Trinity Thursday With HHWN

Enjoying A Healthy Lifestyle with

Bryant and Anita Hewitt HHWN

 

Thursday March 7, 2013

Food To Chew On:

Thursday – Twice for the Blind Man; Every Day for Us

John 9:25 (NKJV)

 He answered and said, “Whether He is a sinner or not I do not know. One thing I know: that though I was blind, now I see.”

Thought For The Day:

When I end this day, for what new healing of the eyes of my heart will  be able to sing, “I once was blind but now I see”?

It is Trinity Thursday, the importance of lining up our Mind, Body and Soul…. When all is in line everything will come today in our lives…. So Let’s Get Cracking!! J

Eating Right, Exercise and Hydrate!!! Have a Healthy Day J

Exercises For Balance For Seniors And The Elderly

Eye Tracking

Purpose of this exercise

 •These exercises will help our visual and vestibular systems.

•They are Important in maintaining our postural stability.

Eye Tracking Exercise #1  How to do it

Step 1

 •Hold your thumb comfortably in front of your face with your elbow bent.

Step 2

 •Move your thumb to the right as far as comfortable.

•Then move your thumb to the left as far as comfortable.

•Try not to move your head. Follow with your eyes only.

•Then move your thumb upward, and finally downward.

Eye Tracking Exercise #2 How to do it

Step 1

 •Now hold your thumb at arm’s length.

Step 2

 •Move your thumb to the right as far as comfortable

•Then move to the left as far as comfortable.

•This time, follow with your eyes and head.

•Move your thumb upward, then downward.

Breathing:

•Breathe normally, inhale through the nose and exhale through the mouth.

Tips:

•Lift your chest high while maintaining a level head.

•If you get dizzy, stop.

•If you would like to try again, hold on to a chair this time.

•If you feel pain in your neck, especially when turning to the side, only turn as far as comfortable.

Take it up a notch:

 •Add a one pound wrist weight to your arm.

•Stagger your feet one in front of the other.

 You made it!  Remember to practice your exercises for balance daily. Good luck!

The 7 Worst Training Mistakes I’ve Ever Made…

2. I Didn’t Eat Egg Yolks

This is actually one of the funniest stories about my first year of training (when I didn’t really know what I was doing but thought I did)…for 8 months, I refused to eat egg yolks.

I thought (correctly) that that was where all the fat in the egg was.

What I didn’t realize is that it’s also where the vast majority of the beneficial nutrients of the eggs were. Yolks are also necessary to make egg protein complete (egg whites on their own are not complete in terms of amino acid profile – they’re good, but not perfect, like a whole egg).

 The funny part is, I was eating fried cafeteria eggs at the time (6 every day)…fried on a griddle covered unidentifiable grease that I’m VERY sure contained at least 3 times the fat of those yolks I would cut out of my fried eggs (like an idiot). And by not eating the yolks, I wasn’t eating the lecithin found inside the yolks that would emulsify and help protect me from the effects of that terrible fried grease I was eating my eggs with. Live and learn.

The Lesson:

 Eat whole eggs unless you absolutely have to avoid fat. The cholesterol found in whole eggs is not going to raise your blood cholesterol…it doesn’t work that way. It’s the stuff your body makes itself that causes the problems, not the cholesterol you eat, which is why for those who have cholesterol issues, sometimes diet doesn’t help all that much.

To put that in perspective, in my 21 years of training, I would estimate I’ve eaten about 44,000 whole eggs. My cholesterol is just fine.

The protein and other nutrients found in the yolks is going to do you WAY better than eating just plain egg whites.

A Healthy Menu For

Thursday

Stir together 1 cup of low-fat cottage cheese and 1/2 cup of sliced grapes and have with a slice of whole-grain bread topped with 1 tbsp. of peanut butter. For lunch, make a sandwich with 1/2 cup roasted chicken, 1 oz. part skim mozzarella cheese and a slice of avocado on two slices of rye bread. At dinner, enjoy a homemade chef salad made with 2 oz. of natural ham, two chopped egg whites, romaine lettuce, chopped tomatoes and two chopped artichoke hearts canned in water. Toss with a low-fat, low-calorie dressing. For snacks, try 1/4 cup of chickpeas tossed with chopped cucumber, dill and lemon juice and later, three fresh apricots.
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