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Hungry Healthy Happy focuses a lot on food and exercise, but it is all about health and that includes our eyes too. Looking after your sight is really important and there is a lot you can do to help prevent your eye sight from deteriorating too much.

I have worn glasses since I was about 12 and to be honest I could have done much more to help my eyes. I didn’t wear my glasses when I should have done when I was younger and I spent way too much time at the computer or watching the TV. I still really hate wearing glasses, but I just can’t stand the thought of putting lenses in. I have thought about laser eye surgery and this is something that my husband is also looking into at the moment. He has been wearing glasses for 22 years and in his own words he is as blind as a bat.

A healthy diet is really important for all aspects of life and that includes your eye sight. Your eyes are just like every other part of your body and they need to right nutrients to make sure they are functioning as best as they can.

– Vitamins A, C and E are important because of their antioxidant properties.

– Omega-3 Fats are said to protect the arteries that supplies blood to the retina. Our bodies don’t produce these essential fatty acids themselves, so we have to make sure that we are getting them from our diet.

Want to know what kind of foods you should be eating to help your eye sights? These should be at the top of your list: Continue reading →

This is a fabulous commencement address given by J. K. Rowling to the 2008 graduating class of Harvard. Her speech has been watched by millions and has two themes: Failure and Imagination that she ties together in such a masterful way that only she can.

On Failure she says that it is unavoidable, “It is impossible to have lived and not failed at something. Unless you have lived so cautiously that you have not lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.”

So what does failure teach us? “Failure allows us to strip away all that is inessential.” When this happens, and we have managed to look beyond our ego, then and only then we emerge stronger from failure. “You will never know yourself and the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity.” For J. K. Rowling this happened when she had failed completely and totally. 7 Years after her graduation, she was jobless and her short marriage had failed. She found herself as a depressed single mother in dire poverty living on welfare. When she allowed the lessons from failure to sink in she began to focus on the only thing that was truly important and that was her writing. She says, “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” Continue reading →

When we talk about weight loss it makes more sense to not just focus on calories but also to look at stress. Looking at calories answers the question: Why am I gaining weight now? While the focus on stress provides answer to the question: Why am I not able to keep the weight I lost off? It is well known that stress and weight are intimately linked. But yet most discussions on weight loss pay lip service to stress and instead just focus on food and calories.

When we view weight from the point of view of stress we get a new picture. We now see weight as a symptom of an out-of-balance life-style with too much stress. Fixing stress helps fix the weight issue for the long haul. Here are a few things that jump out when we look at weight loss from the point of view of stress:

1. Sleep
Can it get any easier? All you need to do to shed those extra pounds is sleep! If you get 6 hours or less of sleep then you need to pay attention to this. If you already sleep between 7-10 hours then you are fine. (And if you sleep more than 10 hours then you may need to cut back.) One indicator that you are sleep deprived is if you find yourself nodding off during the day.

2. Walk if cannot run
Running is a great way to keep fit and relax. But if you cannot run then just walk. The key to understand the new paradigm of stress is not to view any activity from the point of view of calories but instead view it from the lens of relaxation. Walk to relax and refresh. Take a leisurely walk. There is no need for power walking. It may be better to go for a walk few days a week consistently for many years, than to attempt to run for a few days and then give up. Continue reading →