I have known for years that color affected me. If the colors I’m wearing don’t fit my mood, life and I are out of synch somehow. Now it seems physicists, mystics, and healers … strange allies in our constant quest to understand the reality of our world better … have shed light on some reasons why. Physicists teach that absolutely everything is composed of energy … solid objects, sound, light, thoughts … and color. One sort of energy affects other sorts of energy. We all know people who make us feel warm, safe, and comfortable … and places that simply “give us the creeps.” That’s an example of energies interacting.

Color, apparently, interacts with us, too … and vice versa. Color can change our mood, boost our confidence, stimulate our thinking … and evidence suggests color even promotes physical healing. That’s a handy thing to know … and an easy thing to use, allowing you, the energy of color, and the power of your own awareness to be partners in directing your attitudes and managing life. Sounds like applied psychology of the best kind!

Although color preferences can be highly individual (as your energy interacts with color in your own unique way) … here are some suggestions on what “universal meanings” different colors may have as a starting point for discovering your own relationship to color … and vice versa.

White — strengthens, cleanses, and purifies. It stimulates creativity and amplifies the effects of other colors.

Black — contains the entire color spectrum and has strong protective qualities. It stabilizes and calms … which may explain why it’s associated with mourning. Too much of it, however, encourages apathy and depression. Black and white together balance each other … and promote balance in their energies and in the energy they create together.

Brown — promotes practicality and grounding, logic and common sense

Silver — appeals to the imagination and instincts; activates intuition

Red — stimulates, excites, energizes, promotes passion, and puts one “on alert.”

Pink — is the color of Universal Love; it calms anger and promotes empathy and kindness

Orange — arouses creative impulses and sexual feelings, motivates, and invites social exchange.

Yellow — stimulates communication and intellectual interest, provokes curiosity, invites an open mind, and lifts emotional tone

Green — increases love, compassion, connection; stimulates growth and healing; soothes

Blue — is restful, calming and can promote intuition

Indigo — is especially fine in working with intuition, psychic development, and communicating with Higher Consciousness

Violet — activates inspiration and spiritual connection

If you work actively with color in your everyday life and spiritual routines, you’ll find there are personal connections you have to this form of energy that may be “uniquely your own” … making it all the more pertinent and valuable for you. You, too, may start to feel the connection between your mood-of-the-day … and the colors you want to wear to work with, counteract, or advertise this! Your mind will be enriched by the new lessons you find … and your whole existence will profit from the extra joy and dimensions this wonderful visual energy and your awareness of it bring to your life!

(c) 2007 Rebecca Brents, All rights reserved.

Rebecca Brents writes on a wide variety of spiritual and new age subjects, including astrology, tarot, feng shui, alternative health, metaphysics, and self-improvement. She publishes the extensive online new age Ezine, The Enchanted Sprite on her website, Enchanted Spirit: http://www.enchantedspirit.org/, and offers numerous online new age lectures and new age classes in these various fields. She also provides astrology readings, tarot readings, and personal consultations through The Enchanted Spirit Metaphysical Source Shop http://www.enchantedspirit.com/. Stop by and subscribe to her free new age ezine, New Age-New Horizons http://www.enchantedspirit.org/Whats_New/.

Job hunting best story is similar to the sales profession. Most times It’s who can win with the best story. Allot of times unless your boss was friends with the hiring manager, or had some embarrassing pictures of the President, they more than likely got their position from telling a great story..

Here’s a great story, I know you probably heard it before, about two men out hunting . While in the jungle they happen upon a man-eating tiger that has not eaten for days. The startled hunters take off running with the tiger right on their heels. Between breathes, one hunter says to the other. “We can’t out run this tiger.” The other hunter replies, “I’m not worried about out running the tiger; I just have to make sure I outrun you.”

Most times the hiring manager will have a stack of resumes and cover letters that he’ll receive from just one ad. I’m sure allot will have better qualifications or more experience than you. You need to make sure your resume and cover letter shows your experience and strengths better than the other guy. And if you follow the ideas in this article, they will end your career search.

My credentials are better but they got the job. How did they do it? The answer is simple: They did their “homework” ahead of time. They put a little effort into the job-hunting process. Making all the pieces of their job hunting process look and feel the same with a similar style. Not only did their cover letter, resume, interview, thank you letters, and negotiating have the same style, it was the style the company was looking for. As a matter of fact, this makes the hiring company feel good to land such a fine prospect!

