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December 1, 2011
While most articles on the Internet focus on dieting and exercise to increase your health, today you’re going to read about a different approach. This is not to say that regular exercise and eating healthy meals is not important. They are very important aspects of a total life style change. But the most important key to keeping permanent changes in health is hardly ever acknowledged.
The Most Important Key to Healthy Life Styles
People who run 3 miles a day and who eat nothing but healthy foods for years find pleasure in these activities. Have you ever noticed how the average aerobics instructor is always upbeat and excited about working out and eating healthy? Their reasons for working out and eating right go far beyond the physical results. You can feel their passion. This is an inner state that enables those people to continue their activities on a permanent basis.
They’ve found a way to make things pleasurable.
This is the key that you will want to work with when making your changes in health. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, author of “Flow” The Psychology of Optimal Experience” and “Flow Classic Work How to Achieve Happiness” provides a formula for experiencing “flow”. “Flow” or being in “the zone”, is an altered state of consciousness that is highly focused, but also deeply relaxed. If you’ve ever been engrossed in your favorite activity, such as drawing, or a book, and lost track of time, then you have probably been in the “flow”. It is being so deeply involved in the moment and in the process that you no longer cared about the actual result. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by admin on
December 1, 2011
If you are overweight, don’t think “I need to go on a diet”, instead think “I need a new lifestyle”.
When you finally decide you need to lose the weight, don’t start a diet as an immediate solution to a problem, like having to buy a larger size dress instead of one two sizes smaller than you are; or your belt is too small and you have to buy a larger one, not a good sign. In men, an increase in waistline can mean your heart may be feeling the pressure of that extra fat around your waist.
Time to make some changes; but these changes cannot or should not be made to solve a temporary obstacle. You must decide to change your life-style rather than going on a diet. You know that what you have been doing so far does not work, so perhaps it’s time to try something different.
Don’t be impatient to lose those unwanted pounds, allow yourself enough time to lose them safely. Remember, you did not gain the weight overnight and you cannot expect your body to drop those pounds overnight.
By now you have realized that all those diets you have been on, just do not work! Time for a different approach. Time for a life-style change.
Think long-term results. Start by finding out what your caloric intake should be, based on your sex, height, age and physical activity. In order to start losing the weight, deduct 500 calories daily from your plan if you want to lose one pound per week. I know, that does not sound like much, but then, in order to lose more, increase your physical activity and the crowning point is…Stop eating from fast food places, which contain high amounts of saturated fats, salt and carbohydrates. Read the rest of this entry »
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November 28, 2011
Nowadays, the health situation of the kidney inside the human body is not satisfactory. Both men and women can be troubled by the kidney disease. The kidney is an important organ inside the human body. First, it can produce urine and maintain the balance of water. Second, it can remove the toxins from the human body so as to maintain the normal physiological activities. Third, it can maintain the normal functions of internal secretion. If the kidney is seriously hurt, various problems can be caused. During the early period of the kidney disease, the symptoms like weariness and hard urination can be caused. If the disease is worsened, other internal organs like heart and liver can also be destroyed.
Generally speaking, the kidney can be seriously hurt by the unhealthy life styles in daily life. If people always eat the foods containing high protein, excessive metabolic wastes like uric acid can be produced to increase the burdens of kidney. Drinking can also cause the metabolic disease of the kidney. In summer, many people like to drink beer and eat sea food, which can seriously hurt the kidney. What’s more, because of the high pressure of work and life, many people usually stay up late and drink strong tea or coffee. Thus, the normal functions of kidney will be easily disturbed. If people do not drink water for a long time, the urination can be affected and the density of toxins inside the urine can be increased to cause renal calculus and hydronephrosis. In addition, if people always hold back the urination, the kidney can also be hurt. This is because urine can produce bacteria inside the bladder and the bacteria can enter kidney through ureter to cause the infection of urinary tract and pyelonephritis. Read the rest of this entry »
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