The Wild Divine Newsletter
November 2007 - Issue 32
During the holiday season we sometimes need to make extra efforts to
stay balanced and eat well. With parties, family gatherings, travel and
work functions stress can easily unfold. Obesity creeps in.
There are several ways we can avoid feeling stressed and or at least
deal better with it. Eat well and exercise this season.
Simplify and give yourself the gift of wellness.
Start your healthy shopping now:
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Research
1. Obesity And The Central Nervous System -- The State Of The Art
Children & Family
2. Child Obesity and the Holidays
Stress
3. Holiday Fear Factor: De-stress and Eat Less
Or how to have splendid holidays without splurging
What We Are Eating
4. Holiday Food Can Be Good For You – Eat Up Those Anti-Oxidants
What Are We Reading
5. Alan Weisman - The World Without Us
Get Inspired by One of Our Wellness Experts
6. Stephen Cope
Community Involvement
7. Calling All Angels
1. Obesity And The Central Nervous System -- The State Of The Art
Summary: New research shows that physiological processes in your central nervous system actually work to regulate food intake and metabolism, potentially causing one to overeat to regain weight after periods of reduced food allowance, and that this situation is exacerbated by chronic stress.
Read entire article…
Tip You Can Use: When planning to lose weight, and keep it off, plan for the mental stresses that you will be undergoing rather than just focusing on the nutritional aspects such as calories or fat intake.
Try Healing Rhythms just 15 minutes a day, every other day for a month and see how fun and relaxing it can be to learn to self-regulate your cravings. It’s risk free…
2. Child Obesity and the Holidays
Summary: In today’s world of video games replacing football and highway driving replacing bike riding, children are beginning to suffer from obesity and “adult diseases” such as high cholesterol, high blood pressure and diabetes in near epic proportions. The holiday season is a great time of year to get more involved in your children’s health and diet in order to help them establish positive eating and exercise patterns that will help them for the rest of their lives.
Read entire article…
Tip You Can Use: Make a healthy lifestyle fun! Many children actually enjoy cooking, so enroll with them in a healthy cooking class.
Healing Rhythms is one healthy activity that the whole family can enjoy on the computer. Try it risk free for 30 days…
3. Holiday Fear Factor: De-stress
and Eat Less
Or how to have splendid holidays without splurging
Summary: The holiday seasons are rife with situations that lead to stress and temptation to overeat. When suffering from stress, not only is the body depleted of a number of key nutrients, but it also releases the hormone cortisol, which can refuel the body’s appetite creating a vicious circle where we eat because we are stressed and then we are stressed because we’ve eaten too much.
Read entire article…
Tip You Can Use: Start off by trying to reduce the amount of stress you are feeling. This will automatically help you cope with situations without turning to the buffet. Second, go into every situation with a plan on how you are going to avoid overeating—this will make you feel more in control and better enable to control your eating.
De-stress this holiday season with Healing
Rhythms.
Try
it risk free for 30 days…
4. Holiday Food Can Be Good For You – Eat Up Those Anti-Oxidants
Summary: While many of us dread the effects on our weight from overindulging in
food over the holidays, many traditional holiday favorites actually can
have a positive effect on our heart and brain health. If you stick with
certain foods—ones that are high in anti-oxidants—you can
have your cranberries and eat them too. These include: cranberries, turkey,
stuffing, and even coffee, yes coffee.
Read entire article…
Tip You Can Use: By choosing the right foods, and staying away from the wrong ones, not only can you avoid the negative health benefits more people associate with holiday eating, you can actually have a positive affect on your mind and body.
Eat up some relaxation for a healthy body and happy mind. Try Healing Rhythms risk free for 30 days…
5. Alan Weisman - The World Without Us
Alan
Weisman is an award-winning journalist whose reports have appeared in
Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Discover,
and on NPR, among others. A former contributing editor to The Los Angeles
Times Magazine, he also teaches international journalism at the University
of Arizona.
In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman takes on an irresistible concept: How our planet would respond without the relentless pressure of human presence. Breathtaking in scope and filled with fascinating detail, this is narrative nonfiction at its finest that will change the way you view your world—and your place in it. As we each individually prepare to start our New Year this is a perfect read to center yourself and understand your place in a connected and collective modern world.
www.worldwithoutus.com/
6. Get Inspired by One of Our Wellness Experts
Summary: Almost everyone has dreams and aspirations for their lives,
many of which they will never attain—whether that be more fulfillment,
or a more full bank account. In his 15 years of teaching at Kripala,
wellness expert Stephen Cope has found that many people actually already
have everything they need to live a fulfilled life; they merely need to
change their perspective on their life rather than changing their life.
Read entire article...
Tip You Can Use: A retreat, where you step away from your day-to-day life for even a short period of time can give you the perspective to look at your life and find that you really do have the things you need for fulfillment.
Want to get inspired by our other fitness experts, including Deepak Chopra, M.D., Dean Ornish, M.D., and Andrew Weil, M.D.? Try Healing Rhythms risk free for 30 days…
7. Calling All Angels
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