[Guest Blogger] Why Are Superfoods Important?
Scientists have discover that certain foods, superfoods, are rich in essential fatty acids, antioxidants or fiber which are vital to building a healthy body and a strong immune system. These foods have also been proven to lower total cholesterol, lower blood pressure, help protect against heart disease and cancer, help regulate blood sugar levels and metabolism and burn body fat.
The process of converting your diet over from one of processed foods to one that contains mostly superfoods can be daunting. As long as you are clear in your head that you are committed to giving up your old ways of eating, then you will succeed by putting imaginary blinders on your eyes whenever you see junk food. Instead, your eyes will twinkle with delight when they see heaps of beautiful, farm fresh fruits and vegetables.
Below is the list of 10 superfood groups and their benefits:
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Olive Oil
Regularly consumption of olive oil can help lower total blood cholesterol, fights against diabetes, osteoporosis, and cancer, and decreases blood pressure levels. For those with dry skin, it’s an excellent way to cleanse your skin, as well. -
Garlic
Garlic lowers total cholesterol and blood pressure, lessening the risk of heart disease. It also destroys infection-causing viruses and bacteria. -
Red and purple foods
Blueberries, blackberries, cranberries, grapes, pomegranates, red cabbage, red peppers, strawberries, and tomatoes. These amazing foods contain antioxidants that fight cancer, reduce blood pressure, and lower bad cholesterol. -
Beans and lentils
Beans and lentils, low in fat, calories and sodium but high in dietary fiber, are an excellent source of protein. -
Orange foods
Apricots, cantaloupe, carrots, mangos, oranges, persimmons, pumpkin, sweet potatoes, and tangerines provide fiber and may control blood pressure and normalize heart function. They protect your vision, encourage a good mood, fight cancer and keep your bones strong. -
Green foods
Broccoli, brussel sprouts, green beans, green cabbage, green peppers, edamame, kale, parsley, spinach, and spirulina. Green foods have beneficial effects on cholesterol, blood pressure, immune response and cancer prevention. -
Hot peppers – sweet bell or hot chilies
Chilies are high in antioxidant carotenes and flavonoids, and contain about twice the amount of vitamin C found in citrus fruits. Hot peppers aid with digestion, an improved immune system, and better blood circulation and digestion. -
Nuts and seeds
Nuts and seeds dramatically decrease your risk of cancer, heart disease and diabetes, and reduce the visible signs of aging like wrinkles and sagging skin. -
Sprouts
Sprouts are a “living food” that continues to produce nutrients after being harvested. They are the most enzyme-rich food and they have a higher nutritional content than any other food. -
Yogurt and kefir
Probiotic foods are primarily yogurt and kefir. They increased bone strength, lowered cholesterol, create a stronger immune system, and improve digestion.
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[O.W.W.L. Success Tip] Awesome opportunities always drop in her lap – here’s why
I recently spoke with Cynthia, a California friend of mine in the Human Resources and Leadership Development arena in corporate America. Since I’ve known her, she has had fabulous opportunities drop into her lap (her words). I reflected this to her and asked to what she attributes this recurring pattern.
O.W.W.L. Success Tip: Ask yourself if what you are doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow?
Cynthia’s reply was, of course, brilliant, so I wanted to share it with you. Here is her wisdom, which is deeply spiritual:
- She never loses hope and faith. Ever. She has a strong belief that everything is in divine order.
- She always looks at the first step – the one she doesn’t want to take. Too often, she says we jump ahead too soon to the second and third steps, instead of taking the first step that we don’t want to take but need to take. It usually deals with doing the inner work.
- She practices NOT questing after goals, in other words, not striving, worrying, working too hard, and struggling (my words) after it. Instead, she says God already knows what we want. She says the gift will come and will beg you to say yes to it. You don’t have to quest after it.
Sounds like life could be easy, fun, and in the flow for us as it is for Cynthia. Which of these three steps will you take next? For me, the steps I will take are making friends with my inner critic and not losing faith. (Check out my blog posts on October 23 and October 30 about my dialogue with the inner critic.)
I would love to know what blessings are now dropping into your lap!
