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All of us are aware of how important it is to eat a healthy diet when it comes to maintaining and supporting your overall health and well-being. However, it’s all too easy to overlook the role that food can play in boosting our immune systems and helping us to withstand diseases and illnesses.

We all know that if we eat plenty of fruits and vegetables, as well as foods with a high content of vitamins and minerals, we can ensure a better quality of life, with less risk of becoming unwell due to malnutrition or obesity. Yet, all too often, we don’t realize that we need to eat the right kinds of food to keep our immunity levels high.

Without an adequate, healthy diet, we can begin to become unwell and suffer from a host of medical issues. In this book, therefore, we look at which foods we should be eating for optimal immunity, and how those foods can help our bodies to combat disease. We also look at ways of combining those foods to create the ultimate immunity-boosting diet for a longer and healthier life.

Read on to discover more about what you should be adding to your daily diet and the different benefits that those foods could be bringing to your health and well-being. With the advice contained in this book, you should find that it’s easier than you imagined to create the best possible diet to boost your immunity and give you the optimal resilience to disease and sickness.

Chapter 1: The Immunity Problem – An Overview Your immune system has a key role to play in your body, keeping you safe from the micro-organisms that can cause diseases. If germs successfully invade your body, you can become sick. So, finding ways to intervene in this process and give your immunity a boost couldn’t be more important. Without a strong immune system, the result is a disease. While some of the illnesses, such as the common cold, may be mild and easily overcome, others can be much more serious and even life-threatening. So, how is it possible to improve your immunity? The concept of giving your immune system a boost is an enticing one, however for generations, finding ways to do it has proved to be elusive. This is because your immune system isn’t a single entity – it’s an entire system that requires harmony and balance to function effectively. Even today, researchers still lack knowledge about how the immune response interconnects, and no direct links have been scientifically proven between enhanced immune function and lifestyle. Nevertheless, that doesn’t mean that the effect of your lifestyle on your immunity isn’t intriguing. Researchers have been exploring the effect of a number of factors on immune responses in humans and recommend that the best line of defense when it comes to your immunity is choosing a healthy diet. This will naturally keep your immune system as strong as possible.

How Does the Immune System Work?

Your immune system is your body’s defense from infection, attacking germs and keeping you healthy.

The immune system contains leukocytes or white blood cells, which have a vital part to play in destroying invading organisms. Whenever foreign substances known as antigens are sensed by your body, your immune system works hard to recognize them and eradicate them.

When your immune system is strong, it can identify these potential threats quickly and eliminate them rapidly before they have a chance to make you unwell. However, if your immunity is compromised for any reason, you’re at risk of becoming ill and suffering from a disease caused by the antigens your body has been invaded by.

What Affects the Immune System?

There are a number of factors that affect the immune system. These include:

- Stress – if you’re subjected to prolonged episodes of intense stress, your immunity is impacted. Stress increases cortisol production in the brain. This impairs the way that the T-cells that fight infection work.
- Loneliness – if you’re lonely, your immunity can be impaired. The increased anxiety that is caused by loneliness suppresses the immune system.
- Living a sedentary lifestyle – if you sit for too long and avoid exercise, your body struggles to combat infections.
- Excessive exercise – while a sedentary life affects your immune system, so does extreme exercise. Overtraining syndrome is debilitating and makes your body more vulnerable to diseases.
- Nicotine – exposure to nicotine, either through regular cigarettes or vaping can harm your immunity. This is due to the increased cortisol levels that nicotine creates paired with a reduction in the formation of B cell antibodies.
- UV radiation – harmful ultraviolet rays can weaken your immune system, affecting the cells that trigger immune responses and lowering your defenses.
- Diet – if you eat unhealthy foods like saturated fats, sugar and salt, you are at risk of obesity. This impacts your immunity by reducing the function and number of white blood cells required to fight infections.
- Alcohol – excessive alcohol consumption reduces your immune response to any invading pathogens. Acetaldehyde, the major metabolite in alcohol, impairs the lungs’ ciliary function so they become more susceptible to viral and bacterial invasion. Alcohol also negatively affects the body’s process of breaking down and attacking viruses and bacteria increasing the risk of infection.
- Grief – a tragic event may weaken your immune response by boosting the hormones and nerve chemicals that put you at a greater risk of viral infections. Bereavement has been linked with immune imbalances and increased cortisol response.

