A Healthy Mind In A Health Body For Internet Marketers – Part 1 Of 2
Successful and budding internet marketers are likely to spend several hours in front of a computer screen each day. If you are achieving some $50k per month in a program such as EDC Gold or EDC Diamond, that is what you need to do to continue enjoying such success. If you are a rookie starting out in internet marketing, you have much to learn while you earn so you are also likely to put in long hours in order to realise your dreams. As an internet marketer, you are likely to be self employed and often working from the comfort of your home, so you can choose how many hours you want to work each day. But in reality how different are many of the issues and challenges facing the internet marketer compared to the typical employed office worker / manager?

Issues in common between internet marketers and office employees include: obesity; lack of exercise; technology induced problems leading to stress; the need to network especially in the early days to avoid the feeling of isolation – man is a social animal. (Part 2 will elaborate on the last two issues.) Of course one must acknowledge the key advantages the internet marketer working from home has over the office based worker: no time lost or stress caused by commuting; easier decision on what to wear; and no boss to hassle you. On this latter point though the internet marketer is fully responsible for what he or she earns, so there is the need for self management.

So what do we need to do to tackle these issues head-on whether we work from home or in an office doing a desk bound job? This article focuses on the issues of obesity and lack of exercise.

The increase in obesity levels in the developed world is extremely alarming. And, as we are constantly reminded by the media, obesity leads to diabetes and often an increase in the incidence of heart attacks and strokes. Terri Coles of Reuters, Toronto, reports: “There is little debate that obesity presents a public health issue in North America -- obesity rates have more than doubled over a generation in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention.” There are two things that really need to be addressed here: diet and exercise. In terms of diet, we need to reduce our consumption of harmful ingredients such as saturated fats, trans-fats (also known as hydrogenated fats eg, margarine), sugar, refined carbohydrates and salt. The reality is that we must become more knowledgeable about the foods that we eat. During the last decade or longer, research has indicated that we should reduce our weekly consumption of red meat and in fact choose lean cuts of meat so as to minimise consumption of saturated fats. We should also be eating more oily fish such as salmon, mackerel, sardines and tuna. Bottom line is we must eat more fresh fruit and vegetables while cutting out the candy/sweets and harmful fast foods. A useful knowledge base on food and its effect on health can be found at www.PatrickHolford.com .

Exercise can be a challenge. The trouble for many of us is that our lives are crammed full of activities and with a culture of long working hours in many organizations there just does not seem to be any time left for exercise. For many people in work, sport or exercise seems to be an ancient memory or something you watch others do on TV or seated in a sports stadium and for the more senior management team from hospitality boxes while lavishly entertaining clients. We may get away with this until our mid to late thirties. After 40, health related problems can slowly begin to surface.

In terms of exercise, we need to do any sport or activity that will cause us to increase our rate of breathing for at least 20 minutes four times per week. A brisk walk will do just fine as a start. The notion that you should stop strenuous exercise as you age is now seriously challenged. ScienceDaily ( www.sciencedaily.com ) on 4th May 2007 reported: “The old adage “use it or lose it” is truer than ever. People who maintain a vigorously active lifestyle as they age gain less weight than people who exercise at more moderate levels, according to a first-of-its-kind study that tracked a large group of runners who kept the same exercise regimen as they grew older.” Of course it is better to be exercising throughout one’s life but it is never too late to (re-)start.

To keep motivated, it makes sense to participate in a sport that one enjoys. The choice of sport is as large as ever for both male and female. Naturally one has to be cautious of contact sports where injury levels can be high but if you have been a keen rugby or football player it does not mean that you have to stop all forms of sport. And of course there is the social side of sport. But more importantly, active sport will help to keep the weight down and that can only be good for your health and lead to greater quality of life in old age. Make time for exercise now or regret it in later life. Be sure to read Part 2 of the article at www.4InternetMarketingReviews.com . And yes, internet marketers have the same problems of diet and exercise.

Tony Gill
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