Question of the Day

Question: I'm often tired during the day. How can I wake myself up?

Answer: Cut out energy-depleting foods.

According to the Rejuvenator, reducing your intake of caffeine, sugar, and alcohol will energize your body and mind. How? While caffeine taxes your adrenal glands and can make you feel tired, it's also acidic and hard on your stomach.

When we eat sugar, many of us experience what doctors refer to as "rebound low blood sugar," which can make us feel variously tired, headachy, depressed or weak. In other words, sugar intake can sabotage our moods and our health. Sugar and alcohol are both full of empty calories, and alcohol often causes sleep disturbances and strains the liver.

Here are some tips for cutting down: drink half decaf/half regular coffee to start weaning yourself off the java. Drink a wine spritzer instead of a full glass of wine. Take half a teaspoon of sugar rather than a whole one in your tea or coffee. Limit yourself to one dessert a week--and eventually cut them out for good.

Visit the Rejuvenator for more quick tips to improve appearance and energy.