November at One.
November is the month to give thanks, and we have SO many things that we are thankful for this year.
We are thankful that our lights are still on and our doors are still open. We are thankful that we are still healthy and here for you, the folks that make everything we do worthwhile. We give thanks to all of you for reading this newsletter and joining us on your wellness journey.
We hope you will join One. this Friday (maybe Saturday as our forecast is not looking too good at the writing of this newsletter) with our friends downstairs at Main and Market sponsoring SOFO's final Drive In Movie Night with live music before the show starting at 4:30 pm with local Nate Finn. Costume contest for Halloween with prizes from our local SOFO businesses, followed by the showing of family friendly Coco. On Saturday we will be hosting our Forest Drive cleanup event (details listed in the newsletter)
Please spread the word for these great community events!
As always our newsletter is filled with the latest health information and local events happening in Annapolis, please feel free to share anything you like, it is an honor when we hear that you found something special to pass on!
Yours in Wellness,
Jennifer and Christina
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BE ALERT THIS WEEKEND!
Extreme flooding conditions from unusually high tides and strong winds will start Thursday. A 5 ft tide would be the third highest in Annapolis since the 1930s. For reference:
- Hurricane Isabel, 7.16 ft in 2003
- Chesapeake Hurricane, 6.17 ft in 1933
- Hurricane Connie, 4.98 ft in 1955
Forecast: Thursday tides will be extremely high. Storm moves in overnight Friday with rain starting pre-dawn. Winds (25mph sustained, 50mph gusts) will begin around 9pm on Thursday. Rain moves out Friday night while strong winds and flooding remain into Saturday. Easterly winds will push the water up the Bay and into our area. STAY SAFE!
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What to Expect When you Enter One. Now
If you have not been to our office lately, there are some changes that One. has implemented for the next time you enter our office. Prior to arrival at the office, you will be sent a liability waver and/or a sign in sheet for services. Once completed, you will wait for the all clear for entry as our front door remains locked. Upon entering, masks are required only as you move through communal spaces.
Masks can be removed once you are in a private room if everyone is vaccinated. Small In person group classes are currently allowed with masks optional for vaccinated clients, please check the schedule for in person, hybrid offerings and email us if you are interested in attending. We are also hosting outdoor classes weather permitting.
Upon check out, we will have you insert your credit card, no signature will be required, and receipts will be emailed to you.
Remember, as an extra layer of protection, we have implemented state of the art Premier UV light filtration in our air handlers to keep all the air you breathe in our space, virus free, and to prevent the spread of virus from one area to another.
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Our newsletter this month is dedicated to the memory of Jennifer's father-in-law, Larry Balducci, whom we lost this past weekend.
The best father-in-law a gal good ask for, he was one of our biggest fans and loved our newsletters, we hope he is up there smiling at this one.
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Best of Voting with What's Up? Annapolis Live Now! |
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Please take a few moments and vote for One. and all your favorite folks at One. for Best of Beauty and Fitness now through Nov 30th.
Categories we are eligible for include
Acupuncture
Barre Class
Holistic Health Coach
Mental Health Services
Personal Trainer
Physical Therapy
Pilates Class
TRX Class
Weight-Loss Program/Regimen
Yoga Studio
Thank you SO much for taking the time to vote for us(and we know how valuable your time is), when we win a category it is a HUGE boost for us, now more than ever.
We cannot thank you enough.
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November 27 (Saturday after Thanksgiving)
“Festive At The Barre!!”
This 9 am high-energy cardio barre class with Katie Mazur will be all about getting into that Holiday-spirit!!
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Sue's City Dock CLASS this MONTH |
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Mark your calendar and join Sue Clements this Saturday, October 30th at 8 am AND November 13th for her possible final outdoor classes at City Dock! This class is a mix of stretching and core strengthening, designed to keep you feeling relaxed and injury free! Be sure to bring your own yoga mat and padding, a stretch strap and band. Clients will still be spaced 6 feet apart to keep everyone safe! RSVP early as space is limited!
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Introducing the latest addition to the One. team, Madeline Goldberg!
Madeline is a licensed physical therapist and certified Pilates instructor from Rockville, MD. She grew up doing gymnastics from a young age and her coach incorporated Pilates into daily warm-up routines. She believes the solid foundation of Pilates kept herself and teammates safe from injuries. Madeline continued gymnastics all the way through the collegiate level at Syracuse University, where she graduated with a B.S. in Health and Exercise Science. In 2013, Madeline became a certified Pilates instructor at Rock the Reformer in Potomac, Maryland.
