Health Tips

• Green Tea vs Cancer
• It Takes Energy to Relax
• You Are What You Eat
• Tips For Healthy Eating

Most people wait until a holiday or a time when they can “get moving” before they attempt to begin an exercise program. While this can help to get the routine going, it can also be the first thing dropped when the ‘time squeeze’ occurs again. We believe that if you wish to begin a training program, don’t wait until tomorrow or any other date, start asap - even if you can only do a little each day. A business which begins in the lean times learns to be efficient and can survive anything, but most businesses which start in a boom time find it difficult to survive when the 'down' times hit. It is the same for your exercise program. Also, if you are too busy today to exercise, you will probably be too busy tomorrow and next week also. If you don’t have time for it, you may need to remove an obstacle and reassess your priorities.

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We have included some healthy recipes to help you with your goal of acheiving wellness. We intend to update this regularly to assist you in your journey to good health.  Simply click the link to find some exquisite, but completely healthy recipes.

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Tips for healthy eating.

The main ingredient in eating a healthy diet is in planning the menu each week based on what your families needs are. It’s no good rushing home at the end of a long tiring day and not having anything out for dinner. The temptation to stop and pick up something processed or take away is too easy to give into unless you have something in the fridge to prepare quickly and easily. The best place to source your veggies from are the farmers markets where they can tell you where everything has come from and whether it’s been sprayed or whatever. They are a great way to put in a Sunday morning. Try and get or the supermarket items in one shop each week and not be stopping at the shops everyday wasting time. That’s where the planning comes in.

A few ideas for a healthy diet are to keep a balance of everything. Don’t get caught up in the fast fix diet regime, healthy eating is a lifetime thing and that can only be maintained by sensible eating. A balance of carbs, protein, fats, minerals, etc all need to be taken everyday to maintain a balanced diet.

Some other tips are to replace butter in cakes etc. wherever you can with coconut oil/butter. It’s one of the healthiest most misunderstood things we can use. It is a healthy saturated fat which is utilized quickly by the body.

Whilst olive oil is great for salad dressings etc. it isn’t that great to cook with as it has a low flash point which changes the goodness of the oil into not so good oil. Rice bran oil can take heat a lot better and is also cheaper. Chia seeds are a wonderful thing to add into your diet.

They are high in omega 3 and protein and help keep you hydrated. Quinoa is a seed you can cook the same as you would rice but rather than being high in carbohydrate it is a protein so helps if you feel you have aver load on carbs for the day but not had enough protein which is often what gets left out in a busy day.

(Article by Marg Kyle, Chef.) 

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If you are planning on being pro-active in the prevention of cancer, green tea may be a good product to keep in mind. Green tea has an abundance of molecules called catchins. Catechins in the green tea block many processes which are required for cancer to develop. Research suggests that regular conusimption of green tea can reduce the risk of many cancer - especially prostate and bladder cancer.
If consumed daily, green tea can reduce the new blood vessel formation required for a cancer to grow. This means any new growths will be slowed or stopped without the damaging surrounding tisssue.
The best way to ensure positive effects of this naturally effective product is to have a small amount every day.

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Most people consider relaxing as a passive experience. Just stop what you are doing and rest. Interestingly though, when considering muscle action, we actually need to expend energy in order to relax.

When a muscle is viewed under an electron microscope, one can see it is made up of tiny thick and thin filaments arranged lengthwise, parallel with the muscle. The thick filaments have myosin heads that attach to actin binding sites on the thin filaments, forming a cross bridge between the filaments. The attached head then acts like an oar, pulling the thin filament longitudinally in a direction that increases the overlap between the thick and thin filaments, thereby shortening the muscle fibre as it contracts.

Not surprisingly, the process of contraction takes energy. What might be surprising is that it also takes energy for these cross bridges to detach and allow the muscle to relax again. The stiff state of muscles after death known as rigor mortis results from cross bridges that cannot detach because energy can no longer be utilised in the body.

It is common for some people to tell us that they don't know how to relax, or they have forgotten how to relax. We all know that it is extremely important to relax, and now we know it takes energy..... So take the time, and put in the effort to relax - daily. You will live longer for it.

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