Domestic Geek

I totally would not have thought about this topic, but Marisa reminded me of how having toxic people and toxic relationships in our lives can be extremely detrimental to our physical and mental wellbeing. It makes sense since I already wrote about how stress negatively affects our health.

Just like the Dementors in the Harry Potter series, negative/angry people suck the life right out of you. They are miserable so they do everything in their power to bring everyone else down with them. If you're really set on living a healthy life, keep these type of people out of your life.

*Only 4 more hours and I can crawl into bed. Yay!!!!

If you've heard anything at all about The Secret (watched the dvd, saw it on Oprah, etc.), you know that what you think about and dwell on manifests in your life. If you are constantly thinking or worrying about illness, you'll get sick. If you obsess over being fat, you'll stay fat. If you're like me and have lived an extremely unhealthy lifestyle, concentrating on past acts that you can not change will not bring new results in the future. I wrote in the last post about using your mind to keep it sharp, but there is so much more to the power of our brains that we just don't yet understand. To really begin to live a healthy lifestyle, you have to change your thinking or you'll continue to be as you are right now.

That's Pet Shop Boys for the uniformed. "Always on My Mind" and "Opportunities (Let's Make Lost of Money)" are two of the greatest songs ever.

I'm going to start practicing yoga. You would think from looking at people who are skilled at it that it is a nice, easy, relaxing activity. Have you ever actually tried it, though? It is really hard and is quite the work out. It takes a lot of muscle control and discipline. Holding some of those poses makes you feel like you're going to faint.

I've got a couple of DVDs to get started, but I'll probably do better if I find a studio. There are a couple I'd like to check out here locally.

OK, one more and I'm moving on to a different subject matter.

The body needs iron to make the oxygen-carrying proteins hemoglobin (found in red blood cells) and myoglobin (found in muscles). Iron also makes up part of many proteins in the body. Iron from meat and egg sources seem to be the best for the body as it can be absorbed more readily, however, you can get it from dried fruits, vegetables, greens and grains, too.

While the body can store some iron, the symptoms of iron deficiency anemia are lack of energy, shortness of breath, headache, irritability, dizziness or weight loss.

As I wrote earlier, you also need vitamin C in your diet to be able to absorb iron properly.