10 Tips To Reduce Fat In Your DietWritten by Kathy Thompson
1. Steam, boil, broil, or microwave vegetables, or stir-fry them in a small amount of vegetable oil.2. Season vegetables with herbs and spices rather than sauces, butter, or margarine. 3. Try lemon juice or fat-free dressing on salad, or use a yogurt based dressing instead of mayonnaise or sour cream dressing. 4. To reduce saturated fat, use vegetable oil or tub margarine instead of butter or stick margarine when possible. 5. Replace whole milk with skim or low-fat milk in puddings, soups, and baked products. Substitute plain nonfat yogurt, blender-whipped cottage cheese, low-fat sour cream, or buttermilk in recipes that call for sour cream. 6. Choose lean cuts of meat, and trim any visible fat from meat before and after cooking. Remove skin from poultry before or after cooking. Monitor portion sizes. (Lean meats end in "loin".)
| | What is Meditation?Written by Robert Elias Najemy
What is Meditation?Robert Elias Najemy Meditation can be described in hundreds of ways. Here we will give some brief explanations about this so-extremely-important aspect of human harmony, health and spiritual evolution. Three Aspects of Meditation 1. The first step is relaxation or surrendering of body and mind so that mind is not cluttered with various unrelated and disturbing thoughts. 2. The second is concentration on a limited area of mental focus so as to begin to be able to control and direct mind towards chosen "object" of concentration. Thus, if I have chosen to concentrate on Christ, concept of love or energy in my heart center, my mind will not wonder from that point of focus to various other unrelated thoughts concerning my daily life, needs, desires, future and past. 3. The third stage is eventual transcendence of mind, thoughts and all identification with body and personality. We then enter into a state of super-mental union with divine consciousness. These three aspects, RELAXATION, CONCENTRATION and TRANSCENDENCE constitute basis of most meditation techniques. What is Meditation Like? Meditation could be considered any process or abstinence of process, which brings mind into a state of contact with inner self, so that a sense of inner peace and fulfillment ensue. Ordinarily, our minds are constantly preoccupied with feelings, ideas, thoughts, sounds, sights, tastes and sensual experiences. We are focused on working, talking, thinking, analyzing, watching, worrying, solving, studying, dreaming and so on. We are like ships being tossed around by waves of circumstances, external inputs and our subconscious programming. One moment we are happy, elated over a success, a new purchase or an affirming exchange with a loved one. In next moment sadness flows through us - we are tired, depressed with life, bored with work, confined by our family, devastated by heat, frustrated with ourselves, angry at others, or bitter about hardships which life has put upon us. Life is an incessant flow of moods, thoughts and perceptions.
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