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Health & Fitness

WELLNESS

guide you in adding 500 steps each week
to your daily total until you reach 10,000."
The website will guide participants in
creative ways to add 500 steps each week
to their normal routines. El

Step Out
Purposeful walks help spur fitness.

W

alking 10,000 steps every
day for one year can lead to
a seven-pound loss of fat
— and cut in half the risk for stroke, heart
disease and type 2 diabetes.
Dedicated to helping women get fit
for life, emotionally and physically,
ASKInYourFace.com founder Allison
Stuart Kaplan of Bloomfield Hills is
launching al0,000 Steps program start-
ing May 16 through her women's website,
ASKInYourFace.com . Women can sign up
to participate in the 10,000 steps-a-day
walking program, which is endorsed by
the American Heart Association as an
easy, convenient, inexpensive and fun way
to get healthy and lower healthcare costs.
Kaplan will introduce participants to
walking partners as a way of motivating
the mission.
The initiative begins at 9:30 a.m.
on May 16 at Market Square in West

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Sheryll Kollin

Michigan
cancer survivor

Bloomfield, on the corner of Inkster and
Walnut Lake roads. For every person who
shows up that day to join the effort, one
of ASKInYourFace.com's sponsors will
donate $25 per person to the HAVEN
Garden Project. (Go to ASKInYourFace.
com to learn more about the HAVEN
Garden Project.)
"Walking more steps a day is an easy
goal to accomplish," says Kaplan, who has
already attached a pedometer to her waist.
"It's as easy as walking from the edge of
the parking lot to the front door or tak-
ing stairs instead of elevators — and the
result is lifelong health."
Walking offers many tremendous health
benefits, including building bone den-
sity and improving posture, balance and
mood.
Says Kaplan, "You'll begin with 1,000-
3,000 steps, the average number a seden-
tary person moves in a day. Our goal is to

Veteran fitness industry leader Allison Kaplan

created AsklnYourFace.com in 2008 as a way
to empower women.

Jewish Senior Life Meeting
Jewish Senior Life of Metropolitan Detroit
will hold its annual meeting and installation
at 5 p.m. Tuesday, June 15, at the Lillian &
Samuel Hechtman Apartments at the Jewish
Community Campus in West Bloomfield.
President Nancy Grosfeld will deliver
greetings from the Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit. The newly built
Hechtman Apartments will be re-dedicated
along with the affixing of the mezuzahs by
the Auxiliary for Jewish Senior Life on the
doorposts and common areas and the pre-
sentation of the Hechtman Art Fence Project.
For information, call (248) 661-2999, ext. 348.

The installing officers will be Mark
Kowalsky and Laurence S. Tisdale.
The slate of Jewish Senior Life of
Metropolitan Detroit Officers and Board of
Directors: Frederick Blechman, president;
Nancy Siegel Heinrich, president elect; Jeffrey
Fleischman, vice president; Karen Sosnick
Schoenberg, vice president; Leo Eisenberg,
secretary; Mark Davidoff, treasurer; Sandy
Muskovitz Danto, Neil Gorosh, Susan Harold,
Mark Hauser, Lee Hurwitz, Mark Kowalsky,
Lea Luger, Robert Naftaly, Lowell Salesin,
Eli A. Scherr, Cindy Schwartz, Laurence S.
Tisdale, YAD liaison, Jason Hirsch.

Bereavement Support
Temple Israel's Robert Sosnick Family
Life Center in West Bloomfield will host a
bereavement support group Monday, May 24
6:30-8 p.m.
Helene Kroll will act as facilitator.
Registration is required. Contact the Robert
Sosnick Family Life Center, (248) 661-5700
or elaine@temple-israel.org to register.
The group will focus on helping those deal-
ing with the loss of a loved one, providing
support in a healing environment.

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