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After a stressful day, most of us just want to relax, and getting exercise may be the last thing on our list of priorities. However, research is increasingly proving that exercise is just what we need to significantly decrease daily stress and anxiety.

From a Mayo Clinic staff study, “Exercise helps prevent and improve a number of health problems, including high blood pressure, diabetes and arthritis. Research on anxiety, depression and exercise shows that the psychological and physical benefits of exercise can also help reduce anxiety and improve mood.”

How does it work? In a variety of ways:

Chemical: Exercise releases “feel good” chemicals in your brain. You may have heard of the “runner’s high”. Well, it’s not just a ploy to get you to exercise! Physical activity releases endorphins, which deliver a mood lift to your body and mind.

Healthy Choices: Beyond chemical stimulation, exercise most often makes you feel good about your choices. When you’re confident that you’re improving your health, you’ll increase your overall confidence.

Distraction: Exercise can be an opportunity to step away from the worries of the day, and spend time by yourself, focusing on your body, and letting stress take a back seat for a while. That’s a daily prescription we could all use!

Read more of what the Mayo Clinic has to say regarding exercise and anxiety here:

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/depression-and-exercise/MH00043

And go here to read about how the Body For The Ages Online Wellness Program can deliver an exercise, health, and wellness program tailored to your specific needs:

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-Melissa Chandler, Body For The Ages Blogger

Eating Your Way to a Lower Blood Pressure

Dr. Maoshing Ni (Dr. Mao), a Yahoo.com health expert for alternative medicine has tips for what to eat (and what not to eat), when it comes to maintaining a healthy blood pressure level.

It just may turn out that your favorite foods are working wonders for your health and wellness, in more ways than you realize. 

Dr. Mao’s cuisine recommendations include fish, cucumbers, and olive oil, for their valuable effects on your circulatory and heart health.

Foods that may raise your blood pressure include salt, refined sugar, and alcohol.  Though it’s okay to enjoy these items in moderation, it’s smart to get in the habit of substituting with spices, honey, and plenty of hydrating beverages, such as sparkling water.

Read more of Dr. Mao’s insights here: http://health.yahoo.com/experts/drmao/19535/10-best-and-worst-foods-for-blood-pressure/

Enjoy your favorites, and try some new recipes, but keep in mind that eating healthy is one of the surest paths to increased health and wellness.

As a Member of the Body For The Ages Online Wellness Program, you’ll receive a personalized nutrition plan, based on your unique lifestyle preferences and dietary needs.

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Most books with a tough-love message want a true confession out of an overweight person - an admission that the individual is in a denial state and has an inner responsibility for being overweight.  I think that approach is wrong.  I think you have to put planks in a platform for success, and show the practitioner of the denial system how to move forward successfully, once that individual is out from under the spell of the denial system.  However, overweight people must acknowledge the solution starts at home from within themselves, not from an outside cause.  So instead of just beating you “denial system devotees” up, I will show you a practical system to defeat obesity, but damn it, don’t you dare quit on me!  I won’t accept it.  Stick with me and you’ll get the results, I guarantee.

In general, there are two types of lifestyles.  My system is a positive Total Commitment Motivational, Wellness lifestyle for success.  Those who are overweight, and don’t want to be, are living the other type - a negative lifestyle destined for failure.  When someone tells a person to pursue a positive lifestyle as an option, there is an assumption that they don’t have a lifestyle.  They do.  It is a lifestyle for failure.  No wonder so many find themselves in a position of a psychological dilemma.  Follow along with me as we lay several more key planks in the platform for the successful solution to the weight problem, and more importantly, the coping with the torment of failure.  Begin a positive lifestyle of quality eating habits, prescription exercise - that’s fun - and add proper scientific nutritional supplements.  There is your foundation.

Remember that if you start wrong, you finish wrong.  If you start right, you have at least a half-assed chance of finishing right.  And I assure you, with effort based on Total Commitment Motivational, Wellness Philosophy and serious focus on a positive lifestyle, I will describe in detail in future blogs, weight-loss success for you is a sure thing.

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I heard a great line the other day- “Food is not an activity.”

I thought that was some great advice on how to keep from over eating.  I know that I sometimes do eat just because I’m bored during comericals.

I also try to limit my supply of junk food in my house.  I find if there are chips, I will eat chips until I run out or get full.  If there are cookies, I will eat cookies until I run out or get full.  I fall I have is salad, I will eat salad.  And I can only eat so much salad.

Do you have some tips for eating better?  Please share in the comments section.

Here’s some tips from Pax:

Establish “No-Eat Zones”: This teaches discipline which is a key component of success. Not trying yields tragedy, and effort yields triumph.

Do the “Savor the Flavor” Test: Learn the art of eating slower. Practice makes perfect.

Break One Habit at a Time: You can’t stop overeating, smoking, and drinking all at once. Your initial goal is to adopt the Body for the Ages Nutrition System of eating, the initial goal is not to weight loss.

Table Eating: Only eat at the table. (Never standing, or in a car.)

Don’t Fear Failure: Everybody slips off every course they commit to… sometimes. That’s not failure. You are human. Slipping off course and then quitting - that’s failure.

Make it Fun!: Maintain a positive frame of mind. You’re on your way to building the body of your dreams!

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