What will make your business succeed?
{{stephanie}} There is only one thing in this world that I believe can truly help you grow and thrive in any business: YOU! How can you stay effective and productive at work? Get healthy!
Traditionally, this blog has been about internet marketing, business development, news and other related matters. Something that is equally important is the individuals who run and fuel the ideas that shape our world. It is important to all of us that our businesses and relationships are doing well. Nothing in our lives or careers will succeed if we are not healthy. Part of the Spark Internet Marketing mantra is to help our clients and others through valuable information. Therefore, we are going to do a series on Health and Wellness in our blog.
Our first topic of choice is food…we all eat, we all love it, and most of us don’t eat the right things. Granted, I am not an expert in the food industry; so to help us along this journey, we are going to take a little advice from those who do know about this industry. A book was recently published by Michael Pollan called In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto. The book is simple to read and offers straight forward tips that a five year old can remember. His message is about the types of food we are eating and how unhealthy it has all become. With all of the fad diets and the radical recommendations on food, this is a refreshing change. Pollan is not asking for something radical that no one has ever heard of. He is asking you to look at what your eating and question whether it makes sense or not. Below is a list of some points from the book. If you have a chance, grab it and read it. You can also watch Pollan’s interview on The Hour podcast.
1. Avoid food products containing
a) Ingredients that are unfamiliar unpronounceable
b) More than five in number
c) That include high fructose corn syrup
2. Avoid food products that make health claims
3. Shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle
4. Get our of the supermarket whenever possible and check out farmer’s markets
5. Eat mostly plants, especially leaves
6. You are what you eat
7. If you have the space, buy a freezer
8. Eat like an omnivore
9. Eat well-grown food from healthy soils
10. Eat wild foods if you can
11.Be the kind of person who takes supplements (don’t actually take them)
12.Eat more like the French or the Italians, or the Japanese, or the Indians, or the Greeks
13.Regard non traditional foods with skepticism
14.Don’t look for the magic bullet in the traditional diet
15.Have a glass of wine with dinner
16.Pay more, eat less
17.Eat meals
18.Do all your eating at a table (a desk, or car seat are not tables)
19.Don’t get your fuel from the same place your car does
20.Try not to eat alone
21.Consult your gut (to know when your full - not when your plate is empty or you’re out of time)
22.Eat slowly
23.Cook and if you can plant a garden
Take care of your best asset…you!
~S
April 16th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
How we eat and the things in our diet definately effect how productive and effective we are at achieving work goals. Dieting on junk food will bring about large periods of sluggishness and poor performance.
April 16th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
Food plays a major role in energy levels and how refreshed and healthy we feel. I notice that when I eat right I’m way more productive and efficient also less irratable.
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April 17th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Thats a good list you got there. I’m going to use it often :)
April 18th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Pay more, eat less?
April 18th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Hey Pencils! Pay more for better quality food and eat less food overall.
Thanks for the comments everyone and feel free to let me know if you have heard of any good books or articles…I always love to check new things out!
April 21st, 2008 at 12:38 am
Avoid margarine eat butter instead.
Margarine is not even real food.
It is just one molecule away from being a kind of plastic.
April 21st, 2008 at 12:56 pm
I like the list Stephanie, thanks.
Libra, I don’t know about that. A lot of margarine is made mostly of vegetable oil and has much more healthy fats than your average butter.
I’d also like to add that you should eat a lot of protein… it helps the brain perform better.
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:42 am
19.Don’t get your fuel from the same place your car does
Gold! :-)
April 24th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Pretty good article. I like it, keep it up.
April 24th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Yeah…I should follow that advice…but meh…I am a poor college student without a lot of time.
May 4th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Good advice — and I’ve heard it’s a great book, too. Thanks for the info.
June 9th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
I think those are some great tips. Another thing is to eat throughout the day, smaller meals, instead of just one big one. Eat a huge breakfast, a moderate lunch, and a little dinner so your body has energy in the morning and can sleep at night.
September 30th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
Great Post, the internet has revolutionized how we do business, with so many avenues to promote, it is important to be where our prospective customer would be, let it be social media, (the myspace and facebooks), entertainment portals and directories (citysearch, and others) blogging and more
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