Whimsical Fruit WednesdayTips With HHWN

 

Enjoying A Healthy Lifestyle with

Bryant and Anita Hewitt

Hewitt Health Wellness Network

Wednesday January 29, 2014

 

Food To Chew On:

Wednesday – You’re Not on Your Own

2 Peter 1:2 (KJV)

 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord.

Thought For The Day:

Thank You for the privilege of living this day to the fullest in Your all powerful name, Amen I’m not on my own.

Whimsical Fruit Wednesday, just a play on words this today … Now let’s focus on HHWN… Eating Right and Exercise…. And you will see some wonderful results… Remember You Can Do It… :)

12 Surprising Ways to Beat Diabetes

Don’t Miss Out on Magnesium

Adding more whole grains, beans, nuts, and leafy green veggies to your plate can help you take in more magnesium. Getting at least 100 mg of the mineral a day (from food or supplements) decreases your risk for developing diabetes by 14 percent, according to a research review published in the Journal of Internal Medicine. And it’s pretty easy to rack up the recommended amount. An ounce of peanuts contains about 50 mg of magnesium, a cup of black beans has 120 mg, and a cup of cooked spinach packs 157 mg.

Exercising Tips:

Oblique Cable Crunch

 Use your obliques to bring one elbow to the opposite knee as you crunch down.

Oblique Hanging Knee Raises

 Knees should be lifted as high as you can while twisting to each side without swinging; glutes should come forward. 

Day Six (Obliques)	Sets X Reps
Oblique Cable Crunch	3 X 10-12
Oblique Hanging Knee Raise	3 X 10-12

A Healthy Menu For

Wednesday

For breakfast select one low-fat blueberry waffle, 2 tbsp. sugar-free syrup, ½ cup fresh raspberries and 1 cup nonfat milk. Enjoy coffee or tea sweetened with a sugar substitute, too. Your lunch meal includes 2 scrambled eggs, 1 oz. low fat cheese, 1 slice of toasted whole grain bread and 1 tsp. soft margarine and ½ cup fresh pineapple. For dinner, choose 3 oz. broiled salmon, ½ quinoa, ½ cup broccoli and cauliflower mix. Have 4 oz. low fat yogurt with ½ cup sliced strawberries for dessert.

 

Tropical Tuesday Tips With HHWN

 

Enjoying A Healthy Lifestyle With

Bryant & Anita Hewitt

Hewitt Health Wellness Network

 
Tuesday January 21, 2014

Food To Chew On:

Tuesday – An Up-to-Date Question  

Hebrews 7:25 (KJV)

 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

Thought For The Day

The source of Joy is that out of sheer love Christ saved us. Rejoice!! Think of what Christ had saved you from and saved you for!!

Happy Tropical Tuesday Tips!! Just think as we keep-up the good work by spring or summer time we can go to any one of the Tropical Island and sport that swimming suit you always wanted to wear… if that isn’t incentive,  I don’t know what else is!!!  J So Keep Eating Right and Exercise and you will get there!!! 

12 Surprising Ways to Beat Diabetes

Switch to Brown Rice

The more white rice you eat on a regular basis, the greater your risk will be for developing type 2 diabetes, according to Harvard School of Public Health researchers who studied the trend in both Asian countries (China and Japan) and Western countries (the United States and Australia). Their study showed that each 158 g (about 2/3 cup) serving of rice increased risk by 10 percent. Because Asian countries eat an average of four portions of white rice a day, researchers believe they are at particularly high risk for developing diabetes. The scientists suggest that people who fill up on white rice aren’t taking in as many diabetes-fighting nutrients, like fiber, magnesium, and vitamins, as they would be if they ate brown rice.

White rice also has a bigger effect on blood sugar because it breaks down more quickly than brown rice. To help your body recover from insulin resistance, opt for carbs that release sugar into your blood more slowly, advises Barnard. Beans, fruit, non-starchy vegetables, and whole grains are good examples.

Exercising Tips:

 Straight-Leg Crunch

  Reach up to bring your shoulder blades off the floor in a fairly small range of motion.  Your hands don’t have to touch your feet.

Feet Up Crunch

 With your feet up, curl to lift your shoulder blades a few inches off the floor, pressing your low back into the floor at the same time.

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.

 

Money Monday With HHWN

 

Enjoying A Healthy Lifestyle with

 Bryant and Anita Hewitt

Hewitt Health Wellness Network

Monday January 13, 2014

Food To Chew On:

Monday – Out of The Comfortable Nest

Deuteronomy 32:11-12 (KJV)

 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:  So the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.

Thought For The Day:

“What is life for? To teach us to fly, to teach us to exercise our half-fledged wings in short flight that may prepare us for and make possible for us to take longer flights until we are able to graduate to being mature eagles.” – G. Campbell

Happy Money Monday Tips!! If you have any means of income it is a blessing… It could always be worst if it wasn’t for the Grace of God!! As we stay on our regiment of eating healthy and exercising, we will save a boat loads of money, by cooking your own food and stay away from fast foods and keep eating right and exercising for our  health… and who doesn’t need extra money???

12 Surprising Ways to Beat Diabetes

Scale Back on Animal Fat

If you’ve just been diagnosed with diabetes or pre-diabetes, cutting out fat is more important than saying no to sugar, says Barnard. Here’s why: Carbohydrates break down into glucose when they hit the blood stream. Your muscles soak up most of this sugar and use it as fuel. But in order for glucose to get inside muscle cells, it needs insulin to “unlock the door,” Barnard explains. When you have diabetes, those locks get gummed up with tiny fat particles called intramyocellular lipids. Your cells start to resist insulin, and sugar piles up in the blood stream.

To drain the fat out of these cells and repair your body’s ability to process sugar, Barnard suggests temporarily taking meat, fish, dairy, and eggs out of your diet and limiting the amount of vegetable oils you consume (look for foods with no more than 2 to 4 g of fat per serving). Type 2 diabetics who followed a low-fat vegan diet for 22 weeks lowered their A1C—a measure of blood sugar control—and reduced their diabetes medications more than study participants who ate an American Diabetes Association-approved diet, which allows non-fat dairy, lean meats, poultry, and fish, according to research published in Diabetes Care.

Exercising Tips:

Hanging Knee Raises 

 Knees should be lifted as high as you can without swinging; glutes should come forward.  To make it harder straighten your legs.

Reverse Crunch on Incline Board

   Curl your glutes and lower back off the bench, crunching your abs as you bring your knees over your chest.

Day Four (Lower Abs)

Sets X Reps

Hanging Knee Raises

3 X 10-12

Reverse Crunch on Incline Board

3 X 10-12

A Healthy Menu For

Monday

Enjoy a breakfast of 1 whole wheat English muffin with 1 tsp. soft margarine and 1 tsp. no sugar jam, 1 small orange, 1 cup nonfat milk and coffee or tea with a sugar substitute. For lunch, choose ½ cup tuna on whole wheat pita bread, 1 tsp. low fat mayonnaise, ½ cup green beans and ½ cup fresh blueberries. For dinner, have 3 oz. orange roughy, ½ cup roasted new potatoes, 1 small banana and 1 cup nonfat milk.