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Let's get one thing clear, a lot of people look like they're worth a lot of money, but they could barely pay the rent. Other people look absolutely horrible, but they have quite a bit of money stashed away. You have to understand that if you want to earn a million bucks and look like somebody and look like it, you have to focus on one thing and one thing alone.

I'm not talking about your intelligence although that helps tremendously, I'm not talking about your good looks either. Sure, good looks can open a lot of doors for you, it can help you run into more opportunities, but in of itself, your appearance is not going to take you as far as you would like it to.

I'm also not talking about your emotional appeal. Sure, you may know how to read people and get along with different kinds of personalities, but at the end of the day, there is one particular personal trait that wins out over all these other qualities.

Believe it or not, discipline is the secret to success. It's more important than intelligence, good looks, or emotional intelligence.

You have to understand that discipline enables you to do whatever you need to do for however long it takes to achieve success. Even if you are not all that intelligent, or don't really have much of a clue by being able to control yourself so that you are able to put in the kind of work that will enable you to figure things out, is the secret ingredient to victory.

This pays off in all areas of your life. In fact, if you have chosen to be more disciplined in one particular area, don't be surprised if the self-control and personal ownership you have achieved in that one area, carries over to the other aspects of your life.

This all sounds great and everything, but there's just one problem, discipline is a dirty word nowadays. Seriously, if you need proof of this, please take note of the fact that as recently as 10 years ago, people were were perfectly happy with their pizzas being delivered 30 minutes or it's free. Most people back then could live with the 30-minute guarantee. Not anymore. In fact, if you ask around your local area, it probably would be very easy for you to find pizza shops who would guarantee delivery in 15 minutes or your pie is free.

It seems that with every passing decade, people's attention span and their patience continue to shrink. Discipline, for all practical purposes, is a dirty word nowadays. It seems like some sort of old-fashioned concept that has no place in today's world. I really can't blame people for thinking this way because if you download a mobile app, you're looking for instant results. If you access any kind of a website on the internet, you're looking for instant results. We want everything to be quick, easy, and effortless.

The good news? If you think this is depressing, think again. Now that you know that everybody's patience and tolerance for inconvenience or discomfort continues to shrink, it doesn't take much thinking to realize that this gives you a tremendous competitive advantage.

By training yourself to just be more disciplined than everyone else, you will end up on top, more likely than not. Remember, everybody else's discipline level is going down. Everybody else is constantly looking for faster, easier, and more effortless ways to do things. That's where things are headed. But if you were to head the other direction and train yourself to put up with a lot more and stick to whatever commitments you have gotten into, you gain a competitive advantage. As the old saying goes, the one-eyed man is king in the kingdom of the blind.

Please keep this in mind, by simply investing time, effort, and energy in building up your personal discipline, you gain a competitive advantage. This advantage flies across the border. I don't care whether you're talking about your business, your career, academics or relationships. If you become the most disciplined person in a room, you have a competitive advantage.

You're more likely to benefit from opportunities. You are more likely to have the intellectual, mental, and emotional firepower needed to take advantage of opportunities as they present themselves.

What happens if you are the most disciplined person at work? Well, first of all, you are more likely to show up on time every time. This makes you look good in front of everybody else because everybody's looking to do the least amount of work for the most amount of pay. You on the other hand, have committed to showing up at work and putting in full value. This means that if you committed to 8 hours of work, you are going to deliver 8 hours to work.

This might seem pretty basic and simple, but it isn't. Let's be honest here, if you were to compress all the actual work people do at the typical American workplace, you'd be shocked. People put in 8 hours, yes, but when you look at the actual productive work that they do, you'd be lucky if you walk away with one hour. That's how bad things are.

If you are that one person in your factory floor, your office cubicle floor, or your work group to put in 8 hours, day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, how do you think you'll look? You would look like a million bucks. You will be able to command more respect which can lead to greater promotions and higher pay.

Even if your boss is dumb enough not to promote you or pay you what you're worth, the skills that you are learning plus the reputation that your cultivating, will follow you to your next boss, who will have enough sense to pay you what you're worth. Practicing discipline at work puts you on top.

