If you stopped and thought about your health, would you really eat this?

WOW – a study shows that if you stop and think about healthiness you are more likely to say “no” to junk food. Hmmmmmmmmmm ……. I’ve been saying that for years. And, I have been telling Slender For Life™ hypnosis weight loss clients that they should use the stress reduction technique before ever putting a bite of food in their mouth. I have also suggested that weight loss hypnosis clients should use the Light Switch self hypnosis technique prior to eating. Before you ever put a bite of food into your mouth, stop, breathe, become aware of your feet on the floor and your seat in the chair. Check to see if you are truly hungry or if you are bored or lonely. If you are truly physically hungry, make a healthy choice that supports all your goals. Think and say YES to healthy choices!

Study Reveals Easier Way to Say No to Junk Food

Thinking about your health before picking a food may make you more likely to make a healthy choice even if you don’t think it’s tasty, a new study shows. The researchers found that when the participants were instructed to think about healthiness, they were less likely to eat unhealthy food, even if they considered it tasty. They were also more likely to eat healthy food, including what they had rated as un-tasty.The researchers also found that being asked to think about healthiness led subjects to say no to foods more often than they did when asked to make decisions naturally.

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 Weight loss hypnosis really helps you to stop and think about what you are about to put in your mouth. Does that junk food support you in any of your goals? …. I doubt it! With hypnosis for weight loss you can easily say YES to plant-based food.

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Sugar Is A Poison

VegSource April 25, 2011: The rise of obesity is usually blamed on too much eating and not enough exercising, but Robert Lustig, MD, a UC San Francisco pediatric neuroendocrinologist, asks us to look beyond the obvious. Yes, more Americans are overweight today than 30 years ago. Kids are still getting heavier, compared with prior generations of kids. But behaviors that some might refer to as gluttony and sloth are merely consequences of the true cause of the epidemic, Lustig says. Food was just as abundant before obesity’s ascendance. The problem is the increase in sugar consumption. Sugar both drives fat storage and makes the brain think it is hungry, setting up a “vicious cycle,” according to Lustig.

More specifically, it is fructose that is harmful, according to Lustig. Fructose is a component of the two most popular sugars. One is table sugar — sucrose. The other is high-fructose corn syrup. High-fructose corn syrup has become ubiquitous in soft drinks and many other processed foods.

Lustig believes that fructose generates greater insulin resistance than other foodstuffs, and that fructose calories, therefore, fail to blunt appetite in the same way as other foods. Unlike conventional calorie counters, Lustig does not believe all food calories have the same impact on fat storage and energy expenditure, regardless of whether they come from fat, protein or carbohydrate. Fructose, a type of carbohydrate, is not metabolized like other foodstuffs, and not even like glucose, the other major carbohydrate, Lustig says.

In addition, Lustig claims that fructose is just as bad as alcohol in causing fat storage in the liver — and in causing fatty liver disease. Much of processed food labeled “reduced fat” instead has sugar added to make it more palatable, Lustig says. But when it comes to harmful health effects, sugar is worse than fat, he claims. Consumption of either results in elevated levels of artery-clogging fats being made by the liver and deposited in the bloodstream. But fructose causes even further damage to the liver and to structural proteins of the body while fomenting excessive caloric consumption, Lustig says.

Lustig prescribes four simple guidelines for parents coping with kids who are too heavy:

• Get rid of every sugared liquid in the house. Kids should drink only water and non-dairy “milks”.
• Provide carbohydrates associated with fiber.
• Wait 20 minutes before serving second portions.
• Have kids buy their “screen time” minute-for-minute with physical activity.

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Sugar Is A Poison is an excellent article from VegSource and I hope that you will seriously consider the consequences of the sugar that you do eat. If you are craving the sugar of junk food and processed food isn’t it time that you learn hypnosis and change your eating habits? Self-hypnosis can really make a huge difference in your life and in the life of your family.

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Dear Donut,

Our relationship goes back a long way. I feel like you’ve become a big part of me. You used to be such a treat, but now, I fear you’ve become a bad habit. Three-thirty in the afternoon rolls around and suddenly you’re there, demanding my attention. It wasn’t supposed to be this way.

I don’t know how to say this without hurting your feelings, but let’s face it. You lied to me. You were supposed to be a snack, a burst of energy, a friend to carry me through until dinner. But that’s not what happened. Sure, the anticipation of meeting you was exquisite. Your softness against my lips. Your sweet taste…

But I digress. The sad thing was that after all that foreplay, you didn’t hold up your end of the bargain. After you were gone, I felt tired, not energized. In fact, worse than if I hadn’t had you at all. I put up with it for a while, but it has gone too far. This relationship has to end.

I’m sorry if I’ve never mentioned this before. I know you mean well. I appreciate the kind thought, but no, I really don’t think there’s anything you can do. No, another layer of frosting isn’t going to make a difference. Really. Yes, a fruit filling might make you more romantic, but that just doesn’t deal with the issue. We just weren’t made for each other.

Well, I wasn’t going to mention this to you, but yes, there is someone else. She’s from a different country. No, not Danish! She goes down smooth and gives me lasting energy. No, this isn’t about liking salty more than sweet. Besides, she’s a lot less salty now, more earthy, I’d say. She’s a vegetable juice.

