tips: how to eat healthy and for energy

Eating for EnergyEating for Energy

What is energy?What is energy?

Source of usable power

Capacity for vigorous activity

Capacity to work

Source of usable power

Capacity for vigorous activity

Capacity to work

What is vitality?What is vitality?

Power to live and grow

Exuberant physical and mental vigor

Capacity of survival or continuation

Power to live and grow

Exuberant physical and mental vigor

Capacity of survival or continuation

What decreases your energy?What decreases your energy?

Four Big Factors

Chemical Stress (can be food)

Emotional Stress

Mental Stress

Physical stress

Four Big Factors

Chemical Stress (can be food)

Emotional Stress

Mental Stress

Physical stress

food that decreases your energy

food that decreases your energy

Caffeine

Soft drinks

Alcohol

Tabacco

Trans fats

Caffeine

Soft drinks

Alcohol

Tabacco

Trans fats

foods that decrease your energy

foods that decrease your energy

Too much meat or not enough

Processed chemically made foods

Sugar and artificial sweeteners

Too much meat or not enough

Processed chemically made foods

Sugar and artificial sweeteners

foods that increase your energy

foods that increase your energy

Foods that are alive have life force.

Whole foods

Superfoods

Omega 3

Foods that are alive have life force.

Whole foods

Superfoods

Omega 3

what else increases your energy?

what else increases your energy?

Clean Air is your first nutrient

Water

Exercise

Love: quality time with the people you love

Clean Air is your first nutrient

Water

Exercise

Love: quality time with the people you love

what else increases your energy?

what else increases your energy?

Career—love your work, or find work you love.

Rest and relaxation

Exercise

Spirituality

Career—love your work, or find work you love.

Rest and relaxation

Exercise

Spirituality

EAting for energy: Top 10 waysEAting for energy: Top 10 ways

1.Reduce or eliminate caffeine

Caffeine cause: Dehydration Blood sugar ups and downs

Making mood swings more frequent.

1.Reduce or eliminate caffeine

Caffeine cause: Dehydration Blood sugar ups and downs

Making mood swings more frequent.

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2. Drink water

Most Americans are chronically dehydrated.

Before you go to sugar or caffeine, have a glass of water and wait a few minutes to see what happens.

2. Drink water

Most Americans are chronically dehydrated.

Before you go to sugar or caffeine, have a glass of water and wait a few minutes to see what happens.

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3. Eat dark leafy green vegetables

Green is associated with:

SpringTime of renewalVital energy

3. Eat dark leafy green vegetables

Green is associated with:

SpringTime of renewalVital energy

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Greens are full of vitamins and nutrients and great for:

Improving circulation

Lifting the spirit

Purifying the blood

Strengthening the

immune system.

Greens are full of vitamins and nutrients and great for:

Improving circulation

Lifting the spirit

Purifying the blood

Strengthening the

immune system.

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Some examples of greens:

Broccoli

Collards

Bok choy

Kale

Broccoli rabe

Some examples of greens:

Broccoli

Collards

Bok choy

Kale

Broccoli rabe

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4. Use gentle sweets

Avoid sugar and chemical artificial sweeteners.

Use gentle sweeteners like:

maple syrupbrown rice syrupagave nectarstevia.

4. Use gentle sweets

Avoid sugar and chemical artificial sweeteners.

Use gentle sweeteners like:

maple syrupbrown rice syrupagave nectarstevia.

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5. Eat sweet vegetables

Some examples of sweet vegetables:

Yams

Carrots

Beets

5. Eat sweet vegetables

Some examples of sweet vegetables:

Yams

Carrots

Beets

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6. Get physical activity

Start with simple activities, like:

Waking

Yoga

Pilates

Start with 10 minutes a day

and increase.

6. Get physical activity

Start with simple activities, like:

Waking

Yoga

Pilates

Start with 10 minutes a day

and increase.

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7.Get more sleep, rest and relaxation

When you are tired or stressed, your body will crave energy.

That energy craving could translate into sugar and caffeine cravings.

7.Get more sleep, rest and relaxation

When you are tired or stressed, your body will crave energy.

That energy craving could translate into sugar and caffeine cravings.

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8. Take time for yourself

Find activities that restore your energy, such as:

a walk a bath a movie, or whatever you enjoy.

Schedule a weekly date with yourself to do these things!

8. Take time for yourself

Find activities that restore your energy, such as:

a walk a bath a movie, or whatever you enjoy.

Schedule a weekly date with yourself to do these things!

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9. Get in touch with your spirituality

Find ways to get in touch with your spiritual side:

Meditating Dancing Going to church or to a templeBeing in nature

9. Get in touch with your spirituality

Find ways to get in touch with your spiritual side:

Meditating Dancing Going to church or to a templeBeing in nature

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10. Get rid of relationships that drain youTransform those relationships by communicating and setting boundaries

End the relationships that

can’t be fixed.

10. Get rid of relationships that drain youTransform those relationships by communicating and setting boundaries

End the relationships that

can’t be fixed.