Let's face it, every single day it's very easy to give into our hunger pangs, it's very easy to eat whatever we want because the mood strikes us. But if you choose to take ownership over your body and exercise your mental control over it, weight loss becomes child's play. Consistent exercise, not only becomes part of your daily routine, but contribute to your greater well-being. I'm not just talking about keeping your ideal weight or making you look good, exercise also benefits your mental health, as well as your mental capacity and capabilities.

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Do you feel overwhelmed in life? How many times have you said, “I will do it tomorrow,” and six months later you still haven’t emptied that drawer! Procrastination is the thief of time. My friends, it will rob you of your joy, rob you of your time and ten years down the line you will look back wondering why you haven’t achieved anything in life.

You will never get to your place of purpose by living in chaos. There is no such thing as an organized mess! According to experts, a cluttered home equals a cluttered life. Studies prove that once you get your home in order, everything else will start to fall into place. Let me give you some alarming statistics. The average person spends 60 hours per year looking for lost items. That equals 150 days throughout a lifetime! Just think of what you could do with 150 additional days!

There is more to decluttering than getting rid of unwanted items in the home. It applies to every area of your life, and in this book, we are going to touch on some of those points and provide you with the tips needed to help you become all you were created to be!

Chapter 1

Is Your House Full of Junk? - How to Declutter Your Home

Your house should be your sanctuary; the place where you relax, socialize, lay your head at night and get a good rest. Unfortunately, this is not the case for many people; why? It’s because their homes are so messy that it causes them more anxiety than working a 60-hour week! A cluttered environment equals a cluttered mind. When you have so much junk in your home that you could open a thrift store, it’s toxic. Here are some tips on how you can declutter your home.

Get Rid of The Junk: Tackle each room one by one and get rid of anything that you haven’t used for more than a year. No matter how much you like the look of it, or whether you think you will be able to use it any time soon, if you don’t use it, bin it! What you do with the stuff is up to you, you could hold a garage sale, sell the stuff on the internet or give it away to charity. The point is get rid of it!

Clean: Now that you can see your carpet, it’s time to start cleaning. Again, go through each room, hoovering, dusting and wiping down the windows and the walls. You will be amazed at how much dirt was tucked underneath some of that junk.

Organize: Now that everything is nice and clean, you want to make sure your home is in order. There should be a specific place for everything. For example, the keys go on a hook in the corridor, the remote control on the second shelf, the magazines in a rack. Don’t leave anything unassigned; give your possessions a home within a home. You will probably need to go out and buy some bins so that you will have somewhere to put everything.

That’s it. People, your home has now officially been decluttered!

Chapter 2

Get Rid of Stinking Thinking - How to Declutter Your Mind

Your mind is the most powerful organ in your body. It directs the course of your life and if it isn’t in good working order, guess what? You are going to have a very hard time. Most of us don’t pay any attention to our minds. We feed our bodies, but our minds are neglected.

We don’t think about what we are putting into our minds and neither do we think about what we are thinking. How would you feel if I were to tell you that everything that is happening in your life right now is a direct result of the way you think?

Without getting too scientific here, thoughts are energy. Energy travels and connects with other energy. Everything in life is energy, so whatever you think about the most, you will attract into your life. This is a universal law. There is no getting around this fact, so you can either let the laws work for you, or they will work against you.

According to research, human beings think approximately 60,000 to 70,000 thoughts per day! That’s a lot of thinking, right? But if I were to ask you to write down your last 1,000 thoughts you wouldn’t remember, that’s because most of the time, you are not conscious of your thoughts. The trick is to pay attention to your dominant thought patterns when you catch yourself thinking.

What are you thinking about? Are your thoughts negative or positive? Unfortunately, most of our thinking is negative. That inner voice is constantly feeding you bad news. However, the good news is that you have got the power to control your thoughts. It’s not the easiest thing in the world to do, but with persistence and practice you can master your thoughts.

Pay Attention to Your Thoughts: To start, pay attention to what you think about. Are you concerned about paying bills or that you won’t have enough money to send your children to college? Do you wonder if you will ever achieve your goals? Carry a notepad and pen around, and when you catch yourself thinking, write your thoughts down.

