Mario's Magic Minute - Health Tip: Antioxidants

What are antioxidants?

Antioxidants are compounds that neutralise free radicals.

A Free Radical is a molecule that has lost a part of its structure and is therefore unbalanced. This is a process called oxidation (exactly like rust on iron). And therefore looks for some oxygen to balance it. 

Free Radicals are an essential component of the oxidation process which is responsible for the production of Energy within the body.  Most of the Free Radicals generated are balanced by the body’s enzymes, vitamins & minerals.

Unfortunately, the body's Energy production process is 2% - 5% inefficient and some Free Radicals escape and can cause harm to the body.

It is the excessive production of non-energy producing Free Radicals that accelerates the ageing & disease process.

What do Free Radicals do to the body?

An excessive amount can cause damage to a cell’s protein, membrane, ability to regenerate correctly. This leads to inflammation, damage to major organs and digestive system. Not to mention visible ageing on the skin. They can compromise the immune system, CVS and lymphatic system.

What are general causes of free radical formation?

They are formed just by natural body processes especially energy function. But it is the excessive amounts we are concerned with and the following options are able to produce many free radicals over constant use – smoking, long exposure to sun or other UV light, excessive alcohol, caffeine drinks, processed food, bad fats and continual emotional, physical and mental stress. 

So what can be done to neutralise this reaction?

The major anti oxidants common to us are – Vit C, E, A, Zinc, Selenium, Bioflavinoids (Rutin and Hesperidin) and CoQ10.

The foods that are rich in these anti oxidants are coloured –red, orange, yellow & green. The list includes – tomatoes, carrots, citrus fruits, red grapes and cabbage. Green leafy veges (spinach, endive, chickory), nuts, onions, and sprouts and protein in the form of fish, chicken and meat.

We tend to give our bodies a real battering. Gradually over years we can pay the price of dis-ease and compromised lifestyle. So today is the day to look at the food you eat, the amount of daily rest, how much exercise you have, the stressors in your life – and ensure a balance is achieved on a daily basis.   

What supplements to take and what foods are best – ask our Naturopaths or Natural Health Consultants.  

Fill out our "Nutricheck" online at: calannapharmacy.com.au which will give you a great indication of where your health is at!  

Mario Calanna

e: mario@calannapharmacy.com.au

WINNERS ARE GRINNERS!! Orange Friday....

GAME DAY!! ORANGE FRIDAY!!

Calanna Pharmacy Group Sponsor the Skytrans Cairns Taipans, and the Cairns Pharmacies turn a little Orange every Friday in support of our GREAT TEAM!

The Skytrans Cairns Taipans are giving the Cairns Community the opportunity to Go Orange Crazy on Friday's and have a photo competition!  

All you have to do, is get your employees to dress up the office/shop with "Taipans" gear and also wear orange - then take a Team Picture, and Post that photo onto the Skytrans Cairns Taipans Facebook Page for your chance to WIN a Signed Singlet!

We did just that, and we WON!!!  Our Team are so excited that we won, and we would like to give a big Shoutout to the Skytrans Cairns Taipans team!  Thank you so much for the opportunity - Let's go Taipans, Let's go!!

Make sure you get to the Game tonight as it's the BIG REPTILE RUMBLE - 
Cairns Taipans v Townsville Crocodiles

You can purchase tickets to tonight's game by:
Phone: 4041 3000
Online: Skytrans Cairns Taipans Website
Go to the Office: 289 Aumuller Street, Cairns
Purchase at the Game: Cairns Convention Centre from 6pm Tonight

SEE YOU THERE CAIRNS!!!!

 

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Mario's Magic Minute - Servant Leadership "Players & Pretenders"

Adapted from Success Magazine quote about Power

In every organization there are those who would rather act the part than do their part. I’ve classified these people as pretenders. Pretenders can slow an organization down, steal momentum and damage relationships. They live for themselves. When an organization needs “we” people, the “I” people either change or get exposed.
In order for a pretender to become a player, major changes in personality and thought patterns must take place.
Pretenders look the part, talk the part and claim the part, but fall short of fulfilling the part. Let me give you five differences between players and pretenders.

Differences Between Players and Pretenders

1. Players have a servant’s mindset.
Pretenders have a selfish mindset.
Albert Einstein illustrated this point brilliantly:
Strange is our situation here upon Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.
From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men—above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls, with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.
Einstein realized that he was a debtor to those who had previously gone before him and who had given of themselves to him.

Question: “How can you tell if you have a servant attitude?”

Answer: “By the way you react when you are treated like one.”
2. Players are mission conscious.
Pretenders are position conscious.
Players will give up a position to achieve a mission, and pretenders will give up a mission to achieve a position. They are also worried about what their titles are and where they are on the promotion ladder. Players don’t promote themselves; pretenders, on the other hand, are quick to tell you how valuable they are to the organization and will go on and on about their accomplishments.
3. Players are job-happy—They love what they do and do it well.
Pretenders are job-hunters—They can’t do it where they are, but think they could do it better where they are going. Pretenders always think the grass is greener on the other side of the fence.