No need to get personal! Vegetables may not be sexy, but they’re smart, and I have come to appreciate how much I like that. You know, I thought you would be a difficult habit to give up, but it turned out that you were easy to replace with something smart.

Look, let’s not part as enemies. You’re sweet. You’re fun, particularly when you’re fresh. And we have known each other a long time. Can’t we just be friends?

Bill

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In my book, Becoming Slender For Life, I write:  During our cave dwelling past, food choices were limited, and our pleasure centers did not have a particularly challenging job. All they had to do was help us distinguish between a sweet, juicy ripe peach and one that was rock hard and un-ripened. But today, sugary, fatty, mouth-watering foods are everywhere, ready to bamboozle our senses and take us off course.

Today, for some people, the pleasure center is open for business 24/7. Chocolate, cheese, cookies and doughnuts all stimulate the same part of the brain that responds to heroin. It feels good and we want more. This strong compulsive quality is the basis of an addiction. Becoming Slender For Life page 16.

Put weight loss hypnosis to work in your life and end your desires for unhealthy foods that make you fat and sick. Hypnosis for weight loss really can help you change your relationship with food.

My sincere thanks to Bill Kennedy for allowing me to share his letter with you.

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It should be no surprise that junk food may ‘lower child’s IQ’ or that feeding children real food may increase IQ. After all, when kids are fed processed food that is high in fat, sugar, sodium and chemicals, is it bound to impact their physical, mental and emotional health. I was so excited when expectant mom came to my Slender For Life™ office for a free hypnosis for weight loss consultation. She is pregnant and obese and knows that for her health and for the health of her baby she needs to lose weight during the pregnancy. Working with her physician, we are creating a weight loss hypnosis program that will allow her to lose weight prior to giving birth and continue losing after delivery. This new mom is committed to setting a good example for her children and to providing them real food for their health and wellness. Since all Slender For Life™ clients learn self-hypnosis, she giggled at the idea of being able to teach her children how to hypnotize themselves.

Junk Food May ‘Lower Child’s IQ’

February 8, 2011, Press Association: Diets high in fats, sugars and processed foods are lowering toddlers’ IQs, a new study has suggested. It found eating habits among three-year-olds shape brain performance as they get older. A predominantly processed food diet at the age of three is directly associated with a lower IQ at the age of eight and a half.

Food packed with vitamins and nutrients notably did the opposite, helping boost mental performance as youngsters got older, the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health reports.

Researchers said toddlers’ diets could change IQ levels later in childhood, even if eating habits improve with age. “This suggests that any cognitive/behavioral effects relating to eating habits in early childhood may well persist into later childhood, despite any subsequent changes to dietary intake,” the authors wrote.

The brain grows at its fastest rate during the first three years of life. “It is possible that good nutrition during this period may encourage optimal brain growth,” the report added.

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Becoming Slender For Life and its hypnosis CD set along with personalized hypnosis for weight loss sessions with Slender For Life™ can help you and your family lose weight and keep it off. So get smart – eat real food and learn weight loss hypnosis. If you are an expectant mom or already have children – contact me and lets schedule your free hypnosis consultation today.

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More Fruit and Veggies Now, Better Arteries Later

WebMD Health News, November 29, 2010: Children who eat a lot of fruit and vegetables have healthier, less stiff arteries as young adults compared to children who don’t load up on fruit and veggies.

These findings suggest that a lifetime pattern of low consumption of fruits and vegetables is related to arterial stiffness in young adulthood. Parents and pediatricians have yet another reason to encourage children to consume high amounts of fruits and vegetables.

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What are you willing to do to help prevent childhood obesity? If you have children at home, you can stop buying junk food, processed food, fast food and sodas. You can turn of the TV and video games and get your family outside and active. You can learn self-hypnosis with your children and make positive changes in your life. Hypnosis really can make a difference for your family. Even if you don’t have kids at home, you can make a difference. contact your legislators and make sure that healthy school lunches are served in your schools. Together, we can stop childhood obesity and its related diseases.

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Childhood obesity is putting our kids at risk of heart disease. No, let me restate that. WE are putting our children at risk of heart disease due to obesity. My blog post of October 25 was about childhood obesity and blood pressure. Start today to do your part to end childhood obesity, even if you don’t have children living at home. You can do your part by voting with your wallet. Only buy real food. Stop buying fast food, processed foods, chips, sodas, candy and any other junk food. Tell your family and friends about hypnosis and that they can change food choices with self-hypnosis.

Obese Kids Have Signs of Heart Disease

October 26, 2010. WebMD Health News: Researchers Find Blood Vessel Stiffness in Obese Children

Stiffness in blood vessels can be seen even in young children who are obese. The study revealed that the elastic qualities of aortas in obese children are abnormal. The results of the study are alarming because blood vessels in children should not be showing signs of hardening.

Our kids are at risk. Poor nutrition and inactivity are threatening their health and well-being.

Society and parents need to rethink the lifestyle standards we have accepted as a society to protect the future health of our kids.

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My book Becoming Slender For Life and its hypnosis CD set can support you and your family with healthy eating and obtaining and maintaining a healthy weight.  Kids can easily use self-hypnosis for what and how much they are eating as well as for sports and academic performance. Learn hypnosis and give your children a life long skill for positive change.

Vote with your wallet and only buy healthy food. Your healthy children will thank you for it.

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