Some where between excess and malnutrition is health.
Extremist thinking seldom takes us to the land of moderation and better living.
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If the food was named after the effect it has on us, we might have better success in making better choices. But since that won’t happen any time soon, we’ll have to take it upon ourselves to weigh the consequences of what we put into our bodies.
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It is best to have multiple reasons to fight the problems that lead to diabetes. If you get tired of doing what it takes to remove yourself from the diabetes danger zone, think about the other benefits you will get if you keep going.
Would you like the problem of your sore feet, bad knees or snoring to be eliminated? Then keep fighting your diabetes and you will get the extra benefit of saying good-by to these as well.
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Some people will believe any health claims, especially when they are desperate to get better.
They will also do anything to improve their health, unless it involves diet, exercise, research, thinking or the use of common sense.
But health won’t come from reading colorful labels and looking for healthy key words. Labels and advertising are used more often than not to confuse and misdirect for the benefit of the seller.
Your health is not why they are in business, so don’t expect them to make it their business to keep you healthy.
It’s your job to get yourself healthy. Do your work and be business like about getting your business done.
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Don’t lose weight, Exchange it
Don’t Lose Weight, Exchange It
It makes sense that muscle cells burn fat faster than fat cells, but I just read an article about health misconceptions that surprised me about how much faster that really is.
Skeletal muscle cells burn approximately 13 Calories per kilogram per day or around 6 Calories per pound daily.
If you weigh in at 180 pounds and are a man, your skeletal muscles will burn around 442 Calories per day. They burn more when you work, but also burn more even if you just sit around all day.
If you are an average female at that same mass, you’ll burn about 379 Calories from your at rest skeletal muscles per day.
On the other hand, Fat cells will burn around 4.5 Calories per kilogram or approximately 1/3 what skeletal muscle cells will burn.
There is a three times faster calorie burn when a pound of fat
is lost and it is replaced by a pound of muscle gained.
I think that means that when I get serious about losing weight, I will dust off the old weight bench and add a little muscle building time to my morning routine.
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Being fat doesn’t make you a bad person. It distresses me how the word “fat” has become an insult. This should not be.
But, if you are a good person, we want to enjoy your goodness for many years. I am reminded of the large Hawaiian singer ”Iz
,” what a beautiful voice he had. It is so sad when health issues take good people away from us.
The better you are, the more we need you in this world. Please do us a favor and take care of your fabulous self.
We will miss you terribly if you don’t.
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Obesity is actually a good idea…
if you plan on sleeping all winter and living off your fat.
Otherwise, not so much.
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The real reason you don’t exercise…
…is none of the above.
So then, what IS the real reason? Can’t find the real reason? Keep looking. But in the mean time, find an excuse to succeed.
You are already good at excuses. Redirect that excuse finding skill toward success instead of employing it to justify your failures.
What is your excuse? When you do exercise, what do you say to yourself to make it happen? Do the one less and the other more.
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Sacrificing yourself to help others?
Don’t be to sure.
Putting others first may just be a way of staying in back of the line that leads to sacrificial self improvement.
You’ve lied to yourself before. As long as you can find a way to avoid anything unpleasant your creative mind might just be trying that same old trick again.
How to tell? Go look in the mirror, at your scale or the results from the medical lab. Whatever you say to yourself that keeps these things from getting any better is a lie.
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