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3 Steps For Extra Energy

By Michael Roizen, M.D., and Mehmet Oz, M.D.

Your body can be its own renewable energy source, if you know how to keep it humming. Here's how:

1. Trade in the Band-aids. If you blow a fuse in your house, you can't expect to get power back by lighting a few candles and searching for food with flashlights. You've got to find the bad one, replace it and reset the system. Same with your energy. The first step to getting it back is to accept that a not-perfect fix might get you through today's energy crisis, but not tomorrow's.

2. Get over the hump. One of the greatest things about your body is that it responds to what you're doing through mechanisms called feedback loops. You tell your body you want to watch "House" reruns all night, and it responds by downshifting energy production. That's how you can be too tired to exercise just from sitting around all day. But tell your body you need to walk around the neighborhood, and it responds by giving you the energy you need. And then your body teaches your brain it wants to walk. That's how healthy behaviors become automatic habits. The first few times, you may have to coax yourself out the door. It gets easier.

3. Do a sugar sweep. A sugar-filled diet gives you about a birthday candle's worth of energy, while a healthy diet is more like an eternal flame. Scrub simple sugars (they end in "-ose," like glucose, sucrose, maltose, dextrose -- but ribose is OK, syrups and any grain but 100 percent whole grains.

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The YOU Docs, Mehmet Oz and Mike Roizen, are authors of "YOU: The Owner's Manual." Want more? See "The Dr. Oz Show" on TV (check local listings). To submit questions, go to www.RealAge.com. (c) 2009 Michael Roizen, M.D. and Mehmet Oz, M.D. Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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