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Good Morning Everyone,

It's a beautiful morning and I have already walked my 2 miles. I meet my friend at 7:15 AM and its barely daylight at that time. It was foggy this morning and my hair got wet walking in the fog.

I've been reading the next Key in Dr. Phil's book. This key is "A no-fail environment". Have you ever heard anyone say that they could gain weight by just "looking" at food. Well, according to this book, it's possible! This is a quote from his book:

Quote:

Suppose you're standing in front of a bakery, drooling over a banana cream pie in the window. In response to the sight of that pie, your body begins to churn out more of the hormone 'insulin'. Even if you don't eat a single morsel of pie, insulin begins to do a couple of its regular jobs. For one thing, it accelerates the intake of fat into cells for storage (yes, just looking at food may make you fat!). Second, insulin reduces levels of blood sugar in your body, which it ordinarily does after you've eaten, in order to move that blood sugar into your cells for energy. This creates a state of low blood sugar that leads to hunger.

Any comments? I would like to hear what you think.

He goes on to write about how we are bombarded with advertising messages that tells us what to eat and where to eat, etc. And how we are targeted by these industries that sell food. We let them make our choices for us. We need to decide whether we are going to be the bull's eye or make our own choices and control what we buy or don't buy.

That is as far as I have read, but it makes a lot of sense to me.

Hope you all have a good day.

Nita :wave: