Lost and Found – a Novel by Ron Rink

As mentioned last week, we’re going to be talking about some bad eating habits over the next few weeks — and what to do about them. I know that I sure find myself with some of these habits and would like to know what to do to avoid them. So, while I hope I’m helping you to resolve any of these habits — I also am striving to help myself in the process.

Here’s the bad eating habit for this week —

Speed Eating!

This is one of the sure ways to set yourself up for some serious stomach troubles down the road.

When you gulp your food you tend to take in excess air. That excess air can lead to bloating or gas. Another aspect of fast eating is that you’re not chewing your food properly. You need saliva to break food down. When you eat fast, your saliva doesn’t get a chance to interact with the food and the rest of your digestive tract has to work much harder to break the food down for digestion. This can contribute to indigestion and can leave an excess of acids undigested in your stomach. That acid can lead to stomach ulcers.

Speed-eating also doesn’t give your brain enough time to catch up with your stomach. Your brain needs at least 20 minutes to get the message that your stomach is full. A recent study found that women who ate a meal in 30 minutes ate 10 percent fewer calories compared with those who wolfed a meal down in barely 10 minutes.

The best way to combat speed-eating is to just slow down. Take your time and enjoy your food. Avoid finger foods and instead choose items you have to put on a plate and eat with utensils. Eat foods that you need to take time to chew. Pause often as you eat and drink water throughout your meals.
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Got questions?

Contact me at: http://www.ronrink.com

My email and phone number are at that site. Feel free to contact me. I’m here to help you with your health, nutrition and fitness goals.

Have a healthy and nutritious day!

Shanti … (A sanscrit word meaning, “Let there be Peace. Peace, beautiful Peace. Peace within, Peace without. Peace in this world. Peace for all beings.”)

Ron
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As you know, I do practice sitting, silent meditation every day in my life. Recently, I did a podcast about this for another blog that I read. Take a moment and click this link to hear what meditation means to me and what it does for me.

My Meditation Podcast

In my meditation I use what I truly believe is the most powerful personal growth and mind development tool on earth. It’s the The Holosync Solution. I knew that meditation was a vital element to nurturing my soul — to opening myself to the universe — and this tool has allowed me to achieve and receive the benefits of deep, long-term meditation — and to achieve it much more quickly. If you’re having trouble “getting meditation to work for you” – then the The Holosync Solution is what you’re looking for.

Regular, daily meditation can give you …

(1) Increased intelligence and creativity.
(2) Lower stress levels — and with that — increased ability to handle whatever the world tosses your way.
(3) New levels of self-awareness and inner peace.
(4) The healing of emotional issues at the deepest levels —

— it’s definitely worth taking the time for this powerful practice every day.

With a One-Year 100% Iron-Clad Guarantee, you can now do so with no risk whatsoever — just click any of the links that say … The Holosync Solution

— The Holosync Solution

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Over the next few weeks I’d like to do some short articles on bad eating habits — and what to do about them. I know that I sure find myself with some of these habits and would like to know what to do to avoid them. So, while I hope I’m helping you to resolve any of these habits — I also am striving to help myself in the process.

Here’s the first one for this week —

Serious Snacking!

One of the main reasons why this is considered a bad eating habit is because you’re more than likely going to overeat — and the things you eat may not be what you need.

Let’s face it, a healthy snack or two between meals is a great idea and one I highly recommend. (The emphasis is on the word “healthy“!) This sort of snacking can help to keep your blood sugar levels steady and getting a few more fresh fruits and vegetables into your body is a good thing.

However, when you snack rather than eat a real meal you’re much more likely to lose track of just how much you’re eating. Obviously, what you eat is also important. Usually, serious snackers choose things like chips, cookies, crackers, candy, ice cream and pretzels. These are not nutritious — they’re “empty food” and will leave you feeling hunger again in just a few minutes, so you end up eating too much of them and you start to wonder why your pants aren’t fitting the way they should.

