deep breathing livens up all your senses. A vigorous workout is more beneficial than a brisk walk will prolong your life and lift your spirits. Do yourself a
The idea of exercising today is very different and has because it lowers your LDL (bad) cholesterol levels and favor and start now. You’ll be happy you did!
evolved over the years. Some may remember belts that lowers blood pressure up to 16 hours after just one workout
went around the waist and hips that shivered and shook off session. The more you exercise, the more it may lower your
Legal: 2022 Real Estate Market Predictions

By Michael J Posner, Esq., a partner Foreclosures: We expected a substantial upsurge in Commercial Real Estate: The commercial real estate
in Ward, Damon, Posner, Pheterson & mortgage foreclosures in 2021. This did not occur due to market continues to suffer due to the pandemic. The remote
Bleau, P.L. a mid-sized real estate and a combination of reticence of institutions to commence worker began to reevaluate the need for office space. This
business-oriented law firm serving all foreclosure actions during the ongoing COVID pandemic, trend is estimated to continue into 2022, which will likely see a
of South Florida, with three offices in along with the continued increase in the value of properties combination of more commercial evictions, more empty office
Palm Beach County. They specialize described below. We believe that foreclosures will also space, and a decline in a cost per square foot for such rentals.
in real estate law and can assist remain low in 2022 for the same reasons as 2021. However, this trend may be offset, in part, by many businesses
sellers and purchaser with closing Sales: Demand for properties was expected to be high seeking to relocate to South Florida from the northeast.
and financing of residential and in 2021, and these predictions came true. However, supply The outlook for 2022 is similar to 2021, being cautiously
commercial real estate including remote closings. They can be remained low despite the increase in vaccinations. In fact, optimistic in most sectors of the real estate market. It is
reached at (561) 594-1452 or at mjposner@warddamon.com. in some areas supply has dropped by up to 20% year-over- anticipated that the combination of still relatively low
At the end of 2020, I and other real estate experts year. As a result, prices continue to rise in a classic example interest rates and an improved economy, despite inflation
made several predictions for the 2021 real estate market. I of supply versus demand economics. Values increased over worries, will only serve to continue to push the residential
predicted that interest rates would remain low in 2021, and 2020 from ten to thirty percent depending on the area. Experts real estate market.
that prediction was very accurate. Rates consistently stayed predict that prices will continue to rise in 2022, but not at the However, this is dampened by the continued issues in the
in the mid-to high two percent range, gradually increasing same rate as 2021. These high prices, combined with higher commercial sector, including reductions in the demand for
at the end of 2021. My prediction of mass evictions did not mortgage interest rates, would normally lead to a decline in office space, and the ongoing loss of retail businesses due to
occur, though evictions have increased over 2020. Despite demand, but with supply so low it appears that there will still the continued success of delivery companies such as Amazon,
expectations, there also was not a substantial increase in be more buyers than sellers during 2022. Part of the reason Walmart, and the delivery companies like Door Dash and
mortgage foreclosures. demand continues—despite higher interest rates and more Uber Eats. Indoor malls will continue to close at a faster rate,
Demand for housing was predicted to be strong in 2021, expensive homes—is the equally high cost of renting, which due to the ongoing pandemic and the decade-long decline of
and it appears that demand was actually stronger than is driving some renters to homeownership. in-person shopping.
estimated. Commercial real estate remained flat in 2021,
as expected, with limited commercial inventory, but many
vacancies in the commercial office sector remain as remote
access work continues to be popular.
The crystal ball has been dusted off, and it is now time to
make predictions for the real estate market 2022:
Mortgages: Rates continue to rise, pushing close to four
percent. While this is still historically low, it is nearly a one
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