What does it mean to have the “best story”?
Let me define “story”. The best story basically means that to the employer, you have “What it takes”. A great story evolves from a well thought out job hunting system where all pieces of the “campaign” are closely aligned. You need thought, logic, study and of course practice. This is something that constantly shows up in anything and everything you write or say.

Creating a great story takes time and it takes thought. Now I know trying to put together a cover letter and resume seems to be as much fun as a root canal. But it does help to organize all your important facts and achievements. This way you can really focus on your current career search criteria. This will give you confidence, make you feel proud and will help create your story.

You have to show the hiring manager that you have a great story. So during the screening process you have to have your act together and clearly show them what exactly you are looking for, what are your skills, your greatest accomplishments and whether or not you can you help solve their problems. All this has to be done within 30 seconds.

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Online paid surveys are useful for finding views held by people on particular issues. Online survey companies or what we call product or market research companies are interested to collate consumer behavior data because of the big bucks they earn from the product manufacturers. That’s why folks like you can step in to participate in the ongoing income opportunity. What are the pros and cons of taking online paid surveys?

Pros of Online Paid Surveys

1. Ease of Participation

The greatest advantage of using free internet paid surveys is the ease of completing each survey. Survey takers or panelists need not leave their desk to give their input or comments about specific products and services.

2. Influencing the Product Development

Online surveys make it a whole lot easier to target the correct crowd than by doing manual surveying. Market research companies can be sure that they participating in the surveys fit a certain profile they desire. For instance, if they are doing a survey on MP3 players, students are an excellent group to target. As a survey taker, you get to influence the way manufacturers create their products,

3. Second Income

Each individual survey can fetch you more than $5 generally. It probably takes no more 15 minutes in most instances. Some pay more for longer surveys. At times, there could be generous prize draws for participants.

4. Fun and Relaxing

Taking an online paid survey is relaxing and can be fun. Focus groups and mystery shopping or movie going are another new breed of doing surveys.

Cons of Online Paid Surveys

1. Overcrowded Market

This is a huge drawback. With increasing numbers of online survey companies and websites seeking for survey takers, it can be rather overwhelming. It is hard for panelists or survey takers to differentiate the good ones and as such, some good companies offering online paid surveys are overlooked and worse still, avoided.

2. Super-Lengthy Low Value Surveys

Some online paid surveys are super lengthy and long-winded. The payouts are not fantastic and are utterly a waste of time. The sad fact is many survey takers are not aware until they are halfway through and often leave the surveys incomplete. Even if they complete them, the payout can be quite petty.

3. Scam Sites

Survey takers have complained about bulk spammers masquerading as online paid surveys companies. What follows next is that the survey takers start receiving a series of spam emails with links to totally unrelated websites.

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It is quite a contradiction, when we learn the fact that our ancestors once had to hunt and wander around marathon days for food, that consisted mainly of meat, fruits, grains and perhaps nuts. And then for a treat of sweet, the dessert solely consisted of honey collected from the beehives.

Adversely, in today’s contemporary world, despite the advancement in technology and research, the society is under threat of nutritional crisis and in need of proper remedies. What could possibly be concluded about the fact that more than half of the US population are under the risk of obesity? The outbreak of diseases like Type 2 Diabetes and hypertension that are directly linked with obesity has risen significantly in recent times.

According to Diabetes UK, the number of young children with diabetes Type 1 has substantially increased in the United Kingdom. Each year, the number of children diagnosed with the Type 1 is increasing by a 2.3 percent. These syndromes had been quite unfamiliar to the paediatricians but they are noticed a lot among the juvenile population lately.
As life has become more complicated, people are more concerned about their general health and fitness. The need of an apposite diet in a person’s everyday life has become more essential. This concept has given rise to many diets, such as ones known as the low carb diet. It is nothing but just the opposite of a low fat diet.

The sole purpose of curb diet is weight loss. It also generates ethical factors, like the feeling of well being in a person. This kind of nutritional regime limits the intake of sugar and carbohydrates from the diet. Human body requires energy to function and the carbohydrate in one’s diet plays a vital role here, being the source of most of the energy for metabolism. Since, low carb diet restricts the intake of carbohydrate, the body would take in mostly fat to convert to glycogen. As a result the body burns more fat, that are stored in the body, thus bringing about a rapid and significant weight loss.

