Thirsty Thursday Tips With HHWN

Hewitt Health Wellness Network

Enjoying A Healthy Lifestyle with

Bryant & Anita Hewitt

Thursday, November 07, 2013

 

Food To Chew On:

Bread that Really Satisfies

Psalm 34:8 (NKJV)

Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good…

 

Thought For The Day:

Our spiritual hunger pangs are but our response to the aroma of the fresh bread of life Christ has provided for us…

 

Happy Thirsty Thursday Tips…. There are so many ways you can juice your meals… there is no limit to your creativities. So if you have a blender…. Happy Blending! I promise you it will quench your thirst!!

Have a Thirsty Thursday Tips with HHWN J

 

Mediterranean Diet Can Help Women Live Healthier And Longer, Study Says

"Better diet quality at midlife seems to be strongly linked to greater health and well-being in persons surviving to older ages," researchers concluded.

While the study didn't look at what makes the Mediterranean Diet so good for you, researchers believe it may be because the diet helps lower inflammation, AARP reported. Recent research has discovered that inflammation may be the primary cause of aging and several age-related diseases.

"These data may have an especially important role in promoting a healthy diet—maintaining physical, cognitive, and mental health with aging may provide a more powerful incentive for dietary change than simply prolonging life or avoiding any single chronic disease," researchers wrote.

 

13 Small Choices That Can Change Your Life In Great Ways

 

10. Know that animals are far more intelligent than most scientists realize.

 

Those who know animals understand this. Evidence shows very advanced cognition in animals even with very small brains. Birds and lizards are, in fact, extremely intelligent—with advanced memory, planning, social intelligence and tool use. Birds also use syntax, learn singing as a language, and show mourning behavior. Perhaps most extraordinary are bees (and other social insects) who, with tiny brains, have symbolic language, abstract concepts, self medication, advanced mathematical problem solving, and kaleidoscopic visual memory.

 Knowing how intelligent animals are, hopefully, could make us more compassionate and empathetic to all animals and, especially, those that depend upon us. Perhaps with this knowledge the ways we utilize and kill animals can change.

 

11. You can find intelligence throughout nature in all organisms—animals, plants, even cells and microbes.

 

Plants show advanced decision-making, complex communication, future planning, and even mathematical abilities. Realizing that even plants are highly intelligent, perhaps, we can appreciate the wisdom of Chief Seattle—that nature around us is our family. Perhaps it will make us treat our environment with more compassion and intelligence.

 

12. Make time to walk in nature.

 

Walking in nature has positive effects on the brain and our health. Research shows that just being in nature is like mental cleansing or fasting.

13. We've got free will, so use it!

 

Free will and consciousness must be exercised. Most of what occurs in the brain and mind is unconscious, with the brain unconsciously regulating our body at all times. Many do not make the effort to be conscious; and many scientists want us to believe human brains are robots and computers.

Each person is bombarded by huge amounts of suggestions from media and other people in our 24/7 environments. It is difficult not to fall prey to random suggestions and believe and act upon them. Untrue gossip can totally affect how we feel about someone. Random suggestions create negative thinking and cause immune problems. This is unconscious behavior.

Conscious free will does exist, but must be found and exercised. It is like training a new muscle. The choices we make have dramatic effects on the growth and health of our future brain. Practices like meditation increase the ability to use conscious choice and, also have many positive effects on physical and mental health. By utilizing conscious will in exercises, it becomes stronger and we become more able to make good choices.

A Healthy Menu For

Thursday 

For breakfast, choose 1 cup All Bran cereal topped with 1 small, sliced banana, 1 cup nonfat milk and coffee or tea with a sugar substitute. Lunch can include a turkey sandwich, 1 cup tossed green salad with 1 Tbsp. olive oil and vinegar and a baked apple. Your dinner meal includes 1 cup lentil soup, 6 saltine crackers and 1 cup nonfat milk. For dessert, try one small slice angel food cake and ½ cup strawberries.