This came across my emails today and was too good to resist posting here. Hope you enjoy it! Sorry I don't know the author to give credit to the person who originally wrote it!
CONCERNED ABOUT TOO MANY CARBS IN YOUR DIET?
For those of you who watch what you eat, here's the final word on nutrition and health. It's a relief to know the truth after all those conflicting nutritional studies.
1. The Japanese eat very little fat! and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.
2. The Mexicans eat a lot of fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.
3. The Chinese drink very little red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.
4. The Italians drink a lot of red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.
5. The Germans drink a lot of beers and eat lots of sausages and fats and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.
CONCLUSION
Eat and drink what you like. Speaking English is apparently what kills you.
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Friday, January 06, 2006
Think Fit and Be Fit for Life
I was always thin. But that didn't mean I was always healthy and fit. So often we think of size (body fat or lack of it) as a measure of fitness. It may be a good indicator, but it certainly doesn't tell all.
We've had our own journey with fitness (and with sickness) and with letting exercise and a good diet slide and suffering the consequences. I'd like to share a bit of that journey with you. Perhaps it will be helpful to you or trigger some ideas or stimulate you to action to pursue your own journey to fitness.
During my childhood and youth we had a garden. It occupied almost our entire backyard. Anyone else remember those days? Depending on the season, there was always work to do. It was my delight to get out in the springtime and help mark off the rows, plant the seeds and wait for them to sprout. Besides eventually having healthy, fresh and generally "organic" food to eat, the exercise, fresh air and sun were a normal part of everyday life. My mother had a rule. No TV in the summertime. The shows were just reruns anyway and there was always so much else to do - not all work either, by the way. So none of us minded.
So I guess I learned some principles of fitness from a very early age. Fresh air, exercise and good, healthy food. Easy to say, but hard to accomplish in this day and age.
After many years in the Amazon region of Brazil our health was suffering. We got plenty of fresh air, exercise and good food, but something just wasn't right. I had had malaria several times, went through years of suffering with amoeba and other parasites, had had infectious hepatitis, etc, etc. I had recovered from them all, but they had taken their toll. I was beginning to worry about early onset of Alzheimer's. I found myself forgetting everything, putting things in the wrong places, accusing my husband of misplacing things when it was really I who had misplaced them. I could no longer with a certainty find the right streets when I was driving so I began to relinquish driving except to the closest and best known places.
Then several things came into our lives that totally changed this picture. After losing our middle son while he was on a hike in Hawaii (which is another story), we decided primarily for spiritual reasons to fast. My husband fasted for 40 days, just drinking distilled water. I chose to do a different kind of fast. We had been introduced to the Hallelujah Diet some years earlier and had begun to do some further study and research on it. (For more information go to: www.hacres.com ). So my fast was total 2 days a week and partial the other days, but I adopted the Hallelujah Diet from the beginning of the fast. And after the fast, we both continued on the Hallelujah Diet for approximately 2 years.
One of the basic premises of this diet is that you eat 75 to 80% of your food raw. That means lots of juicing and lots of salads. It also means no meat or animal products of any kind, no sugar, no refined grains, and so on. That may sound really extreme. But the physical benefits we gained from this diet were also extreme! Within a very short time, my mental capacity improved dramatically and as an added bonus the chronic constipation I had had all my life was gone. What a relief that was! I no longer spent half my time looking for things I had misplaced and consequently no longer experienced the frustrations that went along with not being able to remember who I had talked with, who I had written to, where I had placed my glasses, etc.
At about the same time, we also started following an exercise program recommended to me by my sister. It required the use of weights which wasn't too convenient because of all the travel we did. Later we discovered another system that only required the use of a towel to do body building exercises. And even more recently we have discovered something called Precision Training. That's mostly my husband's territory. He has studied and has been using the concepts presented by this system with good success. Check it out if you'd like at: http://www.1shoppingcart.com/app/?af=341384
After two years on the Hallelujah Diet, we gradually got away from it. That same year we were introduced to a nutritional supplement that has enabled us to maintain a level of fitness and wellness that we never imagined could be possible at our age (almost 60). The main advantage of the supplements we now take is that they take no extra time - unlike the Hallelujah Diet which is very time and work intensive. These supplements are based on scientific research on glycobiology. (See our personal website for more information: www.mannapages.com/spg). The other big advantage of these supplements is that they are marketed through a referral system which enables us to earn an income and to help others do the same.
