Side Effects from Soda

WOW! The deadly drink that does taste good. I found this from the website Mind Body Green. Being a diabetic most of my life, I would drink soda once a month but reading this I might just only drink on the holidays. It's good to treat yourself once in awhile, but no all the time.

I believe everyone has seen this but look it again. Really look at it. This sugar is in your body and it attacks your body. If you are addiction to soda, way yourself off slowly and start saving yourself. Change your taste to diet - less calories and sugar. Here is the link to calorie count on most of all the soda out there - http://caloriecount.about.com/tag/food/dietcoke

Juice is also a problem. One serving is good for your vitamin intake. Please check labels.

Reminder Before You Grab a Donut

OMG! Here is a reminder before you grab the last donut at the office. (Sponsor by Yahoo.)

DONUTDunkin Donuts Chocolate Frosted Donut (230 calories)
59 minutes of walking (3 mph).


BREAKFAST SANDWICHMcDonald's Egg McMuffin (300 calories)
32 minutes of running (5 mph).

CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIEPanera Chocolate Chipper (440 calories)
62 minutes of biking (10-11.9 mph).

PIZZAPizza Hut Large Hand-Tossed Style Cheese Pizza (1 slice; 320 calories)
39 minutes of swimming (slow to moderate laps).


CINNAMON ROLLStarbucks Cinnamon Roll (500 calories, varies by location)
85 minutes of dancing.


HAMBURGERBurger King Original Whopper With Cheese (770 calories)
94 minutes of swimming (slow to moderate laps).


BROWNIEAu Bon Pain Chocolate Chip Brownie (380 calories).
129 minutes of yoga (Hatha style).


FRIESWendy's Large French Fries (540 calories)
77 minutes of biking (10-11.9 mph).

ICE CREAMHäagen-Dazs Vanilla Ice Cream (0.5 cup; 270 calories)
29 minutes of running (5 mph).


BURRITOTaco Bell Burrito Supreme, Beef (410 calories)
70 minutes of dancing.

Secret Truth About Restauants

I came across with this article on yahoo.com and can't believe the truth about these restaurants. Applebee's graded F, I always thought that there food is supposedly be health - Shocker. Check out the list of your favorite resaurant and see what grade they got. Click here.

Top Healthiest Fast-Food Restaurants 2009

I was very surprise on the list of fast-food restaurants top healthiest list. Check out if any of these restaurants live by your home and check out their menu.

#1 Panera Bread
#2 Jason’s Deli
#3 Au Bon Pain
#4 Noodles and Company
#5 Corner Bakery Cafe
#6 Chipotle
#7 Atlanta Bread
#8 McDonald’s
#9 Einstein Bros. Bagels
#10 Taco Del Mar

If you want to the read the article about each of these restaurants on why they are health and what food to eat and to avoid. Click here.

Facts of Being Happy

TALK ON THE PHONE
Just talking on the phone to a friend or a love one will lower your blood pressure and benefits you to keep your brain sharp. It is an unlimited minutes to keep you physically active. HA HA HA

EXPRESS WORDS OR PICTURES
Writing a journal or taking pictures with your camera of happy events will make you more thankful and grateful for living healthy and boost you happiness for for the fortune time of upcoming weeks ahead.

RANDOMLY KINDNESS
Do you perform 2 or 5 acts of kindness in any given day? Giving up your seat on the bus or getting donuts or coffee cake to your co-worker at work, these small kind acts will boost your sense of well-being and happiness. It feels good to help someone at need and cheer up that person who needs it.

REAPPRAISE THE PAST
Rewrite or revisit an important event in your past. Reflecting on the experience can reshape your perception of it, as well as your expectations for the future. See your high school or list your accomplishments that you have done will boost your self-esteem. Open other doors and finally forgive yourself and move on to a better life.

VOLUNTEER
Take time to volunteer at a church, library, or red-cross You can meet new people will get you out of the house and do something rather than seating at home watching TV. This is a great activity to move and build your self confidence to get to know different people in the world.

LISTEN TO MUSIC
Rock-n-Roll, Classical, R&B and Jazz, take 5 minutes in the morning and listen or dance to your favorite song. It will take you back to the good times of a special event you had when you heard the song. Especially it will up lift your spirits.

ADOPT A PETS
Having a pet gives you responsibility in life that you have someone to be counted for. You feel important that your pet need you to give it food and water, to take walks and play with and even, to sleep next to and see its face in the morning.

Excuses for Exercise

We all have excuses in NOT doing exercises, even me. We tell and say, "We don't have time... We don't like doing it... Blah...Blah...Blah..." Here are some solutions to leave behind those excuses. Exercise can be fun.

"IT DOESN'T FEEL GOOD"
Solution: When you finish you exercise, you always should do a Cool Down for 5 minutes. This will leave a feeling that exercises was easy and you will more liking to do it again.

"I DON'T HAVE TIME"
Solution: You don't have to do a lot of exercise. A 10 minute walk is better than nothing. Even during commericals on TV, you can get up and mark in place or even side walk with moving you arms up and down (for a total workout) for those 5 or 7 minutes until your TV program comes back on.

"I'M NOT GETTING RESULTS"
Solution: Try activity that works both your upper and lower body at the same time. This will boost your calorie burn without feeling like you are working any harder. (for example - doing squatts and biceps curls.)

"I'VE TRIED IT BEFORE"
Solution: The glass is half full, NOT half empty. Concentrate on the times you did exercise. Focus the positive that will liberate proof that you can succeed.

Breath in the Oxygen

Try to get interest into plant life. Plants are our best air purifiers. They produce oxygen and eliminate volatile organic compounds. Most effective are indoor plant such as palms, English ivy, ficuses and peace lilies. Stay away from flower plants, they are fine to smell sweet perfumes but will give you a sneeze or two. Beside of plant life giving us oxygen, it also gives us energy from the sun light to heal our souls and bodies.

However, plants can't produce glucose, carbohydrates and oxygen without light. To get through the night, most plants reverse the process of photosynthesis and breathe, like you and I, by burning carbohydrates and oxygen while producing carbon dioxide and water. So surround yourself with plants during the day, your work place or in the living room or kitchen. But remove them from your bedroom at night when you sleep.

We can learn form plants by standing under the sun light and bathing the energy from it. The sun light rays warms our bodies and achy bones to produce a energy sensation. Go under the sun, early morning and late in the day, to avoid the harmful UV rays and take in the warmth bright energy that most of us miss during these winter days.

I read this article on the website that I thought it was interesting and thought you might want to know ex-specially now what has been going on with our earth, today. It takes one person to breathe in about 53,000 ML of oxygen in one hour. On an average plant has 30 leaves, each leaf is 5 L of oxygen equal to (30x5) 150 ML/plant/hour. So, an average person needs 53,000 ML of oxygen in an hour. Meaning it take 300 to 400 plants to produce enough oxygen to keep ONE person alive in an hour.

Please, plant seed for all of you and your family to live a happier life.

Cool Ad

This ad is a creative advertising of fitness company that I want to share with you, all. Makes you think. It has a saying at the bottom of the ad, "Everytime you want to put something in your mouth—think twice."