We all know that water is the stuff of life. Not convinved? Check out this video – nothing can be more persuasive than a thousand pictures about the power and importance of hydration. Enjoy!
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You know that achieving financial freedom basically means starting your own business. You want to give it a whirl but don’t know what kind of business you should start. Like most of us, you probably don’t have a product that everyone wants or an idea for the next big ‘thing’.
People keep telling you to pick a niche. What niche? Where? Here is an idea: pick the next big wave. In the 1980s, the big wave was the PC. It generated a trillion dollar industry. In the 1990s it was the Internet. What is it now? No, it isn’t the Internet. The Internet is just THE best platform for your business for those who feel encouraged to choose it. Not everyone will dare to jump in. Not to worry, there are other huge opportunities, too. But they are all in the same industry. Which industry?
Watch this video by the man who defined this industry, who told us seven years ago how to make a fortune in the next trillion dollar industry and who recently updated his forecast because this wave is now fully on its way to exceed expectations.
Here are a few options for you:
I invite you to take a look at a real life business opportunity in the Wellness industry: click here to check it out.
Still not sure about Wellness? Read my article on “Wellness – Hoax, Hype Or Real?”
For full details on the How to Make a Fortune in the Next Trillion Dollar Industry, here are the books mentioned by Paul Zane Pilzer:
The New Wellness Revolution: How to Make a Fortune in the Next Trillion Dollar Industry
The Next Millionaires
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One of the world’s favourites among alternative breakfast foods, muesli, today comes in all shapes and sizes: boxed, bagged, pre-cooked, fortified, and frequently with ingredients that are as far removed from the original as chop suey is from Chinese cuisine.
Here are 3 facts about muesli:
- Muesli was originally not intended as breakfast but as a light evening meal.
- Muesli was “whole food” not because the oats were unprocessed but because apples were grated into the dish whole, skin, pips and all.
- In Switzerland, it’s actually not called Muesli, which there refers to a cute little mouse, but Müesli (with ‘ü’ and ‘e’ pronounced separately) referring to the mixture of ingredients that has taken the world by storm.
More about Müesli here…
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I just updated my website – www.MyHealthyBreakfast.com. Apart from the new header – can you guess how many different images are rotating? – the home page now explains what a healthy breakfast is: a balanced, protein-based breakfast providing balanced nutrition, the right kind of protein – yes, eggs are back again – and including the right kind of carbohydrates, wholegrain, with sugar coming preferably from fruit. You can read the full article here.
Get the full version in my report on how to “Get Your Day Off to A Great Start.” It’s free.
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What a question! Of course, they do. Why, then, do most kids not get it? And what are the consequences for them? In this post, I take a more detailed look at these questions that are so important for the future of our children. It complements Part 1 of my report on how to “Get Your Day Off To A Great Start.”
Children Definitely Need Proper Breakfast.
Adults need a proper, healthy breakfast to get their day off to a great start. Children are growing, so they ought to need it even more urgently. And they do. Let’s first look at why.
Children have an extremely important job to do, at least my daughter does. They have to grow up. They have to go to school and learn the skills that allow them to grow into happy, healthy and productive adults. That’s a bigger job than any of us adults do.
It stands to reason that they need the right fuel to be able to do their job. As far as the physiological aspect is concerned, it’s obvious that a growing body needs highest quality nutrients in the right proportions at the required time. If their young bodies don’t get it, their growth will slow down; they’ll be prone to illnesses and never be able to perform as well as they could at whatever they choose.
This is true not just for breakfast but also for the other meals throughout the day. Breakfast has a special importance, though.
Children have dinner early, normally at about 6pm. Breakfast is the first refuelling opportunity their growing bodies are given after a break of 12 to 14 hours when they did run mostly on empty. It allows them to catch up and set the tone for the day.
Skipping breakfast, therefore, is simply not an option whatever the age of your child. It’s not even an option for you. If they skip breakfast, their first proper meal would be at lunchtime. This means that they would be running on empty for 18 hours! You couldn’t do it to your car, so why should you want to do it to your child?
There are some pretty hefty advantages of starting the day with a healthy breakfast as opposed to skipping it. Research has shown that a healthy breakfast eaten regularly first of all
- - improves their mood and reduces irritability, and therefore
- - improves their behaviour.
- - It also reduces hyperactivity.
This naturally makes for happier children at school. At a more academic level, a proper breakfast helps our children learn better and with less effort because it
- - helps improve attention span and concentration,
- - helps improve their mental performance, their ability to solve problems, and
- - helps improve their memory.