Warmly,
Success Story
The most “WOW” part of Janis for me, is the ownership that she takes in working with you! She approaches the relationship as a “Partnership”, which means that she takes a “Personal stake” in your results. This approach inspires you to follow her guidance and do the work because you know that she cares as much as you do about your progress!
— Lisa K. Hood, Financial Representative
[O.W.W.L. Success Tip] Are you following Fabulous and Fat-Free Forever principles in all areas of your life, even if you’re not overweight?
As an Ontological Coach I was divinely-inspired in 2008 to create the “Ontological Weight Loss (O.W.L.): Your Once in a Lifetime Solution” programs, workshops, and books which address the nine sabotage patterns I have identified and how to shift them permanently. (Ontology is the study of the being of a human being, including conscious and subconscious behavior patterns.)
The sabotage patterns for weight loss are also applicable for other areas of your life: money, career, relationships, hobbies, etc. You may be running some or all of the sabotage patterns and don’t even know it. Some examples of sabotages that may be affecting one or more areas of your life are “Playing Small,” “Sacrifice & Entitlement,” and “Unmet Needs/Unexpressed Emotions.” I am giving a talk next week in Albuquerque to address some of these.
Ways to shift your sabotages: You may start to immediately identify your own sabotage patterns just by being present and aware. How do you hold yourself back? Where do you get off track? What is underneath that?
Once you know what you’re doing, an easy way to shift sabotages can begin with doing just the opposite. This method is simple enough, but it is often difficult to do without guidance, unless you have someone you trust to help you through the process. We don’t always recognize our own “stuff.”
Another way to learn to shift sabotages is by attending my talk, even if you don’t have a weight problem. In the interactive, engaging presentation (see below) taken from my signature O.W.L. methodology you will learn 3 secrets you can use immediately in order to stay fit, slim, and energetic forever. These 3 tips introduce you to the sabotage patterns that affect ALL AREAS of our lives, not just weight.
Fabulous and Fat-Free Forever
3 Secrets to not only getting fit, slim, & energetic…but also staying that way.
When: Saturday, October 18, 2014 1:00 – 3:00 pm
Where: Balanced Life Yoga, 417 Tramway NE, #7, Albuquerque, NM 87123
Registration: $20 – contact Donna at 505-220-1084 or ddamazyn@earthlink.net
* 2 for 1 Special (limited time): Purchase your ticket now through Sunday, October 12, to bring a friend for free.
For more information about the workshop please email Janis@JanisPullen.com or visit these websites: www.JanisPullen.com and www.yogaabqnm.com/workshops/
Of course, all of our Ontological Wealth, Weight, and Leadership Coaching Programs teach you how to shift sabotage patterns once and for all. We even have a home study course which highlights the patterns. These programs are the best way to get out of sabotages you don’t even know you have! For more information on any of these, please contact me at www.JanisPullen.com.
Here is my “official” bio for this workshop, for your information or to share with a friend:
Janis Pullen is an award-winning Executive Mastery Coach, Certified Money Breakthrough Coach, Master of Accountancy, retired C.P.A., and retired Senior Sales Director. She has taught hundreds of people to grow their businesses, achieve excellence, and flourish in life. She empowers and leads professionals to triumph in their physical and financial fitness, including weight, wealth, and leadership. Releasing 50 pounds in the 1990’s and being self-supporting for decades, Janis is passionate about helping people uncover their magnificence. She works with people who are committed to both personal and business success, including executives and entrepreneurs who struggle with feeling stuck, stressed, overwhelmed, or overweight, so that they can clean up their money issues, leverage their time, and shed their financial or physical weight in order to have healthy, balanced, and abundant lives. Janis created and coaches the Weight of Money Breakthrough Programs, the O.W.L. Weight Loss Programs, the O.W.L. Weight Loss Coach Certification and Training Programs, the Keep It Off Club, the Advanced Wealth & Leadership Program, and various other private and group coaching programs. She is a speaker, trainer, and published author.
“I support extraordinary individuals and businesses who are dedicated to creating incredible results and who are willing to reinvent themselves in order to do so.”
– Janis Charlton Pullen
I look forward to talking with you to see how I may support you in your success.