Usually, low curb diet consists of food that are rich in protein and fat. Food items like meat, cheese, fish and eggs are emphasized in the diet plan. While the restricted food includes white rice, potatoes, bread, pasta and cereals. Only an insignificant amount, about 15 to 40 grams per day is allowed. However, there are no restrictions on the amount of calories or the measure of food taken in this diet. So, the person undergoing this plan would not usually experience hunger between meals, unlike any other diet.

A very typical low carb breakfast menu could consist of eggs, vegetable Frittata (made from a combination of various vegetable leftovers and eggs), low carb cereals such as Flax-O Meal, bakeries made from low carb ingredients (muffins, cakes, bread or pancakes) and dairy products such as yoghurt, cottage cheese, Ricotta or Tofu.

The lunch menu could consist of generous amounts of salads, rolls and wraps (stuffed with vegetables, meat or fish) and soups.

A low carb dinner could vary from a wide range of dishes. This may include chicken potpie as an alternative of pasta, grilled meat or broiled fish as substitutes for rice and potatoes, soups and salads. You may even experiment with continental dishes such as Thai or Greek, since they are mostly low on carbohydrate.

Wouter Van Dyck wrote many articles about different weight loss plans. He has experienced dozens of programs himself over the years but finally found a solution.

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Don’t build your house on sand

You wouldn’t build your house on sand would you? An unstable surface that is unable to support any structure built upon it.Then why do some people insist on training their body hard when their foundation is weak?

Typically overweight and unfit people have:

• Little to no core strength
• Poor structural stability (Shoulder, Hip and Ankle)
• Poor posture
• Lack of flexibility
• Probably an unbalanced diet

Even 10 minutes on the treadmill is going to be to much for them to do safely so what chance do they have with the vast majority of exercise programs available?

The likelihood is they will injure themselves very early on in their training. If they are injured they can’t train effectively and so can’t get the results the desire.

Any training program you use must address this issue and ensure a firm foundation is built before high volume / impact exercises are introduced.

So how, practically, can you build a firm foundation?

• Control your diet by not dieting! Most health experts will agree that when it comes to weight loss, what you eat has the biggest influence on how much weight you lose. You need to eat small-ish portions of nourishing food regularly and ditch the junk. The closer you come to your ideal weight, the safer you are and the harder you can exercise.

• Strengthen core and structural stability, improve posture and flexibility by doing a specialised program designed to do just that, or easier still take Pilates classes. Pilates addresses all the above-mentioned points and then some!

• Ensure any exercise program you undertake whilst you are building your “firm foundation” has been designed to be both safe and effective and takes into account your own limitations.

• You should be able to sustain your exercise program over the long term (for ever!) It should therefore be designed with real people with real jobs and families in mind. We can’t all find 4-6 hours a week to exercise!

As you can see it’s not rocket science, but mainly just common sense. Build a firm foundation, and what you build should last forever.

Carol Bartram (Pilates Instructor)

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Breastfeeding is highly recommended for all newborns. Breast milk is the best nutrient for the baby. Its composition is ideal for the growing needs and brain development of a newborn baby.

When breastfeeding, a new mother can greatly benefit from getting all the necessary information through reading books and pamphlets. She will also get invaluable information by joining a support group on breastfeeding in her local community.

Breastfeeding can be greatly eased by the loving support of a spouse. Although the spouse cannot nurse the baby, there are hundreds of other daily tasks he can take over to relieve the breastfeeding mother. A supporting spouse will help by doing such things as preparing meals, changing the baby’s diaper, giving the baby its bath and allowing the nursing mother to enjoy a well deserved nap during the day.

In the case of a nursing mother who needs to go out, the simplest way is to bring her baby along and breastfeed on demand. Sometimes, the baby cannot be brought along and new parents are faced with a dilemma. What should they feed their baby? Who is going to babysit?

The best is to find a relative who is experienced in taking care of a young baby. This would easily resolve the anxiety by knowing that the baby is in good hands. Being able to call and leaving a phone number in case of emergencies to ensure that the baby is doing fine will also re-assure the new parents.

The last question is what to feed the baby while the nursing mother is away? The obvious answer to this question is: breast milk of course. Hence, a nursing mother can easily extract her milk between feedings and store it for future use like when she goes out.

A general rule for conserving breast milk is that it can be stored at normal room temperature for 4 hours (at 25 degrees Celsius) or one hour if thawed.

