Trusting The Leader Within

Jun01

I brought new members to my team. I worked hard to diversify and to build my business so I can offer a wider range of services to a wider client base. As I worked, I sought the counsel of various individuals who are genuinely interested in my success. Each one answered my request for advice from a different perspective. Like every leader, I needed honest input from people who can challenge my old habits of thought and call attention to factors I do not or cannot see for myself. While I spent the last year listening to others suggestions and ideas, I stopped listening to one very important voice: my own. I paid consultants and outsiders to help me, all the while ignoring a nagging inner voice that told me some of my choices were wrong. I went in the wrong direction. I even went as far as to scrap a long-held business vision on the advice of someone who said my vision was too broad, that it...

Is Eating The Only Way To Gain Weight

Apr24

Heart disease could be developed as a result of over-weight or obesity, which is usually due to unhealthy diet, excessive eating, and lack of exercises. If I tell you that inadequate sleep for a long period of time, you will actually gain weight. Do you believe it. In the mind of most people, chronic sleep deficit should naturally lead to a loss of weight because the body does not have enough sleep and there is an exhaustion of vitamins and minerals. But the two research studies conducted in 2004 reported otherwise: chronic sleep deficit can lead to over-weight or obesity. As a matter of fact, there has already been link between sleep loss and weight gain established by previous researchers, but these two studies further suggested that the mechanism could be metabolic hormones that regulate appetite and tell the body when it has had enough to eat. One of the studies reported that sharp...

Mixing Heart Drugs Can Be Fatal For Some!

Mar06

A standard combination of diuretics and blood-pressure drugs has been prescribed to heart-failure patients by their doctors. Such treatment has widely been used in United States following a research conducted in 1999 reporting that the medicines reduced deaths by 30 percent from heart failure. The said research excluded patients with damaged kidneys or other risk of developing high potassium levels. Nevertheless, giving such treatment without careful screening may cause thousands of deaths a year. This is the finding of a report published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2004. According to the researchers, some doctors have not been examining their patients carefully before giving them drugs such as GD Searle s Aldactone, which reduces fluid retention, along with drugs to lower blood pressure such as Bristol-Myers Squibb Co s Capoten or King Pharmaceuticals Altace. As a result...

Pregnancy Back Pain

Jan06

Appropriate Posture And Exercises Are The Best Remedy: Pregnancy back pain in general and early pregnancy back pain in particular is a common complaint during pregnancy with more than 50 pregnant women suffering from it. Pregnant women are prone to backaches and back pain due to a number of reasons such as the extra weight of the baby or a change in the center of gravity of their body or due to hormonal changes in the early stages of pregnancy. With the growth of the uterus, a women s center of gravity shifts forward. This gradually results in a change in the posture and movement style and may often lead to backache. Hormonal changes are a normal part of pregnancy and can cause the ligaments between our pelvic bones to often and our joints to loosen in preparation for the baby s passage through pelvis during birth. In some cases urinary infection can also result in Back pain amongst pregnant...

Twelve Herbal Slimming Tablets To Help You Lose Weight

Oct30

Before you think of taking prescription drugs to lose weight, it would be better to take a look at the range of herbal slimming tablets on the market. Some may not live up to expectations but others may be effective. As with any diet plan it is still the best course to try all the recommended avenues such as exercise, low calorie diet, cutting out fatty foods, eating more food with a low glycemic index and avoiding skipping meals and so on. Here is a review of some of the more common herbal slimming tablets on the market today. Herbal Slimming Tablets 1: Adios Adios contains dandelion root, boldo butternut and focus. This is used to speed the metabolism up. It also burns fat efficiently. Herbal Slimming Tablets 2: Apple Slim Bional Apple Slim Xtra has vitamins, selenium, chromium nicotinate and apple vinegar extract. They help with food movement throughout the small intestines and help burn...