An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor away...

“An apple a day keeps the doctor away”?
but why? Do you really know what makes an apple so special? Why is it that we never hear an orange or a banana a day keeps the doctor away?

Apples have properties that no other fruits have and its benefits have been proven overtime. You will be able to get the benefits of these properties individually with other fruits, but an apple combines everything and makes it simpler. It has been shown over and over that if it’s not simple, easy and fast, people won’t take care of their health.

9 Reasons why An Apple a Day Really Keeps the Doctor away



1- Apple contains Vitamin C. Vitamin C helps greatly your immune system. A lot of people who lack Vitamin C in their diet have poor healing, bruise easily and have bleeding gums.

2- Prevent Heart Diseases. The reason it can prevent both coronary heart disease and cardiovascular disease is because apples are rich in flavonoid. Flavonoids are also known for their antioxidant effects.

3- Low in calories. A regular size apple has between 70-100 calories. Eating an apple when craving for candy or chocolate can make the desire disappear since apple in itself contains sugar.

4- Prevent Cancers. Notice the plural. We all know that cancer comes in several forms and in different places. Apples target multiple cancers such as colon cancer, prostate cancer and breast cancer in women.

5- Apples contain phenols, which have a double effect on cholesterol. It reduces bad cholesterol and increases good cholesterol. They prevent LDL cholesterol from turning into oxidized LDL, a very dangerous form of bad cholesterol which can be deadly.

6- Prevent tooth decay. Tooth decay is an infection that seriously damages the structure of your teeth, which is caused primarily because of bacteria. The juice of the apples has properties that can kill up to 80% of bacteria. So there you have it, an apple a day also keeps the dentist away!

7- Protects your brain from brain disease. This is something many people don’t know, and when you consider that your brain makes the person you are, it gives a whole new perspective. Apple has substances called phytonutrients, and these phytonutrients prevents neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinsonism.

8- Healthier Lungs. A research at the University of Nottingham Research shows that people who eat 5 apples or more per week has lower respiratory problems, including asthma.

9- They taste great! And not only that, they also come in many flavors and colors. Not in a mood for a green apple? Why not get a red one, or a macintosh! Their taste can vary greatly, but still give you all the apple benefits. Variety is an important element to maintaining your health.

Face Your Fear

“Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.”Swedish proverb


How many times have us let fear breed in our mind and hence leading to inaction?
Fear can be helpful for survival when it warn us of the dangers that we are facing and cause us to be more mentally prepared to deal with the problem. It definitely serve us well until it got to a point that it is inhibiting our ability to take actions.

How do we overcome fear?
First of all, we need to determine what is the cause of fear.

Fear is basically what you are thinking and portraying it to your brain. Basically it is all about thoughts. How you think about something will make it either scary or not.

Breaking your personal comfort zone is one of the trigger to fear. When you want to quit your current job, you will feel fear. When you are going to give a first speech in your 30 years of life, you will feel fear. When we break out of our comfort zone, where we are entering is an area of unknown and most people hate unknown areas.

The funny thing about fear is sometime things that we worry and fear about doesn’t come true. It is just the accumulating of negative thoughts in our mind that cause it to snowball into a huge issue.

Can fear be overcome? Yes! Definitely..
By:

• Tackling Fear

Let us decipher the word, FEAR

F – False


E – Evidence


A – Appearing


R – Real

Whenever there are time when you feel fearful, remember this and self talk to yourself and decipher the word FEAR.

• Be Positive

When negative images start to fill your head. Stop! Control your thoughts and think of positive images.

• Learning from Fear
  

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”   Eleanor Roosevelt

• Being Curious

Being curious is the opposite of living in fear. Curiosity empowers you with excitement of venturing into the unknown areas for greater rewards. It spur actions and actions are the seeds to success.

Motivate Yourself to Walk Everyday

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”

 Sometimes it is easier to set goals than to actually do something to work towards them. Large projects can seem overwhelming, and if you feel like you are always busy with the day to day things, it can feel like you will never have the time to take care of your health...

•Promise yourself you will add walking to your everyday routine. You will establish a habit this way. On rest days, just go for a stroll or do a little light stretching.


•Find some fitness friends and make play dates with them. Go for walks or to the gym or a fitness class.

•Get obsessed with numbers,not on the scale of course. Get a pedometer and challenge yourself to walk 10,000 steps a day. Or do 1000 steps on your stepper as fast as you can and try to beat your score the next time.

•Grab a calender and make an X on everyday you exercise. You will begin to see a streak forming and you won't want to break that streak.

•Reward yourself. I like to treat myself to a glass of chocolate milk or a hot bath at the end of a tough workout. I feel like I have to earn it, though. Thinking about my treats make me workout longer and harder.

•Think about how you will feel if you don't walk: tired, sloth-like, guilty. Know that you will always feel better if you do something.


Get up and go

Studies show that people who wake up early to walk before they start their day are more likely to stick with their program. Here are a few tips on how to get moving when you would rather just sleep in :

•Ignore the little voice in your head that says you are too tired or that the bed is too warm and cozy. Just nudge it aside and get up.

•Tell your family you will be getting up early to exercise. Once you say the words out loud and others know your plan, it makes it much harder to back out. That guilt thing again.

•Plan ahead. Know where you want to walk and have all of your equipment and workout clothes ready ahead to go the night before.


Instead of thinking about how tough it will be to commit waking up an hour earlier and starting a regular routine, why not just take five minutes and go out for a walk?