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What sort of health idiosyncracies do folks practice?
I'm not talking about usual stuff like jogging, yoga, eating fiber, etc., but more obscure stuff.
A couple of mine:
I usually eat fruit first thing in the morning. I don't eat much in the morning; the first thing I eat will be a banana or somesuch, and it'll be an hour or two before I eat anything else. It seems like a mellow way to get my stomach going in the morning...
Other thing = a breathing technique I read about in an Andrew Weil book. When I'm walking along I'll do a few sets of breathing exercises: inhale deeply for 4 counts, hold for 7 counts, exhale for 8 counts. It's an exercise from Hindu tradition, if I remember right.
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My mornings begin with grapefruit juice (white), herbal tea (two mugs full) and then a humongous traveling coffee mug filled to the top with steaming hot coffee for on the way to work.
Vary it a little, and my day is trashed. I might as well go back to bed.
Except Sundays. I have a mug of tea and nothing else until after service when everyone has a cup of coffee and chats before heading off to go to adult ed or teach Sunday School or whatever - I don't know why.
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This isn't idiosyncratic at all: it's just something everyone should do.
I HAVE to eat at least one green vegetable with every meal, and two vegetables total. Corn is not a green vegetable. Something on the plate must be green - preferably very green like spinach mmmm-mmmm.
I also like to follow the rule that for every gram of sugar you eat, you also have to eat one gram of dietary fiber. It's pretty hard if you eat a lot of prepared foods. But good for you. Fiber is my magic health food.
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Well, I keep trying to cut out or at least cut back the caffeine I drink. So hopefully I will eventually be able to call that an idiosyncrasy.
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Toretha -- it's a yoga exercise? Well, I bet I'm one of the few people who practice it while walking through a shopping mall...
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Danzig, I've gone cold turkey on caffiene for 2 weeks. Not by choice but because of my tonsilectomy. I'm trying to figure out if I should start again. There is nothing like a coke sometimes.
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Do not start again if you can help it. Caffeine is horrible; I always feel much better if I am not taking it. Even lowered amounts (Barq's root beer instead of Coke) are good. My problem is not getting off; it is staying off. Especially since the habits are all still there. And rum and Cokes... There is nothing like a coke, that is true.
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