Fat Sick and Nearly Dead

Definitely a great film to watch, and be inspired to turn your health around!

Life Beyond the Casinos

My friend Mary is on a Juice diet.  She watched this movie “Fat Sick and Nearly Dead” and was inspired to try the diet.   She has been Juicing for 11 days and counting.   She wants to lose 60 pounds in as many days.  I admire her effort but I think the diet is a little extreme for my taste.  She has consulted her doctor so I think she will be okay.

The question is will her mood swings hold out the full 60 days or will Jeff get his ass kicked for a protein bar one morning.   Just kidding, Mary, if you are reading this, but seriously this is a drastic type of diet.  I think I will watch the movie if I can find it on Netflix.  Maybe I can be inspired too.    Although I am not going to be Juicing any time soon I assure you.  Here is…

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How Your Plate Should Look!

FDA bans BPA from baby bottles, sippy cups – CBS News

How to Train your Brain to keep you healthy and happy

Relaxation meditation

When you are unhappy what do you do? Do you go out for a meal? Go to the cinema? The theatre, perhaps? Do you go shopping? Perhaps you like a drink to overcome your unhappiness. Or do you get a buzz from jogging or going to the gym?

Whatever it is scientist are in the process of proving that internal change is the only thing that can give you health and happiness. Everything else is an illusion.

What does this mean?

Your brain is the only thing that can keep you healthy and happy.

Richard Davidson, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin and Jon Kabat-Zinn from the University of Massachusetts Medical Centre have just completed some interesting research that can actually be of benefit to you and me and the way we run our lives.

They took a group of 41 stressed, but otherwise healthy, individuals working in a…

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Food for Fuel vs. Feeding your Feelings

STAY HEALTHY with SAMANTHA

Could stress be sabotaging your health and your waistline?

Ever find yourself drowning your sorrows into a pint of ice cream or mindlessly eating half a bag of potato chips out of sheer boredom? Ever been stressed or upset one second and munching on something the next, unable to recall why you started eating or how long you had spent binging? If so, then you have entered the realm of emotional eating.  But don’t feel too guilty because you are not alone.  Recent studies suggest that over 75% of overeating is caused by our emotions. “Depression, boredom, loneliness, chronic anger, anxiety, frustration, stress, problems with interpersonal relationships, and low self-esteem can result in overeating and weight gain.”

Emotional eating is defined as eating for reasons other than hunger. It is one of the most prominent weight loss obstacles and can strike any one of us at any given moment.  Instead…

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Half The Sky Movement

There is no book I have read as moving as ‘Half the Sky’ by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. And the amazing thing is not the atrocities brought to light in this book, but the sense of optimism that pervades it about bringing justice to women world-wide.