30 ways to live a longer healthier life!

1. Eat 1-2 whole cloves of Garlic a day! 

-5ml a day of Garlic can reduce the change of harmful diseases. 

  2. Make sure you get enough exercise! 

-Walk a certain distance each day at least 3-4 times a day. This can strengthen your bones, reduce the chance of heart disease and overall help you feel better! 

3. Eat Refined Grain

- Foods such as Rice, Wheat, and Bread have what is called Refined grain. If you eat this from 3-4 times a week it lowers the risk of cancer! 

  4. Eat your fruits and veggies! 

-Eat vegetables and fruits five times a day can help prevent you from stroke , heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. It has also been proven to lower the risk of cancer in woman by 50%! Especially grapes, tomatoes and broccoli. 

  5. Reduce the amount of fast food you eat! 

-Fast food like hamburgers and fries are high-calorie and have nutritional imbalances. Eating these can lead to a clogged artery, stroke, or heart disease. 

  6. Eat more fish! 

- Tuna, salmon, sardines, and many other kinds fish contain omega-3 fatty acids which prevent blood clots. And simple fish oil enhances the immune system! Eating fish once a month is enough to help prevent he risk of heart disease. 

  7.Eat less salt! 

- The World Health Organization has stated that less than 5mg of salt a day is recommended. If you eat to much salty food it can increase the chance of heart disease and stroke. 

8.Did somebody say Wine?! 

- Drinking 2 glasses of wine is recommended in the aid of preventing cancer, but having more than 30glasses of wine a week can increase the chance of many other diseases. And remember Wine is always better than Beer. 

  9.Drink about 2 cups of coffee a day 

- People who drink 2 cups of coffee a day have a 25% reduced chance of getting colon cancer and gallstones by 45%. People with high blood pressure and pregnant woman should drink coffee in order to lower blood pressure. 

  10. Drink lost of tea! 

- Drinking lots of tea, rather than not, cuts the risk of heart disease in half. 

  11.Lose some weight 

-According to research Lose 2lbs and it will increase your life by 20weeks!! 

  12. Avoid excessive weight loss. 

- Avoid excessive weight loss by continuing to exercise and eat smaller more frequent meals! 

  13. Lower your cholesterol!

-If you lower your cholesterol it will help prevent heart disease and brain problems. 

  14. Aspirin 

-If you take Aspirin once a day, helps prevent stomach cancer, rectal cancer, prostate cancer! But make sure you talk to your doctor first!! 

  15. Get your groove on~(Have frequent intercourse) 

-According to research, if you have intercourse at least 2 times a week, it lowers your risk of getting the cold. And 3 times a week compared to someone who doesn’t get any~ they look 10 years younger! 

16. Find your own way of relieving stress! 

-Stress is the main cause of many diseases, if you are to stressed it will build up and help cause heart diseases, depression, anxiety, and mental problems, so find your own way of chilling out! 

 17. Stop smoking! 

- STOP SMOKING! 

  18.Check your teeth! 

-The bacteria inside your mouth can cause heart disease; make sure you go to the dentist once in a while! It’s worth it! Eat a lot of apples and oranges, while you eat these fruits it gets rid of any unwanted bacteria and helps keep your teeth looking white! 

  19.Sing a song! 

-Lets visit Karaoke more often! It will help you get over Social Anxieties and Depression! 

 20.Hum a tune! 

-According to experts if you hum through your nose it will help prevent your sinuses acting up! 

21. Get enough sleep! 

-Key point to keep a balanced life is getting enough sleep. Compared to someone who does get plenty of sleep, not getting enough sleep can make you become paranoid and worse! 

  22. Take your vitamins! 

-If you take a multivitamin (a day) it can reduce the chance of getting heart disease and (85%)colon cancer! It also helps prevent dementia. 

23. Pay attention to your skin! 

-Avoid strong wind, lots of sun, and harsh elements on your skin! Make sure you put your sunscreen! If you expose your skin too much to the elements it can lead to skin cancer! 

25. Find the right partner! 

- Find a partner of sound body and sound mind, you will be able to have a fulfilling and healthy relationship with them. It just makes like easier! 

26. Drink lots of water! 

-Drinking 6 cups of water is recommended a day compared to some who only drinks 2 cups you can reduce your risk of colon cancer by 50%. 

  27.Check your bed! 

-Use your bed only for sleep! And remember to stretch before and after you go off to dream land, this will help prevent fat cells from building up! 

  28. Get your intake of selenium. 

- Cutlass fish, salmon, tuna, oysters, and shrimp contain selenium, which is known to have anti-cancer effects. 

  29. Spend more time with your friends!

- People 65 and older are more likely to talk with friends or do social activities . This greatly reduces the risk of cases of dementia. 

  30. Get a new job! 

-Stress from a job that doesn’t fulfill you can lead to an unhappy and unhealthy life. Change your job and enjoy your life!

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Why do yoga?
by John Tunney
Why do yoga?

The short answer is that yoga makes you feel better. Practicing the postures, breathing exercises and meditation makes you healthier in body, mind and spirit. Yoga lets you tune in, chill out, shape up -- all at the same time.

