GRATITUDE – January 2015

Posted on January 31, 2015 by admin

1st Jan – I am grateful for another year on this planet and more chances to make a difference

2nd Jan – I am grateful I completed my tasks in time for today’s meeting

3rd Jan – I am grateful for a refreshing workout this morning

4th Jan – I am grateful for a restful Sunday

5th Jan – I am grateful I completed and sent out my January newsletter

6th Jan – I am grateful I got to Hinckley in good time today

7th Jan – I am grateful my hips are perfectly aligned

8th Jan – I am grateful for the interesting ebook I have been reading

9th Jan – I am grateful for a lovely walk in the park

 

 

 

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Who wants a flat tummy?

Posted on January 8, 2015 by admin

Presents:

New Year, Same Belly?

Troubled By a Bloated or Podgy Belly?

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Fed Up With Your Podgy Tummy?

* Are you sick of hiding your belly under baggy tops?

* Are you fed up of buying clothes a size too big so your stomach won’t spill over the waistband?

* Are you looking pregnant (but are not)?

You’re not alone. The mid-section is a major, if not the major problem area, for both men and women.

And it is not just a question of aesthetics:

* a large waist circumference (“central obesity”) has been linked to a host of diseases including cardiovascular disease, diabetes and dementia.

 

 

Approaches that do not work

People try all sort of things to solve this problem: extreme diets, hundreds of sit ups each day, hours of cardio…

The Truth is… most of these approaches are bound to fail.

How many hours and how much effort have you already wasted trying to deal with this issue?

How much frustration have you experienced?

Little-Known FACT

Sit Ups will NOT give you a FLAT Tummy

 

No, hundreds of sit ups are NOT the solution to a podgy tummy!

For some reason, people who want to flatten their tummies think they need to do lots of sit ups. Nothing could be further from the truth. Sit-ups may build abdominal muscle or even result in a more-protruding tummy.

Think about that for a moment. If you have a large midsection and you add muscle to it, it will look bigger. Moreover, if you do sit ups incorrectly (and, trust me, from experience: at least 90% of people DO do them incorrectly), you are actually teaching your tummy to BULGE OUT!!!.

I am sure you can see how this would be counterproductive.

 
 OK so… what to do?

But now your troubles are over…

Over the years, I have often been asked for advice on how to get a great midsection, flatten that pregnancy pouch or lose the love handles.

So, I have put together the perfect solution for you! If you want to find out what to do and how to fix this area, my solution is what you need!

 

You have tried before and failed, what is different this time?

Your problem ultimately stems from the following issues:

  • Not knowing what exactly the problem is
  • Not knowing what foods, exercises and lifestyle habits are most helpful for a flat tummy
  • Not knowing how to put a holistic program together to ensure you get a flat tummy soon!
  • Not having the support system to achieve and maintain your goal

I AM HERE TO HELP YOU address all of these issues so that this time you will be successful!

 

Who is Ready for a Flat, Sexy Tummy?

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My Solution: Sign up for my Exciting “Flatten Your Tummy” Program starting  January 2015

I will help you overcome all the issues above and reach your flat tummy goal in an easy way.

You will also have the support of a few others through the private online group
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This PREMIUM Programme includes:

  • Short and clear explanation of the issues that lead to a bloated or unsightly tummy – value: PRICELESS
  • A weekly face-to-face session including tummy-flattening exercise and education – value: £180
  • A clear nutrition plan – value: £40
  • Lifestyle habits to reduce your waistline – value: PRICELESS
  • A SHORT daily workout to do at home, in the comfort of your home – value: £180
  • In-person and online support from your buddies – value: PRICELESS
  • My help! – PRICELESS
  • Accountability – one of the keys to success – PRICELESS
  • Pre and post-programme measurements – £45

You will achieve: a flatter tummy – PRICELESS

What is the investment? Normal price: £139. Sale Price: £79 (limited places)

If you are ready to have a flat and sexy tummy, Act now

When you follow my “Flatten Your Tummy Programme”, you WILL achieve a flatter and happier tummy.

 
Still NOT SURE YOU SHOULD SIGN UP NOW?

Remember:

– You’ll never learn this from the mainstream media.