So, what can you do to fix the problem of serious snacking? One of the best ways is to allow yourself two snacks each day — and keep track of the calories — no more than 100 to 300 calories each. Plus, choose good food — real food. Don’t choose the cookie or the candy bar — rather go for half of a tuna sandwich — or a few whole-grain crackers with some low-fat cheese — or a handful of nuts. Another good one is some of those baby carrots dipped in some hummus. I personally like a little yogurt sprinkled with some granola.

Go ahead and snack, but snack healthy!
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Got questions?

Contact me at: http://www.ronrink.com

My email and phone number are at that site. Feel free to contact me. I’m here to help you with your health, nutrition and fitness goals.

Have a healthy and nutritious day!

Shanti … (A sanscrit word meaning, “Let there be Peace. Peace, beautiful Peace. Peace within, Peace without. Peace in this world. Peace for all beings.”)

Ron
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As you know, I do practice sitting, silent meditation every day in my life. Recently, I did a podcast about this for another blog that I read. Take a moment and click this link to hear what meditation means to me and what it does for me.

My Meditation Podcast

In my meditation I use what I truly believe is the most powerful personal growth and mind development tool on earth. It’s the The Holosync Solution. I knew that meditation was a vital element to nurturing my soul — to opening myself to the universe — and this tool has allowed me to achieve and receive the benefits of deep, long-term meditation — and to achieve it much more quickly. If you’re having trouble “getting meditation to work for you” – then the The Holosync Solution is what you’re looking for.

Regular, daily meditation can give you …

(1) Increased intelligence and creativity.
(2) Lower stress levels — and with that — increased ability to handle whatever the world tosses your way.
(3) New levels of self-awareness and inner peace.
(4) The healing of emotional issues at the deepest levels —

— it’s definitely worth taking the time for this powerful practice every day.

With a One-Year 100% Iron-Clad Guarantee, you can now do so with no risk whatsoever — just click any of the links that say … The Holosync Solution

— The Holosync Solution

Speaking of meditation, I’m writing a few articles about meditation over at my other blog. Just go to: http://www.theleaderinside.com. If you’re interested in learning more about meditation, I’d love to see you over there.
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One of the health factors that I think about rather often is prostate cancer. I think about it because I was diagnosed with this disease. I have the slow-growing variety — and I am “of a certain age” — so my doctor has me on a “watchful waiting” treatment. That means that I get my PSA and DRE checked at least once each year and hope for little, if any, change.

When I saw this report, it caught my interest and I hope will be of interest to you as well.

Altering the ratio of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids in the typical Western diet may reduce prostate cancer tumor growth rates, a new U.S. study suggests.

This study with mice is one of the first to show the impact of diet (in this case, more omega-3 fatty acids and fewer omega-6 fatty acids) on lowering an inflammatory response known to promote prostate cancer tumor progression. The finding could help lead to the development of new treatments, the researchers said.

The researchers, from the University of California, Los Angeles, used mice with a hormone-sensitive prostate cancer that closely resembles human prostate cancer. One group of mice was fed a diet that included 20 percent fat with a one-to-one ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acids. The other group of mice also received a diet with 20 percent fat, but mostly omega-6 fatty acids.

In the mice that received the balanced diet of fatty acids, tumor cell growth rates decreased by 22 percent and prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels decreased by 77 percent, compared to the mice that received the diet with mostly omega-6 fatty acids.

Omega-6 fatty acids, the predominant polyunsaturated fatty acids in the Western diet, are found in corn, safflower oils and red meats. Omega-3 fatty acids are found in cold-water fish, including salmon, tuna and sardines.

“Corn oil is the backbone of the American diet. We consume up to 20 times more omega-6 fatty acids in our diet compared to omega-3 acids,” principal investigator Dr. William Aronson, professor in the department of urology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a researcher at UCLA’s Jonsson Cancer Center, said in a prepared statement.

