70 the rice diet renewal
Mind - body balance and relaxation : The more scientists delve into
the positive, life - enhancing effects of exercise, the more evi-
dence is discovered about how your mind also benefi ts from
physical activity. The upshot? You need to rest, relax, and
recuperate, but you also need to strengthen your mind - body
balance. In addition to yoga, another ancient Eastern form of
exercise offers an immediate and fruitful way of uniting body
and mind — tai chi. Tai chi chuan is a very rich and profound
system of mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical devel-
opment. Its roots stretch back more than three thousand
years, and it is based on many aspects of Chinese culture:
medicine, martial arts, cultivation of personal energy, Taoist
philosophy, meditation, and calisthenics. Although most
people associate tai chi with groups of people exercising
with slow, synchronized movements in public parks, other
aspects of the art are seated and standing meditation and
a wide range of auxiliary exercises that include stretching,
joint warm - ups, massage, breathing, “ core ” (torso) work, and
movements based on the imitation of animals.How You Will Feel
If you have followed the diet now for even a day or two, you will
undoubtedly have noticed some results. While men each lose an
average of thirty pounds and women an average of nineteen pounds
in the fi rst four weeks, during the next few months, a weight loss
of one to three and a half pounds per week is very doable, depend-
ing on your weight to begin with. Don ’ t be alarmed if you need to
visit the bathroom often; a no - salt - added diet will cause you to uri-
nate the excess water from your body if you have been consuming
too much sodium. Your body is exquisitely designed to take in or
excrete the amount of fl uids necessary to maintain health, depend-
ing on the sodium you have ingested.
Along with this initial rapid weight loss, you may soon notice
that your joints feel more fl uid or less stiff, you may be sleeping