Change the Narrative of Your Mind: The idea here is to erase negative thinking and replace those thoughts with something positive. So instead of thinking, “I will never have enough money to send my children to college,” say to yourself, “I have more than enough money to send my children to college.” This is going to feel very strange when you start doing it because your bank balance is telling a completely different story.

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One of the major secrets to being successful in your life and attracting all your heart’s desires is having the ability to bypass your conscious mind so that you can access the immense powers of your subconscious mind. Your subconscious mind uses approximately 90 percent of your total mind power as opposed to the 10 percent of your brain that you utilize in your normal daily waking state.

The subconscious mind is incredibly powerful and will accept any truth or image that you submit to it without question, and will then act on your instructions and ultimately bring your vibration into complete harmony with everything that you desire. This enables everything that you wish to manifest into your life so that you can experience them in full.

In order for you to attract your desires into your life, you have to know precisely what you want and how to ask for it, but most importantly you have to “vibrate” in harmony with your desires by believing that you have everything you desire right now. To vibrate in harmony with all that you want you to have to think positively. In other words, you have to think in terms that all that you desire already exists in your life and you have to feel as though you are already experiencing and enjoying those desires.

This is where the power of positive affirmations comes into play. The conscious and rational mind will always work to reject anything that doesn't appear to be logical, attainable, or to be a reality. It doesn't know, at a conscious level that you genuinely are infinitely powerful and capable of realizing your desires and living a life that you've dreamed of. Therefore, your conscious mind will always reject those things that it doesn't agree with and will also block your wishes accordingly.

Fortunately, as your subconscious mind is a powerful tool, much more so than your conscious mind, all you need to do is use the power of positive thinking to impress our greatest wishes and heart’s desires onto the subconscious mind. Doing this will cause you to know, subconsciously, that your desires already exist in your life. In turn, this will cause you to vibrate in harmony with your desire and will ultimately appear in your life as reality.

What Are Positive Affirmations

Daily positive affirmations are nothing more than positive statements that declare specific goals as if they have already happened. While they may sound simple, they are incredibly powerful mantras that can have a profound effect both the conscious and subconscious mind, as well as on the actions that you take to achieve the life that you desire.

Why You Should Use Daily Affirmations

We are surrounded every day by negative messages from the world around us. The media, our family, and even well-meaning friends can impose limiting beliefs on use that greatly diminish our belief that anything is possible. These limiting beliefs are continually repeated to us throughout our childhood and well into adulthood and ultimately how we end up defining ourselves and who we are and what we can accomplish.

Unfortunately, we end up internalizing the negative messages that we are constantly bombarded with and they become our truth. The truths that are formed with these limited beliefs end up holding us back from our hopes, dreams, and goals and keep us from stepping into our true potential. It should really come as no surprise when your physical reality matches these limiting beliefs because our external world is always a reflection of our inner world.

Willpower isn't enough to create the change in your life that you seek. When you have negative self-talk and when you are going through your life with limiting beliefs, such as "I don't deserve it. That's just the way it is," the negativity ends up canceling out any action or effort that you make, every time. To create the change in your life that you desire, you have to let go of the negative thoughts and images that you associate with your life, and fill your mind with new ideas that are positive, and that will support you in creating the change you desire.

Daily positive affirmations work to replace these old limiting beliefs, pessimistic thoughts, and negative self-talk with positive statements that fill affirm who you want to be and what you want to experience in your life.

How Affirmations Work

When you repeat an affirmation over and over again, it begins to change the way that you think as well as what you believe is possible. Energetically repeating affirmations raises your vibration out to the Universe so that you become attractive to what you desire to draw into your life. Affirmations will expand your thinking so that you begin to believe that anything is possible. When you start to think that something is possible, the chances are higher that you will proceed with certainty and confidence, not let obstacles set you back and you will more likely look for and find creative solutions to achieve the outcome that you desire ultimately.

What you talk and think about the most, as well as the kind of beliefs you hold onto is what you ultimately attract in your life. Positive thinking attracts positive experiences and outcomes, while negativity attracts more negativity.

While there are already a plethora of resources and means that are available right now to help you achieve your goals, when we affirm that something isn't possible or allow the negative thinking to take over our minds, we end up shutting ourselves off from those resources and means that can make our dreams and desires come true. When our minds are full of negative thoughts, we simply aren't able to see the opportunities in front of us, and we don't recognize the means of creating the changes in our life that we desire.

