Longevity For You

Lose Weight Without Losing Health

The recent obsession with dieting can have a devastating effect on your longevity health. This is particularly true in the Western world, where body image is of utmost importance, as evidenced by the billions of dollars spent on keeping fit and slim.

Are these millions of people improving their health through their weight loss efforts?

I don’t think so! Many individuals simply jump on the band wagon, oblivious to the fact that drastic weight loss can have detrimental effects on every part of the body, and can even be fatal.

Weight loss should be a health-related endeavor, but, unfortunately, this may not be the case. Even many medically supervised weight loss programs seem to brush aside the detrimental effects with the rational that the end justifies the means. A case in point is that high-risk patients are commonly subjected to high-risk treatments just to reduce their body weight. Maybe this has everything to do with the mentality of the general public – everybody wants a quick fix with immediate results. This mentality is further fueled by the powerful weight loss industry that preys on the gullible public, and its entrenchment with policy makers. The result is an array of every method imaginable aimed at weight loss: pills, surgery, diets, starvation, and purging.

But there is little research to support the effectiveness of these methods at weight loss. And why would money be spent on these research studies when the public are ready and willing?

There are certainly safe ways to reduce fat and lose weight. Try Fat Loss Secret,  and Yoga Weight Loss Secrets to lose weight without health risks.

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Why Routines Are Important to Longevity Health

Routines are an integral part of longevity living, and hence critically important to longevity health.

Why is that?

Routines put you in a positive state of mind: it makes you not only more mindful of what you are doing, but also more likely to become more disciplined. Without discipline, it is difficult in this day and age to have a healthy lifestyle leading to longevity, given that we are living in a society of excess and indulgence.

When you wake up in the morning, what do you do? And how do you spend your time? Be mindful of what you do. If you have no real control over the various things you do regularly, you most probably have poor time management.

Learn to organize your daily routines, making doubly sure they contribute to your longevity health, such as exercising and having a nutritional breakfast. Other things like reading the papers and checking your computer are not important to your daily routines, especially in the morning.

Changing your habits is setting good routines for longevity health. Routines prepare your mind for what is ahead of you in the day. Depressed individuals often lack routines in their lives. Learn to control your mind in order to control your body. Rethink your thinking to become younger and healthier for longer!

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Meditation Is Medicine!

Meditation is mind-body medicine. It is the most potent mind-body therapy not only for disease prevention but also for curing disease.

Meditation has been associated with religion because during meditation it is easy to conjure up images of divinity or the metaphysical. However, nowadays, in this world of stress and turmoil, meditation therapy is getting attention in the medical field.

Meditation is medicine in that your mind controls your thoughts, which control your actions, and your actions are often responsible for your health. Contemporary life is stressful, in particular in the present economic environment, which generates emotional reaction, anxiety, anticipation, and worry. Naturally and inevitably, your mind focuses on the past or the future, or both. The past is the breeding-ground for stress: your memories of past difficulties or failures are projected into the future, which become real and almost tangible to you.

Remember, in life, nearly all your thoughts, including your desires and fears, are based on either the past or the future. These festering thoughts may begin to feed on the mind, generating negative emotions that affect your hormone secretion, and thus affecting your overall health.

Meditation is medicine in that it provides a break or relaxation for your thinking mind. Your body needs rest, and so does your mind. It is a myth that when you sleep, your mind is resting. No, it is not, because your mind still works in your dreams.

Meditation is mind-body therapy because it helps you focus your mind on the present to the exclusion of past and future thoughts.

Meditation is actually easier than your might imagine. Start meditation by paying attention to your breathing. There is no right or wrong way of meditation. Just practice it. Go to my web page Meditation Techniques to learn how to meditate to enhance your health. Meditation makes you younger and healthier for longer.

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Green Tea Makes You Younger and Healthier for Longer!

Scientific studies have shown that polyphenols in green tea, in particular EGCG and ECG (which are naturally occurring compounds in plants to protect them from damage due to free radicals, bacteria, disease, and insect), help you look younger for longer. Green tea is loaded with polyphenols.

 Looking younger requires healthy skin. The sun, the gravitational pull of the earth, free radicals from the environment, and a poor diet may affect how your skin may look. The beauty and health of your skin is determined by collagen, a protein substance in your skin responsible for giving structure and support of the outer layer of your skin.

 As you age, your skin produces less elastin, a substance that controls your skin’s elasticity and smoothness.

 To keep you forever younger, drink green tea daily – and make you own green tea. Remember, not all green teas are created equal. Go to Green4Tea, where you will get everything you need to know about green tea (including weight loss, healthy heart, cholesterol and blood pressure control etc.) to make you younger and healthier for longer. Green tea is loaded with antioxidants and polyphenols – the Chinese have been drinking it for thousands of years to keep them younger, just as they have been using ginseng to make them healthier.

 To keep you younger and healthier for longer, you need knowledge, and knowledge is empowering. Go to: Younger and Healthier Super Store to get digital information on every aspect of health – physical health, mental health, emotional health, intellectual health, and spiritual health –  to make you younger and healthier for longer.

 Stephen Lau

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