WHY DIETS MAKE YOU CRABBY
You have permission to publish this article electronically or in print, free of charge, as long as the bylines are included and the article is published in its entirety. A courtesy copy of your publication would be appreciated. Send it to mailto:drwallin@drwallin.comWHY DIETS MAKE YOU CRABBYBy Pauline Wallin, Ph.DAuthor of "Taming Your Inner Brat: A Guide for Transforming Self-defeating Behavior"Word count: 668Copyright
2003. All rights reserved If you've ever been on a diet you know the feeling of irritability that sets in after a few days. Nutrition experts have attributed this feeling to a physical state of deprivation, such as low blood sugar or dehydration.
While these conditions do have a definite effect on mood, they don't tell the whole story. Consider the fact that you are not ALWAYS crabby when hungry or thirsty, even though your body may be in a state of deprivation. Diet-related crabbiness stems not just from your body's physical state, but also from mental fatigue. As you know, it takes concentrated effort to change your eating habits. That effort uses up mental strength, which gets depleted.
According to psychological research by Dr. Roy Baumeister and his colleagues, mental strength operates similarly to physical strength. Suppose, for example, you've just spent the afternoon moving furniture. By the time you're done, you don't have much strength left to play tennis.In the same way, when you've spent the day exercising self-control with food, you don't have much strength left for controlling your behavior in other situations. Thus, you're more likely to snap back at someone, lose your patience easily, or overreact to minor frustrations.** HERE'S A TYPICAL SCENARIO:~ You start off the day feeling OK, determined to stay on your diet.
This takes some effort. If you've been used to having a donut or sweet roll for breakfast, it requires effort to eat something different. When you turn on the TV or radio you're confronted with food ads designed to make your mouth water. It takes effort to ignore these temptations.~ While you're trying to ignore the food ads, the "inner brat" in the back of your mind notices every single one. It nags at you: "I want that .
. . I must have it." Your inner brat's nagging intensifies the cravings. You become involved in a struggle between short-term gratification (your inner brat) and your long-term goal of losing weight. This, too, takes effort.~ As the day progresses and you continue to resist old eating habits, your mental strength is gradually depleted.
This makes it harder for you to keep the lid on your frustration or control your temper. In other words, your inner brat gets the better of you.~ It's no coincidence that most people end up overeating later in the day, when their mental strength is at its low point. By this time it seems like too much work to resist, so you give into your cravings.Is it any wonder that most diets fail? They don't have to. To make sure that your moods don't sabotage your diet, here are some tips:1. Conserve your mental strength.
Be selective in taking on unnecessary stressors. 2. Stick to a routine as much as possible. This reduces the number of decisions you have to make, and thereby saves mental energy.3. Set up your environment so that you avoid temptation:~ Don't keep junk food at home or in your desk at work.~ When food-related TV commercials come on, change the channel.~ At the grocery store avoid the aisles that hold snack foods.
The less you come in contact with reminders of your old eating habits, the less you will need to draw on your mental strength. In these kinds of situations, the old saying, "out of sight, out of mind" is truly applicable.4. Watch out for negative self-talk. If you find yourself thinking "This is awful" or "I can't stand this" you will only magnify your bad mood. Instead say to yourself, "OK, so I'm not at my best.
Just wait it out for a little while longer."5. Take responsibility for your mood. If you do get irritable, avoid picking arguments. If necessary, involve yourself in a solitary physical task, away from other people. Your bad mood will pass, you'll keep your inner brat under control, and you'll emerge on the other side with additional strength for tomorrow..
The High Blood Pressure And Sodium Connection: Is Salt Raising Your Blood Pressure
Copyright 2006 Frank Mangano
You can have your cake and eat it too -- well at least you can lower your blood pressure and have your salt too. That is what recent research is telling us about sodium's role in managing blood pressure. Hypertension, it turns out, is not caused by too much salt. Neither is it lowered by simply cutting salt out of your diet. So how is it that table salt (sodium) is still getting such a bad rap and being linked to high blood pressure? The real culprit it turns out is not salt, but how your body manages sodium and its proportion to the amount of potassium, calcium and magnesium in your body.
