Fast Food-bad for the health

Fast Food-bad for the health


Fast food industry has now reached the astonishing heights, and has started using every possible chemical that is not illegal in order to make people addicted to their food. You would have felt sometimes that when you eat fast food for a particular period of time and then stop you will start facing the withdrawal symptoms, it acts like a drug. The preservatives used in these harmful fast foods are so high that the product doesn’t even break down. The overload of chemicals and additives in the fast food will make you experience several problems like bloating, heaviness, discomfort, mild headache, grogginess, excessive thirst, and many of the digestive disturbances in your stomach.

Eating fast food creates the most common problem of obesity which can further result into the problems like arthritis, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease, breast cancer, asthma, diabetes and strokes which can be really dangerous for your life. The growth in this fast food industry has played a vital role making people plagued with obesity. These days you can find fast food everywhere in big cities, small towns, shopping malls, schools, airport, bus stands, and even in the hospitals.

Fast Food-bad for the health


With the intake of more food that is not nutritious the exposure to different types of diseases has increased. Most of the harmful fast food products have high amounts of fat, high amounts of sugar; they are even high in calories, high in starch, high in salt, but low in fiber and nutrients which is very bad for the health of the people.

Fast Food-bad for the health

Effects of Exercise on Mood

Effects of Exercise on Mood
Everybody now knows how that physical activity and feelings or energy are integrally related.

Moderate exercise raises energy temporary, and physical conditioning through long term exercise leads to sustained levels of higher energy.

Of course too much physical activity can reduce energy but the low levels of physical activity that modern people maintain usually do not reach that point of diminishing energy, except in short term exertion or in conjunction with health problems.

Exercise also can reduce tension, although this mood relationship with exercise is not as clear as the exercise association.

In any event, the mood effects of exercise have been evident in study after study.

Therefore, in managing moods it is essential to be fully aware of how physical activity affects you.
Effects of Exercise on Mood

Walking –The King of Exercise

Walking –The King of Exercise
As you walk grasp yourself in the small of the back and feel how your entire frame responds to every stride.

Notice how almost all of your muscle are functioning rhythmically.

No other exercise gives us the same body harmony of movement and improved circulation. Brisk walking is the best exercise for almost everyone.

Your walking should never be done consciously, No “heel and toe” business. No getting there in a certain time.

Let it be fun and natural. Walk naturally with head high, spine and chest lifted up. You will feel elated, so you will carry yourself proudly, straight, erect and with arm swinging.

Vow to become a health walker and make the daily walk a fixed item on your health program all the year around, in all kinds of weather.

If the outer world of nature fails to interest you, turn to the inner world of the mind. As you walk, your body ceases to matter and you become as near poet and philosopher as you will ever be.

By end of the days, the healthy functioning of your muscles and quickened blood circulating with a sense of balanced harmony and happiness.

Gardening is another rewarding form exercise. It may give enough exercise in the open to help keep you in good physical condition.

But gardening may not prevent weight gain if there is too little movement and because you are bent over more instead of being erect.
Walking –The King of Exercise

Useful food-part of the daily diet

Useful food-part of the daily diet


Our body needs a healthy dose to retain its proper functioning. There is nothing better than special foods to keep your body in a healthy state. There are some foods that are essential for the body and should be made a part of the daily diet. They contain special ingredients that supply energy and nutrients to the body. One of them is the cranberry juice that helps people who are suffering from any sort of infection in the urinary tract. It has a certain type of elements that do not let the bladder get infected.
Carrots have been known to provide essential nutrients for your eyes. Include carrots as a part of your diet and get advantage of its properties. You can even use it as a part of salad and loose some weight. Blueberries can also be made a part of your daily diet as they help fight diarrhea. Fruits like bananas contain nutrients that serve as antacids. Spinach should also be made a compulsory part of your diet so that your body gets a dose of folic acid and you do not feel depressed.

Useful food-part of the daily diet


If you suffer from migraine or headache, you should make a point to include ginger in your diet. It also fights motion sickness and nausea caused due to it. If you have had an insomnia problem, you better add onion to your food. It contains a sedative that will help you get a good night’s sleep. Yogurt can also serve as a good infection fighting food as it contains acidophilus.