– And not knowing this information can keep your TUMMY BULGING FOREVER. You’ll be stuck doing the same things, which are dangerous and ineffective, or just stay in a “given up” mode as nothing has worked for you in the last five years and will NEVER work for you in the future.

So stop the insanity. Make your life easier and better by taking clever action now: Sign up here

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I don’t want you to feel stuck. I don’t want you to hate your body and feel ashamed about the way you look. I don’t want you to hear people talking about your belly behind your back.

Sign up now and let us empower you to have a flatter tummy and better health this year!. Flatten Your Tummy NOW

Sign Up here or call/email me now

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5 Nutrition Tips & Tricks to Stay Slim this Holiday Season

Posted on December 19, 2014 by admin

5 Nutrition Tricks to Stay Slim and Trim During the Holiday Season

How to stay healthy and on track during the holidays?

Here are 5 of the best Nutrition strategies to stay slim and trim this holiday season.

1. Make your plate as colourful as possible

Fill half of your plate with fruit and veggies (therefore colour), so you will be nourished with vitamins, minerals, disease fighting phytochemicals preventing illness and keeping your energy on track. Moreover, the fibre will keep your digestion and elimination on track. This way you watch your portions but in a positive, non-restrictive way.

2. Eat the rainbow first

You don’t have to deny yourself a homemade treat or a slice of pie…but make sure you eat your vegetables first and that vegetables are the MAIN part of your meal (not cake!). This will fill you up with healthy, nutritious but low-calorie food and allow you to be satisfied with less cake or other treat.

3. Add water

Celebratory drinks are everywhere during the holidays. Specialty drinks can have 500-600 calories per portion! So avoid sugary mixers and choose instead fizzy water with a slice of alkalizing lemon or lime.  Always have a glass of water per cocktail and try to limit yourself to 2 cocktails maximum. Only drink alcohol AFTER a meal or snack containing some healthy fat and protein. Never drink on an empty stomach: it starts a nasty craving cycle which usually leads to overeating afterwards.

4. Start each day with breakfast

Skipping breakfast is a stressful even to the body and increases production of stress hormones in our body. This in turn starts to break down muscle (yes, muscle, not fat!) to use for energy. This very stressful situation for the body messes up blood sugar balance for the rest of the day. Have breakfast within one hour of waking and should be a balanced meal including protein, fat, and carbohydrates.

5. Enjoy festive movement

The holidays are supposed to be fun so get moving with friends or family by dancing or go out to skate, playing a ball game of any kind (just watch those garden pots!), take a hike or run around in the snow (if any) .  Did you know ice skating burns 420 calories per hour? And skiing is in the same region… We certainly don’t need to be in a gym to work out. Swimming and trekking or surfing on holiday near a hot, sunny beach are also more than worthwhile pursuits!

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GRATITUDE – December 2014

Posted on December 10, 2014 by admin

GRATITUDE – December 2014

Dec  1st –  I am grateful I found my blog again!

Dec 2nd – I am grateful for the many health uses of bicarbonate of soda

Dec 3rd – I am grateful I managed to find a parking space yesterday (Leicester City home game)

Dec 4th – I am grateful for an invigorating walk early this morning and some nice fruit~veggie deals

Dec 5th – I am grateful it is Friday!

Dec 6th – I am grateful for today’s crisp and icy but also shining and glittery morning

Dec 7th – I am grateful for some sunny spells this morning

Dec 8th – I am grateful for a magical golden sky first thing this morning

Dec 9th – I am grateful I received my free adrenal test kit

Dec 10th – I am grateful I made it safely home last night (in spite of strong winds, rain…)

Dec 11th – I am grateful my dentist appointment is behind me

Dec 12th – I am grateful my package arrived in time

Dec 13th – I am grateful my mechanic fixed our car promptly

Dec 14th – I am grateful we have a car

Dec 15th – I am grateful I can feel gratitude

Dec 16th – I am grateful the hotel turned out pretty well

Dec 17th – I am grateful for our room, facing the sunrise

Dec 18th – I am grateful for lovely sunrises

Dec 19th – I am grateful for free internet access

Dec 20th – I am grateful for the lovely beach sundress we found today

Dec 21st – I am grateful for a lovely walk along the beach to an interesting flea market

