Eight out of Ten Diseases Killing People Can be Prevented with Simple Vegetarian Diet Plans

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If you knew one out of every two people you care about is going to be murdered or killed before their time, is that something that you would prevent? What if all you had to do to turn that around was to get the people you love to eat differently?

Eight of the top ten diseases today are directly related to what you’re putting into your mouth. According to the Surgeon General, for two out of three adults (who don’t smoke or drink excessively) the one personal choice influencing your long term health than anything else, is what you eat.

If you’ve got problems maintaining your weight, maintaining high levels of energy, worried about developing forms of cancer or heart disease, your bones weakening, loss of memory, diabetes, slow thinking or a whole host of other brain and body problems, you’re looking for a way to combat all of that with something that won’t cost a lot of money and is simple to do.

Just Look at What’s In Your Fridge.

Go in there and look at the ingredients of the top 5foods and drinks you consume during a week. If you can’t pronounce or understand more than four or six of those ingredients, you have found one of the major components to all your problems.

Processed and prepackaged foods strip out all the best nutrients and flavors that foods naturally have , then pump back in fillers and chemicals that wreck havok with your mind and body. But you know what,  It’s not your fault.

“Food, beverage,candy, and restaurant advertising expenditures weigh in at $11.26 billion in 2004, versus $9.55million to promote healthful eating”  - Consumerunion.org

The Food and Beverage industries put money and research into knowing what makes your brain tick better than you do, they tug on all the right strings in your mind to get you to act and do what they want. If that doesn’t work they just keep repeating things over and over again till you comply.

But You Have a Choice!

The other cause for our health problems is found in meat, now I’m not saying that you’ll be able to get rid of all meat in your diet, I’m just talking about giving yourself more options.After all we are omnivores, that means your body is designed to eat both meat and vegetables. The problem is what ever nutrients you might get from eating meat, isn’t really worth all the stress and energy your body goes through to extract any nutrients in meat. Add to that how animals are maintained for food production, in many cases they eat grain feed that’s exposed to toxic molds and spores, so whatever the animals eat, gets passed on to you.

If you really enjoy eating meat, at least find healthier sources of meats, that take better care of their animals or  add more fish into your diet, a lot of the same flavors you use in meats you can apply to fish as well. However

If You Really Want The Best Chances

of A Healthy Life Then Keep Reading

Vegetarianism is probably your best chance at a healthy and viable lifestyle. The American Dietetic Association and the Dietitians of Canada found proper vegetarian diet plans satisfy the nutritional needs for all stages of life. Large-scale studies even show vegetarian diet plans significantly, keep body weight under control, lowers risks of cancer, heart disease, and other fatal diseases. 

The American Dietetic Association and Dietitians of Canada have said: “Vegetarian diet plans offer a number of nutritional benefits, including lower levels of saturated fat,cholesterol, and animal protein as well as higher levels of carbohydrates, fiber, magnesium, potassium, folate, and antioxidants such as vitamins C and E and phytochemicals.”

There is no hard-and-fast rule to preparing vegetarian diet plans and many vegetarian plans include some forms of meat. The biggest problem with a vegetarian diet is the planning out what you are going to eat so that 80-90 percent of what you eat is really healthy so that when you want to indulge the rest of the time it won’t have such a negative effect on your body.

So here are some tips for designing a vegetarian meal plan

1. Decide if you want to go fully vegetarian or include some form of meat with your plan. Include two main dishes to your vegetarian meal plan. These can be fully vegetarian or they can have some form of meat added to them.

2. Next choose the foods you want for this meal. Remember that people have different taste buds so take this into account when looking at the different foods that you can make. Once you figure out what people don’t like you can start looking at some tempting recipes.

3. The foods you choose should complement each other not just the flavors but the colors should be appetizing to the eyes as well as the the nose and tongue.

4. There are many resources on line that will help you choose vegetarian meal options. Here are a few.

http://allrecipes.com/Recipes/Everyday-Cooking/Vegetarian/Main.aspx

http://www.foodnetwork.com/topics/vegetarian/index.html

http://www.epicurious.com/recipesmenus/healthy/recipes

If however you think that going through all of this is still too much trouble, and you want a simple and easy way to plan out your meals to really take advantage of vegetarian diet plans, then check out,

Easy Veggie Meal Plans for You

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How to deal with stress

I believe stress is an emotional response to something significantly blocking you from reaching your goal. Too much unchecked stress in your life can seriously effect your Health, Wealth and Relationship Minds. Stressors can be anything from fears and anxieties, to getting lost on your way to an important event to meet a deadline. Stressors themselves aren’t good nor bad, it depends on how you perceive them, for example if you were to imagine you favorite family members coming to visit when you have lots of work to do. You’ve got both negative and positive emotions blended together.

Its really difficult if not impossible to get rid of all stress in your life, there’s just no way to control so many possible situations and outcomes in the universe. If you do figure how to do it please let me know!  Until then the best you can do is develop the tools so you can learn how to deal with stress.

