healthyCHOICES January 2012
January 1, 2012 has already come and gone. How many of you have serious
intentions this year, to follow through with that New Years Resolution of improving your health? For some of you this will mean building from the ground up and for the rest of you just a small renovation. Follow our Healthy Choices blueprint A.E.F. Try adding awareness, exercise and fuel into your day.Start by adding these tips to your healthy choices for January.
Awareness: Just think “inhale exhale” for 5 minutes everyday. This can be while driving in your car, in the shower or washing the dishes. Make time to breathe.
Exercise: Create opportunities to move your body. Start by parking further away from the door at the grocery store. Listen to a great song (Groove is in the Heart by Deelite) and dance your heart out for the entire song. Take the stairs as often as possible.
Fuel: According to Dr. Andrew Weil, populations that eat fish regularly live longer and have less chronic disease than populations that do not. Fish provides high-quality protein without the saturated fat present in meat and poultry. Some kinds of fish -specifically, fatty fish from cold northern waters - also provide omega-3 fatty acids, the special, unsaturated fats our bodies need for optimum health. Wild salmon, mackerel, herring, sardines and bluefish are rich in them, so is - to a lesser extent - albacore tuna. Omega-3 sources other than fish are few: walnuts, flax seeds, hemp seeds, and the oils extracted from them.
If you want a new and easy way to incorporate these fuels into your diet try out our recipe of the month: Pasta alla Puttanesca, a pasta dish that includes olive oil, anchovies, and tomatoes. Anchovies are a good source of calcium, iron as well as a very good source of protein, niacin and selenium. Before you write off pasta remember this, when eating pasta it is qualitly over quantity.
Written by Stephanie Vantanajal
Senior yoga instructor YAA (c), B.Ed.
intentions this year, to follow through with that New Years Resolution of improving your health? For some of you this will mean building from the ground up and for the rest of you just a small renovation. Follow our Healthy Choices blueprint A.E.F. Try adding awareness, exercise and fuel into your day.Start by adding these tips to your healthy choices for January.
Awareness: Just think “inhale exhale” for 5 minutes everyday. This can be while driving in your car, in the shower or washing the dishes. Make time to breathe.
Exercise: Create opportunities to move your body. Start by parking further away from the door at the grocery store. Listen to a great song (Groove is in the Heart by Deelite) and dance your heart out for the entire song. Take the stairs as often as possible.
Fuel: According to Dr. Andrew Weil, populations that eat fish regularly live longer and have less chronic disease than populations that do not. Fish provides high-quality protein without the saturated fat present in meat and poultry. Some kinds of fish -specifically, fatty fish from cold northern waters - also provide omega-3 fatty acids, the special, unsaturated fats our bodies need for optimum health. Wild salmon, mackerel, herring, sardines and bluefish are rich in them, so is - to a lesser extent - albacore tuna. Omega-3 sources other than fish are few: walnuts, flax seeds, hemp seeds, and the oils extracted from them.
If you want a new and easy way to incorporate these fuels into your diet try out our recipe of the month: Pasta alla Puttanesca, a pasta dish that includes olive oil, anchovies, and tomatoes. Anchovies are a good source of calcium, iron as well as a very good source of protein, niacin and selenium. Before you write off pasta remember this, when eating pasta it is qualitly over quantity.
Written by Stephanie Vantanajal
Senior yoga instructor YAA (c), B.Ed.