“This study strongly suggests that eating a healthier ratio of these two types of fatty acids may make a difference in reducing prostate cancer growth, but studies need to be conducted in humans before any clinical recommendations can be made,” Aronson said.

These findings were published in the journal Clinical Cancer Research.

I’ll be keeping my eyes open for further information about this and will keep you informed.
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Got questions?

Contact me at: http://www.ronrink.com

My email and phone number are at that site. Feel free to contact me. I’m here to help you with your health, nutrition and fitness goals.

Have a healthy and nutritious day!

Shanti … (A sanscrit word meaning, “Let there be Peace. Peace, beautiful Peace. Peace within, Peace without. Peace in this world. Peace for all beings.”)

Ron
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As you know, I do practice sitting, silent meditation every day in my life. Recently, I did a podcast about this for another blog that I read. Take a moment and click this link to hear what meditation means to me and what it does for me.

My Meditation Podcast

In my meditation I use what I truly believe is the most powerful personal growth and mind development tool on earth. It’s the The Holosync Solution. I knew that meditation was a vital element to nurturing my soul — to opening myself to the universe — and this tool has allowed me to achieve and receive the benefits of deep, long-term meditation — and to achieve it much more quickly. If you’re having trouble “getting meditation to work for you” – then the The Holosync Solution is what you’re looking for.

Regular, daily meditation can give you …

(1) Increased intelligence and creativity.
(2) Lower stress levels — and with that — increased ability to handle whatever the world tosses your way.
(3) New levels of self-awareness and inner peace.
(4) The healing of emotional issues at the deepest levels —

— it’s definitely worth taking the time for this powerful practice every day.

With a One-Year 100% Iron-Clad Guarantee, you can now do so with no risk whatsoever — just click any of the links that say … The Holosync Solution

— The Holosync Solution

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Over the past several weeks, there has been a increased amount of stress in my life. A lot of it has to do with the holiday season which is always a stressful time for me, as I’m sure it is for a many of you. In addition, there was a considerable amount of sweet snacks around most of that time. I also began to notice that my waistline was expanding during this same time frame. Not seriously so, but enough to make me take notice.

When I was looking through some research this morning, I discovered something that I wasn’t aware of — and that is that stress can lay a bunch of fat right smack-dab on your belly. Studies of mice and monkeys show that repeated stress — and a high-fat, high-sugar diet — stimulate the release of neuropeptide Y, or NPY, causing fat to build up in the abdomen. Sure enough, that’s right where my new fat landed.

This NPY stuff has another thing about it that I don’t like — and that is that it makes you want to eat more — plus it makes you get lazy and lose any desire for physical activity.

I’ve been thinking a lot about stress lately. The number of negative things that it can do to your body, and subsequently your overall health, is devastating. I know that I need to find ways to stay away from situations that cause excess stress. It’s literally, a matter of life and death. I know that there will always be some stress in our lives, but it’s learning how to avoid the unnecessary stresses that is something we can control.

I’m finding one way that can help a great deal, and that is to learn to meditate. I’ve been meditating regularly for many years. However, I still have a poor ability to stay out of places and events that cause additional stress. Stress is deadly and we all need to find ways to decrease it in our lives.

I hope to write more about this in future issues.
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Got questions?

Contact me at: http://www.ronrink.com

My email and phone number are at that site. Feel free to contact me. I’m here to help you with your health, nutrition and fitness goals.

Have a healthy and nutritious day!

Shanti … (A sanscrit word meaning, “Let there be Peace. Peace, beautiful Peace. Peace within, Peace without. Peace in this world. Peace for all beings.”)

Ron
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As you know, I do practice sitting, silent meditation every day in my life. Recently, I did a podcast about this for another blog that I read. Take a moment and click this link to hear what meditation means to me and what it does for me.

