You really are what you eat. You are also very much affected by lifestyle you live. Every item that enters your mouth will be digested and reconstructed into your living cells for use. Although it is true that everything is broken down into general building blocks necessary for life (such as sugar, fat, proteins, etc), quality of what you eat really affects how healthy each of your cells are. A diet high in processed foods, sugars, fats, chemicals, additives, preservatives, and low quality nutrients is harder for your body to process and leads to building of lower quality cells. If you rarely exercise, experience high stress, do not sleep well or enough, and do not partake in favorite leisure activities, this also stresses body and reduces its effectiveness in maintaining balance and health.

================================ " The truth about Smokers 'Concentration Con' "

- by Neil Stelling B.Sc, MBA

© DigiLectual Inc. 2004 http://www.QuitSmokingWithNLP.com/concen ==============================

Smokers make many excuses for not quitting. One of them is 'concentration con'. How many times have you heard a smoker say, 'I'd like to quit, but it helps me concentrate'. Maybe you've said it yourself ?

In reality, smoking doesn't help concentration from a medical viewpoint. So idea that smoking helps concentration is just a perception, or an imagined positive reason for not quitting.

It's true that withdrawal symptoms, starting not long after your last cigarette, cause feelings of irritability and restlessness. These feelings started because of cigarettes, and it's strange that another cigarette should be way to relieve them.

In fact, smoking makes concentration much harder, not easier. Although another cigarette temporarily relieves symptoms caused by cigarette in first place, cigarette is not aid to concentration which many smokers wrongly choose to believe.

Truth is, smoking another cigarette will make concentration progressively harder. With any drug, you eventually need more and more of it to produce same effect. A smoker will never be able to concentrate as well as a non-smoker. The more he smokes, less relief he'll get from each cigarette.