FEBRUARY 9, 2024 ON MY CORNER ASK YOUR VENDOR Finish the sentence: Roses are red, violets are blue ... Everything feels better when I'm with you. — Maurice Leggert, #618 What about the white one? — Roberto Isla Caballero, #347 If you don't think its true, go to the zoo! — Wayne Sparks, #615 I like a lot of money, how about you? — Joe Woods, #103 I buy and read Groundcover, and you should too! — Cindy Gere, #279 When it rains, I think of you — drip, drip, drip! — Shelley DeNeve, #22 I don't know ... I love you. — Mike Jones, #113 Honey is sweet, and so are you! — Ken Parks, #490 Health minute Most people lead busy schedules: work, family and just organizing life as a whole. The most important thing we must do is prioritize our health — mind, body and spirit. In this guide I will start with the body, and teach you the methods of living a long time, as well as having mental clarity and focus while doing it. I have to admit, I am someone who gets bored with the same old routine of going to the gym. So I have to mix up my fitness. I bike, jog, lift weights, go to the yoga studio and hit the erg (rowing machine). If you're trying to lose weight, losing the weight can add extra stress. Just the thought of doing something extra and extenuating adds pressure. The first thing you need to know is eating the right foods is the first step to a healthy body and fitness Third, eliminate sugar comASHLEY POWELL Groundcover vendor No. 595 routine. When you eat the right foods you not only feel better but you perform better whether that be in sports or on the job. If you're eating bad food and working out, it defeats the purpose. Secondly, getting up at 5 a.m might seem like a challenge but it's the best time to work out. Working out at this time can fit into anyone's busy schedule. pletely. Open your fridge and cabinets … throw out any fattening food and replace it with all whole food. Drink plenty of water throughout the day. Drinking water sends stress packing and removes toxins from your system. Water is also key in moving key nutrients as well as oxygen production. Sports drinks and other teas on the market contain added sugar. Anything over 13 grams of sugar is bad. Bread, once digested, becomes sugar. If you eat rice it should be brown rice. Many pastas and other grains become sugar. Let's say, you like pancakes. Gluten free or spelt pancakes taste just as good and are a healthy alternative. Some brands even offer a proteinpacked box. GROUNDCOVER NEWS 3 Ruminating on the Lions — support your home team! Going into the NFC playoffs, like many Lions fans, these were my thoughts: “I hope the Detroit Lions do good like Michigan did. Michigan won the national championship. The Lions play this week on Sunday. I hope they win. If they win against Tampa Bay, I think they’ll go to the Superbowl. I guess I’m a Lions fan. I like them because they’re my home team. I’m from Detroit, and I was born and raised in Michigan. So I like the Red Wings and the Tigers and the Pistons. The Pistons fell out right now, but maybe they’ll recover one day. It was good back in the day when they were called The Bad Boys, a long time ago. No one remembers that, but you can look it up, it’s true. Anyway, the Lions haven’t won a championship since 1957. I think that if we do win, it would be a really amazing thing, everybody would be really surprised and happy. I’ve never seen them in person, exp. 01/31/2025 only on TV. I think it would cost a lot to see the game live. I actually like it better on TV because I can pause it, I can go to the bathroom, cook something, and I don’t have to pay a lot of money for refreshments or anything like that. When you’re at the game you gotta pay for parking PONY BUSH Groundcover vendor No. 305 and all that — it just costs more. I don’t know the names of many of the players right now, but my favorite is Jared Goff, the quarterback. He’s doing good so far. He’s the best quarterback that they’ve had in a long time for the Lions. He’s doing better than Matthew Stafford, even though Matthew Stafford got paid more. Stafford was the highest paid quarterback as of 2017. I have friends who don’t like the Lions, and I used to not like them myself. They were the worst team in the NFL! I couldn’t stand them. I had no faith in them. I started to like them more now because they’re winning. I’m not saying that you need to like a team just because it’s your home team, but you need to support them. I supported the Lions even if they weren’t my favorite because I’m from Detroit. Let’s hope that they keep winning so that I can like the team that I support!” After the game reflections: I feel that they could've done better. They were doing good at the beginning but the second half they just fell off. I don’t know if they got tired or what it was. But I feel like they came a long way. Even though we lost, we made it almost to the Super Bowl, and I’d never seen them do that before.
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