Possibly one of the most effective approaches for reversing your biological clock, enhancing your health and becoming much more radiant is to significantly reduce the quantity of food you eat.

One way to do this is through intermittent fasting.

The resulting pro-health gene expression initiated by greatly reducing your calorie intake is the only proven “anti-aging” method known and the simple reality is the more food you eat, the quicker illness, old age and death will come your way.

Most of us are slaves to the foods we eat continuously overburdening our digestive tracts with nutritionally devoid junk that eventually ends up taking us one step nearer to death with each bite taken.

We eat when we are happy, sad, bored, celebrating, socializing, lonely and maybe countless other reasons but most significantly we eat when we aren’t even hungry.

There is a powerful reason for this.

We have been programmed by highly effective food industry propaganda that eating is the answer to all of our problems when the simple truth is it might be the biggest cause of them!

Many of us never give our overworked digestion system a rest causing it to get blocked with putrefied waste material which eventually contaminates all the cells in our body resulting in disease and premature aging.

Healthy radiant beauty on the outside can only be achieved if you are clean on the inside and while internal cleanses are an excellent tool for achieving this, lasting results can only be accomplished if you decide to stop stuffing yourself with excessive food that your body doesn't need and cannot process efficiently.

The human body actually needs very little food to repair and preserve itself. A more appropriate statement might be that the body requires very little nutrition to repair and maintain itself.

There's a strong reason to eat less, much less, on the genetic level as well.

Consuming excess calories causes gene expression that accelerates aging while eating a reduced calorie diet will cause genes to express favorably for life extension and much better health.

This has been recognized since 1935 when the well-known study by McCay and Crowell demonstrated that rats fed a restricted calorie diet experienced much less age-related disease and lived considerably longer than their fatter more well fed friends.

Since that time a number of animal research has demonstrated that undereating while maintaining adequate nutrition has an extraordinary positive effect on wellness and longevity.

Rewind one hundred or so thousand years and you’ll find our ancestors hunting for and gathering their food frequently traveling lengthy distances(exercising) by day and eating just one meal in the evening. These people were powerful, quick, had razor-sharp senses and are believed to have been extremely intuitive and yet they frequently fasted for nearly 24 hours day after day.

Admittedly these folks didn’t live a long life however they probably died from severe climatic conditions or in the jaws of a saber-tooth tiger rather than from illness related to persistent bowel problems which causes many of the health problems that plague humankind today.

To propose someone could become much healthier, improve their vitality, develop better intuition and slow the aging process by eating only one meal a day is more often than not viewed as pure ludicrously in a culture that is constantly influenced by advertising and advertising disguised as news based on results of research funded by food companies who simply wish to sell you more of their product.

So I am advising you should eat only one meal each day?

What I am suggesting is that you begin thinking about your views on food and just how they developed.

Giving your overtaxed digestive system a break once in awhile will free up vital energy your body will use for other more essential functions like repairing and healing.

All spiritual leaders like Buddha and Jesus fasted and recommended it to their followers and while Jesus supposedly fasted for forty days, wonderful benefits can be achieved by fasting for 24 hours just one day a week.

Consume your regular diet however just one day a week drink only pure water for a twenty four hour period either from dinner to dinner the next day, from lunch to lunch the next day or whatever feels right for you.

Doing this just one day a week may help you slim down and appear years younger.

Caloric restriction or "undereating", after numerous animal studies has been proven to produce profound health benefits and prolong lifespan and fasting in this intermittent manner may be one of the better ways to experience these benefits.

Fasting one day a week may not be comparable to the reduced calorie diets given the animals in these studies but the point to take home here is that any amount of caloric reduction has the potential to produce positive results.

I fast for 24 hours every so often and amazingly on those days I think clearer and have more energy. For the last several months I have worked on greatly reducing my overall caloric consumption and have not lost any lean mass because of it.

I suggest you find out more about the numerous benefits of eating less, much less.