Breast milk can also be kept for longer periods in cases of a person who has abundant quantities. It can be stored in the refrigerator’s freezer for up to 3 to 4 months in the case of a quality refrigerator. It is important to mark the date with a black marker on the container to ensure the milk has not expired.

Breast milk can also be kept in the regular refrigerator for 3 to 5 days at 4 degrees Celsius, if thawed it can only be kept for 24 hours. A very important fact to know is that since it has not been pasteurized, the cream of the milk will separate from the liquid part of it, giving the milk an unusual appearance (not unlike milk that would have soured. One has to simply shake the bottle and the milk will be as good as new.

In the case of people who own a chest freezer, breast milk can be stored for as long as 6 months. Again, it is important to mark the dates it was first stored.

Often, new parents may feel like their entire freezer is filled with frozen breast milk and that baby will never drink all this quantity. They will be amazed to realize that when they come back from their first romantic week-end away from baby, the little one will have gone through most of the breast milk reserve.

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QUESTION:

We are trying some new disciplinary strategies for our out-of-control teen, but we are not seeing any changes in his behavior yet. What might we be doing wrong?

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ANSWER:

Here’s what I see in those cases where parents seem to have difficulty getting ‘off the ground’ after they have adopted a new set of parenting techniques for out-of-control teens:

Some parents have always been indecisive about what course of action to try with their child. They jump from one parenting technique to the other without giving any one technique enough time to be effective, or they try a new parenting technique once and then give up in frustration because it didn’t work fast enough.

Some parents will say, “We’ve tried everything and nothing works with this kid.” On rare occasion, this may be true. What I usually see is parents drifting from one parenting tool to another without refining their parenting tools.

Here are several ways to refine:

==> Realize the same discipline may not work for all children, because of the unique features of different children

==> Try to blend a combination of several parenting tools to create a more effective discipline

==> Do NOT believe it when your children seem unaffected by discipline. Children often pretend discipline doesn’t bother them. Continue to be persistent with your planned discipline, and consider yourself successful by keeping your parenting plan in place. When children pretend a discipline doesn’t bother them, parents often give up on a discipline, which reinforces the child’s disobedience. Remember, you can only control your actions, not your children’s reactions.

Let’s trouble-shoot.

Below is a summary of “parenting basics” that every parent should be utilizing. If parents do not implement ALL of these, it WILL be the “kiss of failure.” For example, the transmission in your car has hundreds of parts, but if just one little tiny part is not working — the whole transmission does not work. The same is true with these “basics.” Omit just one, and the whole parenting-plan fails to run.

1. Are you asking your son at least one question each day that cannot be answered with a simple “yes” or “no” to demonstrate that you are interested in what is going on in his/her life?

2. Are you saying to your child “I love you” everyday and expecting nothing in return?

3. Are you eating dinner together at least one evening each week — either at home or out?

4. Do you catch your son in the act of doing something right at least once each day?

5. Do you give your child at least one chore each day?

6. Do you find something fun to do with your teen each week?

7. When you are undecided about what to say or do in any particular situation, are you asking yourself the following question: “Will this promote the development of self-reliance in my child, or will this inhibit the development of self-reliance?” If it is supportive of self-reliance, say it or do it. If it is not supportive, don’t!

8. Is your son EARNING ALL of his privileges?

9. Are you issuing consequences for misbehavior that is not accidentally rewarding misbehavior?

10. Are you avoiding ‘power-struggles’ at all costs?

If you answered “no” to any of the above, you are missing some important pieces to the puzzle. Most parents DO miss a few pieces initially — you can’t be expected to remember everything! But don’t get frustrated and give up. We must be willing to hang in there for the long haul.

I’m talking about refinement here. Refinement is a necessary tool to use in order to truly be successful with parenting strategies for out-of-control teens.

HERE IS THE GOOD NEWS: Parents who refine are, on average, 95% - 100% successful at getting the parent-child difficulties reduced in intensity and severity (i.e., the problems are easily managed).

The same can be true in your case. Keep up the good work. Continue to refine. Refinement is a process, not a one-time event.

Mark Huttenlocker, M.A., is a family therapist who works with teens and pre-teens experiencing emotional/behavioral problems associated with ADHD, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Conduct Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Autism, etc. He works with these children and their parents - in their homes. You may visit his website here: http://www.MyOutOfControlTeen.com/support

Losing fat is one of the objective of every person in this earth who is fat. Well, do not know if there are any extra terrestrial human beings outside this earth. Well , if you are fat it causes lot of inconveniences to you.

