Ten Ways to Eat Healthy

Ten Ways to Eat Healthy

1. Eat a variety of nutrient-rich foods. You need more than 40 different nutrients for good health, and no single food supplies them all. Your daily food selection should include bread and other whole-grain products; fruits; vegetables; dairy products; and meat, poultry, fish and other protein foods. How much you should eat depends on your calorie needs. Use the Food Guide Pyramid and the Nutrition Facts panel on food labels as handy references.
2. Enjoy plenty of whole grains, fruits and vegetables. Surveys show most Americans don't eat enough of these foods. Do you eat 6-11 servings from the bread, rice, cereal and pasta group, 3 of which should be whole grains? Do you eat 2-4 servings of fruit and 3-5 servings of vegetables? If you don't enjoy some of these at first, give them another chance. Look through cookbooks for tasty ways to prepare unfamiliar foods.

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Five Habits that Keep Wellness

Five Habits that Keep Wellness

As a Life Coach I constantly hear people complain about issues that are deeply affecting their lives and acting as barriers to them living successful and satisfying lives. One of the reoccurring themes in many of these conversations is the fact that we do not take good care of ourselves. We are so consumed with our daily tasks and responsibilities that we forget that if we are not well, then we will really have reasons to be worried about.

When we do not take care of ourselves, we see symptoms of instability, irritability, issues at work, conflict with family members, and illness to name a few. Instead, I suggest that you take ownership of your well being by deliberately taking steps to ensure you are always at your best. Some of these ideas are very basic, but it is often at the basics that we fail.

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How Slim Fast Easy to Reach

How Slim Fast Easy to Reach

Here is eight simple ways to get slim fast:

Take Everything One Step At A Time

Begin simply by paying more attention to what you are eating, slowly cutting back on the bad foods and implementing more healthy foods into your diet.

Once you have this under control, the next step is to add exercise to your plan. If you do not like exercising, take this one step at a time as well by implementing only 15 to 30 minutes at a time, at first.

Choose Foods And Activities That You Enjoy

If you do activities that you get enjoyment out of, you will find them to be much more successful than trying to exercise in ways that you do not enjoy. The same goes for foods that you implement in your diet: Choosing foods that you enjoy will help you enjoy your diet rather than craving bad foods.

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Smokers at Risk of Breast Cancer

Smokers at Risk of Breast Cancer

Women who smoke have an increased risk of developing breast cancer, especially if they become smokers early in life, a new study suggests. But the added risk appears to be small, except among heavy smokers. Compared to women who had never smoked, those who were regular smokers for any amount of time had a 6% higher risk of developing breast cancer, the study found. Women who maintained a pack-a-day habit for at least 30 years had a 28% higher risk, however.

“I would not put [smoking] on the list of important risk factors, [but] when you look at the subgroup of heavy-duty smokers who start early and smoke for a long time, that’s more serious,” says the lead author of the study, Karin Michels, PhD, an associate professor of cancer epidemiology and ob-gyn at Harvard Medical School, in Boston. “That’s when you pay closer attention.”

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Physical, Psychological and Spiritual Therapy

Physical, Psychological and Spiritual Therapy

I believe that the key to Physical, Psychological & Spiritual wellness is to realize the difference between your NEEDS and your WANTS. Let me make it more clear with an example:

1.     Physical Wellness: Nowadays our eating habits are driven by our desire to enjoy food rather than our feeling of hunger, which often results in overeating, which in turn leads to obesity and other lifestyle diseases. So, simply speaking, if we start eating as a need rather than a want, we can avoid the majority of health problems.

2.     Psychological Wellness: If we take a look at the items we use or consume in our day to day lives, we are sure to notice:

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Natural Medicine and Health Care

Natural Medicine and Health Care

Alternative medicine as understood today is the art of healing the living body without making use of the modern medicines as prescribed by the physicians. Alternative medicine believes that the human body has healing properties of its own and these can be made use of in treating rather than resorting to chemically enhanced treatments

Some of the known alternative methods of treatment involve traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, naturopathy, hypnosis, homeopathy, meditation and yoga, herbalism and chiropractic. Treatments that are based on dietary habits are also included in alternative therapy. Knowledge for alternative medicines is derived from ancient literature, folklores, traditional medicines and religious or spiritual beliefs. But alternative medicines and their treatments are not evidence based.

A group of doctors believe that it should be named as non-evidence based medicine, while another group feels that the label of ‘medicine’ be removed altogether. Many, who do not find relief from the prescribed conventional medicines, turn to alternative medicines.

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Simple Way to Burn Fat

Simple Way to Burn Fat

Keep in mind that the amount of fat burned depends on various factors such as age, weight and how long you engage in the activity. However, the secret to achieving the best possible result is to increase your level of intensity while performing fat burning exercises. The activity should increase your heart rate and last between 20 to 60 minutes. Following are simple fat burning exercises to help you achieve maximum results.

Walking is perhaps one of the simplest and convenient fat burning exercises available. You can walk outside or walk on a treadmill. Switching your pace between comfortable and vigorous bring amazing results. For example, a person weighing 150lbs will burn 80 calories walking 1-mile at 3-mph for 20 minutes; whereas the same 150lb person walking the same distance at 5-mph for 12 minutes will burn 109 calories. Still, when you alternate between slow walks and speedy walks, you challenge your body to burn additional fat. Ultimately, you should walk faster at longer distances over time.

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