On the other hand, when we use positive affirmations to affirm the outcomes that we desire, over and over again, we are training our minds to believe that it is possible. When you can open yourself up to what is possible, then your subconscious mind gets to work to find the creative solutions and the means for achieving your dreams, goals, and all that you desire in your life.

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The Internet has become a vast marketplace where millions of people use their knowledge and experience to make money online. As at the start of 2019, there were more than 1.94 billion websites on the Internet. For someone trying to enter into an online business, this can be rather intimidating. If you want to stand out from the increasingly crowded market, then you have to find your niche.

The key first step that you need to take when creating a successful online business is to understand how to find a profitable niche market. If you want to build a successful online business and make money online, then you have to identify a niche market that you can create your business around. The good news is that there are literally millions of niche markets that you can choose. Finding a niche market is easy, but finding a profitable one can be a bit more challenging.

While there are many profitable niches that you can pursue online when you are just starting out, you will often run into various challenges. The biggest problem that you will face is finding a profitable niche. While there are other aspects besides profitability that you need to consider when finding a niche, making money online is the entire reason you've decided to start an online business in the first place. There are, however, other things that you need to evaluate to ensure that you are successful with your online business. Here are five secrets that will ensure you find a profitable niche for your online business.

1. Consider Your Passions

Along with finding a profitable niche market, you also have to consider your skills and what you're passionate about if you want to start a successful online business. Finding a niche that you are passionate about will fill you with excitement and give you the motivation to get up every morning and focus on your business. Being passionate about what you are selling will also help you get through challenges and setbacks. Finding success with an online business doesn't always come easy, and you have to find a way to work through the unbearable days if you want to see results.

If you are passionate about your niche, you will make it a point to find ways to invest further and grow your business into something that you take pride in. Being passionate about what you are doing will keep you interested and excited to continue working day in and day out.

This may be something that you've already done, but if you haven't already considered what you are passionate about, take some time to make a list of the top ten areas that you are passionate about and topical interests that you have.

You don't have to find a perfect fit; you just need to identify some aspect of running the business that you are passionate about if you want to stick with it. If you don't care about the topic, chances are you won't be able to find the drive you need to persevere when the going gets tough. If you are having problems identifying your passions and interests, consider the following:

• What do you look forward to doing when you aren’t doing it?

• What topics do you like to learn about? What are your favorite books to read? Do you subscribe to a specific magazine?

• Do you belong to any organizations or clubs?

Finding the answers to these questions should help you narrow down your top ten passion areas and local interests.

2. Identify Problems That You Can Solve

Once you've identified your top ten passion areas and local interests, you can start to narrow down your options. If you want to create and maintain a profitable business, then you need to determine what problems your target audience is experiencing and find a unique way to solve those problems. You can start this process by considering the issues you face in your own life and see if there is a solution to those problems online. Take a look at your list of ten passions, and consider whether or not there is a problem that you continuously face in regards to those passions. If you discover a consistent problem within your passions, then you can narrow down your niche. If not, here are some other ways that you can identify the issues that your target audience is experiencing.

The best way to identify problems within a niche is to sit down and have a conversation with your target audience. You can do this in several different ways. You can form a focus group to discuss the problems that your target market is experiencing or have one-on-one conversations with them. You want to make sure that you create or find a framework for asking those questions that will help you to uncover specific pain points. If you aren’t able to meet directly with your target audience, you might want to consider using online survey sites like SurveyMonkey to reach your target audience.

Another way that you can identify the pain points of your target audience is by perusing forums like Quora or find forums that are related to your niche ideas. Go through the discussions that are taking place within the forums and determine what questions people are asking and see if you can figure out what problems they are having. Finally, you can research keywords that are related to your niche ideas. You can use Google Ads Keyword Planner and Google Trends to help you uncover popular search terms that are related to specific pain points within your niche idea.

3. Analyze the Competition

While you may have been hoping that you’d discover a niche that no one else knows about, the chances of that happening are highly unlikely. That means that you will have competition, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Typically, when a niche has competition, it means that there is money to be made within that niche. To ensure that you will be able to carve out a section of that niche for your online business, you need to make sure that you do a thorough competitive analysis of competing sites.