It affects your daily routine and feel really frustrated about being fat. You think I need to lose fat and get a permanent remedy cure to lose fat. It is possible to lose fat permanently, but that requires a lot of effort on your part to lose it. You need to focus yourself to lose fat by focussing on your diet habits and have a plan and taking steps to lose fat. It may take few months and may be a year. But you shall lose fat finally.

The Main Factors To Focus To Lose Fat is:

Diet: Many people around the globe are fat because of the food habits which they adopt . So you need to focus diet and control it. Avoid oily and fast foods (burger, pizzas, hotdogs etc.)., Avoid to much table sugar intake (in tea, coffee & candies etc.),Non-veg should be used in white meat (like fishes).
You need to consume more of juicy fruits , fibrous vegetables. Drink lot of Water.

Do Exercise: Do physical exercises regularly, If you live in building or work in a office building with 5 floors or more, take the steps instead of the lift which automatically completes your exercise for the day.
Additionally, you can do yoga which is one of the most popular and ancient technique of keeping the body healthier.

Doctor: It is always advisable to have doctor’s advise to in order to lose fat in your body . This will include your medical check up of your health .

Books: Do read good books about losing your fat which will have plenty of information to learn.This may be procured from libraries and the internet.

Always remember “Where There Is a Will , There Is a Way”

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The first obvious stage in any relationship is selection, the beginning of the honeymoon phase. This is also the most important because without the expectation and actual success in selecting the right partner, nothing else will happen: no dialogue, no love, no marriage, no sex, no continuation of the species! This is the time when expectation is high on one hand but carefully muted to some degree, often deliberately suppressed to prevent any personal disappointment.

Selection involves a hunt of some duration, ending with the catch or prize - the potential partner. The only goal at this stage is to attract someone to whom the person is appealing in return. Everything hinges on this ultimate objective and, to prevent any disaster, there is a high level of teasing, pretending and game playing. The guy might pretend he is merely seeking a ‘friend’, no commitment, of course, while the girl might pretend he is no one special, perhaps playing ‘hard to get’ in the process. Thus, reading the signals becomes crucial at this time in case we overreact, but they are often missed through inexperience, fear of not making an impression, offending the other, or through too much excitement and bravado. Sometimes they are also misinterpreted through a difference in culture, age or gender perception or the wish to appear ‘nice’ and accommodating

The emphasis here is on getting someone healthy, worthy, almost a mirror image of the hunter in culture, race and values. Someone almost flawless in every respect in order to continue the species in the most effective form, and in the quickest possible time. Efforts are then made to catch the attention of someone special, primarily to make a connection, nothing more. In fact, if we still have some unresolved problems with a parent, this is the time we may unconsciously choose someone who is similar to, or the opposite of, him or her. We may even find a partner attractive because she has traits we feel we lack or we find unacceptable in ourselves.

Attracting Attention

For example, a woman who is too serious may like a man who is fun-loving and carefree. But, later down the line, too much extroversion, especially at the wrong moments, might jar on the more reserved party. Initially the differences in personality will seem very appealing, but they are more likely to irritate after a while, especially if they are the result of low self-esteem, and will inevitably take their toll on the stronger party.

The selection stage is characterised by an elaborate ritual of drawing attention to one’s self at every opportunity and seeking interest from the other party - often with unrealistic expectations to match. The main aim at this crucial time is to impress others and to stir a positive reaction. Many people go to lengths to find a reciprocal mate, especially with regard to physical attraction. They try to look their best, preening themselves like peacocks, and often in the latest fashions, to emphasise their individuality and style. They try to say the right things at all times and to behave according to the perceived expectations of the intended one - perceptions which are likely to be based upon past experience. That is why many suitors make the mistake of using the expectations of former partners, or general stereotypes, to judge new ones. Bad move, in fact, because everyone likes to be treated individually. Each person’s expectation will also be age-related, culturally referenced, value driven and based upon her/his future objectives.