Warmly,
Success Story
Janis’s coaching is like a mirror that reflects back ones own beauty and strengths so that we can see, appreciate, and utilize our own infinite resources.
— Carmen Marcolina, Registered Nurse
[OWWL Success Tip] Have you made an assumption?
One of my clients called for emergency coaching recently, worried sick about an upcoming circumstance and was afraid of what might happen. She was tempted to turn to comfort foods or to “retail therapy” to subdue her anxiety. I recognized immediately the sabotage of “making assumptions.”
OWWL Success Tip: “Assume” means “making an A** out of U and Me.
I asked this client to distinguish her interpretations vs. the actual facts, the emotions vs. the factual details as a newspaper reporter would report. We found that she was making many assumptions about what had happened and what might happen.
Once she stated the facts as a reporter would, she realized that she had over-dramatized and was living in an uncertain scary future that had not yet happened or might never happen (“what if…”) instead of living in the true here and now.
FEAR is an acronym for False Evidence Appearing Real. It appears real because of our interpretations and assumptions. Your practice of focusing on the actual facts will direct you toward serenity, peace, and empowerment. Drama queen can go back to sleep, and your food or money program can stay in integrity.
For information about Wealth, Weight, and Leadership Programs, contact me at Janis@JanisPullen.com.
To your health, wealth, and self-leadership,
Success Story:
As an Ontological Coach myself, transformational work has helped me to create a powerful life. The Weight of Money Breakthrough Program with Janis Pullen has been part of that powerful work and I will always be appreciative of Janis and her impact in my life. Through the W.O.M. program I’ve seen an increase in the amount of money I have allowed into my life and my relationship with money continues to improve! I am now in the advanced W.O.M. Integration Program and am excited to see even more impact it will have on supporting me in achieving true financial freedom and a beautiful relationship to money!
— Michelle Bacani-Lim, Executive Consultant/Speaker and Producer
[Current O.W.W.L. Journey] Stepping into a larger market – please read and help me
Please help me. I made a bold decision last week to expand the direction of my business and now need to connect with a new group of people to share my platform. Because you are in different walks of life, you might know such a person. Here’s the scoop and my back story:
I have decided to take my Ontological Weight Loss (O.W.L.) coaching and training programs to a “larger audience” (no pun intended). I have been working with overweight individuals and couples via private and group coaching since the inception in 2008 of O.W.L. Weight Loss: Your Once-in-a-Lifetime Solution and the launch of the Weight Loss Coach Certification and Training Program in June 2013. (I opened by business and life coaching business 9.5 years ago.)
The “larger audience” is businesses, corporations, health providers, internal coaches/trainers, and independent coaches/trainers who want to assist employees and/or clients in improving their fitness levels once and for all. I would like to be involved with corporate wellness programs by training and certifying other trainers/coaches in the O. W. L. body of work.
Research shows that obesity in the workforce costs companies directly and indirectly in terms of higher insurance premiums, lower productivity, and higher absenteeism, not to mention biases and prejudice in hiring, retention, and employee relations. I want to make a difference in helping companies improve their bottom line (again, no pun intended), as well as taking my work global.
My vision is to help people worldwide who struggle and suffer with weight to drop the weight permanently with grace and ease, to experience peace, and to love themselves unconditionally. My vision is also to support people in having successful, prosperous businesses. Both of these visions will be met with my new expanded business direction.
I figure I can always do research and make cold calls, but that is less effective than knowing someone who knows someone. Here are the areas in which I would love, love, love a contact (someone with a name and phone number would be the best):
- Human Resources (H. R.) departments
- Corporate wellness companies
- Weight loss coaches or other weight loss professionals (physicians, trainers, dieticians, etc.)
- Internal corporate coaches
- Independent corporate coaches
- Overweight executives/professionals
- Other ideas you may have
Thank you in advance for helping me move into new territory. Please respond via this blog or email your suggestions to Janis@JanisPullen.com.
In appreciation,
Success Story
The most “WOW” part of Janis, for me, is the ownership that she takes in working with you! She approaches the relationship as a “partnership,” which means that she takes a “personal stake” in your results. This approach inspires you to follow her guidance and do the work, because you know that she cares as much as you do about your progress!
– Lisa Hood, Financial Advisor
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