By Eli Wolfe Susan Helmrich was just 21 when she fought her first battle with cancer at Sloan Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York City. In the 37 years since that first treatment, she has been diagnosed with and survived two more cancers, the last one in 2009. But Helmrich has not let cancer keep […]
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Swim Across America raises funds for cancer research
When Edna Helmrich was pregnant with her second child in the 1950s, her doctor recommended she take a new drug, DES, to prevent miscarriages. Edna followed her doctor’s advice and gave birth to Susan on Nov. 14, 1955. For 21 years, Susan thrived. Growing up in Kingston, NY, she worked hard in school, swam on […]
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Swim Across America checks fund local cancer research
Grant Martin, 11, swam under the Golden Gate Bridge in September, and he says he’ll do it again. Why? Because Martin wants to follow in his mother Desanne’s footsteps, who also participated in the local effort of nonprofit initiative Swim Across America, and because he has benefited directly from the funds the nonprofit has raised […]
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12 steps to get fit for 2012
By Susan Helmrich Last year, around this time I wrote an article about New Year’s resolutions and exercise. So, how did you do? The holiday season is upon us once again, and it is time to reflect on the past year and look forward to the new. The new year is a time to make […]
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Swimmers cross Bay to raise funds for cancer research
About a year and a half ago, Steve Barbour, the CFO of Nestlé Dreyer’s Ice Cream, decided to take up swimming to get back in shape. While he had loved the water while growing up in southern California, he had stopped exercising regularly and his inactivity was beginning to show on his 52-year-old frame. Barbour […]
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Tips to get fit in 2011
By Susan Helmrich It’s four days into the New Year. How are you doing with your fitness goals? As a health and wellness coach in Berkeley, I have seen every type of resolution, from people vowing to eat fewer fatty foods and to increase their intake of fruits and vegetables to planning to work out […]