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How a Low Carb Lifestyle Can Help Your Entire Family
By: Henri Schauffler
How a Low Carb Lifestyle Can Help Your Entire Family
The latest challenging fact to be learned about the
great American obesity problem is that among children,
the number of clinically obese children has doubled in
the last two decades, according to the National
Institutes of Health (NIH). In fact, by 2002, NIH says
that one in five children in the US is overweight.
Obese children are also developing diseases like Type
2 Diabetes that used to only occur in adults. And
overweight kids tend to become overweight adults,
continuing to put them at greater risk for heart
disease, high blood pressure and stroke. Perhaps
potentially more devastating is that children who are
teased a lot can develop low self-esteem and
depression.
There are many households in which not
only one or more children are obese, but frequently
one or both parents are also obese. Many parents are
also at risk for Type 2 Diabetes. Even members of a
household who do not have these problems will benefit
from a low carb lifestyle because all Americans are
far too dependent on processed sugar and
carbohydrates, putting all of us at risk for obesity
and myriad other health problems. Does any of this
sound like you?
What’s a concerned parent to do?
Adopt The Five Keys to Low Carb Success for your whole
family. I sincerely hope you know by now that the
first is “Information.” Find ways for whole family
learn the principles of health according to low carb,
including even the members of your household who may
not be obese. At least those needing a lifestyle
change should learn as much as they can about low carb
– and LowCarb-Lifestyles.Com helps us do that.
The Second Key is “Motivation.” We advise our members
to find ways to motivate themselves when the going
gets tough. Motivation helps us answer important
internal questions for ourselves, such as, “Why am I
really doing this – what’s the payoff?” “Why do I need
to stay the course?” “Who benefits from my being
healthy, trim and peaceful besides me – do I have a
responsibility to anyone else?” In a household setting
you can go through this process and then show your
children how to do the same. Then the whole family can
pledge their goals to each other at a special family
meeting.
The Third Key is, “Nutrition.” While seemingly simple,
keeping a varied menu that the whole family looks
forward to eating every day is not easy. Many low carb
recipe books are turning up these days;
LowCarb.Lifestyels.Com has literally hundreds of
recipes for members to choose from. Use them to entice
your whole household into a low carb lifestyle!
The Fourth Key is, “Fitness.” We can exercise with our
significant other and children – “the family that
exercises together…” But it is a wonderful thing to
exercise together, even just you and one child. You
can go together for walking, jogging, bicycling,
tennis, golf, basketball and so on. There are numerous
possibilities. The best part is, while you are
building a healthy low carb lifestyle, you are also
building your relationship with your child.
The Fifth Key is, “Support.” While
LowCarb.Lifestyles.Com helps our member to build a
support network in online forums and by emailing each
other inside the community, your family is a natural
support base! Act on the previous four Keys in your
family, and your home will become your support base.
Fantastic!
If you implement even one of the Five Keys in your
home life, your will see definite results in a very
short time, for your physical health and also for the
emotional and spiritual health of your family.
Resource Box:
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Henri Schauffler is the founder and webmaster of
http://www.lowcarb-lifestyles.com, an online community
that gives low carb dieters the tools they need to
succeed - for life. Visit http:www.lowcarb-lifestyles.com
to grab your free 7 day trial.
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About the Author
Resource Box:
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Henri Schauffler is the founder and webmaster of
http://www.lowcarb-lifestyles.com, an online community
that gives low carb dieters the tools they need to
succeed - for life. Visit http:www.lowcarb-lifestyles.com
to grab your free 7 day trial.
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How to Benefit from the Mind-Body Connection
(excerpt)
You are about to gain insight into the
mind-body connection. The number of
people who truly understand these principles on our
planet are relatively few.
There is an undeniable connection between our minds and
bodies, you can learn to use this fact to your benefit.
Dr. Bernie Siegel, author of "Love, Medicine and
Miracles" was once a distraught cancer surgeon until he
began to understand the greater principles of the mind-
body connection. He felt dragged down by the artificial
barriers that existed between patient and doctor, and the
helplessness he often felt as a result of his inability
to effectively serve those patients. Eventually, those
barriers were disintegrated by Dr. Siegel's recognition
and growing understanding of the mind-body connection and
how it could serve his patients and himself.
Dr. Siegel, or Bernie as he began to have his patients
refer to him, had some
startling realizations as a cancer surgeon. He found that
there were actually
quite a few people in the world that successfully beat
the statistics on cancer
survival. He began to recognize that a patient's ability
to defeat something as
serious as cancer had to do with the patient's mind and
attitude about their
disease.
If you would like to see the rest of
this article, please go here:
http://www.tobeinformed.com/repository/mind-body.html
copyright 2004 - David Snape
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