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Dr John Tickell's ACE Principles:
Burn rubber - aim to walk for at least 1% of your week - e.g. 4x sessions of 25 minutes each.
SBW - Strong is better than Weak
B.A.T. exercises - Bottoms, Arms & Tummies
OUMs - Other Useful Movements. For before or after your walk.
To read or see Dr John Tickell's Recommended Activity program, purchase The Great Australian Diet book from your local book store or purchase the complete program 91 Days that can Change Your Life from www.drjohntickell.com
We need to get one thing straight and not too many health gurus and diet gurus realize this.
Your are not under stress - stress is inside you. Stress is on the inside and PRESSURE is on the outside.
So you are under pressure and this causes a stress response, which can be positive, negative or neutral.
The human body loves positive stress responses - there is no downside here at all. The human body does not enjoy negative stress responses piled one on top of the other because this causes the body to break down and become unwell.
We all like achieving - it makes us feel good. To achieve something, we need to have some pressure applied and this causes a response.
If you have absolutely no pressure, this is sort of like 'zombie land'.
Where people do go wrong is that - they forget that to be really good in the pressure cooker of life, you need to get out of it on a regular basis.
This escape mechanism can be either physical or emotional. I have discussed with many people what they consider the best ways to get out of the pressure cooker and re-vitalize or re-energize their minds and their bodies. Here is a relaxation list. Choose several and place them in your life regularly. To score your Livinglife points, you need to do one or two each day. Relaxation List Seeking Help: When you have a problem, there may be more than one way to tackle it. Think of alternative approaches and if things are not clear, involve somebody else and seek their advice. Women are usually good at seeking comfort and help from others. Men are usually not so good at this. We need to get better. Attitude: An attitude boost is most helpful. Remember Tom Cruise in the movie cocktail? He always had a motivational book under the bar. Positive re-inforcement on a regular basis is excellent. Behavior Type: Check out your behavior type - A, B or C or maybe AB. Work on it if you need to. Be aware of your response to people and events. Dream: Think good things and dream a little. Short Breaks: Do you have your next 3 day break planned? Well do it. Ring the travel shop and ask for some brochures. Purchase a copy of Dr John Tickell's The Great Australian Diet book. There is lots of great information here on all aspects of life. It certainly makes a difference.
SOURCE: Tickell, J. 2004 "The Great Australian Diet" Wilkinson Publishing, Melbourne
There are 2 food groups in the world.
1. BASIC Foods are Plant
2. BONUS Foods are Not Plant
Plant Foods are vegetables, fruits, nuts, grains and seeds. How do I know that Basic Food or Plant Food is Basic? As the Poms would say, 'It's bleedin' obvious'. Basically, the human machine can live a long and happy life on Plant Food alone.
The human machine cannot live a long and healthy life on just flesh food and food of animal origin, although one could be forgiven for thinking (if you read the latest bunch of diet experts) that the opposite is true. If skeptics want to get aggressive on this one - then go and research a little harder. The evidence is loud and clear 2. Two-Thirds, One-Third
The best rule of nutrition ever invented is this. At least 2/3 of the food that goes into your mouth must be of plant origin.
That's what the longest living races of people in the world seem to do.
It makes perfect sense. Go back to the East vs. West section in The Great Australian Diet Book and have a look at the food intake charts. I didn't need to make this up or invent it - these are merely the facts of life - Real Life. 3. Rule of 15
This rule is another cornerstone of the Great Australian Diet. It is the rule that causes the biggest shift in ATTITUDE and underpins the SUCCESS of my program. Eat small amounts of at least 15 different Plant Foods each day. My experience tells me that the Rule of 15 has an extremely positive influence on How do you achieve the Rule of 15? You eat / nibble different varieties, different colors, and small portions of vegetables, fruits, nuts, grains & seeds. Impossible? Not so. Remember refined foods don't count! White bread doesn't count. Table sugar doesn't count. Coco Pops don't count. For breakfast at home, I would usually have 6 or 7 different fruits (not 7 whole pieces of fruit) and a Weet-Bix and some oats. In the fridge there is always a bowl of chopped fruit and the bowl contains such fruits as nectarines, plums, apricots, grapes, apple, passionfruit, blueberries etc... Then I often follow up with grilled tomato on toast to which I add a teaspoon of olive oil and pepper (no butter, no spreads) Lunch - I go down to the salad bar and have 6 or 7 different things in my soy and linseed bread sandwich. Dinner - Fish (the Best BONUS food) or meat, and 2 vegetables. No way, I have 6 vegetables! It's no more trouble. 4. H.I. Index Humans have a habit of messing around with food. This used to be uncommon - now it's very common. No good. Not good at all. So H.I. is the level of Human Interference, or in other words how much or how badly humans have changed the food from natural to not-so-natural. Get it? Good. The Great Australian Diet steers you away from high H.I. Foods, especially anything that is processed or deep fried. This is so important. We do an H.I. briefing in the book.
Complicated? No way. It's fun working out all the ways that humans can stuff up good food. Source: Tickell, J 2004 "The Great Australian Diet" Melbourne, Wilkinson Publishing