A brilliant guy named Brad Pilon has a developed a program called Eat Stop Eat that is based on what I've presented in this article. It presents a clear plan and offers plenty of documentation to support the claim that short intermittent fasting can do a world of good for your health. Check it out HERE.

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Michael Kahunka is a health researcher, author and creator of Kahunka Health and Fitness.

Are you satisfied with the direction your life is going? Have you already given up on achieving your new year’s resolutions? Do you sometimes feel yourself feeling overwhelmed, hopeless or un-inspired?

Use the formula below to start creating the life of your dreams and make 2010 the year you’ll look back on and say “that was the year my life really took off!”

A major cause of poor performance, unhappiness, low self confidence and even depression is the feeling of lack control over one’s life.

Uncertainty and a lack of direction in life are a couple of major reasons for this.

All too often people wander through life without a plan and as a result are influenced and controlled by the plans of others.

They are not sure why they are here or where they are going for that matter.

This can cause low nerve force (personal power), resentment, discontentment with life and all of the other states mentioned above. Having direction and a sense of knowing with clarity what you want in life is the starting point for personal power and satisfaction.

Please always remember…

If you are not working on your goals and dreams, you’re most certainly working on someone else’s.

We all have a mission in life, something that truly inspires us, something that we would gladly do for free without pay and makes us feel complete while we do it or work toward fulfilling it.

For some this may be a charitable cause while for others it could be more financial, spiritual or anything in between.  There are probably as many different life missions on this planet right now as there are souls to express them.

This desire to live and/or achieve one’s life purpose originates in Spirit, the true “you” that exists in the pauses between your thoughts (more on this in later posts).

Thoughts on the other hand are a product of the mind.

Your mind is not “you” but rather an incredible device that when used correctly is the most powerful non-physical-to-physical creation tool in the known universe.

Your life today is a result of all of the thoughts and resulting actions you have taken up until this point in your life.

You've probably heard it before but your thoughts create your life.

Many people have never learned to harness the mind so their thoughts are unfocused, random and scattered which leads to random results which can lead to frustration and discontentment.

Happy fulfilled people know how to FOCUS their thoughts to achieve what they want in life.

Unhappy and unfulfilled people on the other hand are usually that way because they are in constant conflict with what they truly want from life  and what they actually think about, do and say in everyday life.

A giant step taken toward being fulfilled  is achieved by aligning that which you truly desire (Spirit) with your thoughts (mind) which will result in you thinking, saying and taking actions that are in harmony with what you truly want out of life, what you really stand for.

Aligning Spirit and mind also has amazing effects on your physical health which we’ll talk about in another post.

Simply put, we all have a “reason” for being here, the reason we are on this earthly journey.

Find yours and create a plan to achieve it because only then will you be living the life of your dreams.

Doing this will empower your life and escalate you to great heights in personal achievement.

The formula below has been used for ages by people from all walks of life to create powerful, meaningful lives.

The first thing you have to ask yourself is “what do I want from life?”

How can you expect to find to find something when you don’t even know what it is?

What excites you?

What is your passion?

What would you work day and night without pay for because you love it?

What do you want to be remembered for?

As we enter into a brand new decade now would be a fantastic time to take some time out of your day and daydream about what you want, the dream life that awaits you in the future.

Imagine you were given a magic wand by a 30’ tall purple genie and she told you that by waving it, you could have, do or be anything that your heart desired, what would that be?

What would you do for a living if you could wave your magic wand and it would come true?

Close your eyes and visualize yourself doing what you would truly love to do if could do anything your heart desired.

What would you act like if you were doing this? What would doing this feel like? Who would your friends be? Where would you live? What would you look like?

Wave your magic wand and create your dream life in your thoughts and then write it down on paper.

You might have several things you want to accomplish so write them all down.

Chances are there will be one thing that stands out above all the others, the one thing that if accomplished would help make all your other dreams come true, one thing that you want to achieve in life more than anything else.

