YOUR HEALTH RESOLUTIONS FOR A HEALTHY CHINESE NEW YEARWritten by Theresa
The Year of Green Wooden Rooster is upon us. At stroke of midnight on 9th of February 2005, Chinese New Year will be celebrated. Since year of Rooster is about to commence, wouldn’t it be nice to have some health resolutions for a healthy Chinese New Year? When you have a never-ending to-do list in today’s fast-paced world, you are becoming busier than ever. Therefore, many other things are dropped down on your priority list. Usually, one of first ones to drop in list is health. This should never be case. There are a lot of creative ways to help keep you in peak condition. Below are some suggested health resolutions to help you get started: 1.Exercise. Exercise offers so many important benefits that it should always be a part of one’s weekly routine. The benefits of regular exercise include a reduced risk of heart disease, stroke, bowel cancer, breast cancer, osteoporosis, and obesity. In addition to feeling better, regular exercise can help ease stress, anxiety and mild depression. 2.Have a healthy diet. Eat at least five servings of fruits and vegetables daily. A healthy diet helps prevent or reduce severity of diseases such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and can also help reduce risk of some cancers.
| | Four Stages of Breaking an AddictionWritten by Caryl Ehrlich
Nowhere do Four Stages of Addiction come into play more powerfully than they do when you resist changing a habit relating to foods with which you self-medicate. For most of us those foods are instant, and easily available – Bread, Beverage, Dessert, or Alcohol. For others they are fatty foods, and plenty of them. You might choose huge portions of steak, hamburger, and French fries, enormous bowls of salad with globs of dressing. Perhaps chunks of cheese appear as a part of your daily food consumption. Whether it is a basket of bread, a huge salad, or a box of cookies, your body takes so much extra time to slog through extra food – more food than you’re able to burn – that it cannot easily process it. The body wears itself out. You get tired. Calories are units of energy. After eating your meal you want to feel energized, not tired. Eating more than you need causes you to feel as if you are in a drugged state. This altered state, zones out brain, and helps you to escape from feelings. Stage One – Resistance to change My Program comes along and says: “Let’s not have a beverage at every breakfast. Sometimes, choose to have a beverage every two, or even three days. Soup is a meal. Put your fork down between bites. Weigh yourself twice a day.” This is scary stuff. You may be thinking you’re comfortable this old way. Therefore, a new way can’t be as comfortable. You erroneously conclude you’ll feel uncomfortable. You don’t know this will be outcome; you’ve never tried new way before; but you resist change even though you know old way is not working. One component of addiction is that you continue doing what you’re doing even though there are negative consequences. It is your old Addict Pea Brain resisting change by projecting a negative outcome even though you don’t have any knowledge or experience that your projection is valid. The addiction twists your thinking to justify your behavior.
|
