August 28, 2008
Just Think About It
It seems scientists are coming up with new startling conclusions every day.
Something to think about?
How many times has someone said that to you? More than once, I'll bet. But now it seems it's even better advice than ever.
It seems an amazing discovery has been made by researchers at Harvard University. Psychologists studied 84 hotel cleaners, whose job involved physical activity. It seems that approximately 50% of the group lost an average of two pounds and lowered their blood pressure somewhere in the region of 10 percent,while the other half had no significant changes.
If the successful half had been put on a new diet, the world right now would have bought millions of copies of it and every talk show would be discussing how good it is. If you're asking what caused half of the hotel cleaners to lose weight, you may be in for a bit of shock. The only difference between the two groups was that the successful group had been coached to believe that the jobs they were doing burned calories, made them healthier and helped them lose weight.
Yes, the weight loss group simply believed their work gave them health benefits. Those health benefits almost magically manifested with no extra effort on their part.
Head of research Ellen Langer, said 'The changes were a function of the change in mindset alone'.
Says Ellen, If you can put the mind in a healthy place, you can have dramatic physiological consequences'. In plain English you might just be able to lose weight by thinking about it the right way. That has important implications for those of us who want to enjoy weight loss
Just imagine yourself losing weight and burning up calories during normal daily activity, you will lose weight and bodyfat. That simple. Even though it sounds too good to be true the research at Harvard seems to prove otherwise.
Just think about that for a moment!
