Kill cravings with tea

A study by King’s College London found that drinking black tea after
a meal will reduce the spike in
your blood sugar levels by 40%

Beat flu with meditation

New research shows you can boost your immune system simply by learning to stay ‘in the moment by using mindfulness techniques ~ a basic form of meditation that involves clearing your mind and concentrating on simple tasks – participants were able to increase immune activity. Scientists monitored 24 people practising ’mindfulness’ and found they all showed a drop in C-reactive protein, associated with inflammation and disease. You can harness this technique easily when eating by slowing down, focusing hard on taste and texture and trying to prevent your mind from wandering. Its cheaper than the flu jab, anyway.

Why are you worrying?

Follow this simple flow chart to path of worrylessness!

What is the single best thing we can do for our health?

Can you limit your sitting and sleeping to just 23 and 1/2 hours a day?

This video highlights the massive benefits of just 30 minutes exercise a day!

The risk of 11 hour work day

Could Britain’s long-hours culture be damaging our mental health? That is the implication of a study of civil servants, which found a correlation
between long working days and major
depressive episodes, reports The Independent. The Finnish researchers tracked 2,000-plus mostly middle-aged men and women for almost six years: the results showed that those who regularly worked 11 hours a day (around 11% of the total) were more than twice as likely to have suffered a depressive episode than those who worked standard seven to eight-hour days, even after the scientists adjusted for social and demographic factors, smoking, alcohol use, ill-health and job strain. According to official figures, 40% of lost working days are caused by depression and stress.

Three Simple Rules in Life

Here are three simple rules for life -

1) If you do not go after what you want, you will never have it.
2) If you do not ask, the answer will always be no.
3) If you do not step forward you will always be in the same place

Dwell On

“I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become”. Oprah Winfrey

Drink tea to lower blood pressure

Sitting down with a nice cup of tea is a very British way to relax, says The Daily Telegraph – and can in fact lower blood pressure “significantly”, according to an Australian study. Volunteers with normal to high blood pressure were given three drinks a day containing 429mg of plant chemicals called polyphenols – the equivalent to eight cups of black leaf tea such as English Breakfast or Earl Grey. A second group was given a tea-flavoured placebo. After six months, the blood pressure of the people in the tea group had fallen by two or three points, on average. That may not sound like much, but even small reductions in BP levels can have a major impact. “At a population level, the observed differences in BP would be associated with a 10% reduction in the prevalence of hypertension and a 7% to 10% reduction in the risk of heart disease and stroke,” said study author Dr jonathan Hodgson, of the University of Western Australia in Perth.

You are not the only one!

 

You are not the only one going through this! Do not fear! Someone somewhere else is going through the same problem as you! There is help out there if you go and look for it!

Josh Dueck’s Sit Ski Backflip

“Back in 2004, a flip on skis gone tragically wrong broke Josh Dueck’s back and left him as a T11 — full paraplegic. For the past 8 years one of his dreams has been to do a flip on snow again. On February 3, 2012, Josh became the first person to perform a backflip on snow in a Sit Ski.”

What great inspiration! Is there something you really want to do? Have you attempted it and it didn’t quite go to plan? Well get back up and try it again! YOU have no excuses!