Healthy Lifestyle For All

Free Lunch and Learn Health Workshop for Women

Free Lunch and Learn Health Workshop for Women (Click Here for more INFO)

Join us Tuesday, October 19th from 12-1pm for a fun and informative

lunchtime workshop where we will discuss various

topics on women’s health. Lunch will be provided. This event is

free and open to the public, but we do ask that you RSVP by

Monday, October 18th. (Please let them know CFF sent you!)

How Safe is YOUR Drinking Water?

Do you know the level of exposure you and your family may be experiencing on a daily basis?

Fact:
Lead in your water can damage the nervous system and reduce the intelligence capabilities of children.
Fact:
Bacteria and/or high sulfate levels can have adverse effects on the gastrointestinal system. Fact:
Atrazine and other common herbicides, industrial chemicals and pesticides can cause tumor growth.
Fact:
Municipal systems are only responsible for water quality leaving treatment facilities, not the water you drink in your home.

As a society on a whole we ingest thousands of bacteria and organisms on a daily basis that our body is forced to fight off. It is any wonder we have a rise in cancers, weight gain, obesity, and many other diseases.

• What are we doing to make sure not only are we getting the purest of water?

• What are we doing to provide a safe household for our children, family and friends?
• How are we protecting them?
• What happens when there is a main water break and we are told not to use the water for hours or days and all the bottle water in the stores are gone?
• How will we feed our families, bath and so forth?
  

The only way to make sure you are getting the healthiest water with out paying for bottle water all the time is to have your own purification system. I am not referring to a water filter, I am referring to a purification system. Check out the video above to learn the difference.

For more information on the best purification system in the market check out this link:
http://www.amway.com/Shop/Search/SearchResults.aspx?searchkeyword=espring&pwsID=jhwaller

Green Products that are SAFE for the Environment

Ever wonder if there will ever be some cleaning products out there that are safe for the family, safe for the kids and safe on your surfaces. Plus it works like a charm.

Check this out: Mildly abrasive Soft Cleanser uses natural resources like crushed marble, washing soda, and orange oil, to cut through soil and grime but go easy on scratch-prone surfaces. Everything finishes pristine and clean. So it’s all smooth sailing from here.

Just check out the video and see how this awesome product compares to other products in the market..

Oh and, it is dermatologist-tested. Has no phosphates, chlorine, or other unpleasant ingredients that could harm the environment.

Everyday Fitness

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http://blogs.webmd.com/pamela-peeke-md/2010/06/the-secret-to-lifelong-weight-maintenance.html?ecd=wnl_lbt_060910_crg_pfx

Living life to the fullest is all about striving for a mind-body balance every day. Achieve a mental, nutritional, and physical transformation for life with tips from wellness expert Pamela Peeke, MD.

Take a look at my Diet Community and you’ll see a discussion group that I entitled “I was doing just fine with my weight management program UNTIL___.” This was a real hit, with countless postings ranging from words of wisdom, “Get serious about getting rid of over eating triggers, even if it means your husband!” to pleas for help, “No matter what I do, I only seem to last no more than 2 or 3 months and then I fall apart, once again.”

Based upon this discussion group and my daily interactions with patients who are slugging it out striving to maintain their weight removal achievements, I’ve decided to concentrate on one key element of lifelong weight maintenance – vigilance.

Vigilance is the state of being vigilant, the Latin derivation of which means to keep watch, stay awake and be watchful, especially to avoid danger. It doesn’t mean you have to turn yourself into a crazed obsessed worrier. It simply means be on red alert for those situations when you know you’ll be more vulnerable to self-destructive habits.

For example, let’s say you’ve never had a problem eating a healthy breakfast and lunch. But when 3 PM rolls around, you’re fighting a well-entrenched habit of sauntering over to the vending machines and loading up on candy and cookies. This is when you must be much more vigilant and become acutely aware of your choices and actions. Red alert times are when you tend to a become a food zombie, mindlessly deferring to old habits, and then awakening from a binge coma to realize with shock and horror that you’ve just downed a mountain of food.

In addition to times of day, sometimes we’re hit with one of life’s curve balls and your best healthy lifestyle intentions can easily and mindlessly fall by the wayside. Carole is a 45-year-old mother of 3 with a strong family history of serious obesity. She’d been an athletic woman, giving birth to three fabulous boys, and life was going well until one of her son’s was diagnosed with a medical condition. Being the ultimate caregiver, she dropped her healthy habits and promptly allowed her genes to take over.

Remember my favorite saying: “Genetics may load the gun, but environment pulls the trigger.” She’d kept her genes at bay until she was seriously challenged. The good news is that her son came through with flying colors. The bad news was she gained 130 pounds over the course of 3 years. Talk about a long food coma. Once she was ready to make the change, she reversed her habits and shed the 130 pounds and for three years maintained her newly fit self quite well.