Now at almost 60 I have more energy, stamina and basically good fitness than I did when I was younger. Whereas I used to need to take a nap every afternoon (a good south of the border custom) a can now keep going with as much energy as I need. I do still occasionally take naps on Sunday afternoons just for the fun of it!
We've had our own journey with fitness (and with sickness) and with letting exercise and a good diet slide and suffering the consequences. I'd like to share a bit of that journey with you. Perhaps it will be helpful to you or trigger some ideas or stimulate you to action to pursue your own journey to fitness.
During my childhood and youth we had a garden. It occupied almost our entire backyard. Anyone else remember those days? Depending on the season, there was always work to do. It was my delight to get out in the springtime and help mark off the rows, plant the seeds and wait for them to sprout. Besides eventually having healthy, fresh and generally "organic" food to eat, the exercise, fresh air and sun were a normal part of everyday life. My mother had a rule. No TV in the summertime. The shows were just reruns anyway and there was always so much else to do - not all work either, by the way. So none of us minded.
So I guess I learned some principles of fitness from a very early age. Fresh air, exercise and good, healthy food. Easy to say, but hard to accomplish in this day and age.
After many years in the Amazon region of Brazil our health was suffering. We got plenty of fresh air, exercise and good food, but something just wasn't right. I had had malaria several times, went through years of suffering with amoeba and other parasites, had had infectious hepatitis, etc, etc. I had recovered from them all, but they had taken their toll. I was beginning to worry about early onset of Alzheimer's. I found myself forgetting everything, putting things in the wrong places, accusing my husband of misplacing things when it was really I who had misplaced them. I could no longer with a certainty find the right streets when I was driving so I began to relinquish driving except to the closest and best known places.
Then several things came into our lives that totally changed this picture. After losing our middle son while he was on a hike in Hawaii (which is another story), we decided primarily for spiritual reasons to fast. My husband fasted for 40 days, just drinking distilled water. I chose to do a different kind of fast. We had been introduced to the Hallelujah Diet some years earlier and had begun to do some further study and research on it. (For more information go to: www.hacres.com ). So my fast was total 2 days a week and partial the other days, but I adopted the Hallelujah Diet from the beginning of the fast. And after the fast, we both continued on the Hallelujah Diet for approximately 2 years.
One of the basic premises of this diet is that you eat 75 to 80% of your food raw. That means lots of juicing and lots of salads. It also means no meat or animal products of any kind, no sugar, no refined grains, and so on. That may sound really extreme. But the physical benefits we gained from this diet were also extreme! Within a very short time, my mental capacity improved dramatically and as an added bonus the chronic constipation I had had all my life was gone. What a relief that was! I no longer spent half my time looking for things I had misplaced and consequently no longer experienced the frustrations that went along with not being able to remember who I had talked with, who I had written to, where I had placed my glasses, etc.
At about the same time, we also started following an exercise program recommended to me by my sister. It required the use of weights which wasn't too convenient because of all the travel we did. Later we discovered another system that only required the use of a towel to do body building exercises. And even more recently we have discovered something called Precision Training. That's mostly my husband's territory. He has studied and has been using the concepts presented by this system with good success. Check it out if you'd like at: http://www.1shoppingcart.com/app/?af=341384
After two years on the Hallelujah Diet, we gradually got away from it. That same year we were introduced to a nutritional supplement that has enabled us to maintain a level of fitness and wellness that we never imagined could be possible at our age (almost 60). The main advantage of the supplements we now take is that they take no extra time - unlike the Hallelujah Diet which is very time and work intensive. These supplements are based on scientific research on glycobiology. (See our personal website for more information: www.mannapages.com/spg). The other big advantage of these supplements is that they are marketed through a referral system which enables us to earn an income and to help others do the same.
Now at almost 60 I have more energy, stamina and basically good fitness than I did when I was younger. Whereas I used to need to take a nap every afternoon (a good south of the border custom) a can now keep going with as much energy as I need. I do still occasionally take naps on Sunday afternoons just for the fun of it!
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