The human mind has magnificent power it can empower us, or it can enslave us.
It can take us to the deep end of torment or take us to the heights of great euphoria.
We just have to learn how to manifest that power and put it to good use.
The mind can conceive anything we think of anything we imagine, anything we visualize.
The mind is indeed powerful; it is the transformative thoughts of our mind that will take us to our destination; the destination of either greatness or failure. As Albert Einstein once said, ” the true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination”. Your mind has to arrive at the destination before your life does, change your mind, change your life.
Even Romans 12:22 states, “Do not conform to the patterns of the world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind”. Everything starts in the mind and the world
is responding to who you believe you are. If you want to be great in all aspects of your life, start thinking of yourself as one with greatness within and manifest the power of your mind.
The Power of the Hustle.
Is one of the keys to achieving massive success in life and getting where you want to be; you can’t just sit around and expect things to happen as they wouldn’t. Things just don’t work out by chance, you have got to have a map, a plan, and a sense of direction. Your dreams aren’t going to come true, if you do not hustle. It has to be o% talk and 100% walk. Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
So, Get out there my friend.
You have to stay focused, stay humble, and always hustle your heart out.
Hustle like there is a fire in your belly, hustle till you become the boss of you, hustle till everyone knows your name, hustle as David slew Goliath, hustle on a consistent and persistent basis. You can manifest the power of the hustle within you, think outside
of the box and make it happen.
All you need is your “why factor”, that thing that gets you up in the morning and pushes you towards achievement and making things happen. The bible says that knock and the door will open and seek and you shall find. You see, friends, hustle is not the lazy, but for the hungry. Get out there and hustle! Never Give Up | Cancer Quick Facts (solitarius.org)
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In 2016, Cancer rates in the US are highest in the eastern side of the country. Kentucky
had the highest incidence with 512 people out of 100,000 developing the disease every year. One of the poorest states in the nation, it has not sufficiently invested in cancer prevention and detection; therefore, the state also has the highest rate of deaths from cancer. Kentucky was founded on the tobacco industry, a legacy that remains today as nearly a quarter of the population smokes cigarettes. This smoking habit explains why lung cancer is higher here than any other state in the nation.
The second highest cancer rate is found in Delaware where 490.6 out of every 100,000 residents will develop the disease annually. After being named as one of the states with the highest rates of cancer, Delaware increased its screening and prevention programs which has helped to improve survival and diagnoses rates. Common cancers here are colorectal and prostate. Both can be prevented through early detection.
Number 3 on the list is Pennsylvania.
In this state, the incidence of cancer is 483.1.
Cancer is one of the most common chronic diseases here and the second leading cause
of death (after heart disease). The most commonly diagnosed type of cancer is prostate followed by lung, breast, and colorectal. Lifestyle behaviors are again to blame, residents here report high tobacco use and unhealthy diets.
The other states with the highest cancer rates include New York (482), New Jersey (479.5), Louisiana (477.5), Minnesota (475), Iowa (470.2), Arkansas (470) and Connecticut (469).
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West Virginia, 23.8%; #7
Kentucky, 23.6%; #1
Louisiana, 21.9%; #3
Ohio, 20.8%; #14
Mississippi, 20.4%; #11
Alabama #27 and Arkansas 20.2% (tie); Ark #4
Tennessee, 19.9%; #26
Missouri, 19.6%; #29
Indiana, 19.2%. #43
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Wellness is defined as the state or quality of being in good health. Wellness culture, on
the other hand, is more complicated. According to Christy Harrison, registered dietitian nutritionist and author of new book “The Wellness Trap,” wellness culture is more about the belief that our bodies cannot function or regulate well enough on their own and require products, diets or self-discipline to do so.
“Wellness culture posits certain behaviors as the path to achieving (moral goodness),” Harrison tells TODAY.com, adding that it promotes a standard for taking care of your body that can be unattainable — or even harmful.
Wellness culture has exploded in the last decade, in part thanks to social media, and
is reaching an increasingly younger audience, Harrison says. But many of the beliefs circulating online, especially those around nutrition, have little to no evidence to back them up. Here are some of the most pervasive nutrition myths that wellness culture has tricked us into believing, says Harrison, and why you should ditch them immediately.
We need to “detox” our bodies.
The word detox — to rid the body of toxins or substances — has been co-opted
by wellness culture, according to Harrison. Whether it’s from sugar, solid foods or
social media, these so-called detoxes are touted as ways to cleanse the body.
“It’s a very harmful wellness trend,” says Harrison, adding that detoxes usually involve extreme or restrictive behaviors. Juice cleanses, supplements and fasting are all marketed as ways to detox the body, says Harrison, even though the body is designed to detoxify itself. “Your liver and kidneys are great at removing toxins in your body without any intervention from you,” says Harrison.
Extreme cleanses won’t make these organs work better, she adds, and they certainly
aren’t a necessary maintenance measure. “Wellness culture kind of views the liver and kidneys as being like filters in the sink that get clogged with gunk,” she says. “A lot of
the language is about needing to detox or clean them out to make them work properly.”
