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When need to learn to listen to our body, this means identifying the difference between being lazy, being unmotivated, emotionally fatigued and physically fatigued.

While some people may have mastered the being lazy situation, not doing anything due to excuses or justifications to yourself or others, we need to learn to identify when to stop and relax.
While this may seem pretty obvious, it’s a skill we need to re acquaint ourselves with. Try getting the work/life balance under control today.

If you fail to listen to your body, sooner or later your body will take it’s own initiative in the form of getting the flu from being run down, low immune responses to infection or disease, or being so fatigue that you are forced to “down tools” and do nothing, as you lack the energy to even get out of bed in severe cases.

We need to learn the ancient art of how to learn to listen to your body and relax.
I’m not talking about relaxing at every opportunity but striking a balance between work, rest and play.

If we continually push ourselves, we are constantly evoking the “Fight” response in our bodies, while we may not being chase by a sabre tooth tiger, we are in survival mode.
Deadlines and pressures at the office, rushing home to spend time with the kids, cleaning the house, taking the kids to sports and other activities, domestic chores, checking your emails, socialising with friends, go, go, go and on top of that your exercise program and training schedule with less than 8 hours of sleep.

So where is your “Me time”?
Our society is becoming chronically fatigued, tiredness, lack of energy, emotionally drained.

Why there is much debate about the chronic fatigue syndrome, we have to ask ourselves are we getting enough time in our busy schedules to relax and unwind.

Eventually, some of us will see the results of continually pushing ourselves. Ultimately our health should be number 1, not work or other commitments as one person once said “When your lying at the hospital, close to death, are you really thinking about all those great moments at the office working”

Try to make some changes in your life and change the patterns in your life, otherwise if you don’t relax and unwind your health will suffer.

Sleep deprivation, How it’s not only affecting our health but also affecting our lives according to the American Sleep Foundation

Today we get 90 mins on average less sleep than we did 100 years ago, and what the implications of being sleep deprived are for the average person.
New research is saying that sleep deprivation is not only growing the consumption of energy drinks and coffee but having an impact on the health systems which also leads to more road accidents and trauma, so this deficient in our usual sleep pattern of 8 hours eventually creates a debt that must be paid one way or another.

So while it may be hard, try to reduce your sleep deprivation today.

KFC has a pilot program to reduce salt by 10% in Tasmania but are the levels of Sodium in their products still at high levels?

With McDonalds and other large fast food conglomerates racing for the Healthy menu options is there enough being done to reduce the high levels of Sodium, fats and sugars on their menu’s.

FSANZ, or the Food Standards Australia and New Zealand has a voluntary code in reducing the salt content food products by 10%, an initiative introduced in 2006
in recommending a maximum alt intake of 2.3 grams is Sodium.

Exceeding the daily maximum intake of 2.3 grams of salt (Sodium), a recommendation from Australia’s National Health and Medical Research Council leads to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, including high blood pressure and stroke.

So with a significant number of KFC’s products, especially when bundled together in a meal deal, the Sodium in their KFC’s products, for example a Crispy Twister (c) & chips gets close to the daily allowance.

So whether KFC reducing salt is a genuine move to improve the nutritional value of there products or more about changing public perceptions is up to you

More and more liposuction is being marketing as the wonder cure for getting rid of all those wobbly bits on the body, under the arms, the chin, neck, stomach, thighs, butts and chest.

The scary part is that the marketing of such services is now being aimed at men but where will it end.
If the patient resumes their normal lifestyle will all the wobbly bits simple move to another area of the body?