What are your wishes this year? No matter what you wish, you can achieve it. The only thing that you need for that is your health. So, health should be the first wish for everyone. Do you want to become healthier this year? By making just one change a day – and taking a cue from celebrities – get on your way to a healthy 2008!

I think the biggest irony for those of us who have struggled with life-long weight issues is that rather than being hedonists addicted to the pleasure of eating, many of us in fact have lost the capacity to savor and enjoy food to its fullest. I think that you can remember that yours most extreme eating episodes have generally taken place in secret, unobserved, quickly, and with a combined sense of both pleasure and shame. For example, it can happens that you have eaten an entire half-gallon of ice cream in one sitting (or, more than once), but, truly, you had never done that by scooping the stuff into a beautiful ceramic bowl and getting out a nice spoon and linen napkin while seated at the dining room table. More like standing barefoot in the kitchen with a plastic spoon scooping the stuff down while the lights were off, hoping no one would ‘catch’ you.

Pilates (pronounced puh-LAH-teez) is something like a cross between yoga, stretching and calisthenics.  Pilates had been the best kept secret of the stars for years. Pilates helps movie stars maintain optimum shape. Dancers used Pilates as a matter of course to stay fit or as rehabilitation.

Are you the kind of person who sometimes stays up late to do some work, or do you prefer to get up early in the morning to finish it? Your body clock helps to decide what you prefer. Research has shown that everybody has an internal body clock that influences their behavior at different times of the day. Our body clock makes sure that we are sleepy at night but not during the day, and hungry at mealtimes but not during the night. It even controls how active we feel.

Simple but true, antioxidants promote well-being. In fact: the more the better to boost your body into the disease prevention realm. Many studies are now showing that drinking tea may help to prevent heart disease and cancer with a dose of antioxidants in beverage form. On your next adventure, hydrating your body could take on a whole new meaning.