Our favorite trio of personal trainers (Ashley Jenkins, Clinton Adams and Ryan Callicott) is back and this time they are answering the questions you wanted us to ask! Joy to Life Foundation co-founder Joy Blondheim asks the group questions about topics like how young is too young to start weight […]
JOY Magazine REAL LIFE – A Discussion with Dickie Blondheim
Dickie Blondheim, co-founder of the Joy to Life Foundation, shared how he handled his wife Joy’s breast cancer and how other spouses, partners, parents or friends can do right by their loved one and themselves. What were your first thoughts when you heard the diagnosis? Standing at Baptist Hospital, almost […]
Podcast: Joy Lambert (Jiras)-I Chose Life!
After learning about her hereditary risk of cancer when she was working in Montgomery as weekend anchor for WAKA-TV (where we got to know her), Joy made the decision to undergo a series of preventative surgeries to lower both her breast and ovarian cancer risks. As she puts it “I’ve […]
Montgomery Cancer Center Drives Hope with Central Alabama’s First Mobile Medical Unit
Access to cancer screenings and care will soon become easier for the people of Central Alabama thanks to Driving HOPE, a new mobile cancer screening and education unit that Montgomery Cancer Center is putting into place. The self-contained, 37-foot unit will provide underserved communities with cancer screenings, outreach, prevention, and […]
JOY Magazine REAL LIFE – A Discussion with Kim Scharf
(Pictured above is Kim Scharf (left) with friends.) Finding out you have a health issue is never easy. When the diagnosis is something serious like cancer, it can be terrifying. But when she was battling breast cancer in 2013, Auburn nurse Kim Scharf got by with a little help from […]
Learn About Lymphedema
Lymphedema: What is it and how is it treated? Lymphedema is a condition affecting the body’s lymphatic system. When excess lymphatic fluid surrounds tissue cells, it causes excessive swelling in different areas of the body, most noticeably the arms and legs. Lymphedema can be caused by cancer treatments. Learn more […]
Breast Health: Important All Year
Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October may come once a year, but with one in eight women being diagnosed with breast cancer annually, this is a topic that’s worth discussing year-round. During October, you wear the pink and hear the statistics, but you think, “it will never happen to me,” […]
Joy to Life Foundation Expands Funding
Although the Foundation has provided funding for breast cancer screenings for many years in all of Alabama’s 67 counties for women and men who cannot afford them, we are now proud that we can take over the northern counties of Alabama. Previously, the Susan G. Komen Foundation funded these counties, […]
Joy to Life Foundation: Re-Committing To Our Roots
In late 2012, when the JTL Foundation decided to start a magazine, it had these goals in mind: to raise awareness of how a healthy lifestyle can help prevent breast cancer and other health issues and provide information and advice on how to pursue such a lifestyle; to spread positive […]
Podcast: The Trainer Trio-Another Visit to the Gym
Is counting calories that important? What about those at-home workouts? What is clean eating? Can you still workout while you’re pregnant? Joy to Life Foundation co-founder Joy Blondheim makes another visit to the gym to talk to our trio of trainers (Ashley Jenkins, Clinton Adams and Ryan Callicott) to get […]