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Have you ever looked at someone that you admired at work and watched what type of food they ate?

Many people who succeed in business eat for both their body type and also for the type of job that they have.

From now on you would be glad to know there is a way to improve your job performances and help you along your journey to achieve professional success, while keeping your body at it’s perfect body weight.

A day of your life should be divided into different sections and make sure that each section gets the proper nutrition to do the tasks that you have at hand. It doesn’t matter if you work form 9 AM to 5 PM or if you work all night.

Long run persons
If you are a “long run person”, you are on your feet the entire day so the amount of physical exercise that you body receives is great. Your body needs energy from morning till evening. You must keep your sugar level stable with the help of complex carbs and proteins. Be sure to eat often (small servings - but at 1-2 hour intervals) this way you will have energy all day and won’t find yourself pigging out all night.

Night stars
If you are a “night star” your work hours keep until the first morning hours and often go to work in the dark and come home from work before sunsrise.
You need food for feeling ok and happy, combating depression that can often occur during nights. Vitamin B1 is the one that will keep you smiling all night. A night worker will often find themselves eating more sugar than day workers so if you feel tempted be sure to have plenty fruit on hand. A great snack is frozen grapes and chilled melon. If you don’t have a refrigerator or freezer at work bring frozen fruits to work and be sure to have a good insulated lunch box and use one of the freeze packs to keep your fruit icy cold.

Office angel
If you are an “office angel” then you are performing intense mental activities and a low physical effort. Your body needs “intelligent” food, that would give energy to the brain and nerves, that means foods rich in vitamins B and C and protein. If you are not a meat eater, be sure to have plenty of tofu or your choice of protein on hand. Cheese, tuna, chicken and yogurt are good foods for the rest of us.

No matter what your job is, you should have always enough needed energy to perform it. it well, you won’t get fat, but you have to eat as much as you need in order not to feel hungry while at work. That will clearly affect your performances.

We have seen information about the swine flu and because it has not hit us hard, we have become a bit lax about it. What you should know is that the time when the swine flu will be at its peak is in the fall/winter 2009/2010. Yes, just a few months away.

Well, it is happening:

Swine flu is beginning to really take hold.

Not just in the United States, but all over the world.

But that’s not the scary part…

… the scary part is the fact that being obese OR overweight has now been directly linked to DYING from the swine flu.

My friend Jon Benson put together a 5-minute video that documents these findings.

This is free for you to view — and you owe it to yourself to check it out.

Go here –Obesity Swine Flu info Video <— click to watch

Folks, we have to get a grip on this.

And believe it or not, it starts in your kitchen.

Watch the video to find out what to do.

Thanks,
Patricia

What is cellulite?

Even if you don’t know what cellulite is, you probably have some - most of us do.
Although cellulite is more common in women, many men also have pockets of cellulite around their belly, butt and thighs.

Embarrassing and unsightly, no one likes cellulite, on themselves or anyone else. But while most people have no trouble identifying it, scant few understand exactly what cellulite is.

Cellulite is fat that protrudes out from the lower layers of skin into the dermis, or outer layer of the skin. Cellulite gives a dimpled appearance to the skin, often grotesquely described as a “cottage cheese” look. Commonly cellulite is seen on the rear end, thighs, and lower legs, though it can appear elsewhere.

Surprisingly, modern science still knows very little about the cause or causes of cellulite. We do know, however that between 85% and 98% of women (that’s almost all women) have at least some cellulite somewhere on their bodies. So, contrary to popular misconception, then, and despite how used to seeing cellulite on obese people we may be, cellulite is not a derivative of being overweight.

Science has also observed that cellulite is less common in men, leading many researchers to believe there is hormonal component to its formation. Prevailing theories suggest that the appearance of cellulite could be related to one’s diet, more specifically the ingestion of large amount of trans-fats as well as foods like pasta, white bread, and other foods heavy in white flour. Again, this is suspected, but not yet “known” or proven.

As is the case whenever a perceived new problem arises in our culture, manufacturers scamper to produce and release countless products targeting the cellulite-afflicted. You’ll find gels, lotions, pills and more all promising to rid you of that unsightly cellulite. Do they work? So far there’s nothing but anecdotal evidence supporting these products at best.

Another false hope in the battle against cellulite is liposuction, the removal of fat from the body through surgery. Liposuction does not suck out cellulite.

Some sufferers have found that certain kinds of massage may produce a temporary reduction in the appearance of cellulite on the body, but not a reduction in the actual existence of it.
This is because there are no blood vessels in subcutaneous fat, so when the body is massaged and circulation below the skin is stimulated, the surface of the skin appears smoothed out. Massage, then, is only a superficial solution to cellulite, and one with effects lasting only for the short term.

The only steps so far that have shown to make any real and lasting reduction in cellulite are the same steps advised for proper and effective weight loss: a healthy lifestyle.

Eating a balanced diet, drinking plenty of water, and getting plenty of both exercise and rest seems to be the only known remedy for unsightly and embarrassing cellulite. It’s not reinventing the wheel, and it’s no quick fix – but it works. And when it comes to looking and feeling good, what works is all that matters.

Raw Food Diet isn’t really a DIET but you can still lose weight

Most people starting a raw food diet are not eating this way to lose weight but are increasing their raw food consumption to make their body healthier and help it run better.

However, one of the great side effects is that participants often lose weight in addition to feeling better.

Our busy lives can sometimes make it difficult to stick to our dieting plans when we’re trying to lose weight.
We’re either keeping track of our fat intake, our sugar intake, our carbohydrate intake, or our caloric intake.