Your first line of defense dealing with stress is your own brain and body. Under stressful situations people turn to medications to help them deal with the stress, but your brain and body are capable of naturally creating the results found in a pill. After all most medications are synthetic compounds that mimic chemicals and neurotransmitters already in our brain. So this begs the questions; How do we generate those chemicals on our own and why are they out of whack to begin with?

Disclaimer: I am not a doctor, if you are on medications you should always consult with your doctor before making any decisions about your medication.

First lets look at a neurotransmitter called GABA (gamma-Aminobutyric acid).  When your brain is unable to create enough GABA, you might experience: Anxiety symptoms, Irritability, Headaches, Hypertension, Palpitation, Seizures/epilepsy, Lower sex drive. Imagine already having one of those problems and then trying to deal with a stressful situation. Yeah no fun at all.

GABA creates the calming, rhythmic electrical impulses in the brain. It increases production of alpha waves that give you relaxed mental alertness (without drowsiness). GABA lowers beta waves that create states of nervousness, racing thoughts and hyperactivity. Its like the body’s own natural valium.

But don’t go out and buy GABA supplements, it is still unclear if GABA supplements are able to pass through the blood brain barrier that protects your brain from toxins found in the body.

Instead provide your body with the building blocks the brain needs to generate GABA. Make sure your diet includes foods that contain high levels of glutamic acid(glutamate), such as:  Almonds, Tree nuts, Bananas, Broccoli, Brown Rice, Halibut, Lentils, Oats, whole grain, Oranges, citrus fruits, Rice bran, Spinach, Walnuts, whole grains, Mackerel, and Wheat bran.

A supplement that you should take to further boost GABA production is the amino acid L-Theanine. This amino acid stimulates your brain’s production of alpha waves, which make you feel relaxed but alert and not drowsy and stimulates your body to produce other calming amino acids, such as dopamine, GABA, and tryptophan.  L-Theanine is found naturally in green tea, but even if you got the youngest tea leaves with the highest levels of L-Theanine you would still need to drink 5-20 cups of green tea a day to fulfill the 50-200mg of L-Theanine needed.

L-Theanine supplements have been studied in Japan for over 60 years with no side effects. They use an extract form of L-theanine to relax; they consume foods or chewing gums that have L-theanine added and take it as a dietary supplement.

OK now that your body and mind has its defenses built up lets give you some techniques and tips to actively deal with stress as it come in to your life.

1. EXERCISE - If exercise was sold in pill form it would be the best selling medication ever.  Working out even for 10 minutes changes your neurochemistry by increasing the levels of chemicals such as dopamine, glutamate, norepinephrine, and serotonin. Exercise also releases tension and burns off  high levels of testosterone that accompany stress and aggression.

During stress periods, stop and do some form of aerobic exercise (outside if possible) go for a walk, do a few jumping jacks, pushups, stretches or simply meditate even for 10 minutes.

2. CALM THE MIND – Knowing how to find the mute button in your mind is very important, otherwise your mind might be over run with too many things to focus on at one time or negative thoughts that prevent you from finding opportunities hidden in stressful situations. Here are some exercises you can do in your mind to hit that mute button when ever you need it.

  • Ball in the center of the mind – Close your eyes and feel all the sensations from every side of your mind coming together to form a ball and place it right in the middle of your mind. Hold it as long as you can.
  • Listen to your heart beat – Breath in through your nose for 5 seconds, then hold your breath as long as you comfortably can while you listen/feel your heart beat and pulse. Then breath out through your mouth for 5 seconds and hold your breath again while you listen to your heart. Your heart is always pumping but you can only hear it when your mind is completely quiet.
  • Object visualization  – stare at an object then close eyes and visualize that object in your mind. Open your eyes to confirm the object. For best results out loud describe the object in as much detail as possible, only open your eyes when the image has faded.

3. LAUGHTER – A good laugh actually induces physical changes in your body and mind. Laughter increases your intake of oxygen-rich air, and increases the endorphins that are released by your brain to relieve your stress response. Laughter also soothe tension and stomachaches by easing digestion and stimulate circulation and reduce the physical symptoms of stress.  Its been shown that 10 minutes of belly laughs can provide two hours of pain free sleep.

Remember it’s very difficult if not impossible to get rid of all the stressors in your life. But what you can do is control how you respond and deal with stress. Change what you can and don’t waste time on what you cant.

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Wealth Mind Tool – Business & Market Research

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In this Wealth Mind Tool you’re gonna learn how to combine two great  tools that Google offers. This WMT will keep you on top of whats going on in your niche, know what your competitors are up to, manage your online reputation or even generate new product ideas or leads.

What you need is a way to turn the process around, so instead of going out and searching for every webpage individually, the information you want comes to you.

Check it out and let me know how you like it and what other wealth mind tools you would like to see in the future.

The Business Research Tool That Keeps You On Top and Ahead of Your Competition – Part 1

The Business Research Tool That Keeps You On Top and Ahead of Your Competition – Part 2

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