But this simply isn’t true, she stresses.
“Unless you have liver or kidney disease or rare cases of acute poisoning … you don’t have to do anything for your liver and kidneys to function,” she adds. Concerns about toxins pushed by wellness culture are often overblown and fraught with misunderstanding, says Harrison. “There’s this scaremongering about toxins in our food and our environment that we need to supposedly detox from regularly,” she says. NOTE: I DISAGREE
The juice cleanse “cure”
Juices have evolved from an easy way to drink your produce into a panacea that can heal or reverse a range of ailments, says Harrison. “There’s no good scientific evidence behind (juice cleanses), yet they’re still being touted as a cure-all,” she adds. A red flag with any wellness trend, says Harrison, is if it’s promoted as a cure or a way to help with a wide array of diverse conditions. NOTE: JUICING DOESN’T CURE ANYTHING IT TREATS YOUR BODY!
Celery juice in particular remains a popular trend among wellness influencers and celebrities, she adds, with many claiming it provides benefits like rapid weight loss, improved gut health, higher energy levels and clearer skin. “There’s probably a dozen chronic health conditions celery juice is purported to help or even cure,” she explains,
such as autoimmune diseases, skin conditions, allergies or digestive disorders.
But the research supporting these assertions is profoundly lacking, she adds.
While fruits and vegetables provide the body with vitamins and nutrients, juicing them doesn’t enhance these benefits, TODAY.com previously reported. Juices can be a great addition to a diet alongside whole, nutritious foods, but drinking them as a substitute
or a cleanse really isn’t worth it. Celery: Ask Health Professionals Q & A (msn.com)
“Clean eating is always better.”
Wellness culture has created an obsession with the cleanliness and purity of what we put into our bodies, says Harrison. It’s even spilled over from food into personal care, beauty and home cleaning products. The premise of clean eating is to focus on eating whole foods, avoid processed foods, cut back on sugars, limit saturated or trans fats, and limit or avoid alcohol and caffeine.
It’s one thing to try to get more nutritious foods in your diet, but clean eating is often problematic in disguise, Harrison says. Some clean eating diets involve eliminating entire food groups (like grains or dairy, for example) and overly restrictive behaviors, says Harrison. What’s most worrisome, she adds, is how this can lead to disordered eating habits or full-blown orthorexia.
Orthorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by an obsession with healthy
eating and associated restrictive behaviors, according to the National Institutes of Health.
It often involves a fixation with the cleanness of foods, TODAY.com previously reported.
Although it is not yet formally recognized as a mental disorder, the term orthorexia has been around since 1998, per the National Eating Disorders Association, and rates have been on the rise since. “Research is still limited, but there’s some evidence showing that it’s quite high in health-conscious populations,” says Harrison. “For example, the overall prevalence of orthorexia in exercising populations was a staggering 51% according to a systematic review published this February.
All processed food is bad
The moralization of food — or labeling certain foods as “good” or “bad” — is one of the most harmful aspects of wellness culture, says Harrison. “There is no good versus bad food,” she explains. Some foods are more nutritious than others, but this binary fails to capture the full picture of a food’s nutritional value.
Assigning moral value to foods can also create guilt or shame around eating them, Harrison adds — phrases like “guilt-free” or “cheat meals” reinforce this. “Demonization of processed foods and sugar are the biggest ones,” says Harrison. “It makes people feel like if they eat any of those foods, that they’re going to have immediate health consequences or they’re poisoning themselves.”
Not only is this a myth, she adds, it can lead to disordered eating tendencies.
Processed foods are those that have undergone some processing from their natural state, which includes anything from candy and cookies to tinned fish or canned vegetables, TODAY.com reported previously. One step up from these are ultra-processed foods, which have undergone extensive transformation and have been linked to increased risk of certain cancers.
Harrison acknowledges that while research suggests eating too much processed food or sugar can be associated with poor health outcomes, she doesn’t believe it warrants the level of fearmongering around certain foods pushed by many in the wellness industry.
“It’s not like the people having the best health outcomes in those studies are always eating zero sugar or zero processed foods,” says Harrison. Moderation is key — the occasional bag of chips or candy bar is no reason to fret.
There’s a supplement for that
No matter your ailment, you can probably find a supplement somewhere claiming to fix it. Wellness culture often pushes the idea that taking vitamins and dietary supplements is a more “natural” solution to attain good health, according to Harrison.
However, the benefits of dietary supplements for the general population have been widely contested. And research continues to show the vitamin pills and gummies advertised to keep us healthy might not do much at all, TODAY.com previously reported.
In addition, supplements can be harmful for a number of reasons, says Harrison. They can come with unpleasant side effects and even health risks in high doses. Another downside is that the supplement industry in the United States is largely unregulated, she adds.
Vitamins and dietary supplements are regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as foods, not drugs. The FDA does not approve the safety or
effectiveness of supplements, nor the accuracy of their labels, before they
are sold to the public, TODAY.com previously reported.
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“It’s scary because there’s no one really looking out for us in terms of what goes into supplements before they go to market,” says Harrison. Nutritionists Say This Sweet
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