Lauren Bendinelli

Writing down your daily tasks frees up mental space to focus on other things, helps your brain stay on-track when distractions come up, and crossing things off gives you a sense of accomplishment. Here’s how to practice Box Breathing: • Inhale through your nose for a count of 5, focusing on expanding the belly, then the diaphragm, then the upper chest • Retain and hold the breath for a count of 5 • Exhale all of your breath through your nose, letting go first from the upper chest, then the ribcage, then the belly • Retain and hold the empty lungs for a count of 5 • Repeat for 1-3 minutes, working your way up to 5-10 minutes each day Try keeping a bowl of nuts at your desk to snack on throughout the day and bring a big salad for lunch filled with dark leafy greens, avocado, seeds/nuts and a dressing made from olive oil.

When something sounds too good to be true… like an energy drink that contains a special form of “Super Creatine” that not only improves athletic performance but can also reverse mental retardation and cure brain disease, and at the very least you’ll be getting an excellent source of BCAAs and CoQ10, there’s a good chance that it probably is – too good to be true, that is. Bang Energy Drink Super Creatine has a superior effect on the human body • Bang Energy Drink’s CEO continually mentions having a valid patent on this Super Creatine, and they even list the patent ribbon and number on their cans, even though the US Patent & Trademark Office has rejected that patent. Well, according to Barker v VPX, independent testing shows that Bang contains just .09g – .15g of BCAA’s per can, 100 times lower than the amount cited in research from Bang’s parent company, Vital Pharmaceutical, Inc. (VPX).

That usually looked like yogurt or eggs for breakfast, pizza and salad for lunch, and salad with pasta or tater tots for dinner. Proteins are made up of amino acids that form long chains – sort of like a string of pearls where each pearl bead is an amino acid. All 20 amino acids are important, and 9 are considered essential because the body cannot create them on its own and must rely on our food for the nutrients. Now, this is where the term “Complete Protein” comes into play – a complete protein is a food source that contains an adequate portion of each of the 9 essential amino acids.

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