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Obese individuals have fewer pleasure receptors and overeat to compensate, according to a study by University of Texas at Austin senior research fellow and Oregon Research Institute senior scientist Eric Stice and his colleagues published in The Journal of Neuroscience. This week we uncover The Top Ten Triggers for Overeating and ways to overcome them.

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To add aerobics exercise successfully to your life, you should build up the activity slowly and maintain a pace that is comfortable to you. Many experts suggest you start with five minutes of activity several times a week and build up to at least 30 minutes of exercise, five times a week (or more). You should also choose activities that interest you. If you hate to jog, then don’t do it. You can play tennis or swim instead. Plan your activities during times that you are at your highest energy. For example, if you’re a morning person, make the time to work out in the AM.
 

Capability and performance  

It's important to develop your abilities. But there's no sense in developing them unless you also put them to use. Get ready. Prepare.

Become competent. And then be sure to make something of it.

You must not only ask, "what do I need?" You must also ask, "what will I do with it?" It is easy to get sidetracked into developing more and more capabilities, until they are far beyond what is necessary to get the job done.

Excellence comes from preparation, yet the excellence is not in the preparation alone. It is nothing without the performance. Learn and rehearse your lines, then walk on stage to face the audience. Train and practice, then step onto the competitive field of play. Write, revise, and edit, then publish your work for the world to see.

Prepare with diligence, and then do the thing you've prepared so well to do.

"When you follow your bliss...doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.”

 –  Joseph Campbell

Healthy Recipe

Honey Garlic Spareribs

Makes: 4

Ingredients:

• 3/4 pound Pork Spare ribs

• 1/4 teaspoon Garlic salt

• 1/8 cup Honey

• 1/16 cup Soy Sauce

• 3/4 Tablespoon Vinegar

• 1-1/4 medium Garlic clove minced, 1 medium

• 1/16 teaspoon Pepper
   

Directions:

1. Season spareribs with garlic salt; arrange in a 13x9x2-inch baking dish. Cover with foil and bake at 325 degrees F. for 1 hour until tender; drain all liquid.

2. Combine remaining ingredients in a saucepan and simmer 5 minutes.

3. Drizzle honey mixture over spareribs and bake, uncovered, at 350 degrees F. for 30 minutes; basting every 10 minutes.

Nutritional Information:
Per serving:

Calories: 145.26 cal
Protein: 9.15g
Fat: 9.29g
Fiber: 0.01g
Cholesterol: 36.75mg
Thiamine: 0.14mg
Sodium: 289.49mg
Zinc: 1.45mg
 

Top 10 Triggers for Over-eating
 

For some women overeating means bingeing and for others it means consuming more or other than planned. Most of us are overeating for a hundred different reasons. We are eating due to stress, irritation and frustration. It may be worry or overwork. We eat because our stomach feels ‘blah’. We are eating out of habit and with no real direction or thoughts about what we are doing with our face in the fridge.

Identify, the ten "triggers" for overeating and then try to overcome them:

Boredom- You eat when you're bored or do not have anything interesting to do or look forward to. TV is a favorite pass time especially when you are alone at home and bored. When food commercials are running 200 images per hour into our cerebral cortex it is difficult not to be draw towards the refrigerator. If food commercials are a trigger, watch nature shows or commercial-free TV.
 

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