For many people, that's enough of an answer. But there's more if you're interested.

For starters, yoga is good for what ails you. Specifically, research shows that yoga helps manage or control anxiety, arthritis, asthma, back pain, blood pressure, carpal tunnel syndrome, chronic fatigue, depression, diabetes, epilepsy, headaches, heart disease, multiple sclerosis, stress and other conditions and diseases. What's more, yoga:

Improves muscle tone, flexibility, strength and stamina
Reduces stress and tension
Boosts self esteem
Improves concentration and creativity
Lowers fat
Improves circulation
Stimulates the immune system
Creates sense of well being and calm.
And that's just the surface stuff. In fact, most of the benefits mentioned above are secondary to yoga's original purpose.

Developed in India, yoga is a spiritual practice that has been evolving for the last 5,000 years or so. The original yogis were reacting, in part, to India's ancient Vedic religion, which emphasized rituals. The yogis wanted a direct spiritual experience -- one on one -- not symbolic ritual. So they developed yoga.
Yoga means "union" in Sanskrit, the classical language of India.

According to the yogis, true happiness, liberation and enlightenment comes from union with the divine consciousness known as Brahman, or with Atman, the transcendent Self. The various yoga practices are a methodology for reaching that goal.
In hatha yoga, for example, postures and breathing exercises help purify the mind, body and spirit so the yogi can attain union.

Pranayama breathing exercises help clear the nadis, or channels, that carry prana the universal life force, allowing prana to flow freely. When the channels are clear and the last block at the base of the spine has been opened, Kundalini rises through the spine, through the central channel called the sushumna-nadi, and joins the crown chakra. According to the tradition, the release of Kundalini leads to enlightenment and union.

If you do yoga will you become enlightened?

Well…you might (of course, it could take a few lifetimes of diligent practice). But then again you might not. But it doesn't really matter because yoga is a process, and there's a lot of good to be had along the way.

What if you don't believe in talk about enlightenment, spirit and the rest of it?

That's okay, too. Yoga doesn't discriminate. Even if you don't believe in the spiritual side of life, you can still do yoga. Whether enlightenment, nadis, prana and Kundalini is literal truth, metaphor or myth is irrelevant. If you do yoga, chances are that you will feel its psycho-physiological effects.

Moreover, the concept of union has a powerful down-to-Earth meaning. Yoga helps us get in touch with our true selves.

Between work, home and all of the demands and stresses in between, it's easy to lose touch with who we are, that core essence with which we were born. Rushing around all day it sometimes feels like the "I" inside is simply the result of the things we do all day -- or the effects those things have on our minds, bodies and spirits.

Ever say "I am hungry" or "I am stressed"? We identify with our conditions. It's like "hungry" or "stressed" is a name (Hi. I'm Stressed. What's your name?) As a result, our identities shift with our moods and conditions.


In truth, however, we are not the conditions we experience or things we do. We are not our jobs or the thousands of tasks that make up our jobs. We are not the sensations or emotions we feel. We are not the car we drive or the house we live in. We are not "S/he Who Must Pay Bills." We are not Mr. and Ms. Stressed.

Strip away the emotions, sensations and conditions and somewhere deep down inside you are still there. Strip it all away and you find out who you really are.

The techniques developed by the yogis to transcend also help us strip away the things that try to mis-define us -- the emotions, sensations, desires, achievements and failures of daily life. Through yoga we learn to develop a greater awareness of our physical and psychological states. As a result, we're in a position to better manage our reactions to the thoughts, feelings and responses we have to the various situations we deal with every day.

With greater awareness comes the sensitivity and skill to find and remove the physical and psychological blocks that often keep us from our true selves. We no longer identify with our conditions. Instead of saying, "I am stressed," we begin to say, "I feel stress," or "stress is present." It's a subtle but powerful difference.
Or better yet, we say "I feel anxiety and fear, and that's causing stress and in particular it's causing tension in my neck and shoulder." So we breathe deeply to soothe the anxiety. We review the events that led to the onset of those feelings, and in the process they lose their grip on our nervous system. We intentionally relax our shoulder and neck to prevent the stress and tension from building into a permanent condition.

Yoga gives us control of ourselves. It helps cut through the layers of mis-identities that arise in response to our actions, experiences and feelings. It calms the frenzy, clears the clutter and allows us to get back in touch with ourselves.

Yoga is union with self. Or, as Patanjali, one of the great yoga sages, said:

Yogashcittavrittinirodhah (Yoga stills the fluctuations of the mind).
Tada drashthuh svarupe' vasthanam (Then the true self appears.)
However, yoga is not about self-absorption. Yoga is about being in the world. Although most books, videos and websites focus on yoga postures, breathing and meditation, the tradition also emphasizes love, compassion, knowledge and right action as paths toward union.

Whether you pursue yoga as a spiritual path or for its psycho-physiological benefits, yoga is a methodology for developing a deeper experience of your self and the world.
And it makes you feel really good.

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