Scientists have discovered that deficiencies in potassium, calcium and magnesium have a much greater impact on blood pressure than the mineral salt.
These other minerals are so important in controlling blood pressure that when they are out of balance with each other, they can make salt more of a threat to healthy blood pressure.
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You Won't Get Spooked by Marketing With These Small Business Marketing Tricks of Treats
(ContentDesk) October 23, 2005 -- If marketing your business has you spooked, discover how a Halloween strategy can pull in all the clients you want.If you live in the U.S., at the end of October you'll be preparing for a stream of young children to come to your door on Halloween. One by one or in groups of friends, they'll ring the bell and shout, "Trick or Treat".To avoid having them actually play a trick on us, you bribe these youngsters with a selection of mini candy bars. You could offer them healthy treats like apples or small boxes of raisins or you could try something novel like telling them a favorite joke, but most young children are on a mission. They want to fill their plastic pumpkins and pillowcases with candy as quickly as possible.You may not be a fan of sugar-based diets, but if you enjoy seeing all those undersized fairy godmothers and ghosts and goblins on Halloween, you'll indulge them and dole out one candy bar after another.
Your costumed customers know...
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A Note To Food Manufacturers...
Food manufacturing in the US has always been about convenience, product availability, taste and price. The more society ventured away from the family garden and kitchen, the more food manufacturers developed a market or niche for their products at home in the cupboards. Processed foods no longer are limited to flour and sugar on the country store shelf, but have evolved to include the variety of foods eaten daily and taken from restaurants, grocery stores, super markets and convenience stores.As the commonality of quick processed foods increases throughout the world, health problems such as obesity, diabetes and cancer have also become common and inevitable to the point that *"1 in 3 American adults have Insulin Resistance, a pre-diabetic condition", and this will only be the beginning.The philosophy behind Functional Food is to create food additives and ingredients that will enhance the bodies health by making manufactured foods more beneficial to the consumer with out losing quality...
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Olive Oil -Not Just for Popeye
Archeological records indicate that man has cultivated the olive tree for about 6,000 years; having been especially popular in the Isle of Crete (which as you recall, also appeared in the Seven Countries Study to be the site of the lowest incidence of heart disease). All oils that we use for eating and cooking contain "fat" and olive oil is no exception. However, it is mostly monounsaturated fat as opposed to saturated fat or hydrogenated fat. It can be used as a flavoring for cooking or in salad dressings or as a healthy substitute for butter or margarine. Several large population studies have confirmed that diets with higher amounts of fat of the monounsaturated type reduce total cholesterol and LDL ["bad"] cholesterol levels to the same degree as low fat, high-carbohydrate diets [such as the AHA Step I and II diets].
The additional benefit of olive oil is, as part of a Mediterranean type diet, is that it also has a favorable effect on lowering blood triglycerides [also a factor...
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Weight-Loss Tip: Add Extra Calcium to a Low-Fat Diet
You may reprint or publish this article free of charge as long as the bylines are included. Original URL------------http://www.ageforce.com/weight_loss_tip.htmlTitle-----Weight-Loss Tip: Add Extra Calcium to a Low-Fat Diet-------------------------------Got milk? New research suggests you should if you want to lose weight. The weight loss study shows that calcium, three or four daily servings of low-fat dairy products, can help adjust your body's fat-burning machinery. Low-fat dairy may help reduce body fat--------------------------The key is low-fat dairy sources, says lead author Hang Shi, a postdoctoral student in the Nutrition Institute at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. "High-fat dietary calcium can establish obesity, but it's surprising that low-fat calcium may help reduce body fat," said Shi.
"The effect is very significant, much more than we imagined it would be." His paper on the effects of a high-calcium...