Then, she got hit with another caregiver sledgehammer when her aging mother became demented and unmanageable, draining her mental and physical energy with endless doctor’s visits and terrible temper tantrums. 50 pounds later, Carole awakened from her food trance long enough to realize that instead of donning her nice form fitting clothes, she was back to elastic. She literally had no memory of passing through 4 dress sizes. Such is the power of dissociation. At one point, Carole looked at me and said in a voice of disbelief, “I thought I was there. You know. I’d reached my goal and I was going to stay there for life no matter what stress happened. Boy, was I wrong.”

Carole dropped her vigilance and voila, the weight was back.

Thankfully, Carole learned her lesson and so will you. Here are mindfulness tips and tools to keep you vigilant and help you succeed at maintaining your lifelong weight management journey:

1. Once you reach your “there,” you have to work to maintain it. First up, get it out of your mind that some mythical fairy tale easy life “there” exists. You can never achieve a weight goal and just expect to maintain that accomplishment without continuous work. You may have shed 50 pounds and be happy at this moment. But if you let it go, and you don’t continue the very same healthy lifestyle habits that helped you reach your goal, you’ll regain the weight.

2. Plan for your red alerts. Take a moment and make a list of the kinds of stresses that have usually kicked you right into self- destruction. Any person, place or thing that triggers you to overeat and abandon your healthy habits needs to be counted and recognized. This include specific times of day when you are more vulnerable to going mindless and knee jerking into an old self-destructive habit. For each item on your list, write down at least 3 strategies for proactively preventing this stress from getting to you. If you’re grabbing junk to eat every mid-afternoon, plan to bring a satisfying snack to curb carb cravings and rein in overeating at dinner.

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3.Adapt and adjust to unexpected life events. You never know when a serious stress will occur in your life. This is when you need to understand the golden rule of coping: Under tough stresses, learn to adapt and adjust without self-destruction. If you practice stress management every day, then you’ll have honed your skills enough not to get derailed when you hit the big speed bumps of life. Yoga, meditation, journaling, the outdoors, family and friends are all great resources to draw from when the going gets that tough.

4. Ask for help. Don’t be shy. Be vigilant and aware of the fact that you’re falling off the wagon. Minimize damage control by asking for professional help if you need it. Counselors, nutritionists and fitness professionals are all there to partner with you as you seek to regroup and get back on track.

For a supplement that is proven to help with weight loss go to:

http://www.amway.com/Shop/Search/SearchResults.aspx?searchkeyword=slimetry&pwsID=jhwaller

10 Minutes a Day to Build a Stronger, Healthier You!

10 Minutes a Day to Build a Stronger, Healthier You!
Sean Foy, M.A.

Author of The 10-Minute Total Body Breakthrough

In 2010, how would you like to have a healthier body, home, and business life? You can! It’s easier than you’d think, and you can start to do it in just 10 minutes a day.

Suppose the January 1, 2010, newspaper headline read, “Magic Health Potion Discovered!” The article went on to describe that scientists had designed a miracle medication that will help to lower your risk of diabetes, obesity, heart disease, stroke, and several types of cancer. The same medication may also rev up your metabolism, help your body burn fat, and give you more energy. And, it can strengthen your muscles, help maintain bone health, help to reduce stress, and even help you look years younger! The best news … this magic potion is cheap and available everywhere!

Would you run out the door in your new Christmas pj’s to your local drugstore to find this “magic potion”? Your instinct to “run” is on target for the magic potion.

Motion Is the Magic Potion
The magic potion I’m talking about is exercise. Stay with me now, and let me tell you’ve what I’ve learned.

The physical benefits of exercise are extensive and well-documented. But to my knowledge, no studies have been done on the ways in which getting fit can change your life. At Nutrilite Health Institute (NHI), we have tested the 10-minute 4-3-2-1 workout, and we’ve seen some interesting results. One breakthrough is that people see 10 minutes as “doable.” As they started the 10-minute routine, they also began to make other changes in their life too. From our documented cases, many participants reported better self-esteem, higher business productivity, more self-control, increased happiness, and better relationships.

To improve your life there is not much that will compare to moving your body more – even just 10 minutes a day.* Exercise can transform the way we feel, think, act, and look. You can have a healthy body to meet your daily obligations and have leftover energy for fun! When your health and fitness improve, you can have the strength and energy to experience more that life offers.

4-3-2-1 DONE!
I would encourage you to visit my website: www.4321fitness.com to learn more about how moving your body just 10 minutes a day, the 4-3-2-1 way, on a regular basis will help you experience success, and you can begin the journey to transform your health.

You can do it! Start today! Remember to start small and finish strong!

All the best in 2010!
Coach Sean

*Consult with your doctor prior to starting any new exercise program.

Networking Event for Entrepenuers

Hotep, the founder of Hustle University will be speaking at this innovative event for The Movers & Shakers Summit of Atlanta.





You can find him on http://www.hustleuniversity.org/.


You can also check out any of his books on his site and Amazon.com under Hustle University.

http://www.moversandshakerssummit.com/event