Did You Know That Obese People Have A Greater Risk Of Going Blind?

I found the following article today, and while it's short, it's message packs a big punch. Studies now show that if you're overweight, you have a greater risk of losing your vision than normal weight individuals. I don't know about you, but I think I'd rather be able to see than eat another piece of cheesecake... Here's the article:

If You're Overweight, Now You Have Something Else to Worry About
By Jason Holland

As if heart disease, cancer, stroke, and diabetes weren't bad enough...

A study shows obese people have a greater risk of losing their vision.

Harvard researchers studied 261 patients for an average of 4 1/2 years. They found that the bigger your waistline, the more likely you are to have vision loss due to age-related macular degeneration.

The Positive News ==> All the news isn't bad. They also found that exercising a few times a week cuts your risk by 25 percent.

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Want To Live Longer - Do What The Blue Hairs Do...

Well, not exactly, but a researcher has found four areas of the world where there are a large number of centurions (over 100). And, he recommends following some of the same habits they do, and you just might live to be over 100 yourself. The four areas are: the mountainous Barbagia region of Sardinia, an island off the coast of Italy; the Japanese island of Okinawa; a community of Seventh-day Adventists in Loma Linda, California, about 60 miles east of Los Angeles; and the Nicoya Peninsula of Costa Rica, in Central America.

So what are some of their secrets? One that I know a lot of my friends will like is drinking a glass of red wine on a daily basis. It's full of antioxidants and has long been known to promote better health.

To me, the most important trait he mentioned is having a sense of purpose and a strong support network. I can personally vouch for this one. The Director of Marketing at my company is 73 years old, but you wouldn't know it. He looks and acts 20 years younger and is showing no signs of slowing down. As long as you have a purpose in life, enjoy what you're doing, surround yourself with friends and family and keep yourself physically active, there is no reason why we all can't live to be over 100. To read this complete article and find out more about how these people are living to be over 100, please visit this page on Yahoo.com.

One piece of advice. I've recently been following the financial advice of John Cummuta. He advocates eliminating all debt from your life including your cars and homes, and he has a proven system to do this in 5-7 years. If you're planning on living over 100, then you might want to look into John's system because you're going to need a lot of money in retirement since you're going to be living a lot longer than the average person.

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A Little Exercise Extends A Man's Life A Lot More Than Previously Thought

Guys, if you've been putting off a little daily exercise, here's a little evidence courtesy of Yahoo.com of why you should definitely add exercise to your daily routine:

Even a moderate amount of exercise can dramatically prolong a man's life, new research on middle-aged and elderly American veterans reveals.

And, here is the most telling statement from the article:

By tracking fatalities through June 2007, Kokkinos and his colleagues found that for both black and white men it was their fitness level, rather than their age, blood pressure or body-mass index, that was most strongly linked to their future risk for death.

If that doesn't want to make you hit the weights or treadmill, then I guess nothing will...

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Everyday Activities That Help Burn Calories - Beat The Holiday Bulge This Year

Did you know that cooking for one hour burns over 150 calories and light housework for an hour burns almost 200 calories? During the holidays, it's easy to put on the pounds if you don't watch it. I found this handy fitness tool on Weather.com that tells you how many calories you burn doing both ordinary activities as well as aerobic activities. Good luck and happy holidays!

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Daily Positive News Briefs - Friday, November 23, 2007

Gimundo.com - Miracle Fruit Makes (Almost) Everything Delicious - Excerpt from this article: "...did you know there's a nature-made treat that rivals any of Wonka's wild concoctions? It's the miracle fruit, a berry from West Africa with an amazing effect: When you eat a piece of the strange fruit, it makes everything sour taste sweet for the next hour or so."

HappyNews.com - Australian Navy Saves 16 in Boat Rescue - Excerpt from this article: "The Australian navy rescued 16 people, 10 of them children, from a boat sinking in rough water off the country's northwest coast, the defense department said Wednesday."

HappyNews.com - The Art of Remembering and Interpreting Dreams - Excerpt from this article: "Your dreams can reveal many truths about your life. They can provide extraordinary intuitive insights, and give you information that can help your health, love life and career. You'd be surprised at the straightforward advice that your dreams give, either spontaneously or on request."

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12 Tips To Help You Remain Young

The Blaylock Wellness Report featured 12 tips to help you remain young. I received these tips via email the other day.

