MENTORING: The Key to Unlocking Potential
“The single most powerful force for adolescent mental health is strong relationships with caring adults.” – Lisa Damour, PhD This quote by Dr. Damour caught my attention as I was listening to her speak as a guest on a recent podcast, because ‘strong relationships with caring adults’ is kind of our jam, to paraphrase a […]
The Profit Paradox: Prioritizing Treatment Over Prevention
THE BURDEN OF CHRONIC DISEASE The United States is facing a growing healthcare crisis, driven by a tsunami wave of chronic disease. These non-communicable, often long-term illnesses feature our leading killers –heart disease and cancer– but also include type 2 diabetes, stroke, Alzheimer’s, kidney and lung disease. According to the Centers for Disease Control and […]
Replacing Blindness With Kindness
I’ve been thinking alot about kindness recently. I suppose it’s because the word comes up frequently when I’m interacting with the teens who participate in our free wellness programs here at The Noble Path Foundation. Kindness is the one prerequisite to attending any of our enrichment classes, provided they meet the age requirement and have […]
Nourish to Flourish, Not Flounder
If you have been reading my column here in the San Clemente Journal for the past few years, you might recall my aversion to Kids Meals in restaurants. As I have stated previously, it pains me greatly to see parents carefully peruse a menu in order to find a healthy option for themselves and then […]
Don’t Worry… Eat Happy.
We’ve all heard the adage, “You are what you eat,” referring to how the foods we consume eventually become the bones, blood, muscles and tissues that make us what we see when we look in the mirror. The trillions of cells we have in our bodies today are not all the exact same ones that […]
Get Busy Living
From the moment we are born, we begin our march towards death. Or as the saying goes, “You will never be as young as you are today.” As dark or depressing as that statement might hit you, the case in point is that our time here on earth is limited. Each morning that we rouse […]
WATER: The Magic Elixir
The survival adage commonly referred to as the ‘Rule of Threes’ lists how long one can generally last without air (3 minutes), water (3 days), and food (3 weeks). Reminding ourselves to breathe is fortunately not something we have to worry about and judging from current statistics which state that one out of three Americans […]
Community Support Keeps Local Youth Program Alive
By C. Jayden Smith As a program that prides itself on teaching its participants about using creativity and being strong advocates, AIM High’s leaders had to carve an uncertain path to continue reaching young minds after the pandemic hit. Formerly operating as Thrive Alive under the Community Outreach Alliance, the program has received a fresh […]
Things That Are Simple Are Not Always Easy
How to eat well is, at its core, a very simple concept: eat plenty of fruits and vegetables, drink lots of water and avoid sugary, fried and highly-processed junk foods. Yet judging from current statistics that claim 2 out of 3 Americans are either overweight or obese, evidently it is not easy at all. In […]
Educate. Activate. Elevate. Motivate.
By Cindi Juncal, The Noble Path Foundation | Download this article (pdf). The Noble Path Foundation is a 501(c)(3) dedicated to raising awareness on the importance of healthy nutrition and lifestyle choices for kids, because it is ultimately their health which determines our future. As its founder and president, I have been granted the wonderful […]