by Reena Daruwalla, guest writer for Nancy Hayssen.com
Are you one of those people who view all things fat with suspicion and an absolute conviction that it must be bad for you? Well, banish that thought! There are many reasons that the human body absolutely needs a requisite amount of fats which can only come from eating healthy and eating well.
And while I am certainly not saying that you should have a fat-rich diet and get fat, having a healthy , balanced diet that puts a few curves on you, is actually a good thing, because it means that you look as nature meant you to, and it also means that you are healthy because you’re eating well.
Did you know that 60% of the brain is made up of fats, the lungs need fat not to collapse, the eyes, nerves, even the heart needs certain fats for its very functioning! Now since I am not an expert at all of this stuff, I thought I would put together a reading list, which gives you some comprehensive information about which fats are good for you and why: Continue Reading…
by Reena Daruwalla, guest writer for Nancy Hayssen.com
To be perfectly truthful, I was somewhat ambivalent about the concept of size acceptance because for me what is implicit in the term ‘Size Acceptance’ is being obese, and more perniciously, being unhealthy and doing nothing about ill health by simply accepting it. But what has clarified my concepts on this subject is a visit to this site.
Size acceptance is not about accepting ill health or obesity. It is about respecting yourself, about recognizing that people of all sizes can be fit and it is about making healthy food choices and benefiting from them. With this accent on a goal of good health and positive self esteem, the size acceptance movement suddenly began to make a lot of sense to me. Continue Reading…
by Reena Daruwalla, guest writer for Nancy Hayssen.com
In recent times, there’s been a lot of column inches and TV minutes devoted to the newly thin Kareena Kapoor, one of India’s top actors. Apparently she decided she wanted to be uber slim for her action role in the movie Tashan, and she has been at pains to tell everyone that it was yoga (and nothing extreme or surgical) that was behind her ‘transformation’. Her journey to size zero has been rather too well documented by the media. Continue Reading…
by Reena Daruwalla, guest writer for Nancy Hayssen.com
Unpleasant, negative, unfair, bad things happen to all of us as some or other point in our lives. At times like this, it is easy to feel overwhelmed, upset, distressed and ask that perennial question, “WHY ME?!!” The fact is, it’s not just you, it’s everyone at some or other point; fact is and to coin a phrase, “SHIT HAPPENS!”
It is what you choose to do with this unwanted negativity in your life that makes the difference. Do you proclaim yourself the victim and resign yourself to your fate with whining ill grace or do you choose not to (in the words of Dylan Thomas) “go gentle into that good night” and do you “rage, rage against the dying of the light”? Continue Reading…
I know I totally agree with Nancy’s Rock Hard Abs Gym Rant, posted here a few days ago. What I read in pregnancy books during both my pregnancies bears out the theories posited there. Women’s bodies are meant to have curves, they are meant to carry more fat, they need more reserves of fat, for the rigors of childbirth and the incredible pressure placed on the body creating and nurturing new life within our own bodies.
