Life

The Dis-ease Of Busyness

“I’m too busy”. The axiom of our time. In this ever more “connected” world of apps for everything embedded in the morass of social media and gold rush for the commodity called our attention it’s no wonder we feel “too busy”.

Too busy to eat (let alone cook), too busy to sleep, too busy to exercise, too busy to see people we tell ourselves are important to us, too busy to relax, to busy to take care of ourselves, too busy to have fun and enjoy life. This is the dis-ease of busyness and it’s something you, me, we and us as society need to start taking very seriously. Because if “everything that’s good is bad and everything that’s bad is good”, everything is, if it hasn’t already, going to get bad.

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You Are What You Consume

Health, Life

“You are what you eat”. I’m sure you’ve heard this before. Which is by no means a knock, that’s as true a truism as there is. The expression of your being, from your health, how you feel and how you think, is a direct result of the food you consume. Heard of serotonin, the neurotransmitter that anti-depressanst are based on? It’s produced in your gut by the bacteria that break down food, not in your brain.

But today isn’t about food. It’s about consuming. Because when it comes to your health and wellbeing, consumption extends far beyond the boundaries of your dinner plate. “You are what you eat”, sure. But really….

“You are what you consume”.

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Embrace The Sweat

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If you do “this”, this is what can happen…

your risk of fatal cardiovascular disease drops 50%.
your overall chance of death from all disease is 40% lower.
you’re 66% less likely to suffer from dementia.
and your chances of a future with Alzheimer’s plummets 65%.

And that’s not all. It makes you a better athlete, a better learner, it improves insulin sensitivity (aka prevention and management of diabetes) and could just maybe possibly lengthen your life by 15%.

What is this voodoo? Where are you going to get the hemlock, dragon’s blood, eye of a newt and wool of bat for this magical concoction? What kind of Faustian deal do you have to make and with who for all this goodness?

Nope. No soul deals, no scary Shakespearian encounter with the Wayward Sisters and no need for any doctors, prescriptions, drugs nor pills.

You just have to get HOT.

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No Light Without Dark

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Any of you in the Johannesburg area are smack bang in the middle of another wave of load shedding. And along with the blackouts comes it’s constantly companion – complaining. It’s everywhere you go and from everyone you listen to. And sure, of course it’s far from great and yes, I know there has been an abundance of corruption, incompetence and mismanagements and etc, etc, blah, blah, blah. All of that is true and still all of that doesn’t change a single thing. The cumulative cacophony of complaining from the South African populace isn’t going to coalesce into some magic concoction that will keep the lights on. Furthermore, perhaps load shedding presents a potential opportunity rather than another whoa is me, doom and gloom situation.

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Are YOU Human?

Health, Life

Are you human?
Seems like an easy answer….duh, obviously, of course I am.

Not so fast. It isn’t that simple. Yes, you are still a human being. But are you still a homo sapien? And if not, what does that mean for your health and wellbeing?

The answer – it means everything.

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