This one thing may be your life's purpose or mission.

Determine what you want and then put it into writing! Everything ever created by humankind began this way.

When writing your list always use first person i.e. “I am” or “I have” as though you have already obtained that which you desire. Add a date when you intend to have achieved it.

“I HAVE lost 20 pounds and can fit into a sexy pair of skinny jeans by December 31^st 2010.”

If you had written this then you should also have a clear vision of yourself already wearing that pair of skinny jeans on New Year’s Eve 2010!

“I AM the manager of my division and make the manager’s salary of 100k by June 1^st 2010.”

What would your office look like then? What type of car would you be driving? What kinds of charities would you want to help support as a result of your increased salary?

“I am the founder of one of the country’s most success homeless shelters which rehabilitates thousands of people every year by December 31^st 2015.

Recording your thoughts this way starts the process of taking your dreams which are non-physical and turning them into the physical equivalent.

This is a powerful step, so powerful I’m going to repeat it three times.

1. Determine what you want with crystal clarity and write it down on paper.
2. Determine what you want with crystal clarity and write it down on paper.
3. Determine what you want with crystal clarity and write it down on paper.

Some people live in the non-physical world most of the time. They day dream all day long and make big plans in their head but don’t know how to manifest the real-world equivalent of their dreams while others are masters of creating the physical counterpart of the dreams of others and never learn how to do it for their own life.

Dreams begin in the non-physical as thoughts and materialize into the physical world through actions taken by you and others in the physical world.

When you write your dreams down you plant the seeds of their physical equivalent which are then cultivated by the next step in this magical process…

…ACTION!

Action is the soil and water needed to grow these seeds into the real life counterparts.

In the physical world it is focused ACTION that turns dreams into reality.

How do you know which actions you need to take to achieve the life in your vision?

By taking the description of the visions that you have written down on a sheet of paper with a pen as suggested above and asking the question…

“…what steps would I need to take to achieve this dream (goal)?”

Write down all the steps (actions) that would be required for you to reach your goal/dream/mission.

Make a list of actionable steps and then breaking those steps down into smaller more manageable steps.

Make a daily “to do” list and then start immediately working on crossing items off of that list.

Nourish your seeds every day by rewriting them every morning.

Create your “to do” list for the next day the prior night using the actionable steps list(s) you’ve already created. Move items not finished one day to the next day’s list.

Each day take some action that will move you toward your dream/goal.

Every morning while you rewrite your goals/dreams/mission visualize yourself as already having accomplished what you intend to do however when working from the list don’t worry about the bigger picture just concentrate on one step at a time knowing that with each step taken your objective is drawing closer and closer to you.

Knowing what you want and creating a plan to accomplish it will set your life on course and empower you to reach new heights.

Like most things this plan can be modified to suit your needs. You can break your actionable steps down into 6 month, 3 month, 1 month and weekly lists if you want to track your progress.

This is fine but what I’ve found is the more simple the plan, the more likely it is I will stick to it which is extremely important. Keep it simple at first so it is easy to follow then later after you've gained some experience go ahead and add sub-lists.

The key points for this formula are:

Being “stuck” in life and feeling dissatisfied or even worse is usually seen in people that do not have a plan for their life. They have no direction and usually feel powerless as a result.

Decide today to determine with crystal clarity what it is in life you truly want and write it down on paper as though you have already obtained it.

Take what you wrote and break it down into small actionable steps and use these steps to make a plan that you can follow.

Make a daily “to do” list and transfer items from your plan to the daily list and work each day to cross off as many items as possible.

Every morning rewrite your main list of dreams/goals and then start working on the list immediately crossing off items as you finish them.

At the end of each day pan the next by transferring actionable steps to your daily list.

Using this formula or some version of it to determine what you want in life and then making an actionable plan to achieve it will immediately give you a new outlook and inspire you to do great things with your life.

Thanks for listening,

Michael