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To Your Continued Good Health!60% of Australians and Americans are overweight or obese. Simple energy imbalance, or too much energy in, and not enough out, causes almost all cases of obesity! Our increasingly sedentary lifestyles means that we consume increasing amounts of high energy (and usually high fat) foods. The combination of these two factors, overweight and unfit, can and often does kill us! A healthy diet almost certainly involves a reduction in meat consumption. There are plenty of ways to get around this, serve up more vegetables on the plate, and think up some different and interesting ways to serve them to your family. When you do buy meat, buy lean meat, and you can find out how to have an enjoyable low fat barbecue by downloading our free Patrick OBrien's BBQ Magic eBook. This BBQ Book gives you lots of hints about BBQ's, including cooking BBQ vegetables, buying economical meat cuts, and lots more! The link to get your free download is in our newsletter, which also has lots of good herb and health tips in it. Click on the Newsletter link above, to order your FREE Herb and Garden newsletter.
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Overweight and obesity are associated with increased risk of type 2 diabetes, heart disease, some cancers and arthritis, and other life threatening health problems. One only has to look at the millions of diet fad books that are sold each year, to realise that what the experts have been telling us for years is true, that fad diets don’t work! What will work though, is a sensible lifelong commitment to healthy eating, and with a good exercise regime.
An exercise regime doesn’t have to be onerous either, park the car a bit further away when you go shopping. Walk whenever you can, don’t just drive to the corner store and back. Walk up the stairs at the supermarket, rather than use the escalator. Stairs are good for you, and good for your heart! Get into golf, swimming, bowls, cycling, or better still, just brisk walking. Have fun!
Eat healthy low fat foods, there are plenty of them. Read up on healthy eating. Drink lots of water, and lots of herbal teas. There is considerable evidence to show that green tea can reduce some forms of cancer, in both men and women, and most of us know how good herb tea is for you.
If you live in an area where it is hard to get fresh grown vegetables, grow your own (gardening is just the best and most pleasant form of exercise!) and/or take a good herbal supplement. There are many simple home remedies you can use too. Here are lots of natural home remedies, using herbs, essential oils and and natural ingredients. This is great website!
We have several web pages on our Web Site that will give you information about vitamins, herbal teas and infusions. Click on the Herb 'n Garden link above for the index.
If you sucsribe to our monthly newsletter, which is full of herb and health information, you will find in the newsletter the link to our new eBook, "Using Wild and Garden Fruits -- Making your own Juices, Shakes and Smoothies!" This book has many tips and info for making delicious heathy summer and winter drinks! One positive modern development is the rapidly increasing acceptance of alternative medicine as a means of not only maintaining good health, but also of complementing and enhancing traditional medical treatments. Don’t forget the other couple of requirements for a long and healthy life, good living habits, and a positive attitude, and lots of laughing! It is a fact that a good laugh is “internal jogging”. Laughing also increases feel good brain chemicals, stops the production of stress hormones, boosts the immune system, and does wonders for the heart! So, if you enjoy life, and are getting a reasonable amount of exercise, you can safely light up the barbie, relax with a nice cup of herbal tea, or a light beer, and cook up a healthy low fat meal! To your good health, Patrick ps. Throughout our Web Site you will find many, many pages with lots of information about about lifestyle and good health. Just click on the Herb n'Garden Index button on the left hand side of the Page, and have a look. You are sure to find lot's to interest you! *********************************************
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