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Sugary Foods and Wrinkly Skin

Sugary Foods and Wrinkly Skin

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According to Dr. Leslie Baumann, sugary foods can make your skin more wrinkly. “When sugar breaks down and enters the bloodstream, it bonds with protein molecules, including those found in collagen and elastin [the fibers that support skin], through a process called glycation. This degrades the collagen and elastin, which in turn leads to sagging and wrinkles.”

How to prevent this is first to curb your consumption of simple carbs, which include the obvious treats such as soft drinks and candy, but also foods such as honey, white rice, and white bread.

These foods are quickly converted into sugar in your body and put your skin on the fast track to glycation. If you need something sweet (and really, who doesn’t?), Baumann suggests a small square of dark chocolate. The antioxidants in it can protect you from free radicals, those unstable atoms in the atmosphere that latch onto skin and lead to fine lines. Also, incase your intake of vitamin C. “It helps generate collagen,” says Dr. Ellen Marmur, a dermatologist in NYC and the author of Simple Skin Beauty.

Source: “What’s Aging Your Skin” by Stacey Colino, Time Magazine 2013

Ayurveda: Mind-Body Medicine

Ayurveda: Mind-Body Medicine

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Ayurvedic doctors don’t need to call themselves psychologists. Psychology is part of their usual practice that considers both physical and mental disease. According to Ayurveda, physical diseases occur mainly owing to external factors such as wrong diet or exposure to pathogens. Mental diseases arise mainly from internal factors, like wrong use of the senses and the accumulation of negative emotions.

Some diseases, like acute infections, have almost entirely physical causes and can be treated purely on a physical level. However, most diseases have psychological causes and all lasting diseases have psychological effects. Physical disease disturbs the emotions and weakens the senses, which may give rise to psychological disturbances. Psychological imbalances have physical consequences. They lead to dietary indiscretions, strain the heart and nerves, and weaken the physical body.

In the modern developed world, our problems are mainly psychological. We have adequate food, clothing and shelter, which prevents us from getting many physical diseases. Yet, though most of us have no major physical problems, we still suffer from psychological unrest. This unrest may manifest as feelings of loneliness, not being loved or appreciated, anger, stress, or anxiety. It can lead to the weakening of our physical energy and prevent us from doing what we really need to do.

Our very way of life breeds unhappiness. We have an active and turbulent culture in which there is little peace of contentment. We have disturbed the organic roots of life, which are good food, water and air, and a happy family life. We live in an artificial world dominated by urban landscape and mass media, in which there is little to nourish the soul. We ever desire new things and are seldom content with what we have. We run from one stimulation to another, rarely observing the process of our lives that is really leading nowhere. Our lives are patterns of accumulation, in which we are never still or at rest. Our medicine is more of a quick fix to keep us going in our wrong lifestyles and seldom addresses the behavioral root of our problems.

Ayurveda, on the other hand, teaches harmony with Nature, simplicity and contentment as keys to well-being. It shows us how to live in a state of balance in which fulfillment is a matter of being, not becoming. It connects us with the wellsprings of creativity and happiness within our own consciousness, so that we can permanently overcome our psychological problems. Ayurveda provides a real solution to our health problems, which is to return to a oneness with the universe and the Divine within. This requires changing how we live, think, and perceive.

Information Source: Ayurveda and the Mind by Dr. David Frawley

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Don’t Weigh Yourself Every Day

Don’t Weigh Yourself Every Day

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If you weigh yourself every day, you can easily get discouraged during a plateau. But plateaus are IMPORTANT consolidation periods. Even though it may not be showing, a lot of things are going on biochemically inside you that are getting ready for your next big breakthrough. Weighing yourself every day keeps the focus on how quickly you are losing weight. Take the focus off how quickly you are losing weight and focus instead on how effectively you are transforming your body permanently.

—‘The Gabriel Method’ Jon Gabriel

The Will to Change

The Will to Change

“Participants in my trainings sometimes ask, ‘I know what I need to do, but where do I find the discipline? How do I motivate myself?’ When people ask me how to do something, I remind them that they already know how; they are really asking, ‘What’s the easy way?’

On planet Earth, ‘easy’ is hard to find. Any accomplishment requires effort, courage and will; some goals involve more difficulty, others less. If we really go for what we want; we encounter one kind of difficulty; if we give up, we confront another kind. Either way, life is difficult.

Positive change of any kind requires that we climb higher, expand our awareness, focus, pay attention, and invest time and energy. Those of us who master change, or at least accept it, recognize the cold, clear realities. Those who haven’t yet accepted how the world works still look for the way way out, that magic formula that produces something for nothing.”

-Dan Millman, No Ordinary Moments

Your Diet and Expanding Awareness

Your Diet and Expanding Awareness

Your Diet and Expanding Awareness

A change we can make today in our dietary lifestyle!

“As we clear old, stressful beliefs and repressed emotional issues, and begin opening up to a sense of our interconnectedness with the world and other people, our diet naturally starts to change. And as our diet changes, other areas of our life also begin to expand. Our diet and our state of consciousness constantly interact. Thus, any improvement we make in our diet, no matter how small, represents a very real form of spiritual progress.

By mentally assessing our current diet, we can select one small change we can begin to make today in our dietary lifestyle. Since the greatest overall dietary problem in America involves eating too much of what we don’t need and not enough of what we do need, a good next step might involve choosing one food to eat less often, and another food to eat more often.”

-From the book No Ordinary Moments by Dan Millman
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