In these modern times, humans have many new and unique ways of stressing themselves out such as traffic, cell phones, deadlines, noise pollution, depression, war, etc.    We are under constant blitzkrieg. Basically, we are not prepared to deal with this new modern type of every day stress.  So as a result, many people unknowingly turn to food as an outlet.  They are essentially self medicating using food.  Many people become static on their sofas at night while receiving subliminal programming from their TV sets, which tell you to eat, eat and eat.  This is extremely harmful and counter productive.

Stress needs to be dealt with properly by utilizing well known stress reducing techniques, such as exercise, meditation, yoga, proper rest and breathing exercises.  A lot of the time much of the stress people experience is even self inflicted.

As far as diet for an outlet to stress, this is a much simpler lifestyle change than you think and it can begin right away.  This will take personal motivation and you must learn how to set goals for yourself.  Below are some simple tips.

- Eat before you become hungry
- Snack on healthy foods (carrots, celery, fruit, nuts)
- Stay on a schedule (try to eat meals at the same time each day)
- Take a 20 minute walk each night after dinner
- Eat Whole Grains (Whole What breads and brown rice)
- Avoid sugar
- Drink plenty of purified water
- Exercise daily

But living in constant rush and over activity we are completely desensitized to the most beautiful gift that we carry inside of us. A nice long guided breath can enhance productivity. A nice breath oxygenates, energizes and cleans our bodies. It clears our mind and helps to balance out our emotions. It is preventive medicine. The immeasurable health effects of physical exercising, the amazing pleasure of sex or the silence of meditation are all directly related to our breathing.  Mindful breathing is a way toward self empowerment and conscious evolution.  Self empowerment is important if you want to get on the road to success.

One very important function of our breathing is hugely forgotten: it gives our body a healing massage from the inside. The movement of our diaphragm, which is the big breathing muscle in the center of our body, gives a constant massage to our inner organs in belly and chest. It cleanses them from waste, allows good circulation, oxygen supply and keeps us young and healthy.

The key is to come up with a plan.  First, write down all the benefits of exercising so that you tap your awakening spirituality and gain clarity.  Secondly, the key to getting into the groove is to simply start and then do it for 22 straight days.  It takes 22 days to kill a bad habit or conversely to start a new good habit.  This is about setting goals and remaining mindful.  Once you are in the exercise groove, you will notice instant self esteem improvement as well as an increase in your personal motivation.  If you are striving for a healthy mind, body and spirit – then exercise is vital to your goal.  Start now, its never too late.

While there are hundrededs of diet books resulting in all sorts of confusion, it’s most important to simply eat right and get plenty or exercise.

Below are some pointers on how to beging getting your diet on the right track.

1. Eat as much fresh, organic raw produce as possible, especially vegetables.

2. Reduce or eliminate animal foods as well as dairy products.

3. Avoid processed food, junk food, sodas, sweetened drinks, energy drinks, and all artificial sweeteners.

4. Reduce or eliminate your sugar consumption, and stay away from products containing high concentrations of fructose, such as high fructose corn syrup.

5. Drink plenty of pure, filtered water throughout the day.

6. Go for a walk after each meal to aid your digestion and exercise regularly.

The key is to come up with a plan.  First, write down all the benefits of exercising so that you tap your awakening spirituality and gain clarity.  Secondly, the key to getting into the groove is to simply start and then do it for 21 straight days.  It takes 21 days to kill a bad habit or conversely to start a new good habit.  This is about setting goals and remaining mindful.

Once you are in the exercise groove, you will notice instant self esteem improvement as well as an increase in your personal motivation.  If you are striving for a healthy mind, body and spirit – then exercise is vital to your goal.  Start now, the time is perfect as its never too late.

A global shift towards a vegan diet is vital to save the world from hunger, fuel poverty and the worst impacts of climate change, a UN report said today.

As the global population surges towards a predicted 9.1 billion people by 2050, western tastes for diets rich in meat and dairy products are unsustainable, says the report from United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) international panel of sustainable resource management.

It says: “Impacts from agriculture are expected to increase substantially due to population growth increasing consumption of animal products. Unlike fossil fuels, it is difficult to look for alternatives: people have to eat. A substantial reduction of impacts would only be possible with a substantial worldwide diet change, away from animal products.”

Professor Edgar Hertwich, the lead author of the report, said: “Animal products cause more damage than [producing] construction minerals such as sand or cement, plastics or metals. Biomass and crops for animals are as damaging as [burning] fossil fuels.”

The recommendation follows advice last year that a vegetarian diet was better for the planet from Lord Nicholas Stern, former adviser to the Labour government on the economics of climate change. Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has also urged people to observe one meat-free day a week to curb carbon emissions.

The panel of experts ranked products, resources, economic activities and transport according to their environmental impacts. Agriculture was on a par with fossil fuel consumption because both rise rapidly with increased economic growth, they said.

Ernst von Weizsaecker, an environmental scientist who co-chaired the panel, said: “Rising affluence is triggering a shift in diets towards meat and dairy products – livestock now consumes much of the world’s crops and by inference a great deal of freshwater, fertilisers and pesticides.”

Both energy and agriculture need to be “decoupled” from economic growth because environmental impacts rise roughly 80% with a doubling of income, the report found.

Achim Steiner, the UN under-secretary general and executive director of the UNEP, said: “Decoupling growth from environmental degradation is the number one challenge facing governments in a world of rising numbers of people, rising incomes, rising consumption demands and the persistent challenge of poverty alleviation.”