In selecting a potential mate men invariably focus on the physical: someone ‘beautiful’, ’stunning’, ‘gorgeous’, ‘a real babe’, translated as one who looks good and carries the right height, weight, hair and boobs! They also loathe any form of rejection, taking offence at the slightest lack of interest, but are usually quickest to reject the women they do not deem to be suitable often without a second thought. For women it is a more emotional requirement, though well-developed bulges in the right places, like biceps and triceps, will not be overlooked! Attributes women value in men are passion, love, a caring nature and loyalty. If they are older, at least some hair and the suitor’s own teeth would not go amiss! Some money would be welcome too, while a nice bum would be a great bonus. This is the time when we would almost go through hoops to be noticed, which also makes us ultra-sensitive to the mildest form of rejection.

Desperation Creeping In

Trouble arises when one party is already further down the attraction line - such as being at the third stage of commitment - which is too obvious too early, which tends to frighten off the other party. Connection then hangs in the balance while other factors are used to judge the possibility of further progress, like the value of the prize (whether he/she is ‘worth it’), and the personal state of readiness to move more rapidly beyond the selection stage). Factors like these influence the decision whether to proceed or not with the chosen one. As this 39-year-old male says about his method of selecting: “I prefer women under 35 or over 45. The in-betweens are best avoided. Women between those ages have moved into those years where they feel the overwhelming urge to ’settle down’ and have children. Desperation creeps in then, and desperation is never sexy.” When that crucial connection is made, it is time to move on to the next stage.

When my ex-husband first met me he earned only £8 per week - a good wage then for a junior person in the Forces - but, as he was always trying to impress me, he often took me to have an expensive meal (about £1.50 then!) followed by the cinema or pub. After these outings, and some savings in his post office book, there could not have been much left to last him through the week! One night he missed the only bus and walked 16 miles from his Royal AirForce base to the nurses’ home just to see me. I was impressed!

ELAINE SIHERA (Ms Cyprah -http://www.ecademy.com/user/elainesihera and http://www.myspace.com/elaineone) is an expert author, public speaker, media contributor and lifestyle columnist. The first Black graduate of the OU and a post-graduate of Cambridge University. Elaine is a CONFIDENCE guru and a Personal Empowerment, Relationships and Diversity Consultant. Author of: 10 Easy Steps to Growing Older Disgracefully; 10 Easy Steps to Finding Your Ideal Soulmate!; Money, Sex & Compromise and Managing the Diversity Maze, among others (available on http://www.amazon.co.uk as well as her personal website). Also the founder of the British Diversity Awards and the Windrush Men and Women of the Year Achievement Awards. She describes herself as, “Fit, Fabulous, Over-fifty and Ready to Fly!”

Diet and exercise are important factors in our lives. We see many obese people in our daily lives. We ourselves may be included in that category and want to change that about ourselves. To do this we must develop some new habits which will benefit us for the rest of our lives.

1.-Eat less - Remember what you mother used to tell you “Eat everything on your plate.”? Don’t do it. Eat until you feel satisfied. We often think we must clean our plates but we do it out of habit not necessity. Then we snack as a hobby not as a needed intake of food. Try using smaller plates. Eat 4 - 6 small meals per day. Eat most of your calories early in the day.

2.-Drink more water - You should drink 8 eight ounce glasses of water each day. It is a hassle to continually count those glasses of water so just make sure you drink a glass every time you are in the kitchen. When you are on the road and stop for a soda, get a bottle of water instead. Water cleanses the waste from your body. It also makes you feel fuller so you will eat less.

3.-Eat more fruit - Look back at the societies of the past. Did you see a really huge problem with obesity such as we have today? They rarely had that issue to contend with. What was their diet? Fruits and vegetables made up a large percentage of their diet. And besides an apple is easier to take with you and quicker to prepare than a sandwich.

4.-Vegetables - As noted above, our ancestors must have had something right, after all there weren’t many fat pilgrims or Indians. Obesity is pretty much a modern condition.

5.-Rice and potatoes - Easy to prepare and filling. Once again look back to the ancestors.

6.-Exercise - Not in the gym. Let’s make it easy. Walk when you can. Park further out in the WalMart parking lot and walk to the door. Give up the elevator and use the stairs.

7.-Spend time with friends and family - Very motivational when they tell you haw good you are looking and they will help occupy your time and mind so you are not thinking about food.

These are just a few common sense and relatively inexpensive weight loss tips to build your diet program around. Give them a try and see if you don’t start looking and feeling better.

David Snyder is an RN who is looking at the weight loss epidemic facing society.

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