1. Avoid processed foods and eat only freshly prepared meals.
2. Eat five to 10 servings of fresh vegetables and some fruits every day.
3. Avoid Omega-6 oils (found in corn, safflower, sunflower, peanut, soybean and canola oils). You should not cook with these oils, nor should you use products that contain them (chips, breads, pastries, etc.).
4. Consume at least two ounces of extra-virgin olive oil a day.
5. Take Omega-3 oil supplements and foods enhanced with this healthy fat. This includes Christopher eggs and other egg brands that contain Omega-3. These supplements should not be in gelatin capsules. Get the liquid form of highly purified fish oil.
6. Avoid sugar. Sucrose, the sugar used in foods and as a sweetener, causes a greater insulin surge than glucose, the natural form.
7. Eat complex carbohydrates that are low on the glycemic index. These include broccoli, cabbage, lettuce, onions and more.
8. Drink a combination of white tea mixed with rosemary tea. These teas contain powerful antioxidants and have been shown to especially protect the brain against abnormal aging.
9. If you have amalgam (silver) fillings, find a dentist specially trained in their safe removal and have them taken out and replaced with ceramics.
10. Avoid continuous stress. Unrelieved stress greatly increases free-radical production and lipid peroxidation in the brain, causing it to age abnormally and rapidly. Make sure you get at least eight hours of sleep a night.
11. Avoid depression. If you become depressed, seek treatment early. A number of studies have shown that depression causes a loss of memory and learning difficulties, and that over time the hippocampus of the brain (the memory and learning center) actually shrinks.
12. Once a week, you should fast at least until dinner. Fasting once a week has been shown to dramatically slow brain aging and accelerate repair of this essential organ.

There you have it. 12 tips that might help you live longer and remain young. For more about the Blaylock Wellness Report, visit BlaylockReport.com.

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Lose Pounds With Pears

The next time you're heading down the fruit aisle at the grocery story, stop by the pear section and pick up a few. According to this article from Health.com, pears are an excellent source of both Vitamin C and fiber. One pear contains 25% of the recommended daily allowance of fiber.

Why will this help you lose weight? Because fiber is bulky and gives you that full feeling. Therefore, one pear is usually enough to fill you up and thus you'll eat less and eventually lose more weight.

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Making Happiness a Habit

Do you remember when going to a party in high school or college was a blast. Remember when you couldn't wait to go on summer vacation, and you absolutely hated having to leave because of all the fun you were having? It seems that as we get older, it becomes harder and harder to actually have fun and be happy. An article on revolutionhealth.com seeks to understand "why" this happens and "how" to change it. Visit this page to read the complete article.

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Are Your Thoughts Making You Old?

I knew there would be a lot of benefits to starting PositivePelham.com. Looks like one of them is it'll help keep my hair from turning gray according to a recent article on Yahoo.com called, "Are Your Thoughts Making You Old?". So, avoid the hair color, just think positive...

And, while you're thinking positive, don't forget to exercise. Here are some exercises that will help add years onto your life.

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100 Smartest Diet Tips Ever

Yahoo.com has a list of the 100 Smartest Diet Tips Ever. They divide the tips into different categories. Here are the categories and a few tips from each:

I Can Only Handle One Diet Change Right Now. What Should I Do?

• Eat at least two servings of a fruit or veggie at every meal.
• Start eating a big breakfast. It helps you eat fewer total calories throughout the day.

Are there Any Easy Tricks to Help Me Cut Calories?

• Eating out? Halve it, and bag the rest. A typical restaurant entree has 1,000 to 2,000 calories, not even counting the bread, appetizer, beverage, and dessert.
• Instead of whole milk, switch to 1 percent. If you drink one 8-oz glass a day, you'll lose 5 lb in a year.
• Use mustard instead of mayo.
• Limit alcohol to weekends.

How Can I Eat More Veggies?

• Have a V8 or tomato juice instead of a Diet Coke at 3 pm.
• Really hate veggies? Relax. If you love fruits, eat plenty of them; they are just as healthy (especially colorful ones such as oranges, mangoes, and melons).
• Mix three different cans of beans and some diet Italian dressing. Eat this three-bean salad all week.

Can You Give Me a Mantra that will Help Me Stick to My Diet?

• "I'll ride the wave. My cravings will disappear after 10 minutes if I turn my attention elsewhere."
• "It's more stressful to continue being fat than to stop overeating."

I Eat Healthy, but I'm Overweight. What Mistakes Could I Be Making without Realizing It?

• Skipping meals. Many healthy eaters "diet by day and binge by night."
• Ignoring "Serving Size" on the Nutrition Facts panel.
• Snacking on bowls of nuts. Nuts are healthy but dense with calories. Put those bowls away, and use nuts as a garnish instead of a snack.

