Archive for the ‘Health’ Category

Tortoise ways to YOGA

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Do you have one or more Yoga or meditation books on your shelves? Are they cover in dusts? Like many other, we often buy or read without get into regular practice. Our favourite words to use are “tired”, “no time” and ”lazy”. If that happened to you, you are not alone, I heard that all the times.

You learned that Yoga would give a better body figure, improve your lives and health, but it’s often hard that we would cultivate this attitude to

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continue for a long time, it takes a thousand miles to begin with a single step. Different people would have different goals to achieve the results they desire, with different goals in mind, there goes different attitude, some people are too rushy, they start off too quickly and began by practicing everything for awhile and soon find themselves lose interest, fade away and quit, while some successful one start off slowly day by day and step by step following her own pace and schedules that keep them continuing for a long time. The tortoise ways to YOGA doesn’t take you ages to reach your goals, instead of thinking how hard and time consuming to reach the end of the journey, think about the next single steps to take to reach your destination. Tell yourself, program yourself, force yourself or whatever you can to commit yourself to a fews minutes practice each day.

If you remember the rabbit and the tortoise story, you would know tortoise win the race unexpectedly. Slow and steady takes you to the perfect body and health that you want.

So, I hope tortoise ways to YOGA would change your attitude to take every step at a time. Well, it’s easy said than done, ACTION speaks louder than words, start today and keep adding your step to win the race just like tortoise.

Cheers ~

Coffee is Good for YOU

Friday, July 18th, 2008

Never thought of coffee is bad for you after you have read this article - Is coffee good or bad for your health?

As a coffee enthusiast myself, I often heard that “Coffee is bad for your health”, Well, I don’t think so, I would state that “Coffee is Good for YOU”

If you have read up the article that I had mentioned earlier, it shows that coffee is the number one source of antioxidants. Antioxidants are substances that may protect your cells against the effects of free radicals, it’s has the ability to protect your body’s cells from being destroyed by toxins. Toxins are destructive which could cause certain critical illnesses, such as cancer and heart disease.

Fruits and veggies contains Antioxidants, however it’s true that many of us took up coffee more than fruits and veggies as our daily dose of antioxidants.

If you are craving for antioxidants, here’s the Top 10 sources of antioxidants you can take:
(source : Antioxidants - Top 10 foods)  

1.  Small Red Beans
2.  Wild Blueberry
3.  Red Kidney Bean
4.  Dried Beans
5.  Pinto Bean
6.  Blueberry
7.  Cranberry
8.  Artichoke
9.  Dried Prune 
10.Raspberry

Despite all the given top foods for antioxidants, it was still not among the popular foods pick for antioxidants, coffee is still among the popular to consume either you know or unknown about the facts. This doesn’t mean that you need to consume mass amount of coffee for antioxidants, like everything in life, moderately will keep everything perfect.

Well, what are you waiting for, get yourself a coffee and start antioxidants today and by the way don’t give up fruits and veggies too!