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Let's face it, there are lots of misconceptions out there about the keto diet. People haven't done their research. People relied too easily and what their friends tell them. In fact, too many individuals, who would otherwise benefit from this amazing diet, let Facebook comments and link shares discourage them.

This really is too bad, because if they only knew, they probably would benefit quite a bit from the keto diet. What benefits?Well, imagine eating fatty and greasy foods with a clean conscience. I know, sounds too crazy to be true. Well, that’s exactly what you get with the keto diet. You can indulge in your ‘guilty’ food pleasures and not have to worry. Keto enables you to melt off your fat by, you guessed it, eating fatty foods. What’s not to love?

Another key benefit keto brings to the table is its inflammation fighting properties. Please understand that inflammation is bad news. The reason why the Standard American Diet (rich in carbs) is making so many people sick is because it is an inflammatory diet. You end up bloated because your carb intake sucks up so much fluid.I wish I can say that this is the extent of the inflammation you suffer from a standard high carb diet. Nope. Not even close. Not only do you bloat up because of all that extra water, your nerves, cardiovascular system, kidneys, even your skin all bear the brunt ofall that extra water. Your blood pressure remains elevated, your skin starts to wrinkle up, you end up suffering from brain fog, I can go on and on. To say the least, inflammation is bad news. When you switch over to a keto diet, you cut down dramatically on carbs. This means there’s less water absorbing hyper spongy carb molecules in your system. Not only will your body start expelling your ‘water weight’ (which is great news for people trying to lose weight), you will also get better skin. All that inflammation weighing down on your skin and prematurely aging and wrinkling it disappears. Similarly, your nerves get a much needed break and neurotransmitters in your brain and central nervous system do a much better job sending nerve signals. This translates to less ‘brain fog’ and increased mental alertness. Finally, getting rid of much of that water in your system means your blood vessels get to relax and your blood pressure starts to normalize.Still, if you believe in some common myths about ketosis, ketogenic foods, and the keto diet in general, you would cut yourself off from the awesome benefits listed above.

Here are some common myths you need to keep an eye out for so you don't get thrown off track.

One of the most common misconceptions about the keto diet is that ketosis is the same as ketoacidosis. Ketosis, of course, is the metabolic process your body goes through when it burns fat for energy. On a standard diet, your body burns sugar for energy. This means when you eat carbohydrates, your body processes those calories into energy.

This is the body's default setting, but the body does have an alternative. It can use fat for energy; this process is called ketosis. Your body releases the fat stored in fat cells all over your body. This fat is then turned by your metabolic system into chemical compounds called ketones. Your body’s cells then absorb ketones and burn these molecules into the energy your body needs to continue living.

Ketosis is the foundation for the keto diet. Unfortunately, a lot of people confuse ketosis with ketoacidosis. The former is safe. The latter is deadly. Obviously, they are not one and the same.

Ketoacidosis is a condition where your body builds up too many ketone acids, which is the byproduct of breaking down fat. When your body builds up too much ketones, you can die. The good news is, for most people, ketoacidosis is not a risk at all. This condition really only becomes a risk if your body does not produce any insulin whatsoever.

Put simply, it mostly affects people who have type I diabetes. If you're like most people who are thinking of trying the keto diet, and you can produce insulin normally, you have nothing to fear. You have to understand that even within the keto framework, you're still taking in a little bit of carbohydrates. This is usually enough to flip on insulin for a small period of time in your system to prevent ketoacidosis.

Don't think for a second that just because you’ve switched over to burning fat as energy that ketoacidosis is going to be a real threat; it isn't. As long as you are able to produce insulin naturally, you should be fine.

One of the most discouraging misconceptions regarding the keto diet is that the food is simply hard to enjoy. Many people think that the quintessential keto meal plan is chockful of butter sticks, tons of eggs, and liquid fat. In other words, to many people, the keto diet is loaded with waxy tasting one dimensional food items you’d rather forget.

This can't be further from the truth.

If you think about it, a lot of the foods that you eat are things that you would consider “guilty pleasures.” I'm talking about fatty and salty food. You are halfway keto and you don’t even know it.