My Meditation Podcast

In my meditation I use what I truly believe is the most powerful personal growth and mind development tool on earth. It’s the The Holosync Solution. I knew that meditation was a vital element to nurturing my soul — to opening myself to the universe — and this tool has allowed me to achieve and receive the benefits of deep, long-term meditation — and to achieve it much more quickly. If you’re having trouble “getting meditation to work for you” – then the The Holosync Solution is what you’re looking for.

Regular, daily meditation can give you …

(1) Increased intelligence and creativity.
(2) Lower stress levels — and with that — increased ability to handle whatever the world tosses your way.
(3) New levels of self-awareness and inner peace.
(4) The healing of emotional issues at the deepest levels —

— it’s definitely worth taking the time for this powerful practice every day.

With a One-Year 100% Iron-Clad Guarantee, you can now do so with no risk whatsoever — just click any of the links that say … The Holosync Solution

— The Holosync Solution

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How much do you spend each month on bottled water? If you’re like most people you probably spend a considerable amount each month. Even if you go to the local discount store and buy a huge quantity, you’re still going to be spending some hard-earned dollars for something that may not have the benefits you desire.

Most of us feel that using bottled water, rather than tap water, will be beneficial to our health. Well, I have some bad news for us. Many brands are full of chemicals and bacteria. Common tap water has stricter purity standards and, in many cases, is better for you.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulates tap water, but the FDA oversees the bottled water industry. And, by law, the FDA has the power to “selectively follow” the EPA’s rules – enforcing some of those rules and ignoring others. This gives big business the opportunity to sell you expensive bottled water that is anything but safe. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that bottled water is definitely big business. Global sales top $35 billion every year. (That’s billion, folks.)

Here are some of the surprising results from a recent study by the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC):

* Over 25 percent of bottled water is actually tap water from municipal water supplies.

* A popular brand of “spring water” – with a label depicting a lake and mountains – comes from a well in the parking lot of an industrial facility. (The parking lot is right next door to a hazardous waste dump.)

* About 30 percent of bottled water has chemical and bacterial contamination above the levels considered safe by state and industry regulations.

* In some cases, levels of arsenic in the bottled water tested by the NRDC were at “a level of potential health concern.”

Your best bet for safe, clean drinking water is to put in an under-sink purifier. The reverse-osmosis type is very reliable. If you don’t want to invest the money to do that, a simple pitcher with a charcoal filter is better than most bottled water. I happen to be lucky in that the water right out of my tap is just fine. I know that’s not true in all cases, so using some sort of home filter makes a lot of sense.
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Got questions?

Contact me at: http://www.ronrink.com

My email and phone number are at that site. Feel free to contact me. I’m here to help you with your health, nutrition and fitness goals.

Have a healthy and nutritious day!

Shanti … (A sanscrit word meaning, “Let there be Peace. Peace, beautiful Peace. Peace within, Peace without. Peace in this world. Peace for all beings.”)

Ron
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As you know, I do practice sitting, silent meditation every day in my life. Recently, I did a podcast about this for another blog that I read. Take a moment and click this link to hear what meditation means to me and what it does for me.

My Meditation Podcast

In my meditation I use what I truly believe is the most powerful personal growth and mind development tool on earth. It’s the The Holosync Solution. I knew that meditation was a vital element to nurturing my soul — to opening myself to the universe — and this tool has allowed me to achieve and receive the benefits of deep, long-term meditation — and to achieve it much more quickly. If you’re having trouble “getting meditation to work for you” – then the The Holosync Solution is what you’re looking for.

Regular, daily meditation can give you …

(1) Increased intelligence and creativity.
(2) Lower stress levels — and with that — increased ability to handle whatever the world tosses your way.
(3) New levels of self-awareness and inner peace.
(4) The healing of emotional issues at the deepest levels —

— it’s definitely worth taking the time for this powerful practice every day.

With a One-Year 100% Iron-Clad Guarantee, you can now do so with no risk whatsoever — just click any of the links that say … The Holosync Solution

— The Holosync Solution

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