Coffee: The New Superfood?

Coffee! I always knew there was something extra special about my morning cups of coffee!

Can you tell that I’m excited? Well, I am, because I’m writing this article with my steaming mug of rich, dark roast coffee beside me.

More and more evidence is coming out that coffee is not just a popular way to start the day, but it may have some significant health benefits as well!

It turns out that moderate coffee drinkers have lower risks of type 2 diabetes, arrhythmia, strokes, Parkinson’s disease, gallstones, dementia, and Alzheimer’s disease.

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Within every career and every pursuit you may have, including getting in shape, we must endure a roller coaster ride before we can get to the goal line. There’s the exhilaration as we go up, followed by fear as we go back down. We take two steps forward, sometimes one step back.

And as we ride it out, we learn from the experience and understand how to ride the next big wave better. But what happens when the action we need to take for the healthiest life possible doesn’t always go as planned?

How do we re-teach ourselves to eat smarter, exercise harder, and set our bodies and minds up for the best ride we might go on? Sometimes in life, it’s necessary to rewind, recharge and re-do the damage done.

Whether your biggest challenge is to stop comfort eating, or resist buying into the latest fad diet as the solution to your weight loss, or even making your health the first and most important priority in your life, anything is possible.

12 Ways to Avoid Unhelpful Thinking Habits

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Those annoying unhelpful thinking habits that we all have from time to time can be a real pain in the butt, and they never seem to be far away either. They hide just around the corner and pop up when we least expect, reaching out and touching us on the shoulder, reminding us of impending doom or our feelings of inadequacy.

It’s good to remember that they are just thoughts. They’re created in that electric charged jelly-like thing that resides inside our skulls. They’re fleeting, transient and they’re not actually real. We only manifest them.

Nonetheless they can hold a powerful grip on us and our actions and they can be quite disconcerting. What we must do is realise that we don’t have to surrender to them, or let them control us. We can take charge and rephrase them when they do arrive, it's the power of positive thinking.

Here’s a list of 12 common unhelpful thinking habits and a few positive pointers beneath each to make you think differently about them instead.