"People living deeply have no fear of death."Anais Nin
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Are You Confused By All The Different Diets? Here's A Quick Diet Comparison
It would not be surprising to hear your answer is "yes, I'm confused by all these so called diets." You may read from one expert that low carbohydrate (low carb) and high protein is the way to lose weight. Another will try to convince you that low fat, ...
Attack the Snacks to Lose Weight
Did you know that when you are on a diet, if you eat something and no one sees you - it doesn't contain any calories! Of course that's not true...but it is how many of us think! Do you eat when you are bored, upset or angry? Do you find that every day ...
Diet Problem of the Business Traveler: Staying Fit When on the Run
Despite the fact that accurate nutrition information can be accessed by almost anyone with an Internet connection or a library card, the 21st century has picked up where the last one left off: one dominated by poor eating habits. The reason for this ...
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Pick up any magazine any day of the week and you can't help but be bombarded with all the health and fitness information everyone is dishing out. So how do you weed through all those advertisements and articles designed to inform you about your state of health, level of fitness and, what you as a responsible citizen should do?
Stop and think for just one moment. How do you determine your current fitness and wellness levels? Does your regular doctor ever inquire if you believe yourself to be fit and well? Probably not. Nor does s/he give you any method for determining the status on your own.
With all the fitness centers that abound in this country, and most are staffed with counselors who can test your fitness level, it's quite easy to get an evaluation of your general health, but what about your wellness level? Fitness and wellness are not the same, yet they rely heavily on each other to keep you healthy.
Being fit and being well are totally different conditions. Your wellness rating is dependent upon your immune system, and what vitamins, supplements, and nutrition you provide for your immune system. Fit people can sometimes be unwell. And well people can sometimes be unfit. However, when you combine the two, and use sound principles based on clean living, exercise, and healthy eating, you attain a state of equilibrium where you are both fit and well.
Most individuals do not take the time to completely understand the advantages of being both fit and being well. We read and absorb the information we're often given through the media and health organizations, without ever pondering if we're receiving all the information we need, or simply the information that is profitable to be seen or heard.
Physical fitness is a condition of the body alone and while fitness gyms need monthly fees in order to remain operational, they have no real concern about the condition of your immune system. Same goes for hospitals and doctors. They need us as a patient in order to remain operational; although they want you to know you need to be fit and well, they often leave out important information that affect your wellness and, therefore, your ability to be fit.
And what about your eating habits? What about vitamins? What role does your daily intake play in our health, your wellness, and your fitness? More than you are lead to believe or understand the body's ability to remain well under anything other than ideal conditions is a direct result of the nutrition received on a daily basis. And the mind's ability to remain well is, again, a direct result of our nutrition intake. For instance, the human brain doesn't develop well without the necessary input of protein in our daily diet. No protein, no intelligence. No intelligence, then none of the other states is attainable.
Our spiritual input is a determining factor when establishing our fitness level. We all need the benefit of spiritual reflection, as a way of cleansing ourselves of the stress of our daily life. And spirituality is a way of assuring ourselves of a renewing, and rebirth of ourselves as humans. And so wellness encompasses our body's health, as a whole and in this respect it includes the mind. It is a condition of the whole body.
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Measuring the cost of healthy foodsThe Providence Journal (blog)By Pamela Reinsel Cotter I was in on a recent conference call with the US Department of Agriculture when it announced the results of a study that found that most fruits, vegetables and other healthy foods cost less than foods high in fat, ...and more » |
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