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How to live until 100… and beyond!
Feb 14th
I have recently conducted something that I had programmed for a while – a pre 30’s MOT (Health Screening clinically speaking) – which consisted in 3 hours of various tests, including blood analysis, ultrasound scans, ECG, vision, body fat…
Happy to find I was free of any traces of cancer (you do always wonder under the pressure of the clinical environment if you are going to get the worse news) I was distressed to find out that my levels of sugar and bad cholesterol were higher than normal.
The levels of bad cholesterol were almost double the limit of what is considered normal, and the level of fasting glucose was borderline normal. Technically I was on my way to pre-diabetes and to develop hard disease.
Obviously these conditions do take years to develop or lead into serious forms of disease, and the good news are that, at my stage and in general it is all reversible and I was recommended for now lifestyle and diet changes, together with also being made aware of the consequences of non-action. Any plaques of fat disappear throughout the months and years from your veins and arteries, given that you conduct the correct diet and lifestyle.
I have got a list from the doctor of food I must not eat, I’ve exercised more, increased omega 3 intake and I feel much better after 14 days and have lost 3kg.
How could this have happened to me? Although I was aware I increased weight (more 8 kg than 1 year ago) around March last year, I run a marathon and completed various half marathons at around 1h.50m and I did feel relatively fit for my age.
Reality is, in modern society, we should overall be more fit that we all currently think we are, I have been having a poor diet for over 9 months, it has been a cold winter and I have exercised very little and working from home I am constantly nibbling – it a nutshell of conditioning factors.
Researching on the subject, I was impressed to find that 57 million of American were pre-diabetic, (and my levels of fasting glucose are not even within those levels) and that cardiovascular disease has become the number one killer in USA and in many European states.
Basically, the majority of us are leaning towards being part of those stats, and others since they lead to other complications.
Many of us are already suffering some mild symptoms, and remaining un-diagnosed (get checked from time to time) until things go wrong and older you are worse it gets to regain health.
Obesity is something that is becoming normal amongst modern 1st world society, and we seem to be slowly forgetting that it actually indicates that we are at risk of various conditions and is a sign of potential decreased longevity.
Further researching on disease and longevity, it seems that most of human problems are self-inflicted by:
1) Diet
2) Life-style.
Now that I sort of raised a wake-up call, and do take it seriously otherwise, trust me, you won’t be happy when you get those results or even worse, I will share information on some interesting discussions on the subject and in the common facts and habits of people that live until 100 and beyond.
Web 2.0 applied to loans via Zopa
Feb 6th
If you usually save money you will put it into a bank account and the bank will pay you interest. Banks will then pretty much do whatever they like with it and the credit they can generate from it. Some of it they lend to people who need to borrow.
Some of it they give to their shareholders. As we all know banks make lots of money from all this, a fraction of which they give back to their customers.
What’s good about a Personal Loan? If all the junk mail and newspaper ads from the big banks are to be believed, a Personal Loan is a great product that everyone should
have!
In reality, the best thing is usually receiving the money, and buying your big holiday ticket, highly desired car or piece of technology and even paying off those debts… it’s rarely the loan itself, but that is
about to change, thanks to Zopa.
Zopa is an abbreviation of “Zone of potential agreement”, but is essentially an online marketplace where borrowers and lenders are brought together with a view to satisfying each others financial requirements.
How to save various hours a day?
Dec 11th
This is in reality a very good question that most of us ask ourselves every period of time, if not every week or every day. Years, months and days go by so quickly… Being busy has become a constant in our lives this century – everyone is spinning inside that mouse wheel, doing one thing or the other.
In truth, the crudest reality and the only thing that we know for sure about life, is that it is a countdown period towards death. As much as I am serving you this reality in a cold perspective, that’s my purpose. I want you to get you worrying and wary of your time and to think on how you can free some of it for yourself, in your daily schedule.
People often ask me how can I produce so much, and do so much activities in my life. In this line, I will share my perspective on what I find to be the 14 top tips/techniques to help you save time in your personal life and work.
Site loaded and it’s time to write my first blog… So, how to write my first blog?
Nov 23rd
Following on the creation of my first post, I want to share my research on the topic, which will be extremely useful to any new bloggers out there.
Another days is born, and so as thousands of domains, websites and blogs. The WWW is indeed a phenomenon like no other . In search for exact answers, I found this site that apart from many other information, shows you that over 130.000 new domains were registered today. This figure is far beyond what many of us expected.
A major portion of this domains will surely have some blogging element, so I this post is aimed to help all the first timers and community.
So, you finally create your blogging site and it is now time to write your first page. And you just thought one of the hardest parts was over… The reality is, any beginner will be indecisive in what to blog for first time.
Should I write on the best idea I’ve ever had? On my caving experience last weekend? On a great personal development book I finished recently? The ideas are endless when you bring your mind into the job…
I decided to read on the experiences from other people and about what is advised out there. And, settling on the practical and analytical character that I want to establish on the contents of this site, my first blog is actually about my research and summary on the best top tips to write your first blog entry and general successful blogging. Read the rest of this entry »
Hello world!!!
Nov 21st
Hello World – Welcome to my Blog!!
I am David the Editor, and to introduce myself a bit I am currently an IT consultant for living with a taste for new experiences. Who knows me well, knows I am a bit of an adventurous character…
Going straight to the point, this blog apart from being a WEB.02 experiment, and a weblog for the professional and personal development side of my life, it is aimed to both help and learn from the WWW community about the various key topics I/we will be writing/commenting on.
Although, in earlier stages of my life I was proficient in literature and creative writing I have somehow evolved to become very analytical, organized and critic. So what to expect from this blog?
We will hopefully on a weekly basis be discussing research and findings on various topics:
- Business and industries;
- Efficiency on tasks;
- E-Marketing and sales;
- Entrepreneurship;
- Fitness;
- Personal development;
- Project Management;
- Science;
- Technology and Innovation;
What makes this blog special?
My main objective is to analyze and refine interesting and success topics ideas from different sources and summarize/present them in practical terms. Apart from helping everyone grow personally and be successful and be ahead of the masses, having this goal in mind will not only help you, but myself in getting motivated to reach out for more knowledge and expertise.
I encourage anyone to contribute, comment and debate the main ideas of this blog to help reaching more refined and helpful information for all.
I have a feeling that most of the readers will be ‘well-grow’ individuals so I will not spend much time telling you how to use the site:
Subscribe to RSS - click that icon which pops up at the right top corner;
Edit - create an user account or simply comment;
Contact me – Use Twitter;
And yeah , the usual policy – no offensive/not polite comments.
Happy blogging!!!
David
