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Monday, July 19, 2010
Dr. Jan Roberto to Speak in Traverse City, Michigan, Friday, July 23
A Prescription for a
Healthier Life
Date: July 23, 2010
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Twin Lakes Park (Camp & Conference Center), Gilbert Lodge, at 6800 N. Long Lake Road (4½ miles west of Traverse City, Michigan)
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Twin Lakes Park (Camp & Conference Center), Gilbert Lodge, at 6800 N. Long Lake Road (4½ miles west of Traverse City, Michigan)
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Protect Your Vision with These Nutrients
Sports nutrition is an exciting field of study fueled by how nutrition can help an athlete perform better and improve overall health. Therefore, when I analyze an athlete’s diet, I’m looking for more than just how much protein, carbohydrate and calories they are eating. I am also comparing their diet to their training program and health. And the more they can tell me, the more I can help.
While many athletes focus on what is seemingly obvious (weight, muscle strength, speed, recovery), they often forget a part of their body that is so incredibly crucial to success – their eyesight. Yet, as I listened to Diane Alexander, PhD speak at the ISSN’s annual meeting last month, it became even more clear to me just how important specific nutrients are for eye health.
Dr. Alexander’s presentation Increased Lutein and Zeaxanthin Intake Correlates with Improved Visual Performance, was jam-packed with information about keeping your eyes health and ready to perform. Here are some of the summary points:
- The recommended nutrients for eye health are: zinc, copper, DHA or EPA, and the antioxidants vitamin C, vitamin E, lutein and zeaxanthin (both are carotenoids).
- Lutein and zeaxanthin are the 2 main antioxidants found in the macula of your eye. The macula absorbs/filters blue light (hazardous rays).
- Lutein acts like an “internal pair of sunglasses” neutralizing free radicals and reducing exposure to damaging blue light. It seems to reduce one’s risk of age-related macular degeneration and cataracts (it seems like everyone I know over age 60 has had cataract surgery).
- Lutein and zeaxanthin may improve outdoor vision by absorbing blue light allowing a person to better distinguish between distant targets while decreasing blur (golfers, are you paying attention here?)
- Lutein and zeaxanthin may also improve photosensitivity (the need to squint when you walk from inside to outside on a bright sunny day). Two studies conducted in healthy people found that 10 mg/day of FloraGlo® brand lutein + 2 mg/day of OPTISHARP® zeaxanthin reduced glare and improved tolerance to light.
How can you find lutein and zeaxanthin in food? First, start by eating the recommended 9-13 servings of fruits and vegetables every day (equivalent to roughly 4-8 mg of lutein/day). And, include leafy green vegetables, corn, eggs (its in the yolk) – the best sources of lutein.
As an athlete you must keep your entire body healthy. A diet rich in fruits and vegetables (and eggs) can help your eyes. If you get enough lutein and zeaxanthin, you should notice less glare, sharper vision and better distinction between objects in dim light. Though these “internal sunglasses” can help, don’t forget external ones.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Prevention Plus in Cleveland GA, July 29 - AMY GOETZ
“IF You Don’t Take Care of your Body…Where else are you going to Live??”
Learn how the nutrition in fruits and vegetables can help you live longer, look better, have more energy, and reduce your risk of cancer, heart disease and diabetes and more.
Amy Goetz is a home economist, teacher, and nutrition educator.
Thursday, July 29, 2010
7:00 – 8:00 p.m.
First Baptist Church
25 Church StreetCleveland, GA 20528
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Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Stress Survival Tactics | Darren Hardy, Publisher of SUCCESS Magazine
Stress Survival Tactics
I came across a transcript by a journalist who interviewed me for a national newspaper a while back. I thought you might benefit from some of these ideas and tips as well.
Tips on Avoiding and Preventing Stress
1. In your opinion, is stress an unavoidable consequence of life?
DARREN HARDY: Stress is a part of life. Life requires stress. As a muscle needs resistance to grow stronger, so do we. Many times, stress awakens our greater potential and makes us rise to the performance we were capable of all along, but we needed the challenge.
2. Why do some people seem to stress out more than others? Do some people just naturally tolerate stressors more easily than others?
DH: Ultimately, stress is a mental illusion, an interpretation and a perception. What is stressful to one person is blissful to another. Heights might be stressful for one person, while free-falling out of an airplane is sheer bliss for another. Public speaking might completely debilitate one person but be the most empowering activity for another. Losing $100,000 in the stock market might be less stressful for one person than having a bad hair day is for another. Stress is a mental perception, chosen by the perceiver.
3. Please give some of your favorite tips for managing existing stress (assuming the stressors can’t be prevented).
• DH: Don’t major in minors. Ask yourself, In 20 years, will this matter? Will I even remember this? If not, it is minor and you shouldn’t fret. Do you remember what you were stressed out about on Oct. 21, 1988? My point exactly.
• This too shall pass. There are ebbs and flows to life; some call them seasons. Spring follows winter. How regularly? Every time. Keep your mind on the spring that is coming as you move through the winter.
• What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. This is the way of growth. The great trials of our lives awaken the greater potential inside of us. Welcome stress and difficulty, as they may be the alarm clock that awakens the greatness that lies sleeping inside.
• “At least I don’t live in Bosnia.” I remember feeling stressed and sorry for myself one time in the past. I turned on the TV and saw images of the way people lived and suffered in Bosnia. I felt pretty guilty about my pitiful “stresses.” Now every time I think I have it bad or am feeling stressed I say, “Well, at least I don’t live in Bosnia—so, this isn’t so bad after all.”
If that doesn’t do it, read Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl. He depicts the level of stress the human condition can handle; yours is probably minor in comparison. Now I say, “Thank God I am not Gary Boyd.” Click here to read why.
