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High-protein Diets: Trading Your Health for Temporary Weight Loss Once again, medical doctors and the paperback book industry advocating high-protein and fat-laden diets are grabbing the attention of millions of desperate people. “Lose 20 pounds in 30 days!” “Eat all the bacon you want and be thin as a breadstick!” […]

The Keto Diet Revisited High-protein Diets Explained

16 Apr, 2019 in Aqua Master Online / Featured / Fitness / Human Interest / Motivation / Nutrition by Dr. John McDougall

Michelle Macy — International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Michelle Macy is to be an inductee (Honor Swimmer) into the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame in its Class of 2019. Michelle Macy has proven to have few limitations in marathon swimming in terms of distance and water temperature. Michelle set the overall […]

Marvelous Michelle Macy

17 Mar, 2019 in Aqua Master Online / Featured / Human Interest / Open Water by Aqua Master Editor

No record-breaking 200 Medley Relay, but fun! L to R Lauren Santamaria, Claudia Daly, Laura Worden and Christina Fox — A cold foggy day, a beautiful new pool, and a hopeful new year intersected to produce a fast Chehalem SCY meet on January 27, 2019, at the new Aquatic and Fitness Center in Newberg, Oregon. The meet hadn’t been held since 2016 while the pool, funded in a partnership by […]

2019 Chehalem Meet

18 Feb, 2019 in Aqua Master Online / Events / Human Interest / Meet Summary / Motivation / Records / Relays / Results by Claudia Daly

Have you ever been to a swim meet and watched the relay events when teams set Oregon, Northwest Zone, USMS or even FINA world records? They seem to have a lot of fun, with high-fives and group photos after their races. Have you wondered how they managed to set up […]

A Peek Behind the Scenes—How are OMS Relay Teams Set ...

18 Feb, 2019 in Aqua Master Online / Human Interest / Relays / Special by Brent Washburne

Kate before and after illness — You know what it is like because you live it every day. Work, kids, meals, homework, housework and it is a repeat cycle of “busy” until the weekend. Weekends are just as jam-packed until they are broken by Mondays and the start of the weekday cycle of activity all over […]

Kate—Terminal Prognosis Turns Into Tremendous Results

21 Jan, 2019 in Aqua Master Online / Fitness / Health / Human Interest / Motivation / Special by Aqua Master Editor

Holiday Swim breakfast — For many years now, a group of us, primarily from Oregon Reign Masters plus friends, have been enjoying a pre-Christmas get-together at Elmer’s Restaurant. Of course, it’s after practice on a Saturday. We do an ornament exchange ($5 limit), have breakfast/lunch, or just come to visit. Participate in all or […]

Holiday Swim Breakfast

21 Jan, 2019 in Aqua Master Online / Human Interest / Special by Ginger Pierson

Willard completed his 2019 USMS one-hour postal swim January 10. Steve Darnell timed for him at Propstra Aquatic Center in Vancouver, WA. He swam 2,852 yards this year. Twenty yards more than his 2,832 yards last year! Just short of his own 2017 National record of 2,885 yards. He held […]

OMS Super-Star Willard Lamb

21 Jan, 2019 in Aqua Master Online / Featured / Human Interest / Long Distance / Motivation by Steve Darnell

Scott - Oct 24, 2006 — Scott Raphael, N.D. — Cures Type-2 Diabetes by Dr. Scott B. Raphael, N.D. My health problems started even before I was born. My paternal grandparents were grossly overweight. My grandfather, a butcher, always thought that animal protein was the way to good health. As a child, each meal was laden […]

Off the Block: January 2019

19 Dec, 2018 in Aqua Master Online / Featured / Human Interest / Motivation by Aqua Master Editor

Old. Right there is a loaded word. Sometimes it is used as a pejorative, as in ‘old coot’ or ‘old geezer,’ but I like it, because I have earned the right to be called old and am enjoying my seniority immensely. Let me give you an example. Last month (October, […]

AGING WET

19 Dec, 2018 in Aqua Master Online / Human Interest / Motivation by Joe Oakes