OBC Food Rules-day 15: Get Out of the Supermarket Whenever You Can

You won’t find any high-fructose corn syrup at the farmer’s market.  You also won’t find any elaborately processed food products, any packages with long lists of unpronounceable ingredients or dubious health claims, anything microwaveable, or, perhaps best of all, any old food from far away.  What you will find are fresh, whole foods harvested at the peak of their taste and nutritional quality-precisely the kind your great-grandmother, or even your Neolithic ancestors, would easily recognize as food.  The kind that is alive and eventually will rot.

OBC Food Rules-Day 14: Eat Foods Made from Ingredients that you can Picture in their raw State or Growing in Nature

Read the ingredients on a package of Twinkies or Pringles and imagine what those ingredients actually look like raw or in the places where they grow:  You can’t do it.  This rule will keep all sorts of chemicals and foodlike substances out of your diet.

Exercise CAN Save Your Life!

We've all felt discouragement & have been emotionally drained at times throughout our lives.  It comes in many different forms and at various intensity levels depending on what triggered the emotional reaction. 

For many people, the response is to retreat and hide from our family, our friends, our careers and our lives.  The pressure can overwhelming, crushing and dibilitating.   What's interesting is that the more you pull back from your life and avoid responsibility, social interaction and any physical & mental stimulation, you run the very high risk of falling deeper into depression which may take much longer to recover. 

Consider this the next time you begin to feel the nagging & negative feelings start to creep into your psyche.....get out and exercise.  You'll immediately feel better about yourself, your situation and regain a clear head to make smart & logical decisions on how to overcome the obstacles you're facing.

Watch the short video below & think of it the next time you start to feel down. 

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/health/2011/06/28/sgmd.triathlon.saves.man.cnn