With all that counting, it’s no wonder most of us become discouraged and ‘fall off the dieting wagon.’ Add to that the surplus of convenient diet foods that are out there that are chock-full of preservatives and additives that we choose when we’re tired from a busy day and don’t have the energy or time to prepare a nutritious meal, and we’re headed down a wrong-way street trying to navigate our way through our weight-loss journey.

Enter the raw foods lifestyle

Not only are raw foods full of the nutrients, vitamins and minerals our bodies need to perform optimally, they provide enzymes for proper digestion, and will also result in the purging of toxins and the cleansing of your body systems.
The best part? You can eat as many fruits and vegetables as you like….and you will lose weight.

In addition, the natural high fiber content of most raw foods will help you feel fuller, thereby reducing your food intake.

They’ll assist in turning up the thermostat in your body, helping to melt away that excess weight and nourishing your body’s cells to continue with the fat-burning process.

Most raw foods are naturally low in calories, and obviously much lower in calories, fats, sugars, and carbohydrates than the dieting convenience foods we’d been reaching for in the past.

The added bonus of increased energy regulated blood sugar and blood pressure levels, sharper vision and improved mental functionality, and you’ll wonder why you didn’t become a ‘raw foodie’ earlier in the weight loss and dieting game.

And, once you reach your weight loss goals, you’ll realize how healthy you’ve become in the process, and the raw food lifestyle will then be your way of life.

By now we all know the dangers of being over weight and how getting and staying thin can add years to our life. These additional years are also healthier years.

You have also heard the phrase “think yourself thin” and wondered what it was all about.

A good way to prepare for a diet or exercise program that you will be starting is by preparing your mind for a thinner you.
One good way to train your brain into preparing for a thinner life is to visualize yourself at your goal weight. You steadily see yourself as a thinner person going about your normal daily tasks.

Thinking is part of it—a big part. But you’ve got to do a great deal more than just sit and think. Your telephone, the chair you’re sitting in, the clothes you’re wearing, these words that you’re reading— they were all thoughts, first of all. But the thoughts were translated into action before they became material things. So your thoughts about getting thin, if you really want to be thin, will have to be translated into action, too. And the result will be you—the way you’d like to be.

You’ll have to make yourself over! Your overweight has been caused by wrong thinking—by a wrong way of life—for you. The same way of life might not have caused overweight for a lot of other people but, face it, it has caused overweight for you. That means that it is wrong for you. So you must acquire a new viewpoint, an entire new outlook. And with this new outlook you must follow through until you look—and are—the person you’d like to be.

You know dozens of people, as I do, who have started diets, and never finished them. They’ve been enthusiastic, and lost 10 pounds, or 18 pounds. And then, within a few weeks, gained all of the pounds back again— and maybe added a few more for good measure. I know one man who did even better—or worse—than that. He went to an expensive doctor, who examined him and gave him a diet.
“Have you started your diet?” I asked him.

“No,” he said. “I’m going away for a five-day weekend. When I come back I’ll start.”
I talked to him two weeks later.
“How is your diet going?” I asked.
“Oh, I haven’t started yet,” he told me. “You see, it’s very difficult for me to diet because I’m not too well. In fact, I must have an operation, but the doctor doesn’t want to operate until I lose weight. But I have to sort of work myself up to get into the mood to diet. I’ll begin any day, now.”
He hasn’t started yet. But then he weighs only 233 pounds! The poor dear looks like a football, never feels well, and is still suffering from an injury to his leg, which happened three years ago, because his weight keeps it from healing properly. He’ll never get thin until he learns about obesity—and he refuses to learn.

In the last analysis, you’re all you have. Your family, your friends, even your earthly possessions, are yours in a far less realistic way. You can do a lot about developing your mind and your soul. But without a good body, your mind and your soul, things being what they are on this earth, will be in a pretty difficult spot.
To become thin, in the way you should be thin, you must learn to have a disciplined mind, to be a responsible person. Instead of rationalizing your indulgences, you must realize your potentialities.
You have the opportunities for discipline and, though the word may seem out of place here, for culture. You can become physically and mentally the person you should be only by putting thought to it.

Only 24 hours in a day and so many things to do; all this definitely puts a lot of stress and pressure on people these days. Everyday we strive to balance our professional and personal lives, sometimes we succeed sometimes we don’t, but in most cases stress seems to overpower the person struggling to cope with it.

Unfortunately, this is reality for most of us; and not only is it unfortunate, it’s also dangerous for both our mind and body, as continuous stress for a prolonged period of time can potentially lead to several health complications like- high blood pressure, heart problems, mental depression, etc. Therefore, it is very important to manage stress in order to avoid such health complications.

Exercising is the best way to deal with health issues like high blood pressure, heart problems, etc. and is considered to be one of the best tools for releasing stress. There are several exercises that you can do to help you reduce stress; one of the most effective exercises is walking/ jogging. But in your tightly scheduled life you hardly have time for yourself and it becomes quite a task to make time for exercising.

If you don’t have the time to join a gym or go walking, then consider buying a treadmill for yourself. Having a treadmill at home will help you walk/run/jog every day while you catch up with the news in the morning before going to work. It is also advisable that you do some brisk walking in the evening after work as well. You may be tired after a long day’s work but walking for about 20 minutes or so will help you release all the stress from your system making you feel much more relaxed and fresh.

Using a treadmill has several benefits; a few of them are listed below: