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Eat Well – Limit recreational food to improve your life expectancy
Being obese, particularly being morbidly obese, is hastening death. Research indicates that even being reasonably fit while being obese doesn’t have a great impact on improving life expectancy. You have to lose weight to really improve life expectancy, and (more…)
Persist – Become a physiological eater
Gaining persistence is about getting stronger, up-top, and withstanding the dictates and craving of our inner child. These cravings have also been likened to as the beast, the wild cats, or the reptile. But it all comes down to the (more…)
Eat Well – Leave food on the plate
The thought of throwing food away goes against the grain for many of us, but especially those of us who place a high priority on food. Yes, us foodies prone to obesity. It is not easy to throw surplus food (more…)
Get Active – Deliberately build in more activity
When you think about it, we New Zealanders live pretty inactive lives. Just walking three blocks can seem a long way to many people. But our bodies need movement and our hearts love to pump it up a bit. We (more…)
Take Control – Get Serious
New Year is the classic time when people make resolutions about various personal issues. Many people make New Year’s resolutions about weight loss. However, most of these resolutions will be abandoned within a couple of months. Why? The main reason (more…)
Enjoy Life – By replacing passive pleasures with active ones
Enjoyment has become corrupted in the intense consumer-based society we live in. Unless we’re consuming a pleasure product we can’t possibly be enjoying ourselves, seems to be the modern mantra. Passive pleasures such as relaxing in front of TV, consumption (more…)
Eat Well – Don’t be fooled by the hidden calories in drinks
It is very easy to consume calories through drinking. An excellent new lifestyle strategy is to reduce or eliminate altogether drinks with calories in them, which basically means drinks containing sugar or alcohol or both. When thirsty, we should always (more…)
Persist – Take little steps everyday
The long and happy journey can seem an impossible journey at times; especially when unexpected life stresses come along. Another way of making it seem an impossibility is constantly focusing on the end goal and contemplating the substantial amount of (more…)
Eat Well – Conquer the see-food diet
The “see-food” diet is when we just eat everything we see in front of us. We don’t have to think with the “see-food diet”. It’s a fantastic diet for maintaining obesity. But recovery from obesity needs conscious thinking, particularly (more…)
Get Active – Leave the car in the garage
Isn’t it great to have a car – it’s so comfortable and convenient. However, along with TV, the private motor vehicle is one of the most obesigenic of all the human technologies. It takes a bit of planning and cunning (more…)