What Can I Eat for a Healthy Low-Cal Dinner if I Don't Want to Cook?

• The smallest fast-food burger (with mustard and ketchup, not mayo) and a no-cal beverage. Then at home, have an apple or baby carrots.
• Heat up a can of good soup.
• Cereal, fruit, and fat-free milk makes a good meal anytime.

What's Your Best Advice for Avoiding those Extra Holiday Pounds?

• Remember, EAT before you meet. Have this small meal before you go to any parties: a hardboiled Egg, Apple, and a Thirst quencher (water, seltzer, diet soda, tea).
• At a buffet? Eating a little of everything guarantees high calories. Decide on three or four things, only one of which is high in calories. Save that for last so there's less chance of overeating.
• Give it away! After company leaves, give away leftover food to neighbors, doormen, or delivery people, or take it to work the next day.

How Can I Control a Raging Sweet Tooth?

• Once in a while, have a lean, mean salad for lunch or dinner, and save the meal's calories for a full dessert.
• Try these smart little sweets: sugar-free hot cocoa, frozen red grapes, fudgsicles, sugar-free gum, Nutri-Grain chocolate fudge twists, Tootsie Rolls, and hard candy.
• Try 2 weeks without sweets. It's amazing how your cravings vanish.

How Can I Conquer My Downfall: Bingeing at Night?

• Eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The large majority of people who struggle with night eating are those who skip meals or don't eat balanced meals during the day. This is a major setup for overeating at night.
• Brush your teeth right after dinner to remind you: No more food.
• Eating late at night won't itself cause weight gain. It's how many calories—not when you eat them—that counts.

How Can I Reap Added Health Benefits from My Dieting?

• Fat-free isn't always your best bet. Research has found that none of the lycopene or alpha- or beta-carotene that fight cancer and heart disease is absorbed from salads with fat-free dressing. Only slightly more is absorbed with reduced-fat dressing; the most is absorbed with full-fat dressing. But remember, use your dressing in moderate amounts.
• Next time you're feeling wiped out in late afternoon, forgo that cup of coffee and reach for a cup of yogurt instead. The combination of protein, carbohydrate, and fat in an 8-ounce serving of low-fat yogurt will give you a sense of fullness and well-being that coffee can't match, as well as some vital nutrients. If you haven't eaten in 3 to 4 hours, your blood glucose levels are probably dropping, so eating a small amount of nutrient-rich food will give your brain and your body a boost.

Eating Less Isn't Enough—What Exercising Tips Will Help Me Shed Pounds?

• Overeating is not the result of exercise. Vigorous exercise won't stimulate you to overeat. It's just the opposite. Exercise at any level helps curb your appetite immediately following the workout.
• Drinking too few can hamper your weight loss efforts. That's because dehydration can slow your metabolism by 3 percent, or about 45 fewer calories burned a day, which in a year could mean weighing 5 pounds more. The key to water isn't how much you drink, it's how frequently you drink it. Small amounts sipped often work better than 8 ounces gulped down at once.

How Can I Manage My Emotional Eating and Get the Support I Need?

• Sitting at a computer may help you slim down. When researchers at Brown University School of Medicine put 92 people on online weight loss programs for a year, those who received weekly e-mail counseling shed 5 1/2 more pounds than those who got none. Counselors provided weekly feedback on diet and exercise logs, answered questions, and cheered them on. Most major online diet programs offer many of these features.

These are just a few of the 100 tips. To read them all, please go to this page on Yahoo.com.

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12 Months, 12 Healthy New Habits

MSN has an interesting article that lists 12 habits to start in the next 12 months. I've listed each habit below. To read more about each habit, go to this page on MSN.com.

1. Formulate clear diet and fitness goals. For eating, work on a one-week plan for meals. For fitness, schedule your workouts three weeks out to avoid other commitments canceling your good intentions.
2. Switch to unrefined sea salt to replace table salt.
3. Wake up at the same time each day, weekends included.
4. Step 1--eat breakfast. Step 2--make sure the breakfast includes a good protein source and some healthy fats.
5. Clean out the snack drawers at home and work.
6. Drink at least one cup of green tea each day.
7. Double your current intake of fruits and vegetables.
8. Work on an important relationship.
9. Wear casual clothes whenever possible.
10. Make your bedroom and bedtime routine sleep-friendly.
11. Resist the breadbasket.
12. Be accountable to someone for your physical activity.

These are some great tips to help you live a healthier and happier 2007. Good luck!

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