Dec 22nd – I am grateful for very attentive hotel staff

Dec 23rd – I am grateful for the lovely buffets

Dec 24th – I am grateful for the lovely  weather: sunny and mild, but not too hot

Dec 25th – I am grateful for a lovely Christmas Day on the beach

Dec 26th – I am grateful for salsa and guacamole on Boxing Day

Dec 27th – I am grateful for an uneventful and pleasant trip back

Dec 28th – I am grateful for a lovely sunny Sunday

Dec 29th – I am grateful for deep slumber last night

Dec 30th – I am grateful I was able to buy a lot of reduced but fresh and lovely veggies today

Dec 31st – I am grateful for another year doing a job I love among very lovely people

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Don’t Accept a Failure Prescription

Posted on December 5, 2014 by admin

What do I mean by a “Failure Prescription”?

Basically, it is when someone receives a diagnosis and because of that, they give up all hope, all efforts to stay healthy and fit. It is as if that diagnosis was a prescription to fail. I borrowed this term from another blog.

For example, someone may have been told they will never regain their strength, so they do not even try. They avoid lifting weights, they avoid carrying shopping bags, they hardly walk and spend most of their time sitting. They lose hope.

Now, I am not condemning these people. They are just fulfilling the “failure prescription” they feel they have been given by acting accordingly. I do understand and sympathise with them.

This post is about challenging those assumptions. How? Well for example:

1) It is likely that the health professional who gave a failure prescription (“you have arthritis”, “you have wear and tear of your spine/knee” etc) were only reporting their interpretation of a test result. If they said “you may never regain strength”, they were probably bracing you and themselves for the WORST possible outcome, not the most likely one and certainly not the ONLY possible outcome. We all know of cases when doctors said “you will never walk again” only to find that their patient DID indeed get better and was able to happily walk again.

2) Just because you have arthritis, it does not mean you have to have pain. Just because you have some wear and tear in your spine (or disc degeneration), it does not mean you will (or need to) have pain. There have been autopsies on the bodies of people who never had back pain but who turned out to have had several deranged (“prolapsed”) intervertebral discs.

3) Always work towards your ideal life. Want a strong body? You specifically need to imagine yourself strong again in the future and do resistance exercise religiously. Get someone you trust to help you design a program and also motivate you on this path. Only employ people who, you feel, believe you can do it. People with integrity and honesty.

4) Whether you are currently healthy or not so much (we are all at different places on this health spectrum), we can always change our health status for the better. How to do so is not really a secret (though there is some trial and effort involved, and definitely some effort, but the rewards are immense)

Holistic approach to health. Live a healthy lifestyle (food, sleep, exercise, reduce stress), maintain a positive mindset (including gratitude), supportive relationships and cultivate your spiritual side.

Not sure how to start? Ask me. It will be my honour to help you along the path, moving away from “failure prescriptions” and towards improved health.

Blessings,

Emanuela.

Holistic Fitness Consultant

www.pilatesfitness.co.uk

 

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EFT and Tapping For Beginners – Kindle ebook sale

Posted on December 3, 2014 by admin

EFT and Tapping for Beginners: The Essential EFT Manual to Start Relieving Stress, Losing Weight, and Healing

[Kindle Edition]

There are simple, effective, noninvasive, and drug-free way to use your body’s own healing mechanisms to overcome physical and emotional pain. One of these is EFT.

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Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and tapping consist of activating energy points along one’s body in much the same way acupuncture relieves pain—except without the needles! Energy blockages are cleared quickly and effectively, allowing for healing and a sense of overall well-being. It is a safe and easy way to relieve stress, anxiety, and depression and to control weight gain and physical pain.

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With EFT and Tapping for Beginners:
• Practice the basic tapping sequences using helpful illustrations that show you the exact energy points to activate on your head, hands, and torso.
• Learn how to focus your thoughts and tapping goals with freewriting and journaling.
• Begin experiencing relief from stress and everyday anxieties.
• Use tapping to help manage the root causes of weight gain and the physical symptoms associated with diabetes, high blood pressure, persistent pain, and more.

EFT and Tapping for Beginners: The Essential EFT Manual to Start Relieving Stress, Losing Weight, and Healing not only helps you learn the tapping process, but also invites you to look at the causes of emotional and physical pain. Begin healing with this concise guide.

