Showing posts with label diet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label diet. Show all posts
Thursday, 6 March 2014
Avocado Health Benefits - Amount Of Calories And Nutrition
This Video presents the Avocado health benefits, explains why its a misunderstood food, why it is a super fruit. Its nutrition facts together with amount of calories are also presented together with useful tips how to integrate this miracle food into your weight loss diet.
Tuesday, 4 March 2014
Things Everyone Should Know Regarding Health And Nutrition by Overland Mcguyer
A collection of tips on how to begin improving your diet makes the perfect starting point for a someone who wants to lead a healthier existence a bit easier. Below is a great example of advice that will hopefully assist the eager person into eventually into improving both their nutrition and their life.
Avoid factory farmed meats, eggs and dairy products. These products are filled with adrenaline due to the horrible cruelty experienced by the animals. Excess adrenaline will raise your levels of the stress hormone, Cortisol. This will cause you to experience excess stress levels, decreasing your level of overall health and happiness.
A famous saying that many people have heard over the years is that an apple a day keeps the doctor away. Surprisingly enough, this is true. Apples are high in fiber, which is good for digestion and makes you feel full, so you don't feel the need to reach for sugary snacks, keeping you healthy.
Feed your children well right from the start to avoid problems with diseases such as diabetes, and obesity. A good nutritional foundation can mean the difference between a healthy life and one that consists of constant medical care. Help your children avoid problems in the future with good nutrition now.
Make sure your kids eat well by getting them involved in purchasing (or growing) planning and preparing meals. Involvement in meal planning and preparation always makes food taste better. This will also give you an opportunity to teach your kids about good nutrition - or to learn along with them!
When it comes to nutrition the power of a daily multivitamin can not be underestimated. With the fast pace of life in modern times, and the plethora of pre-packaged foods it has become very difficult to eat right. In order to get the nutrients your body needs make sure to take a daily vitamin.
An easy diet tip is to try to eat protein in every meal. Protein is more effective in satisfying hunger than high-calorie carbohydrates that often fill diets. For this reason, a small piece of grilled chicken and some veggies might be a better lunch than a couple of slices of pizza or a sandwich.
There are tons of different diets and eating plans out there available for anyone to grab. It should be noted however that the most essential plan of nutrition is the original food chart which incorporates all of the different food groups into a balanced diet. It is important to acknowledge that we need a little bit of everything in order to maintain a healthy body.
If you want to be healthy, you need to drink enough water. Your body is made up of roughly 60% water, and you lose it continually -- day and night. Rather than drinking large amounts of water at once, it is a good idea to always have a glass or bottle of water on hand and to sip it throughout the day.
Well, hopefully those tips were enough to give you a great start on what to do and expect when it comes to improving your nutrition. This collection was carefully constructed to help you learn what it takes to eat healthier and what your body needs to get from your food in order to keep functioning.
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Sunday, 22 December 2013
The Knowing-Doing Gap - Why Don't We Do What We Know How To Do?
In a recent workshop we were reviewing some of the ground rules before we began with the day's lessons. I wrote in huge letters I A K T and asked the group to consider putting aside their IAKT.
IAKT stands for I already know that. And, in many cases it is absolutely true. How many time management courses, supervisory skills refreshers, or goal setting workshops must a person do in the course of a stint with a company? I always say that repetition is key, however, what about doing what we already know how to do?
If we already have the skills, talent, and knowledge to do almost any task required of us in our jobs or personal lives, is that enough? You've had all the best sales training, can list the steps of closing the sale front and backwards, and yet our sales sheet still suffers. You've been to ump-teen management trainings with certifications hanging on the wall, yet you still have that acute problem with one or two employees' performance.
On the flip side, why do we continually do things that produce results we don't want? Prime example - losing weight. So we say we want to lose a few pounds and our doctor is on our case about it too. We really want this. Then we end up at a friend's birthday bash and down a piece or two of cake and ice cream, too. Our friend says "I thought you were on a diet." "I am." "Then why'd you eat all that cake." "I don't know." And, it is true - most of us DON'T know why we do the things that we know will get us results we don't want. Oh my!
When the going gets tough, how do the tough keep going? There seems to be something that stops us in our tracks, just when we think we're sailing along doing fine.
There is such a something. The cause of our problem in not doing (or doing) what we says we want lies in paradigms, or habitual ways of thinking. Paradigms are neither good nor bad; they just are our mode of thinking. They can stop us in our tracks or keep us poking along at 20 miles an hour when we could actually run along at Mach 10!
We need to change our paradigms if we're not getting results we want. Change the paradigm, change the result. Once you understand how your paradigm functions, then you can start taking control of your thinking and the subsequent results you obtain.
What's a paradigm?
Paradigms are your mindsets; your ideas, the habits that your brain has developed over the years. You look at the world through glasses that are tinted with your paradigms. I have ski goggles that have a yellow tint so that the mountain terrain is enhanced and I can see where I am going much more clearly. Likewise, a pair of UV sunglasses block out some of the rays that we don't want. However, if I have glasses that are totally opaque - I am really stuck! So like a filter, our paradigms can let in or block out - what are we missing, what are we refusing to see, what do we imagine seeing that stops us due to our paradigms?
Paradigms in and of themselves are neutral - not good, not bad. If your paradigms are positive like my yellow tinted ski goggles that let me go wherever I want in the snow, you will have a happy, growth-oriented life, a healthy self-image, and the ability to adapt successfully to changes, upsets, and unforeseen events. On the other hand, negative paradigms can keep you stuck in old ways of thinking that can be very limiting.
How to change your paradigms? It takes thought, faith, an open mind, and repetition.
• Write down one thing that you have not yet resolved in your life. Perhaps it is a goal, a dream, a hope or wish. Write it in detail.
• Write down connections that you associate to this thing; everything you think about it, good and bad, everything that the thought of it brings to your mind. Try using a mapping process - write the thing in the middle of a page and write the connections around it. When you feel like you've come up with an exhaustive number of connections, look at what your mind has shown you. These are your paradigms.
• Highlight and focus on the most powerful paradigms, the ones that have the biggest negative impact. Ask yourself why and why again. Really check your beliefs on it.
• Finally, now that you know what your paradigm is for this scenario, write an affirmation that will help you to change the current paradigm something that is the opposite. For example, if your paradigm is you'll never be able to quit your job and start that dream business because you're scared of going bankrupt, your affirmation might be:
I am so happy and grateful now that I am working full time in my business, serving my perfect customers and money comes to me on a continual basis through multiple sources. I now have all that I want.
• Write your affirmation on a card and repeat it daily, as many times as possible. In time, you'll begin to notice yourself thinking and acting in a different way.
Now you have a better understanding of why we KNOW what to do to obtain greater results but seldom actually DO it. To learn more on changing your paradigms, go get the full guide at http://www.millerinstitute.com
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