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?The Great Health Debate? - MARCH 9, 2004
"The Great Health Debate" MARCH 9th:Dr. Barry Sears - author of The Zone DietDr. Stuart Trager - chief representative of the Atkins Nutritional ApproachDr. James Kenney - Director of Nutritional Research at the Pritikin Longevity CenterDr. Joel Fuhrman ? author of Eat to LiveTony Guida (WCBS, CNN, WNBCTV, WCBSTV, WNBCTV) - ModeratorObesity and weight loss are among America's top priorities today as is reflected, almost daily, in our media.
Weight loss plans and diets have expended millions of dollars in promoting their products and have raked in extravagant profits in sales. But do they work? Are some diets healthier than others? Are some plans known to be detrimental to our health?In an attempt to respond to these questions, THE SOCIETY OF SUCCESS AND LEADERSHIP will host The Great Health Debate on Tuesday, March 9, 2004 at 7:00-8:40 p.m. at the Berrie Center for Performing Arts in Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ.
The event will be broadcast live, via satellite, to 75 college...
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Wellness versus Ignorance
If you ask most Americans whether wellness is important,most will agree. Parents will usually say that family healthis one of their major concerns. Yet most are rather ignorantabout nutrition information. Blame our public educationsystem, false or misleading reporting, and ads, ads, ads.Recent news increasingly reports that obesity is epidemic inthe United States, and that it is the major cause of earlydeath, after tobacco. Yet the solution is really simple.It used to be that people who claimed the simple life is thekey to anti aging would be met with a big yawn, or strongdoubt, or rude noises.
Now, such reliable sources of healthinformation as Centers for Disease Control and Preventionare saying that good diet and moderate exercise really arethe keys to long life.The same ad blasters who helped get us into health troublesare eager to sell us pills, potions, books, quack cures thatdance all around the truth. After all, folks really wantmagic bullets to fix problems, so they won't...
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Real Estate Loan Closing - $3 million Ft Lauderdale Retail Refinance
(ContentDesk) December 23, 2005 -- Matrix Mortgage International (MMI) has refinanced a $3 million commercial loan with 80% Loan to Value for a retail center in Ft Lauderdale, FL. Matrix provides commercial mortgage acquisition, refinance and takeout loans ranging from $200,000 to $250,000,000. Loan to Value is maximized at 80% for loans under $1 million and 90% for loans over $1 million.www.commercial-real-estate-loan.net...
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HDTV ? The High Resolution Television
The expansion of hdtv is High-definition television. The hdtv means television signals broadcast with a higher resolution than traditional formats like NTSC, S?CAM, PAL. The hdtv is broadcasted digitally, except for early analog formats in Europe and Japan.
Historically, the term high-definition television was also used to refer to television standards developed in the 1930s to replace the early experimental systems, although, not so long afterwards, Philo T. Farnsworth, John Logie...
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Truth
(suggested midi - Do You Know Where You're Going?) He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he. Only fear the Lord, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you. All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies. For the word of the Lord is right; and all his works are done in truth. And in thy majesty ride prosperously...
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World Financial News Network Decided to Recommend Automotive Capital Group -- Independent Analyst, WFNN Favors Automotive Capital Group ?For the Strong Earnings Future By Helping Sell GPS Systems and Auto Financings.
WFNN's consistently outperforms established industry benchmark indicators. Based on in-depth research and analysis, their analysts recommend securities worldwide showing the highest probability for stock price appreciation. With constant vigil, WFNN looks for economic opportunities in the private and public company sectors.Dr. Joseph de Beauchamp, WFNN's Chief Independent Analyst, said, "WFNN believes this is a good time to take a look at this company. There have been many important and exciting...
WHY DIETS MAKE YOU CRABBY World Financial News Network Decided to Recommend Automotive Capital Group -- Independent Analyst, WFNN Favors Automotive Capital Group ?For the Strong Earnings Future By Helping Sell GPS Systems and Auto Financings.
Diets > World Financial News Network Decided to Recommend Automotive Capital Group -- Independent Analyst, WFNN Favors Automotive Capital Group ?For the Strong Earnings Future By Helping Sell GPS Systems and Auto Financings.