Best Time To Exercise

What is the best time to exercise? The standard answer to this is that any time is fine, as long as you get round to doing it. But trainers recommend that the best time is to do it in the morning, starting your day off with physical activity.

The great thing about working out in the morning is that it jump starts your day, and leaves you feeling energized and active through the rest of the day because of the increased oxygen intake and improved blood circulation. Your metabolic rate is heightened, which means you are burning calories right through your working day.

Research also shows that people who exercise in the mornings are more consistent in working out, and reap the full benefits of their fitness regime.

Drink Plenty Of Water And Stay Hydrated

Drinking plenty of water is as important as exercise or diet for good health and optimum sports performance . Blood is composed of 90 per cent water. Reduction in water levels may result in more concentrated blood, which may be susceptible to clotting. It may become less capable of delivering oxygen to the brain and muscles.

The digestive system also needs water for optimum function and joints need water for lubrication. Insufficient water intake may stress the kidneys and the liver may be forced to detoxify the toxins. When the liver is burdened, food metabolism takes a back seat. Less water also means low levels of muscle glycogen and weaker muscles.

Do not look up to thirst as an indicator. Drink water based on your activity levels. The usual eight-glasses-a-day may be insufficient for hard-training athletes and sports persons, say researchers.

Fast Eaters Get Fat

Eating slowly could help you win the battle of the bulge. Those who eat their meals quickly is about twice as likely to be obese as their slow-munching counterparts.

People who eat quickly and who eat until their stomach get full are three times more likely to be obese. The research supports previous evidence that people tend to consume more calories when they eat quickly, but also that eating quickly is linked to obesity regardless of how many calories are eaten.

People can learn to eat more slowly and recognize their internal cues for fullness. It is not known what drives us to eat quickly, behaviour such as eating while distracted and eating fast food on the go may be to blame.

Setting aside meal times and chatting between bites can help slow the rate of eating and allow your body to send fullness signals before you've overeaten.

Smoking - Puff Away Your Looks

Unless you've been living under a rock, you've probably heard that smoking isn't great for your health, not to mention your wallet.

But if you yet another reason to quit, look in the mirror; tobacco ruins your looks. The chemicals in cigarette smoke, including nicotine, carbon monoxide, tar and lead reduce blood flow to the skin, reduce circulating oxygen, and break down the skin's collagen and elastin. All that leads to extensive wrinkling around the nose and mouth - and it's permanent.

Smoking also reduces the water content of the skin's outer layer, making it appear drier and more fragile.

If that isn't bad enough, smoking is also associated with increased risk of psoriasis, cancers and hair loss. For a longer, more beautiful life, but out.

Thank God For Everything

Are you really happy with what you are? One way to find out is to check yourself out when someone pays you a compliment. Suppose you give a speech at a meeting. Afterwords, while standing around, people come up to you and tell you how much they like it. What do you do? Do you laugh it off as a joke? Do you explain it away, say that it was luck? Or do you thank them and tell them you were happy with it too.

If you follow that course, it tells you that you really took in. What people told you? Why not, for heaven's sake? After all, it was a good speech. Speaking well is one of the talents you have. And all your talents come from God, so why make a big deal of it?Take in the compliments and be happy about them.

God gave you that gift to be used! And just now, you did just that. So use it, acknowledge it, and be happy with it. And be the same way about all your gifts, since all are from God. One thing more, when people tell you something nice about yourself, Remember to put that in a prayer, and thank God for it.

People Are Like Potatoes

Yes. People are like potatoes. After potatoes have been harvested they have to be spread out and sorted in order to get the maximum market price. They are divided according to their size - big, medium and small. It is only after potatoes have been sorted and bagged that they are loaded onto trucks.

But there was one farmer who never bothered to sort the potatoes at all. A neighbor finally asked him, "what is your secret?" The farmer replied, "It is simple. I just load up the wagon with potatoes and take the roughest road to town. During the six mile trip, the little potatoes always fall to the bottom. The medium potatoes land in the middle, while the big potatoes rise to the top."

That is not only true of potatoes. It is a law of nature. Big potatoes rise to the top on rough roads, and tough people rise to the top in rough times. Tough time never lasts but tough people do.

Our Life

Our life is what our thoughts makes it.
Life is half lost before we know what it is.
Life is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy to those who feel.
Life is abundance comes only through great love.
The dedicated life is the life worth living.
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.

Life is no straight and easy corridor along
which we travel free and unhampered,
but a maze of passages,
through which we must seek our way,
lost and confused, now and again
checked in a blind alley.

But always, if we have faith,
a door will open for us,
not perhaps one that we ourselves
would ever have thought of,
but one that will ultimately
prove good for us.