She continued her passion for movement sciences to complete her Doctor of Physical Therapy from University of Maryland- Baltimore in 2018. Madeline began her career working for an outpatient orthopedic clinic in Denver, CO where she lived for 3 years. During that time, she had the pleasure of treating a wide variety of diagnoses; including joint replacements, sports injuries, hypermobility syndromes, balance deficits, and low back pain. Madeline always incorporates core activation and strengthening into her practice because she believes it is essential for functional mobility.
Madeline has a special place in her heart for volunteering. She is an ambassador for Range of Motion Project, an organization that provides amputees with fair access to prosthetic care. She is excited to be back in her home state of Maryland and to be closer to friends and family!
Madeline is offering an introductory special of $30 off for all new clients in the month of November.
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Get a jump on your holiday shopping!
ScentScience has pulled together an amazing Holiday Catalog of custom made soaps, scrubs, salves, essential oil blends and self care gift boxes. Order now through November 30th and pick up at One. the week of December 13th or elect to have shipped to your home (cost of shipping will be applied).
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The Menopause 'Meno-Potbelly' — Myth or Fact?
Or: What’s happening to my belly and what can be done about it? A mortified health writer investigates.
The Real Enemy is Visceral
Cosmetics aside, a type of fat you cannot see, known as visceral fat, also increases sixfold during the menopause transition, the SWAN study showed. Visceral fat lies beneath belly fat, wrapping around inner organs. Blame (scientists think) a still-unclear interplay of changing body composition and hormones, especially one called follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), an ovary-regulator that falls in perimenopause and is associated with visceral fat.
Visceral fat is a major risk factor for heart disease and dementia. It's inflammatory and reduces sensitivity to insulin (which regulates blood sugar, another reason simple carbs are so damning now). Even lean older women are at risk; doctors dub it TOFI: "Thin outside, fat inside."
Hormone replacement therapy (HRT, now known as "menopausal hormone therapy") seems to hold back some of these changes, some studies show, with users having less visceral fat and lower BMI — but only while on it. (look for bioidentical hormones if you are considering this)
So, What's Going On?
Above all, blame the very real double whammy of age plus menopause.
Around 50, both men and women lose 0.8% of muscle mass per year, Faubion says — it's part of the natural aging process. Muscle burns energy. Muscle-melt can translate to a 1.7-pound weight gain a year, starting in midlife. "That might not sound like much, but over a few years it adds up," she says.
For physiological reasons that (amazingly) remain unclear to scientists, the menopausal transition really coincides with proven shape changes — less pear, more apple — even if weight stays the same.
"Unfavorable changes in regional fat distribution" is how an analysis out earlier this year puts it. The Study of Women's Health Across the Nation(SWAN), which has tracked a large group of the same women since 1994, was the first, in 2019, to definitively tie changes in overall body composition to the 3.5 year menopause transition (a phase bracketing the final menstrual period). Starting a few years before that last period, women lose lean mass, and total fat mass goes up by nearly 6%.
"With menopause, women's shapes become more male-like," says Dr. Gail A. Greendale, a SWAN principal investigator who is Leichtman/Levine Professor of Women's Health Research at the UCLA School of Medicine.
Old Tricks Don't Work Anymore
"You can't exercise your way out of the meno-pot," Faubion says. She added flatly: "Midlife women can't eat carbs. They just can't."
referring to simple carbs — white rice, white pasta, white bread and yes, most desserts and alcohol. Beyond quickly adding calories that are harder to expend, they trip a troublemaking glucose response at a time when many women face a higher risk of insulin resistance.
Welcome to meno-math. Do more, eat (and drink) less and you might still have measurements you don't like!
Jennifer's take: as we age it becomes even more important to eat more veggies and increase our protein (you need more protein as you age to keep the same amount of muscle). Along with strength training instead of insane amounts of cardio, exercise is a stress on the body and it's important to keep it brief and at a moderate intensity to get the most bang for your buck and to prevent injury.
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Amateur Hour
When was the last time you learned a new skill? Discover the brain-boosting benefits of being a beginner again
by Tom Vanderbilt Real Simple Oct 21
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Gerald Winegrad: Flesh-eating diseases are Chesapeake Bay’s dirty secret | COMMENTARY
By GERALD WINEGRAD
CAPITAL GAZETTE |
SEP 18, 2021 AT 3:00 PM
Pathogens proliferate from warming waters caused by excess nutrients that fuel algal growth and feeds toxins in our water. There is no question that such infections are underreported as confirmed by the best toxicologists who advised me that our Maryland state and local governments as well as those nationally and globally suppress this bad news as it would harm tourism, water-related recreation, and the fishing industry. Elected officials also would politically suffer from the knowledge of their lack of action to greatly reduce the nutrient loading and flow of contaminants leading to these diseases.
