Archive for July, 2008
It's the Meat
I received this email from Dr. Neal Barnard, M.D., Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) President. I believe it to be important enough to share with you. Dear PCRM supporter, During the current salmonella outbreak, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Food and Drug Administration, an agency within HHS, have focused [...]
Protect Our Kids
What are your kids eating? Do you feed them processed meats? Do they buy junk foods for school lunch? Do you frequently get in a rush and feed your family fast foods? If you are concerned about your child‘s health, read Does Childhood Dairy Intake Increase Later Cancer Risk?, Catastophic Childhood Obesity and The Trouble with Fat. [...]
Workin' It Out
Shape Up Your Garden and Yourself While You’re At It Our yard sure takes a lot of work and and it takes up a lot of our time. It is exciting to know just how much exercise we get from working in the garden. In the June 15, 2008, Seattle Times‘ Pacific Northwest Magazine, [...]
I Am In Control
One tool that we use at Slender For Life™ for working with Inner Control is Dr. John Sklare‘s Inner Diet Assessment. The Inner Diet is a personalized, non-technical, user friendly assessment and treatment program that addresses emotional eating. Also the Light Switch Self Hypnosis technique is an easy way for you to use hypnotherapy to be in control. Watch Light [...]
Raisins vs Sports Gels
Raisins or Sports Gels? Equal Performance, More Nutrients, 1/5 Price Are you using expensive sports gels? Raisins deliver the same energy boost, and a much bigger nutrition bang, for a lot less money! A new study in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research pitted sports gels against raisins to see if one offered athletes a [...]
GO FOR IT!
How many times have you been told to be realistic with your weight loss goals? New research shows that women who go for big losses shed more pounds than those with more modest expectations. The University of Minnesota study compared the weight-loss goals of 1,801 obese subjects with their achieved losses 2 years later [...]
Motivation with Scott Sandland
Scott Sandland tells us that humans have two kinds of motivational strategies: Toward the things we consider good and Away From the things we consider bad. People tend to use Away From strategies far more than Toward strategies. Watch this video and find out the power of Toward strategies. At Slender For Life™ and in my book, Becoming Slender [...]
Get Off Your Duff!
Stand Up & Get Off Your Okole The difference between obese and lean women isn’t their metabolism — or even their genes — it’s how much they stand up! A study in Obesity reveals that obese women tend to sit two-and-a-half hours more per day than slender women. Iowa State scientists found no difference [...]
Diet Discomfort
Do you find dieting an uncomfortable experience? It is for most people. And, if you are like I was, I used food for comfort. Food was my drug of choice. Diet discomfort is one of the mental and emotional road blocks that keep people from reaching thier weight loss goal. At Slender For Life™ one tool [...]
Rising Meat & Dairy Consumption Contribute to World Food Crisis
Most commercial livestock is raised on feed grain, and it takes up to eight pounds of grain to make one pound of meat. Many news stories blame this problem exclusively on India and China, which are consuming more meat as more of their citizens rise out of poverty and adapt to the unhealthy Western style of [...]
The Secret to You..A Gift From The Secret Scrolls
The Secret to You..A Gift From The Secret Scrolls This movie is filled with perfect hypnotic suggestions. Hypnosis is taking control of the trance that you are in . . . hypnotherapy is about you taking control of you. Self-hypnosis is easy to learn, fun to use and can change your life. Using the Light [...]
To Lose Weight, You Must Starve Yourself with Restricted Portions?
Absolutely not! To lose weight, you must feel full and satisfied, not starving from baby-size portions. You can only starve yourself so long before that hunger drive takes command with such unstoppable power that you eat anything and everything. If you fill up on the best-for-you foods, you can and should eat as much [...]
Relaxation Response Can Influence Expression Of Stress-Related Genes
Medical News Today reported on July 4, 2008, that eliciting the relaxation response, a nonpharmacological intervention, can help patients deal with disorders ranging from high blood pressure, to pain syndromes, to infertility, and to rheumatoid arthritis. The relaxation response – a physiologic state of deep rest – influences the activation patterns of genes associated with the [...]
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