Health and Wellness in Entrepreneurship

Importance of Health and Wellness

Critical for entrepreneurship
Key Idea: If you aren't alive and healthy, everything else becomes irrelevant.

Avoid eating fast food like McDonald's
Start with basic dietary improvements before delving into specifics
Be always conscientious of what you eat
Current Diet Restrictions (Example):
- Limit high fructose corn syrup
- Avoid processed sugars
- No caffeine

Eating
- Be aware of what and how much you eat
- Consider fasting occasionally
- Distinguish between actual hunger and addiction
- Example: Food cravings might signal addiction rather than hunger.
Sleeping
- Ensure proper sleep to wake up refreshed
- Avoid eating late at night to aid digestion and better rest
- Your body prioritizes either repair or digestion, not both.
Exercising
- Basic exercise is better than none; avoid obsessing over perfect techniques initially

Examples:
- Coke contains high sodium to induce thirst / addiction
- Gatorade can contain microplastics from its hot-packaging process
Purpose: Drive consumption through addictive properties in food and drinks

Historical Insight: Breakfast became popular because of marketing
Key Figure: Edward Bernays (Father of Propaganda) pushed breakfast to boost meat sales
Breakfast being the most important meal of the day is a manufactured concept

Consider intermittent fasting
- Example: Consume daily calories in a single meal
Think critically about long-held beliefs in diet and health
Quote from the Bible: "When I became a man, I put away childish things"
- Relates to abandoning poor eating habits for better health

The importance of controlling what you consume
Actionable Advice: Ask yourself if you really need to eat when you feel hungry.
It's okay to feel hungry; it won't harm you.