I raised $20,000 all of which went to run thousands of ads on cable TV in 2015 featuring Jay, Bernie, and former County Councilwoman Barbara Samorajczyk. She had a milder arm infection from going in the waters of Lake Ogleton that required months of treatment but her ad was about her dog who contracted a skin infection needing veterinarian care.
To view these 30 second ads and see Jay, Bernie, and Barbara tell their stories and learn how stormwater helps foster infections, see http://mdstormwater.org.
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What we are reading right now |
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Join SOFO for our semi annual Greenscape-beautification event this fall along Forest Drive on October 30th from 9-noon.
We need volunteers(we only have 3 signed up at the writing of this newsletter) at the Bay Ridge Triangle and at the Robinwood entrance on Forest Drive.
bring gloves and gardening tools (we have over 200 bulbs to plant!)
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October Anne Arundel Gallery: Artists help us see through the eyes of others
By PATRICE DRAGO
CAPITAL GAZETTE |
OCT 01, 2021 AT 5:00 AM
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Franciska Needham, “American Flag, Matchbox Cars,” Mixed Media, America the Beautiful,” Garden Gallery, Quiet Waters Park (Courtesy Photo)
The Galleries of Quiet Waters Park present two exhibits from Oct. 21 through Nov. 15. “America the Beautiful,” the artwork of Franciska Needham, reflects the beauty in nature and people as well as the social concerns of society. A lifelong artist with studios in Damariscotta, Maine and Lottsburg, Virginia, her works have appeared in many national exhibits featuring many media. She recently helped students at Annapolis Middle School build designs for the fence along Forest Drive. The 10th Annual Juried Event of the Annapolis Arts Alliance is titled, “Our Gardens and Landscapes,” with emphasis on the beauty Maryland has to offer. The alliance is a nonprofit organization dedicated to all the arts in the Annapolis area. Its goal is to provide a single collective voice for anyone interested in or touched by the arts.
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Annapolis Hosts ‘Day of the Dead/Dia de los Muertos' Festival on October 30
The City of Annapolis will host a Dia de los Muertos/Day of the Dead Festival at Maryland Hall in Annapolis starting at 5 p.m. on Saturday, October 30, 2021. The event, organized by Mayor Gavin Buckley’s Hispanic Community Services office, will include a kid’s zone, vendors and artists, face painting booths, and a full program on stage including Bolivian Dancers, Latin American musicians, salsa classes and a DJ throughout the event.
The event is free and open to the public.
The Day of the Dead celebration typically involves gathering to celebrate friends and family members who have passed. It is also known as All Saint’s Day or All Souls’ Day.
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Introducing Honor Your Hometown
The Honor Your Hometown Campaign is a non-partisan,
all-volunteer campaign to honor hometowns across America by Ken Burns.
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Join Annapolis by sharing a fun or surprising story about your hometown
Honor Your Hometown
videos@honoryourhometown.com
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City of Annapolis' Community Canopy program
Welcome to the City of Annapolis' Community Canopy program, designed to guide homeowners in planting trees on their private property to maximize all the benefits that trees offer. The City of Annapolis is proud to sponsor this program and provide you with 4 free trees.
Households may request up to four trees from a custom web portal (see link below) and the trees are sent directly to your home.
There are five types of trees to choose from: Black Tupelo, Eastern Redbud, Northern Red Oak, Red Maple and American Sycamore.
By planting trees, residents can capture carbon, catch stormwater runoff and reduce energy consumption and utility bills through proper placement of trees. Plus the trees beautify our City, provide homes for wildlife and enhance property values.
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6:15 – Gather at the playground behind Studio 39.
6:30 – When it is good and dark, we will step off to march twice around the fields.
The Naptown Brass Band will be with us !!!
(And we need photographers). Costumes are encouraged.
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Join the Annapolis Town Center October 30 from 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm for a day filled with fall festivities perfect for the whole family!
Let the little ones run through a hay maze, try their hands at pumpkin painting, take a tractor ride, and more! Plus, enjoy live music from DJ Joey and Daphne Eckman and delicious food from three local food trucks. Also, enjoy hourly performances of Thriller from dancers from the Maryland Performing Arts Center.
Upon arriving, check-in at the Information Booth (located next to Gordon Biersch). The first 300 kids will receive a trick-or-treat bag o’ candy.
The event is free to the public and (light) rain or shine, mark your calendar because there’s no better way to celebrate fall!
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RUN OR WALK THE BRIDGE
Your only chance to run or walk across the majestic Chesapeake Bay Bridge which is typically closed to pedestrians. Now organized by Corrigan Sports, Maryland's premier race company, you can expect a fun, well managed event open to runners and walkers alike on October 31st.
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Carrot cake breakfast cookies |
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Did You Know?
The Best time to exercise is 4-5 hours before bed to maximize sleep
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