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Holistic Fitness

Posted on December 1, 2014 by admin

I have always seen Pilates Fitness as offering “Holistic Fitness”, meaning fitness, but fitness that is linked to a fully holistic understanding of how mind and body work (together).

For me, Pilates practice was the first step towards realising this link. From there, I have grown to explore and be amazed at how everything is linked together.

This means that we cannot just, for instance, “flatten our belly” by itself (sorry if this is a disappointment to you). Instead, we need to look at the whole picture our health, lifestyle, nutrition, digestion, sleep, hormones and even the thoughts we entertain on a regular basis.

We then need to come up with (and follow at least 85% of the time) a plan that guides our body (or “system”) back towards balance, what we call “homeostasis”, the condition where the body functions at its best and where we feel more vibrantly healthy and have the most VITALITY.

I see Pilates as an important step in this, but all the rest has also to be accomplished.

To help more people feel better, I will be talking more about nutrition and lifestyle and offering more “comprehensive” packages including:

a) fitness + nutrition + lifestyle coaching

b) fitness + massage+ lifestyle coaching

c) fitness + nutrition + massage + lifestyle coaching

What is the best option for you?

Please schedule a consultation to find out.

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The Evolution of Medicine Summit: 8-15 Sept

Posted on September 6, 2014 by admin

37 ways that medicine will evolve!

Medicine is evolving to solve the modern epidemics of chronic disease, such as Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and a range of autoimmune diseases. The Evolution of Medicine Summit intends to not only shine a light on the work of those visionaries and innovators leading this evolution, but also set a unique vision for a more evolved healthcare system.

Unfortunately, conventional medicine has a very difficult time providing a patient-centric, empowered, proactive and participatory experience.

Fortunately, our 37 expert doctors, researchers, authors, innovators, practitioners, coaches and activists bring rich experience and thought leadership from diverse areas from within health care.

The Evolution of Medicine Summit begins on Monday, September 8, register for free now:

http://buff.ly/1tABwhy

  • Learn why health and medicine will look very different over the next decade and how that will affect you.

  • Find out which best practices you can integrate now!

  • Educate yourself and learn how to take control of your health and the health of those you care about.

  • Access the latest information and research from over 40 world-leading authorities!

Register here –> http://buff.ly/1tABwhy

It’s not too late to understand how medicine is evolving… especially if you get started by saving your seat at next week’s Evolution of Medicine Summit.

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Doctors Opt Out of Medical Intervention

Posted on July 15, 2014 by admin

A 2003 report on a survey among doctors (1) showed that most doctors, especially oncologists, would not choose chemotherapy for themselves or their families as an end-of-life option.

Doctors Opt Out of Medical Intervention

Doctors Opt Out of End-of-Life Medical Intervention

This chart from the report clearly shows how most doctors would turn down most major end-of-life medical interventions, which interventions they like the least when it comes to their own health, (although they would still press you to use them if they were your doctor).

So what does this mean for us? What conclusions can we draw from this survey?

  1. As Dr. Ken Murray, the Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at USC, wrote in 2011, “Of course, doctors don’t want to die; they want to live. But they know enough about modern medicine to know its limits. And they know enough about death to know what all people fear most: dying in pain, and dying alone. They’ve talked about this with their families. They want to be sure, when the time comes, that no heroic measures will happen–that they will never experience, during their last moments on earth, someone breaking their ribs in an attempt to resuscitate them with CPR (that’s what happens if CPR is done right) [3]
  2.  When it comes to end-of-life care, you really do have a choice. If you know most doctors would not opt for a treatment, why would you? If you know that most doctors would turn it down, then it makes it easy for you to turn it down too when doctors and the hospitals start ramping up the pressure.

And it gives you one more reason to turn to “alternative” complementary medicine when it comes to terminal illness. Whether or not it can save you (and many people really are saved by “alternative” treatments after conventional treatments have failed) is not the only consideration.

As Jon Barron points out [3], even if you do die after opting for an “alternative” treatment, you tend to die without having suffered as much and feeling a whole lot better. Which of the following scenarios sounds less bad to you?

