Archives for August 2014

Success is a process. It is the process of change and growth in an effort to become the person you want to be. This process is unique for each successful person. Your unique success process is determined when you clearly define your life’s dream by establishing the specific goals that must be accomplished in order to realize your dream. You define your life’s dream by creating a script for your ideal life. The script represents the future you. It’s a picture you paint with words of your ideal life. It represents your destination. Your goals are the roads you must take in order to arrive at your destination.

The average American watches 4.5 hours of T.V. a day. 67% of the rich watch less than one hour of T.V. a day. The time not spent watching T.V. by the wealthy is dedicated to educational reading, volunteering, networking activities, pursuing some extracurricular goal, exercising, night school, work or pursuing some passion in life.

Consuming fat is critical to good health. You heard me right. Our bodies need to consume fat every day. Fat helps our body absorb vitamins A, D, E & K. Fat is a key source of energy. Fat is an important building block of all cells in the body. Fat, in the form of glycero- and sphingolipids, makes up the bulk of cellular membranes. There are three types of fat: trans fats, saturated fats and mono unsaturated fats and poly unsaturated fats. Trans fats come from processed food and are considered a bad fat. So too are saturated fats which come from mean and diary. Mono and poly unsaturated fats come from olive oil, seeds and fish. These are considered good fats because they protect the heart and decrease hunger.  The average adult needs approximately 20-30% of the calories consumed every day to be in the form of fat calories.

How much you eat may very well determine how long you live. In a report issued by Roderick Bronson and Ruth Lipman of the Human Nutrition Research Center at Tufts University in Boston, reducing your normal intake of food by 40% yields a 20% longer life span. Eating less does three things:

1. Reduces DNA damage
2. Increases DNA repair and
3. Reduces free radical genetic mutations

Free radical mutations are the result of the metabolic process of breaking down what we eat and transforming it into energy used by mitochondria (energy power plants inside each cell). When we eat, this metabolic process creates free radicals. Free radicals are the waste byproduct of metabolizing food. So, the less you eat, the less free radical waste you create.