Pretenders have three things in their lives:

► Destination Disease—They think success is always somewhere else.
► Someone’s Sickness—They think success is with someone else.
► Backslider Blues—They think success today is impossible because of yesterday.
4. Players can deliver the goods.
Pretenders promise the goods.
Author Thomas Sowell says, “We hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don’t we hear about the doers and the do-nots?”
One of my favorite stories deals with this topic. It’s about an illiterate salesman by the name of Gooch who was sent out by a large company, and the following are some letters he wrote back to the boss:
“Dear boss: I seen this outfit which they ain’t never bought a dime’s worth of nothin from us and I sole them a couple hundred thousand dollars worth of guds. I am now in Chicago.”
The second letter read:
“I come here and sole them half a milyon.”
The president of the company posted these letters on the bulletin board with this note:
“We bin spending too much time here tryin to spel instead of tryin to sel. Let’s watch these sails. I want everybody should read these letters from Gooch who is doing a grate job for us, and you should go out and do like he done.”
Gooch is a player; he knows how to bring home the goods!
5. Players love to see others succeed.
Pretenders are only interested in their own success.
Rabbi Harold Kushner said it best:
The purpose of life is not to win. The purpose of life is to grow and to share. When you come to look back on all that you have done in life, you will get more satisfaction from the pleasure you have brought into other people’s lives than you will from the times that you outdid and defeated them.
When I graduated from college and started running my first church, I was very competitive. I would find out what other churches were doing and would compare what they were doing with what I was doing. But I evolved beyond being a competitor…
► To personal achiever
► To team player
► To team builder
I started out wanting to get an advantage on the other churches; now my greatest joy is raising up and developing leaders. Out of developing them, they have added value to my life and I added value to their lives. If you can get everything accomplished by yourself, your dream is too small. One is too small a number to produce greatness. It’s always been about teamwork.

Players Are Real

Leaders do not try to “perform” for the followers’ benefit. They are open and truthful. They have nothing to hide. Truth really does set you free. You aren’t constantly trying to cover up. Pretending to be real is a lot more exhausting than just being real.

Mario Calanna
CEO Calanna Pharmacy Group
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We need to be Lifters, not Leaners

We need to be lifters, not leaners, if our nation is to thrive

Adapted form Cassandra Wilkinson article in Weekend Australian 10.3.12.

Sir Robert Menzies delivered his revered speech “The Forgotten People” on May 22 1942. He was concerned that after the war, Australia would be “deeply diminished in human capital and shaken to the foundations of its social structures”.

There was a risk of ‘levelling” or socialism as the State would need to step in and play a part in helping rebuild people’s lives. He said; “What really happens to us will depend on how many people we have who are of the great and sober and dynamic middle-class – the strivers, the planners, the ambitious ones.

The middle class is always the measure of how the people ‘lift’ and become self-dependent. It is the extension of the government into the mainstream or middle-class Australians’ that has driven rising government expenditure and increasing political control into our everyday life.

He told listeners: “The great vice of democracy is that for generations we have been getting ourselves onto the list of beneficiaries and removing ourselves from the list of contributors, as if somewhere that was somebody else’s wealth and somebody else’s effort on which we could thrive.”

Today, to every problem, the government’s response is a new tax, a new regulation or a new bureaucracy.

Menzies had set out to solve this problem by forming the Liberal Party to promote ideas that would give future population the strong arms of ‘lifters’ instead of the flabby bellies of ‘leaners”. He wanted people with a strong liberal spirit.

So many of the things we relied on a middle-class family to do for itself now have a role for government - from feeding children correctly, to building a granny flat or, for that matter, deciding what newspaper column is acceptable to read.

It is the middle-class itself that has insisted on its own enfeeblement with continual demands for the regulation of daily life and for insisting on the elevation of concerns such as animal rights and the environment as if nobody would have to pay or as if there were a source of unlimited wealth to draw on.

One day the mines will be empty and our descendants will rightly curse us if we have misused our national bounty to abdicate our responsibility to be industrious, self-reliant and ambitious.

These are the qualities on which success in an unknowable future depends. We undermine them at our peril.

http://www.liberals.net/theforgottenpeople.htm  - The Forgotten People speech link

Mario Calanna

CEO Calanna Pharmacy Group

e: mario@calannapharmacy.com.au

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I'm Responsible!

“I’m Responsible”   These are possibly the best 5 sentences you'll have read in a while – I think they provide much food for thought:

1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.    2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.    3. The government cannot give to anybody, anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.    4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!   5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.   The recent Success Magazine has an article by John Maxwell – based on two words – “I’m Responsible”. The question could also be suggested:   “Are some of the main problems we face today the result of 3 decades of social changes that have reduced personal responsibility – and resulted in people who work for a living being outnumbered by those who vote for a living”.

Mario Calanna
CEO Calanna Pharmacy Group

e: mario@calannapharmacy.com.au
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Five Basic Rules to help build Relationships - Mario Calanna

“The most important words you will ever say are the

words you say to yourself, about yourself, when you are by yourself.”

John Maxwell believes relationships can fall into one of four categories:

1.            Those that add to who we are

2.            Those that subtract from who we you are

3.            Those that multiply our strengths

4.            Those that divide our strengths and relationships.

Five Basic Rules to help build relationships:

1.            Get Along with Yourself - The one relationship you have until you die is with yourself. Treat yourself with the love and the respect you deserve. If you don’t like who you see in the mirror – make changes.

2.            Value People - You cannot make another person feel valued if you believe that person has no importance in the community.

3.            Make the Effort to Form Relationships - Humans survive and thrive on relationships with others. Make the effort to build some and choose the ones that will add to who you wish to become and those who will multiply and develop your strengths and dreams.

4.            Understand the Reciprocity Rule - What you put into your life and the lives of others comes back into your own. Choose your words and actions carefully.

5.            Follow the Golden Rule - If every person made decisions based on the above rules then we would all make more right decisions.

 

Good luck on building a better you and a better community……From Mario

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