The panel, which drew on numerous studies including the Millennium ecosystem assessment, cites the following pressures on the environment as priorities for governments around the world: climate change, habitat change, wasteful use of nitrogen and phosphorus in fertilisers, over-exploitation of fisheries, forests and other resources, invasive species, unsafe drinking water and sanitation, lead exposure, urban air pollution and occupational exposure to particulate matter.

Agriculture, particularly meat and dairy products, accounts for 70% of global freshwater consumption, 38% of the total land use and 19% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, says the report, which has been launched to coincide with UN World Environment day on Saturday.

Last year the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation said that food production would have to increase globally by 70% by 2050 to feed the world’s surging population. The panel says that efficiency gains in agriculture will be overwhelmed by the expected population growth.

Prof Hertwich, who is also the director of the industrial ecology programme at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, said that developing countries – where much of this population growth will take place – must not follow the western world’s pattern of increasing consumption: “Developing countries should not follow our model. But it’s up to us to develop the technologies in, say, renewable energy or irrigation methods.”

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The first step we have our clients take at  BB3 Personal Training & Performance Center is the most important.  It increases energy, helps aid fat loss, decreases joint pain and enhances metabolism.
Do you want to know what it is? It is simple but POWERFUL and yet so many people neglect it.

Your Main Ingredient…

People are always looking for the magic pill, powder or exercise that will magically change their bodies.

What is often overlooked is the foundation from which all others must work from.

Trillions…not millions…not billions…TRILLIONS of chemical reactions are occurring within your body every second of every day.

For each of those reactions to occur there is a common ingredient. In a healthy person it makes up approximately 70% of their body.

It is water.

I have had clients who came to me completely dehydrated, drinking only a couple sodas a day and nothing else, complaining of chronic headaches and back pain.

Then by simply removing the soda and drinking an ample amount of clean water each day the headaches and back pain vanished.

Do not underestimate the importance of hydration and fluid intake.

This one change to your daily routine can improve not only your body but even your life.

How much water should I drink each day?

A simple rule consume 1/2 your bodyweight in ounces (oz) of water each day.

For example if you weigh 200 lbs then you would drink 100 oz. per day.

*For my international friends using the metric system to get your body weight in pounds multiply your body weight in Kilograms by 2.2.

The Challenge

For the next 28 days, drink your target water intake each day and go to Http://www.IgniteWarmup.com to sign up for a FREE 14 Day fat burning Guide!

It will be well worth it.

Live Greatly,

BB3

Billy Beck III

In the report is a startling statistic many of us have heard before but didn’t think we’d actually see on pages such as this, calling today’s babies “pre-polluted.”

The shocking statistic states that 300 different chemical contaminants have been found present in the umbilical cord blood of newborn babies, hence the term “pre-polluted.”

This report is staggering…but exciting! Hopefully it will help propel Senator Frank Lautenberg’s “Safe Chemicals Act,” requiring manufacturers to provide information about the chemicals they are putting into their products instead of assuming they’re safe until proven otherwise.

So, as we wait for more reaction from manufacturers and government leaders, what does this mean to the rest of us? It means that we need to be our own advocates and to practice caution every day to help lessen our risks of developing cancer.

Here are five things you can do every day of your life to help avoid cancer and why you should.

1. Get Some Air
The air inside our homes, schools and offices is polluted with a host of chemicals that off-gas from the paint on our walls, the padding beneath our carpet, the finish on our upholstery and a lot more. And in the end it’s a whole lot more polluted than the air outside. The EPA ranks air quality 4th in environmental causes of cancer. By cracking your windows every day you help to issue fresh air in and let the bad air out.

2. Eat Well
Obesity is the second leading preventable cause of cancer, expected to surpass alcohol use as its popularity declines and obesity rates rise. Buy fresh organic produce and steam your vegetables to help maintain their nutritional value. Eat a wide variety of foods from many different sources, including nuts and seeds, legumes, fruits and vegetables, and healthy fats. Avoid buying and especially heating your foods in plastics as it can cause harmful chemicals to leach into your foods. And try to eat a rainbow of color every day to guarantee your body the full spectrum of nutrients.

3. Practice Greener Landscaping
According to share guide(an online Holistic Health Magazine and Resource Directory), children who are exposed to pesticides used around the home, on lawns and gardens, are up to seven times more likely to develop cancer. And dogs that live in homes where chemical weed killers are used are three times more likely to develop lymphomas. Seek out natural weed deterrents like corn gluten or try vinegar. Its acidic nature gives it the power to kill weeds (be careful to apply only to weeds since it’s non-selective and can harm your grass or flowers just as easily).

4. Get Your D’s
Each year in the U.S., an estimated 24,000 people die from cancers that are due to lack of sun exposure, and thus, a lack of Vitamin D. A recent study showed that people who got 2,000 IU’s of Vitamin D a day had half the risk of breast cancer and one-third the risk of colon cancer. You can take a Vitamin D tablet or get your Ds the natural way. Just 10-15 minutes of sun exposure daily (with 40% of the body exposed) allows you to absorb 2,000-5,000 IU’s of Vitamin D naturally.

5. Get Your Zzzzzs
Sleep is important for your mood, your relationships with others, your concentration and, maybe most importantly, your immune system. According to recent studies, women who sleep less than seven hours a night have higher incidences of breast and colon cancers. Try to get at least 8 hours of sleep a night to reduce your risk of cancer.

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