Useful food-part of the daily diet

10 Steps to Mindfulness

This article by Leo Babauta originally appeared at ThirdAge.

"Smile, breathe and go slowly." - Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen Buddhist monk

The idea of being mindful - being present, being more conscious of life as it happens - may seem contradictory to those who are used to sacrificing living for pursuing their goals ... but cultivating mindfulness will help you achieve your goals and enjoy life more.

Focusing on one task at a time, putting yourself fully into that task, is much more effective than multi-tasking. Focusing on one real goal at a time is also more effective. Focusing on what you're doing right now is highly effective. You're more productive when you're mindful.

But more importantly, being present is undoubtedly the only way to enjoy life to the fullest. By being mindful, you enjoy your food more, you enjoy friends and family more, you enjoy anything you're doing more. Anything. Even things you might think are drudgery or boring, such as housework, can be amazing if you are truly present. Try it - wash dishes or sweep or cook, and remain fully present. It takes practice, but it's incredible.

Life in the Present: A 10-Step Approach

1. Do one thing at a time. Single-task, don't multi-task. When you're pouring water, just pour water. When you're eating, just eat. When you're bathing, just bathe. Don't try to knock off a few tasks while eating or bathing or driving. Zen proverb: "When walking, walk. When eating, eat."

2. Do it slowly and deliberately. You can do one task at a time, but also rush that task. Instead, take your time, and move slowly. Make your actions deliberate, not rushed and random. It takes practice, but it helps you focus on the task.

3. Do less. If you do less, you can do those things more slowly, more completely and with more concentration. If you fill your day with tasks, you will be rushing from one thing to the next without stopping to think about what you do. But you're busy and you can't possibly do less, right? You can. I've done it, and so have many busy people. It's a matter of figuring out what's important, and letting go of what's not.

4. Put space between things. Related to the "Do less" rule, but it's a way of managing your schedule so that you always have time to complete each task. Don't schedule things close together - instead, leave room between things on your schedule. That gives you a more relaxed schedule, and leaves space in case one task takes longer than you planned.

5. Spend at least 5 minutes each day doing nothing. Just sit in silence. Become aware of your thoughts. Focus on your breathing. Notice the world around you. Become comfortable with the silence and stillness. It'll do you a world of good - and just takes 5 minutes!

6. Stop worrying about the future - focus on the present. Become more aware of your thinking - are you constantly worrying about the future? Learn to recognize when you're doing this, and then practice bringing yourself back to the present. Just focus on what you're doing, right now. Enjoy the present moment.

7. When you're talking to someone, be present. How many of us have spent time with someone but have been thinking about what we need to do in the future? Or thinking about what we want to say next, instead of really listening to that person? Instead, focus on being present, on really listening, on really enjoying your time with that person.

8. Eat slowly and savor your food. Food can be crammed down our throats in a rush, but where's the joy in that? Savor each bite, slowly, and really get the most out of your food. Interestingly, you'll eat less this way, and digest your food better as well.

9. Live slowly and savor your life. Just as you would savor your food by eating it more slowly, do everything this way - slow down and savor each and every moment. As I type this, for example, I have my 3-year-old daughter, Noelle, on my lap. She's just sitting here quietly, as the rain pours down in a hush outside. What a lovely moment. In fact, I'm going to take a few minutes off just to be with her now. Be right back. :)

10. Make cleaning and cooking become meditation. Cooking and cleaning are often seen as drudgery, but actually they are both great ways to practice mindfulness, and can be great rituals performed each day. If cooking and cleaning seem like boring chores to you, try doing them as a form of meditation. Put your entire mind into those tasks, concentrate, and do them slowly and completely. It could change your entire day (as well as leave you with a cleaner house).

Keep practicing. When you get frustrated, just take a deep breath. When you ask yourself, "What should I do now, Self?" The answer is, "keep practicing."

"When you drive around the city and come to a red light or a stop sign, you can just sit back and make use of these twenty or thirty seconds to relax - to breathe in, breathe out, and enjoy arriving in the present moment. There are many things like that we can do." - Thich Nhat Hanh

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