by Summer D Clemenson | Jul 24, 2019 | Events, Fuel Your Wellness, News
If you are one of our Wellness Works NW clients, I want to tell you how much I appreciate you. Karen G Clemenson has been loving people her whole life and she is very good at it. It wasn’t until she started this business that I got to see how good at loving...
by Summer D Clemenson | Jun 4, 2019 | Fuel Your Wellness, Men's Health, Product Reviews, Women's Health
Several months ago our insurance company sent us a flyer telling us about the Mango Health App. I like apps and I think they can be very helpful. I have used a few wellness apps but hadn’t really fell in love with them. But I like this one. The Mango Health app is a...
by Summer D Clemenson | May 28, 2019 | Events
Congratulations to the class of 2019! Karen & I are so excited to have 2 high school graduates this year! I am sure you are used to being able to see Karen every day but in honor of 2 of our favorite kiddos we will be stealing Karen away to spend time celebrating....
by Summer D Clemenson | May 21, 2019 | Chronic Illness, Food News, Fuel Your Wellness, News
Karen and I are so blessed to have people in our lives who care about us and help us while we are growing Karen’s dream of a successful business. The other day one of our clients gave us a small roast and Karen asked me if I could figure out how to make it stretch for...
by Summer D Clemenson | Apr 17, 2018 | Chronic Illness, Fuel Your Wellness, Men's Health, Supplements, Women's Health
You probably wonder what all the hype is regarding Probiotic Supplements, but did you know that 70% of our body’s immune system lives in our digestive tract? Poor eating habits, high stress and chronic illness can cause our immune system to become irregular and even...
by Summer D Clemenson | Dec 7, 2017 | Chronic Illness, Fuel Your Wellness, Mental Health, Skin Care
I wasn’t planning for The Importance of Self-Care to be the next article I write for Wellness Works NW; I knew a blog about self-care was brewing, but it wasn’t until Monday afternoon that I understood the timing of this article. You see, Veda is here. If you haven’t...
by Summer D Clemenson | Nov 28, 2017 | Fitness, Food News, Fuel Your Wellness, Men's Health, Mental Health
Fads come and go but we all need our diet to be a Trusted Wellness Tool. Instead of relying on any Fad Diet, I think we can all say that Healthy Eating should be a goal we all work towards. I have a beef with diets. It is personal. I don’t mean to color your Wellness...
by Summer D Clemenson | Nov 27, 2017 | Food News, Recipes
I am super excited to share this recipe with you because it is so DELICIOUS! Karen and I were invited to Jamie’s house for Thanksgiving and she let us know that she was cooking a KETO Thanksgiving. As she listed the menu I noticed she didn’t name a dessert (possibly...
by Summer D Clemenson | Oct 17, 2017 | Food News, Fuel Your Wellness
There are many names of sugar. There is a lot of added sugar in processed foods. Manufactures often use several kinds of sugar so they can hide the actual amount of sugar in a food item because the rules the FDA requires for food labels require manufacturers to list...
by Summer D Clemenson | Oct 5, 2017 | Chronic Illness, Fuel Your Wellness, Men's Health, Mental Health, Women's Health
I live in a body that hurts. Always. Living with Central Sensitization Syndrome, more commonly referred to as Fibromyalgia has changed my world in many ways. For nearly 14 years Karen G Clemenson has been getting me ready for this challenge because she always is...
by Summer D Clemenson | Sep 21, 2017 | Fuel Your Wellness, Men's Health, Mental Health, Women's Health
Welcome to part 4 and the final article in our Fat Cells Series. To think I had thought this would be an easy topic! After all we have learned about adipose tissue, Karen G Clemenson thought it would be appropriate to write about Fat Cells Connection to Eating...
by Summer D Clemenson | Aug 29, 2017 | Fuel Your Wellness, Men's Health, Women's Health
Our bodies lose and replace about 8% of our fat cells each year. Our fat cells also shrink when we lose weight and use up the stored lipids inside of them. One way of helping our fat cells shrink is to get rid of the toxins that build up in our fat cells. Toxins are...
by Summer D Clemenson | Aug 22, 2017 | Fuel Your Wellness, Men's Health, Women's Health
Learning How Our Bodies Use Fat is Changing Me I know a lot about nutrition and exercise. I have always been fat and my family and doctors have always educated me. In the past I was very active, and at one point, I had committed to working out every day for an hour...
by Summer D Clemenson | Aug 8, 2017 | Fuel Your Wellness, Men's Health, Women's Health
Everyone needs to have some fat cells on their body. Our bodies store energy and vitamins to create hormones that send messages throughout our bodies in our fat cells. Did you know that no matter what we do our bodies have the same number of fat cells for all of our...
by Summer D Clemenson | Jul 25, 2017 | Fuel Your Wellness, Women's Health
Are You Wearing the Correct Bra? The other day Karen G Clemenson tried on a sports bra that wasn’t the right size and we started talking about how important it is to wear a properly fitting bra. In years gone by I was the lingerie manager at a women’s clothing store...
by Summer D Clemenson | Jul 18, 2017 | Fuel Your Wellness, Men's Health, Women's Health
In this day and age it is not uncommon to hear of people having surgery to replace or repair their back, knees, hips, etc…It is something that has been happening for a long time, but as technology and medical knowledge has become more and more stellar so has the need...
by Summer D Clemenson | Jul 11, 2017 | Fuel Your Wellness, Men's Health, Sexual Wellness, Women's Health
Make Time for Boomer’s Immunizations Believe it or not, it is hard to get Karen G Clemenson to go to the doctor. You would think since she is such a cheerleader for your health that she would take great care with her own but she finds it difficult to get away...
by Summer D Clemenson | May 25, 2017 | Chronic Illness, Fuel Your Wellness, Men's Health, Mental Health, Supplements, Women's Health
The latest topic that Karen has been asking about is Vitamin D. She talks about it during dinner, when she talks about clients and even in her sleep. In order to answer her need for information I asked her specifically what she wanted to know and here are the answers...
by Summer D Clemenson | May 12, 2017 | Food News, Fuel Your Wellness
Often I hear Karen mumbling under her breath that she needs to find out if Subway adds soy in their sandwiches. Apparently she had been told that there is soy in meat at Subway and she wanted to make sure that she wasn’t passing on untruths…last night I...
by Summer D Clemenson | Apr 1, 2017 | Fuel Your Wellness
Karen came home for lunch yesterday and asked me to look up some natural detox remedies for a client who wanted some information. When I started my search I thought I would find an easy answer and when I found I was wrong I decided to turn this into an article....
by Summer D Clemenson | Feb 13, 2017 | Book Reviews, Fuel Your Wellness
I recently finished reading Justice Calling Live Love, Show Compassion, Be Changed by Palmer Chinchen PhD. I really needed to read this book… I fully recommend that part of your Wellness Plan includes intellectual and spiritual growth. People are spiritual...
by Summer D Clemenson | Oct 20, 2016 | Book Reviews, Chronic Illness, Fitness, Fuel Your Wellness, Men's Health, Women's Health
Using an Exercise Ball is a great way to increase your core strength and balance. As I write this I am rocking back and forth on my latest purchase. I got a Balance Ball! I have wanted a Exercise Stability Ball for a long time. One thing that stopped me from...