Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Eternal Youth Laws

Taken from Dietary Wellness by Phyllis A. Balch, CNC :)

1. Maintaining a healthy diet is a lifelong endeavor
2. Always chew your food well. Digestion starts in the mouth.
3. Avoid ice-cold beverages. Do not drink beverages with meals.
4. Do not eat heavy foods when you wake up, or before bed.
5. Eat only when you are hungry, then stop when your full.
6. Do not consume saturated fats.
7. Consume a diet consisting of 50 percent raw foods.
8. Avoid pre-cooked or processed foods.
9. Steam, broil, or bake foods. Cook vegetables lightly, they should be crunchy.
10. Omit from your diet white flour, white sugar, white rice, and iodized table salt.
11. Cleanse your system periodically by fasting with pure juices.
12. Consume foods free of toxic insecticides, chemicals, preservatives, and additives.
13. Avoid tobacco, caffeine, drugs, stress, and excessive consumption of alcohol.
14. Take a quality multivitamin and mineral supplement daily.
15. Drink six to eight glasses of water daily.
16. Exercise daily. Walk, stretch, run, etc....
17. Keep active mentally and physically and get plenty of rest.
18. Maintain a positive state of mind and be grateful for who and where you are.
19. Actively nourish your spiritual side.
20. Do not expect the impossible. Set realistic goals and achieve them.

YoYo!!

So I'm starting another blog... how crazy!?! I can't even keep up with the one I have! Oh well.... maybe this will encourage me :) I'm just gonna put random stuff about becoming and staying healthy cause I'm thinking about being a nutritionist, or something of the like after I dance. :) check it out!