Let’s Be Healthy

Be Active Everyday

You don’t have to be a sporty type to be an Activater. Going for a walk, doing the housework or carrying the shopping are all effective. Just putting a bit more effort into physical tasks and relying less on labour saving devices is an excellent start.

Walking is one of the easiest ways of being more active. You don’t have to buy special clothing or spend hours in the gym. Walking is free and it’s something nearly everyone can do. Regular, brisk walking actually lowers the risk of heart disease.

Did you know that inactivity doubles your risk of heart disease?

If you’ve been more of a Dolittle than an Activater up to now, don’t try to do too much all in one go. Take it step by step. Gradually build up your activity levels then keep up the good work - because staying fit means staying active.

Source: Food Fitness

Fruit and Veggie Tips

A sample on how to aim the 5 fruits and veggies in a day, simply add a fruit or veggie in your healthy meal

• Eat fruit at breakfast – eg a banana with your cereal, a glass of fruit juice
• Eat a variety of fruit and veg
• Add salad to sandwiches
• Add extra fruit to dessert
• Put more veg in soups, stews and pasta sauces
• Add sliced vegetables to pizza

Aim 5 Fruits and Veggie A Day

Fruit and vegetables are an excellent source of the vitamins, minerals and fibre we need to help maintain a healthy body and fight diseases. Yet most of us don’t eat enough of them.

Try to eat at least five portions of fruit and vegetables each day. This may sound a lot but the good news is that a glass of orange juice, an apple, a small can of tomatoes or baked beans each count as one portion. Potatoes don’t count here although they are important in the diet for other reasons.

Different types of fruit and veg provide different nutrients in varying amounts, so choosing from a wide variety of them is best. With a bit of forward planning you will see that it’s easy to meet the 5-a-day goal without having to make major changes to your eating habits.

Many fruits and vegetables can make handy snacks such as raisins, grapes, dried apricots, satsumas, tomatoes, carrot sticks, slices of red or green pepper, apple pie, bananas, pears and kiwi fruit.

Source: Food Fitness

Stay Focused, Stay Realistic, Stay Small and Active

The psychotherapy process is basically about making changes. The capacity to make changes is what sets us apart as human beings. It is what keeps us young, vital and contunally learning. Successful goal setting provides the warp and weft of constructive change.

The art of setting successful goals is challenging in its simplicity. Three tips to successful change are:

1. Stay realistic. You have to crawl before you can walk.
2. Think small. Losing fifty pounds is a heck of alot harder than losing one pound every week or two for one year.
3. Put one foot in front of the other and keep moving forward. Translate your intentions into actions, behaviors, things to do.

Recalculate goals through observation; observe through doing….it’s the best way to discern where you have been,where you are going, and how best to get there.

Source: Empowered Parents

The Top Five Cancer-Causing Food

1. Hot dogs
Because they are high in nitrates, the Cancer Prevention Coalition advises that children eat no more than 12 hot dogs a month. If you can’t live without hot dogs, buy those made without sodium nitrate.

2. Processed meats and bacon
Also high in the same sodium nitrates found in hot dogs, bacon, and other processed meats raise the risk of heart disease. The saturated fat in bacon also contributes to cancer.

3. Doughnuts
Doughnuts are cancer-causing double trouble. First, they are made with white flour, sugar, and hydrogenated oils, then fried at high temperatures. Doughnuts, says Adams , may be the worst food you can possibly eat to raise your risk of cancer.

4. French fries
Like doughnuts, French fries are made with hydrogenated oils and then fried at high temperatures. They also contain cancer- causing acrylamides which occur during the frying process. They should be called cancer fries, not French fries, said Adams .

5. Chips, crackers, and cookies
All are usually made with white flour and sugar. Even the ones whose labels claim to be free of trans-fats generally contain small amounts of trans-fats.

Reasons For Sleeping and Waking Up Early

Evening at 9 - 11pm : is the time for eliminating unnecessary/ toxic chemicals (detoxification) from the antibody system (lymph nodes). This time duration should be spent by relaxing or listening to music. If during this time a housewife is still in an unrelaxed state such as washing the dishes or monitoring children doing their homework, this will have a negative impact on health.

Evening at 11pm - 1am: is the detoxification process in the liver, and ideally should be done in a deep sleep state.

Early morning 1 - 3am: detoxification process in the gall, also ideally done in a deep sleep state.

Early morning 3 - 5am: detoxification in the lungs. Therefore there will sometimes be a severe cough for cough sufferers during this time. Since the detoxification process had reached the respiratory tract, there is no need to take cough medicine so as not to interfere with toxin removal process.

Morning 5 - 7am: detoxification in the colon, you should empty your bowel.

Morning 7 - 9am: absorption of nutrients in the small intestine, you should be having breakfast at this time. Breakfast should be earlier, before 6:30am, for those who are sick. Breakfast before 7:30am is very beneficial to those wanting to stay fit. Those who always skip breakfast, they should change their habits, and it is still better to eat breakfast late until 9 - 10am rather than no meal at all.

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