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A brand new year gives
us all a chance to turn over a new leaf. As a lover of stationery, I like to
see life as a journal. At the beginning of January, we can draw a line under
our old year, which may have seen an odd bad habit creep in and perhaps a few
Christmas excesses, and now we are faced with a blank page on which we can
scribble our intentions, hopes, dreams and goals for the year ahead.
Central to all this
should be our health. Yes, I know I keep repeating myself BUT THIS IS SO
IMPORTANT.
Be proactive. Take time
now to focus on you – to ensure your physical, emotional and mental wellbeing
are the best that they can be. If you don’t take time now, you may well be
forced to take considerable time out when it’s not that convenient. Big diseases don’t just suddenly visit us
one evening out of thin air. Often they are brewing for several years,
fuelled by our poor diets, lack of exercise, and lack of care for ourselves. Just
a little time each day spent on looking after “me” can reap long-term
benefits.
A lot of people get a
rush of blood to the head in January and sign up for gym membership or
resolve to go running every day. That’s great, but not if you are still
cramming cakes and eating a poor diet. Your already depleted reserves will be
strained even further and injuries are more likely as well as feeling under
par. Likewise, there is only so much benefit from being a couch-smoothette –
a term I made up to denote a green-smoothie eating couch-potato!!
A healthy diet and
lifestyle (including regular exercise) go hand in hand. They are not mutually
exclusive!!
Make nourishing yourself
with health-giving foods and exercising your daily habits in 2013. You are
sure to see and feel the difference.
Wishing you a healthy
2013
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