All of us have some sort of guilty pleasure when it comes to fatty foods. You know you shouldn't be eating it, but you do it anyway because it tastes so good. Can you imagine changing your diet so that you basically eat your guilty pleasures all the time?

I know, sounds crazy, but that's precisely what the keto diet is. It helps you load up on fat (the food that you were supposed to avoid), and you end up losing weight and becoming healthier. Please understand that there are a lot of misconceptions about high-fat foods.

I'm going to go into this issue in-depth with myth #3. But just because people have been saying the same things over and over again for decades, doesn't necessarily mean it's true. You can enjoy the vast majority of your meals on a keto diet.

In fact, if you want to switch over to the keto diet, the easiest and the tastiest way possible, click here for the keto blueprint that will help you adopt this diet quickly and easily.

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Eczema is not a single illness, but rather a name for a group of diseases connected due to similar symptoms. Skin rashes and autoimmune disorders can be described in this way.

Usually, dryness appears on hands, elbows, feet, knees, and on the face. Rashes on contaminated areas start to itch and become even more inflamed when scratched. This illness is not infectious, but it is long-lasting.

Moreover, its intensity may change during the lifespan. Some children may overgrow the allergy while others remain highly vulnerable. The current disease can cause additional illnesses. Symptoms and intensity of skin inflammation are specific to each patient.

There is a variety of eczema types. Besides the most popular case, atopic dermatitis, there are about six other disease
variants, different in their methods of treatment and side effects.

All of them should be identified with the help of a specialist to ensure a specific approach for each case. Atopic dermatitis is a most widely spread type of disease. It is common among children and is often associated with asthma and hay fever.

Other types can be triggered by contact with an allergic substance, stress, improper moisturizing, insect bites, temperature shifts, pressure and even genetic predisposition.

Each case is different in its look and side effects. The only common thing for them is that they are types of sore and dry skin that should not be scratched.

There is no single opinion regarding the cause of eczema. According to the latest research, various types of illness are caused by their different principles. Particularly, for the children of eczema-ill parents, the probability of developing the illness is much higher.

The risk doubles in cases where both parents have the illness. Besides that, an impressive list of external sources can affect bodies of vulnerable people and trigger the inflammation.

Sources of danger can be divided into internal and external types. Allergenic chemicals, temperature, food, and dust can cause a skin metamorphosis from outside, while stress and hormonal shifts influence symptoms from within.

Eczema is mostly spread among children. They are more difficult to handle as well. As dermatitis is cured according to the evaluation of causes, the process can be obscured when it comes to a child.

In this case, it is common for grown-ups to minimize the contact of a vulnerable kid with an acknowledged list of triggers of dermatitis. One should pay attention to the time and situation in which a probable physical and mental stress took place.

Eczema is a specific type of disease. For each person, a source of contamination is specific, as well as the place where the rashes appear and their type.

Nevertheless, symptoms may be the same among different people, especially in the case where they are relatives. Its main symptom is itching, and one also may experience various manifestations from slightly irritating to dangerously annoying.

The second case urges an ill person to scratch the infected part of skin until it bleeds, and thus to worsen his/her state of health. The type of skin inflammation can vary. Itching and inflammation either disappear totally or come back in each case of contact with the undesired matter.

It is highly recommended to visit a local doctor to distinguish an eczema type and thus to decide on methods of its treatment.

Conventional treatment of eczema includes a combination of basic steps directed to stabilize the condition of the patient and minimize the effect of illness on the human body. This illness is caused mainly by a specific allergic reaction to an external trigger.

The first step for each person is thus to identify what is causing their disease and minimize unnecessary interaction with it. One also should avoid the use of substances known as possible dermatitis triggers.

Moreover, it is highly recommended to take special care of yourself; specifically, to humidify the skin, avoid stressful situations and refrain from scratching. Remedies can also be used according to the situation to minimize the inflammation.

Antibiotics are applied to protect persons in cases of extreme skin infections. Antihistamines work for prevention and assist in reducing itching. The corticosteroid-inclusive drugs can be divided into ones for internal and external use.

The external use, in this case, is highly preferred, while the internal use results in a variety of side effects and should be used only in cases of emergency. With certain types of dermatitis, immunomodulators and wet dressing can be used as well.

