tips: how to eat healthy and for energy
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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.