Nutrition and Weight Loss Ideas

Last week we talked about stress, and one of the things I recommended to you was to add meditation to your daily lifestyle. Believe me when I say that meditation is, by far, one of the best things we can do to keep ourselves healthier and happier.

Today, let’s talk about a few other things we can do for ourselves to relieve the negative effects of stress.

A healthy diet and physical exercise are vital ingredients to any stress reducing program. Let’s take a look at the effect of a healthy diet on stress. Eating foods that are nutritious, that is, low in fat and sugar, we’ll be able to keep a much more balanced life. Avoiding foods that are high in sugar, reducing the amount of caffeine you consume, and eating plenty of foods that contain fiber, you will find that your body will be better equipped to handle stress.

Avoid smoking and alcohol as they both cause excess stress. Alcohol and nicotine act as stimulants and you need to be calm, not stimulated, when stressful situations enter your life. The chemicals involved in smoking and drinking will cause nervousness and jittery feelings. These will work against you when you’re trying to remain calm.

Another important factor in reducing stress is to get adequate physical exercise. For example, there are studies that show how employees who take part in an exercise program are more productive and have fewer problems with sick and unproductive days. Exercise is also a great way to distract you when you’re feeling stressed. What is even more important, exercise strengthens your heart and increases your circulation so your body is better able to maintain control when stress is lurking.

If you’ve become bored with exercise (and that happens a lot) add some variety to what you’re doing. Find a friend to share this with you. Keep it interesting.

Start slowly. People will sometimes give up on an exercise program because they start out with a program that’s too strenuous. After the first day, their muscles are stiff and sore and they abandon the exercise. Starting slow and building up to a longer and more advanced program will keep you interested — and you won’t have all the aches and pains.

Another good form of stress management is yoga or Tai Chi which include stretching, breathing and muscle relaxation. Yoga has been found to be effective in treating conditions that are caused by stress such as anxiety headaches, high blood pressure, and asthma.

And, finally, along with exercise, do bring meditation into your daily life.

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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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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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One of the major factors to improving our over-all health is to find ways to live without so much stress in your life. We in the Western cultures are finding that our fast-paced lives filled with frustrations, irritations and worries result in shorter tempers and the tendency to explode into anger, followed by increased risks for serious health issues.

There are several studies that have shown that the emotion of anger can double the risk of heart attack. In fact, those heart attacks tended to occur just two hours after the episode of anger or rage.

Stress does a lot of things to us. One of those is how it can affect our ability to remember those stressful times. When we’re under stress we have an increased level of the stress hormone cortisol, which cuts off glucose, the brain’s fuel, then messes up the way our neurotransmitters process information, thereby making it difficult to dig up those existing memories. Stress can also release adrenaline, which then causes blood sugar levels to soar coupled with pumping up your blood pressure followed by an increased heart rate. Not good stuff to be happening to you, right?

So what can you do?

Learn how to meditate and bring the practice of meditation into your lifestyle. If you don’t get enough sleep you will have low melatonin levels (the sleep hormone). We also know that people who regularly meditate have increased melatonin levels. More sleep makes it easier to handle stressful situation.

I mentioned cortisol above. People who meditate have a decline in the levels of cortisol. People who have a tendency for panic attacks, (associated with extreme stress) have a rise in blood lactate levels, while those levels are quite low in people who make meditation a apart of their daily lifestyle. In fact, a short 10-minute meditation is enough to considerably drop anxiety-caused lactate levels.

And the really cool fact — people who meditate regularly have a biological age twelve years lower than their chronological age. Now that’s major!!

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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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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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Would you do something for me? I’d like you to take a look at your work schedule. I sure do hope it’s not like so many people that I come into contact with — you know the ones I mean — they start work the moment their feet hit the floor in the morning and they don’t stop until they’re so tired they’ll drop if they don’t get to bed. Sure, perhaps that’s not all work time spent on the actual job, but in their minds they’re working just as hard as they would if they were at work.

It’s sad, but true — our world is wracked by sleep deprivation. What’s even sadder — but even truer — is that most people take great pride in how hard they work and how many hours they put in. “Oh, I’m good with that!”, they’ll say, “I can make it all up with a quick power nap!”

Or, they’ll pull up their shoulders, lift their heads up high and brag about how they can get by on no more than four or five hours of sleep a night.

Well, I may have some surprising news for those of you who fit this picture. You are really increasing your health risks in a big way.

In a recent study I read today, it found that men who slept less than five hours a day were two to three times more likely to have a heart attack. The study also found that women who slept less than five hours had an eighty-two percent higher risk for heart disease.

The risk of diabetes also increases drastically in those who don’t get a good amount of sleep each night. This is because you’ll have a much lower insulin sensitivity. Insulin sensitivity is already a huge problem among most of us who live in western cultures due to our unsatisfactory diet and nutrition habits.

And, there’s another thing to think about — and that’s the risk of rapid aging when you don’t get enough rest. It is vital that you get to bed early enough to get a solid seven or eight hours sleep — and you need to be able to fall asleep quickly. There was a study published in the Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine that showed that men and women ages fifty-nine and up, who took longer than 30 minutes to fall asleep were twice as likely to die within the next thirteen years.

(I know, the “and up” in the above study does bring up the question, “Would they die anyway?” Perhaps, but there is little doubt that sleep deprivation does accelerate the aging process.)

Nighty-night. I hope you get a good night’s sleep.

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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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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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