Getting started regularly on a healthy balanced meal in the morning has also shown to reduce
- - lateness
- - absence, and
- - visits to the school nurse.
All this will obviously help our children perform better at tests, make school a more pleasant, happier experience for them, and set them up for life with good eating and work habits. In my book, this is a pretty good return for making sure they have a properly balanced breakfast every morning.
What Is A Healthy Breakfast?
A healthy breakfast, for our children and for us, does not have to be anything extraordinary. It’s a nutritionally balanced start of the day:
- - Make them drink a glass of water as soon as they get up, and then
- - give them wholegrain (not just wholemeal) bread and butter,
- - an egg,
- - a glass of milk,
- - some fruit or
- - a glass of freshly pressed orange juice, preferably both.
Or cook some porridge with a twist. You’ll find more details in Part 7 of my free report on how to “Get Your Day Off To A Great Start.”
This combination will provide them with the vitamins, minerals, protein and slow release carbohydrates they need. Children who have such a start of their day will be well on their way to achieve 3 important goals:
1. Meeting Their Daily Nutritional Needs
It will provide them with significant amounts of important micro-nutrients as well as macro-nutrients: vitamins C and D, calcium, iron, fibre, carbohydrates, protein and fat. This is of great importance also for older children moving into puberty and adolescence. Their nutritional needs explode as they swap their children’s bodies for adult ones.
2. Not Suffering From Overweight
Research among 9 to 12 year olds has shown that a breakfast with a low glycemic index (low GI) – that is, wholegrain bread – combined with protein keeps them satisfied much longer. Children eating a more standard breakfast that has a high GI (white bread / toast, sugary cereals, etc.), get hungry much more quickly, snack more frequently and have greater problems controlling their weight now and as adults.
3. Creating A Good Store Of Energy For The Day
This takes us back to the advantages that we’ve already seen of a healthy breakfast over skipping breakfast. These advantages are short term (for the day at school), medium term (helping them perform better and get better grades) and long term (creating good eating and work habits for life).
For more details about what the body needs and where you find the nutrients, download my free report on how to “Get Your Day Off To A Great Start.”
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For decades, we were told that eggs are bad for us. In 1970, they were linked to cholesterol and heart attacks; then we were told that they carry salmonella. So we stopped eating them. Well, at least we reduced our consumption drastically.
This has now been relegated to the realm of mythology. Eggs are good for you. It’s official. It has been shown in a study to be published by the British Nutrition Foundation in March 2009, that eggs have a clinically insignificant effect on cholesterol levels. Not only that, their high protein content can help people lose weight. Research published in 2008 showed that people who ate two eggs per day, while on a calorie-restricted diet, not only lost weight but also reduced their blood cholesterol levels.
As a consequence, major health organisations revised their guidance. The British Heart Foundation withdrew its recommendation to limit eggs to 3-4 a week. The Food Standards Agency advised that most people don’t need to limit how many eggs they have if they are eating a balanced diet. The American Heart Association also removed specific reference to eggs in their dietary recommendations for heart health.
The research also showed that only one third of the cholesterol came from the diet, and that it was raised by saturated fat, not by eggs. According to the British Heart Foundation, “if you need to reduce your cholesterol level it is more important that you cut down on the amount of saturated fat in your diet from foods like fatty meat, full fat dairy products and cakes, biscuits and pastries.”
It remains true, of course, that increase in blood cholesterol can increase the risk of heart disease. People who are overweight and don’t exercise are more likely to have high blood cholesterol. Only eggs are now out of this equation.
According to Prof. Bruce Griffin, Professor of Nutritional Metabolism from the University of Surrey and joint author of the new paper, people do not need to be limiting the number of eggs they eat – indeed they can be encouraged to include them in a healthy diet as they are one of nature’s most nutritionally dense foods.
Eggs are a good source of important nutrients: they are protein-rich and provide vitamin A, vitamin D, niacin and vitamin B12. Their fat content is predominantly unsaturated.
So, let’s put eggs back in our healthy breakfast and go to work on an egg. They definitely are part of my breakfast plans. If you don’t know about them, get a copy of my report on how to “Get Your Day Off To A Great Start.” Simply click here to get it.
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My Healthy Breakfast is now officially open and will be updated regularly. For starters, I have just published a new report
“Get Your Day Off To A Great Start”
You find your copy by clicking here. Please feel free to leave your feedback on the report in this blog.
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