• Get over yourself! You are not the only one to experience stress, difficulty, frustration and pain. What happens to you happens to all of us. There is no conspiracy against you. We all experience hurt, disappointment, heartache, loss, failure, sadness, misfortune, setback, defeat, distress, despondency, despair… or whatever else is causing you stress.
Something I learned from Jim Rohn goes like this: It is not what happens to you that makes the difference in how your life works out. What happens to you happens to all of us. It’s how you respond to what happens to you that determines the major outcome of your life.
4. What are your ideas for building resilience against stress or preventing it?
5 Tips to Radically Reduce Stress
1. Compartmentalize. The problem for most people is they are worried about everything all at once, all the time. I break what I’m concerned about into time chunks. If I have an important presentation on Tuesday, I schedule time to begin thinking about it on Monday at noon. This way I don’t “stress” about it all weekend long.
2. Say no. Nancy (Reagan, that is) was right: Just say, “NO!” Today we have more time-saving technologies to make our lives more convenient, yet we are the busiest (and most stressed-out) society in history! Studies show that life for families a hundred years ago was a lot less stressful, when we didn’t have 90 percent of the so-called conveniences we have today. Yes, today we get more stuff done and we collect more things in our garages, closets and attics, but we are not any happier. We are over-obligated and over-scheduled. Take back control of your life by learning to say “NO!”… or at least, “No thank you.”
3. Feel it… really feel it. Most everyone spends the majority of their time trying to avoid painful emotions. Here is the irony of that: What you try to avoid expands in its power. Or put another way, what you resist, persists. “Whatever you avoid will come back. The more you avoid, the stronger it will return.” –Deepak Chopra
4. End the love affair. You love the pain of your emotions. How do we know? You keep creating them. You are a creative being. There is nothing in your life you have not created. You are the cause of every effect you are experiencing right now. Frightening, but true. You have either attracted the circumstances that have caused you pain or you have just decided to CALL them painful. Nothing is painful in and of itself. Pain is a result of your thoughts about it. What one calls painful another calls enjoyable. Pain results from a judgment you have made about something. Remove the judgment and the pain disappears. You could decide to have what you call painful to be joyful if you wanted, simply by deciding it to be. You could also stop attracting circumstances in your life that cause you pain, but you don’t. Why? Because you love the feeling!
5. MOVE! Perform an exercism. That’s right. Exercise the stress out of you. You know the mind-body connection to your health! Just as a cut on your finger will aggravate your mental concentration, so will collecting mental battle wounds and pressures all day drag your body down. You store your mental stress in your body. The only way to get the stress out of your mind is to get it out of your body. Not only does exercise keep you looking good in that skimpy swimsuit – and from dropping dead of coronary artery disease – but it also is the key to maintaining your energy, and to staying in psychological and mental balance.
Empowerment Call Monday, July 5 Rebroadcast Doug Barlow NMD
Featuring Doug Barlow NMD 100 Club
Seattle, Washington
"The Power of Making Connections with 3 Way Conference Calls"
Hosted by Sharron Rankin and Pamela Sue
"Working with your team and your leaders to effectively invite, welcome, and support your prospective and new customers and team members"
Doug has been making a difference in people’s lives through whole food nutrition and personal relationship coaching since the fall of 1994. He and his partner, Dr. Mitra Ray, have built a large multinational distribution network through educational programs focused on the benefits of a plant based diet.
An avid outdoor adventurer with a pension for gravity and wind powered sport, Doug loves to share plan B with anyone interested in escaping the “Rat Race” known as our modern society.
With beliefs such as “the simplest solution is usually the best” and “if you are not living on the edge, chances are you are taking up too much space” you will thoroughly enjoy this fun and fully expressed message that Doug has to share. He is the father of three lovely daughters and maintains a home with his partner Mitra along the shores of the Salish Sea on the West Coast.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Eating healthy – it’s possible whether you grow your own vegetables, buy them in a store, or eat out
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I’ve talked a lot about gardening lately, especially since April was National Gardening Month, and I found one more article that I though the gardeners out there would appreciate. The Santa Barbara Independent tells you how to grow a thriving garden by using crop rotation. This technique seems fairly time consuming, detailed, and scientifically based. All things that would normally scare me away. But if you’re a vegetable gardener, it’s also definitely worth your time and brain power.
For those of you who aren’t the gardening type, but still want your family to eat right at home, it all starts with the choices you make at the grocery store. The Mercury Life gives you great tips on how to shop healthy at the grocery store. Of course, there are the tips you hear all the time, like buy fresh food instead of over processed food in boxes. But they also have a few new tips. Check out the article for all the tips. And before you get to the store, check out this article from Today’s Diet on foods that help you mend. You may want to add a few items to your list once you find out what foods can be your ally when battling stress, fighting fatigue or illness, or trying to heal from wounds or injuries.
Of course as busy as we are nowadays, all this talk about eating healthy normally gets put aside when you’re too tired to cook. We’ve all had those days when just deciding what to cook for dinner seems like a terrible chore by itself. So we opt for take out instead. But eating out doesn’t always have to mean unhealthy. Fitness at Home shares their guide to eating out right. Many restaurants are starting to realize the need for healthier menu choices and this article helps you pick them out.
And as I’m sure you know, a healthy lifestyle doesn’t just mean eating right, it means being active. If you’re one of those people who gets burned out from doing the same exercise routine day after day take a look at this article from Today’s Diet. They show you how to add new flavors to your fitness routine. Most of these tips are simple modifications to your exercise routine to make it a little less mundane. Exercise should be fun, not something you dread doing. So spice it up a little! Share some of your own ideas for adding flavor to your fitness routine in the comments section.
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