  1. – Chemotherapy for late stage cancer with virtually no chance of success that carries with it violent nausea, loss of hair, and loss of all taste for food…and then dying?
  2. – Cleaning out the toxins in your body. Eating natural fresh foods and using some supplements that boost your immune system or directly address your illness…and then dying.
  • Under which scenario do you think you feel better when you die?
  • Under which scenario do you think you get to enjoy more quality time with your family before you die?
  • Under which scenario do you think you are more likely to die at home surrounded by family, rather than alone in a hospital room, surrounded by strangers in an unfriendly environment?

I wish you all a long time in great health before you need to make a decision about these matters.

Tags: end-of-life, doctors, medical-practices

sources:

(1) Gallo JJ, Straton JB, Klag MJ, Meoni LA, Sulmasy DP, Wang NY, Ford DE. “Life-sustaining treatments: what do physicians want and do they express their wishes to others?” J Am Geriatr Soc. 2003 Jul;51(7):961-9. http://www.readcube.com/articles/10.1046%2Fj.1365-2389.2003.51309.x

(2) Ken Murray. “How Doctors Die: It’s Not Like the Rest of Us, But It Should Be.” Zocalo Public Square. November 30, 2011. (Accessed 17 April 2014.) http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2011/11/30/how-doctors-die/ideas/nexus/ 

(3) Doctors Refuse Their Own Treatment – Dr Jon Barron
http://jonbarron.org/doctors-and-drugs/doctors-refuse-their-own-treatments

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Air Pollution Linked to 7 Million Deaths in 2012 (WHO)

Posted on June 29, 2014 by admin
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LONDON (Reuters) – Air pollution killed about 7 million people in 2012, making it the world’s single biggest environmental health risk, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.The toll, a doubling of previous estimates, means one in eight of all global deaths in 2012 was linked to polluted air and shows how reducing pollution inside and outside of people’s homes could save millions of lives in future, the United Nations health agency said.Air pollution deaths are most commonly from heart disease, strokes or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. It is also linked to deaths from lung cancer and acute respiratory infections.

“The evidence signals the need for concerted action to clean up the air we all breathe,” said Maria Neira, head of the WHO’s environmental and social public health department.

“The risks from air pollution are now far greater than previously thought or understood, particularly for heart disease and strokes,” she said.

Poor and middle-income countries in southeast Asia and the Western Pacific region had the largest air pollution-related burden in 2012, with 3.3 million deaths linked to indoor air pollution and 2.6 million deaths to outdoor air pollution.

Indoor pollution is mostly caused by cooking over coal, wood and biomass stoves. The WHO estimates that around 2.9 billion people worldwide live in homes using wood, coal or dung as their primary cooking fuel.

Flavia Bustreo, a WHO family health expert, said women and children – especially those living in poor countries – often bear the brunt of the risks from indoor pollution “since they spend more time at home breathing in smoke and soot from leaky coal and wood cooking stoves.”

Outdoors, air is mainly polluted by transport, power generation, industrial and agricultural emissions and residential heating and cooking.

Research suggests outdoor air pollution exposure levels have risen significantly in some parts of the world, particularly in countries with large populations going through rapid industrialization, such as China and India.

The WHO’s cancer research agency IARC published a report last year warning that the air we breathe is laced with cancer-causing substances and should be officially classified as carcinogenic to humans.

Carlos Dora, a WHO public health expert, called on governments and health agencies to act on the evidence and devise policies to reduce air pollution, which in turn would improve health and reduce humans’ impact on climate change.

“Excessive air pollution is often a by-product of unsustainable policies in sectors such as transport, energy, waste management and industry,” he said.

“In most cases, healthier strategies will also be more economical in the long term due to healthcare cost savings as well as climate gains.”

NOTE: According to the City Council, “Leicester does NOT meet air quality standards”. The worst air pollution is within 30-40 yards of main roads. As of September 2017, we have yet to see better monitoring (and sharing results) and especially major improvements or major measures being taken to bring about such improvements (e.g. electrifying bus fleet, taxis, reducing motorised traffic altogether).

Source: Reuters Health Information

Tags: environment, health, lungs, pollution

article suggested by:

Emanuela Moreale
L4 Chronic Respiratory Disease Exercise Instructor
www.pilatesfitness.co.uk

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