12 Steps to Living Well

Kevin Bungert is the owner, head coach and motivation behind Living Well Systems, Inc., a personal motivation and coaching company located in East Northport, New York, USA. Over the years he has developed 12 steps that he use in his coaching business to help people improve the problem areas of their lives. These 12 ideas are:

1. Define Your Purpose: What is it that you really want to accomplish in life, in your business, with regards to your health, with regards to your family and friends?

2. Be Honest With Yourself: Stop blaming someone else for your circumstances, your choices equals your life! Be honest with yourself! Because when you are, than you take back total control of your life.

3. Define Your Short: Everybody has goals, whether you write them down or not, you have goals. For example, without writing it down every month, you want to pay your mortgage, right? You want to eat healthy, right? You want to be in a loving relationship, right? You want some fun in your life, right?

4. Stay Positive and Believe In Yourself: Just believe in yourself and listen to the ACHIEVERS, not the whiners!

5. Learn New Information: The reason we must learn new information is because the knowl-edge we have right now has only gotten us to the level of production that we are at right now. We want to learn how to do more business!

6. Make Different Choices: Your business can change dramatically if you choose to make it happen!

7. Take Action: We must take action! That's where the great stuff is!

8. Reprogram Your Negative: Have you ever called yourself FAT, LAZY, STUPID, SILLY, UNORGANIZED, OLD, DISGUSTING, OR A LOSER? Well, that's negative self talk! And we have ALL done it, to some degree or other. The sad part is, it's so damaging. We call ourselves names all the time, that if other people said it, we would be really hurt! Well as adults, it is up to us to STOP OUR NEGATIVE SELF TALK AND RE-PLACE IT WITH MORE HELPFUL THOUGHTS!

9. Make New Associations: It means meeting new people who can help you achieve your goals. But the rub is, they don't come and knock on your door! We have to step out of our comfort zones and go seek out their help. Are you going to ask for help to make your life better?

10. Refine - Continually: Step #10, basically means put all 9 earlier steps into action and then take a look. If you want to make a change in a certain area of your life that is caus-ing you pain, begin to put these ideas into force in your life and keep try-ing! NOTHING CHANGES OVERNIGHT, PROGRESS TAKES TIME! You job is to NOT GIVE UP! EVER!

11. Help Others: Success in life is in what you do for others.

12. Don’t Be Afraid: We are all afraid that we are not good enough ins some way… We have to accept that some things are going to scare us… and we have to move forward anyway. START TODAY! DON'T BE AFRAID!

Food processing a tool to pesticide residue dissipation

Food safety is an area of growing worldwide concern on account of its direct bearing on human health. The presence of harmful pesticide residues in food has caused a great concern among the consumers. Hence, world over to tackle food safety issues, organic farming is being propagated. However, due to several reasons, diffusion and acceptance of this approach in developing countries has been very slow. Therefore, it is important in the transient phase that some pragmatic solution should be developed to tackle this situation of food safety. Food processing treatments such as washing, peeling, canning or cooking lead to a significant reduction of pesticide residues. In this background this paper reviews the common food processing operations along with the degree of residue removal in each process. The processes reviewed include: baking, bread making, dairy product manufacture, drying, thermal processing, fermentation, freezing, infusion, juicing, malting, milling, parboiling, peeling, peeling and cooking, storage, storage and milling, washing, washing and cooking, washing and drying, washing and peeling, washing peeling and juicing and wine making. Extensive literature review demonstrates that in most cases processing leads to large reductions in residue levels in the prepared food, particularly through washing, peeling and cooking operations.

Source: Food Research International (2009) vol. 42, p. 26-40