Tantalizing Tips Tuesday With HHWN

Hewitt Health Wellness Network

Enjoying A Healthy Lifestyle with

Bryant & Anita Hewitt

Tuesday, November 05, 2013

 

Food To Chew On:

 

That’s Living!!

 

1 Corinthians 3:21 (NKJV)

 

 Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours.

 

Thought For The Day:

 

The years of our lives, however long or short they be, are for one purpose: to know God personally and to spend eternity with Him.

 

 

Five Things You Should Never Eat (And What To Eat Instead)

Try This Instead: Fruit

 

Don't turn to artificial sweeteners to get your sweet fix, instead turn to nature's wholesome source of sugar: fruit. Eat organic fruit that is seasonal and locally grown. Stay away from dried fruit and fruit juices, as these are high in simple calories.

 

13 Small Choices That Can Change Your Life In Great Ways

4. Get regular exercise.

 If there is one magic bullet for increased body and brain health, including increased memory, it is sensible regular exercise. Too much or too little exercise can be harmful, but a moderate amount is critical for brain function. Although it has been known for some time that exercise increases brain connections and new brain cells, recently, a direct chemical link was found to explain this. Turns out the brain is especially available for new learning and positive new ideas in the hours immediately following exercise.

 

5. Food can have major effects on brain health, so eat whole foods.

When eating certain foods (including processed foods, sugar, and unnatural ingredients), our hormones and neurons react strongly, as if exposed to a drug. When strong reactions are triggered, the metabolism and brain can become imbalanced. Many fruits and vegetables (such as berries) have very beneficial effects in helping to clean debris from the brain.

 

6. What we think and what we focus on can actually change our brain.

For a long time, scientists believed that the brain was static after childhood. It was also believed that genetics was destiny. While most of our DNA stays the same during out lives, the networks that determine which DNA is used are completely altered by experience—by our perceptions and choices.

 

Neuroplasticity is the word for dramatic brain changes in the synapses of neurons, new brain cells, and changes in other supportive brain cells. These changes occur each day with modification and pruning each night during sleep. How we use our brain—what we think, what we learn, what we focus on, and what we do—will actually change brain structures for the future.

 Certain activities have much stronger effects on stimulating neuroplasticity, such as music training, which increases the capacities for even other types of learning.

 

A Healthy Menu For

Tuesday

For breakfast, eat 1 cup raisin bran cereal with 1 cup nonfat milk, 1 cup blackberries. Enjoy this with coffee or tea with a sugar substitute. Lunch consists of a grilled tomato and cheese sandwich on whole grain bread, 2 celery stalks served with 2 tbsp. chunky salsa for dipping. Add 1 cup red seedless grapes for dessert. For dinner, choose 3 oz. pork tenderloin, 1 cup boiled kale, 1 cup nonfat milk and ½ a red grapefruit. If you are hungry later in the evening, enjoy 3 cups air-popped popcorn.