• Do not buy or eat anything unless you have read the ingredient label and know what it is composed of. 
• Read all labels on foods you want to purchase.
• If you do not understand even one ingredient on a label, do not buy the product.
• Take a dictionary with you to the market so you can understand some of the complicated words that are used for additives, sugars, preservatives, and dyes…or ask Google.
• Stay away from any sugars, including cakes, candies, and homemade sweets.
• Women should consume no more than 100 calories of added sugars per day, and men no more than 150.
• Complex carbohydrates should account for 40% to 60% of your total daily calorie intake. 
• Make sure to intake complex carbohydrates instead of simple carbohydrates.
• Stay away from stimulants.
• Learn to focus and relax.
• Stretch daily whether you think you needed or not.
• Give yourself 15 minutes a day to yourself somewhere where you can wind down.
• Fulfill your body’s needs; reject your mind’s deceptive cravings.
• Eat in restaurants you trust to have clean, natural food.
• Eat only salads or lean protein from restaurants when you are not sure of their foods.
• Stay away from sauces and creams.
• Eat to live, don’t live to eat – and know the difference.
• Research what vitamins are good supplements for what conditions or deficiencies and take them only when there’s a need.  More is not better and always is not wise.  (Please see vitamins below.)

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