At the same time, a lack of cure afforded by conventional medicine urged society to address a natural treatment of this illness. In certain cases, long-term homeopathy treatment can become more productive while presuming a lesser amount of side effects.

Such approach evaluates the personality of a patient, his preferences, mental state and even family issues. There is a variety of products of daily consumption that may positively influence the progression of the disease. They include kimchee, rice, soybean food, and oat.

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Introduction

Too many of us are too stressed, too often.

This is simply a product of the world we live in. Most of us work extremely hard, performing a job that is highly stressful. We have deadlines, we have people shouting at us, we have threats of termination. And our lifestyles – probably the happiness and health of our family, or future family – is riding on our success.

We then commute home through busy streets/on a busy train. Then we have 20 chores to do when all we really want to do is to crash out in front of the TV. The baby is crying, friends are upset we can’t make it out, and the pile of plates on the sink is growing.

Meanwhile, we are all too aware of all the things that we should be doing, but can’t/aren’t. On Instagram, it seems that everyone is out there finding love or travelling the world. The covers of magazines show us perfect, beautiful people.

And heck, we’re not getting any younger!

To make ourselves feel better, we turn on the TV. There we hear about all the calamities happening all around the world and feel petrified by fright. Also, did you know that the very light from the television increases your production of cortisol – the primary stress hormone?

Oh, and that bag of chips you’re eating is only going to artificially spike your blood sugar, causing a subsequent crash and surge of cortisol.

So yeah – it’s a wonder that more of us aren’t in a state of permanent panic attack.

If you want to feel happier. If you want to actually enjoy your life.

And if you want to make positive progress to improving your situation moving forward…

If you want to do all of this, then you need to make sure that you are finding ways to overcome this stress. And I’m not necessarily talking long term – but short term even.

Here are five extremely simply things you can do right now that will immediately improve your sense of calm and help you to relax.

Read on and you will have five extremely powerful tools in your arsenal to calm the mind whenever you think it is necessary.

5 Powerful Strategies

Following are five extremely effective strategies for quickly feeling calmer and better. Find the one that works best for you, or use them in conjunction with one another for even greater effect.

Control Your Breathing

The first thing you can try doing is to control your breathing. This is highly effective due to the two-way link between your breathing, and your vagus nerve. The vagus nerve is a nerve that is highly responsible for the action of the autonomic nervous system – the part of your system that is responsible for handling such things as your fight or flight response. This includes the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems.

When you are in a state of fight or flight, your sympathetic nervous system goes into overdrive sensing danger. The result is that you start to breathe more quickly, blood gets delivered to your muscles and brain, your blood viscosity increases (to help clot wounds), and your thoughts start to race. From an evolutionary perspective, this should occur only when in physical danger – but today many other ‘low level’ things can set it off. The result is that we’re always a little tense and anxious.

At the other end of the spectrum, we have the parasympathetic system. This is responsible for the state known as ‘rest and digest’, which helps to increase anabolism (muscle and tissue building), to calm the mind, and to strengthen the immune system. This is the state we go into when we are fed and in no immediate danger. Breathing slows down, as does our heartrate.

Notice how the breathing an the heartrate are affected strongly in both cases. This occurs through that vagus nerve, but what’s interesting, is that you can also send the signal the other way: calm down your breathing, and you will also calm down the vagus nerve and the nervous system!

So if you find yourself hyperventilating and panicking, one of the very best things you can do to get yourself back under control is to try breathing more calmly.

This method is even used by the military and special forces, in what is known as ‘box breathing’. Box breathing is so called because it has ‘four sides’ or four seconds.

• Breathe in for four seconds
• Hold for four seconds
• Breathe out for four seconds
• Hold for four seconds

Do this for a couple of minutes and you’ll find that your heartrate slows down and your biochemistry changes in order to help you keep a more level head. This is ideal before an interview as well, and can even be useful in staving off a panic attack.

The rest of the time, it is important to ensure you employ deep ‘belly breathing’ which allows you to draw more air into the lungs and the abdominal cavity beneath them. Many of us have made a habit of shallow breathing only using the top of the lungs. This actually increases stress throughout the day. Kundalini meditation and yoga can help to teach you to correct this issue.