How do you discipline yourself when working on intellectual work?

Question

I'm writing an essay and could use a boost!

What food gives you energy when you're working?

Answer 1

Well, personally, I'm like a dog with a bone. I can go for hours, just pushing myself to get the ideas as cohesive as possible. But I'm just a driven personality--type A. However, I know people who only write for 20 minutes and then need to get up and take a break. You have to find your personal study style, I would say. Taking care of yourself like the other respondents have talked about is a necessary thing. Whatever it takes: green tea, red bull (sugarless, for me). Sometimes when doing essay work and you're stuck, try freewriting to loosen up mindcramp. You just write whatever comes into your head without concern for grammar, syntax, spelling, or even logic.

Answer 2

"Getting the Nutrients You Need"

A healthy diet is an important part of a healthy lifestyle. A healthy diet gives you all the nutrients you need in the right amounts. Nutrients are substances in food that body cells use to do their work, get energy, and grow.

The 6 kinds of nutrients that your body needs are carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals, and water. Carbohydrates and fats give you energy. Your body uses proteins mostly for growth and repair, although proteins provide energy too. Vitamins and minerals do lots of different jobs to keep your body working right. For example, some vitamins help fight diseases and some minerals help build body cells. Among other things, water helps remove cell wastes and helps keep your body temperature steady.

No single food has every nutrient. To be healthy, you need many kinds of food. The Food Guide Pyramid can help you plan meals and snacks that give you the correct amount of each nutrient. The pyramid suggests the number of servings you need each day for most food groups. Eat at least the smaller number of servings in each set of numbers. Eat more if you don't have enough energy or are too skinny. Start with more servings of bread, cereal, rice, and pasta. Those foods should be the biggest part of your diet. Eat healthy snacks.

Watch out for foods at the top of the pyramid! You can get the little amount of fat you need from the two groups just below the top. Fatty foods increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and some kinds of cancer. Fatty and sugary foods can cause you to gain too much weight. Sugary foods can also cause tooth decay.

Fruits, vegetables, and whole grain breads and cereals do more than provide nutrients. They also provide fibber. Fibber helps food move through your digestive system like it should. Fibber may also prevent colon cancer.

"Avoiding Tobacco, Alcohol, and Other Drugs"

Drugs are chemicals that change the way the body works. Medicines are drugs that are used to prevent, cure, and treat illnesses. If used carefully, medicines can be helpful to health. Other drugs do not belong in your healthy lifestyle.

Cigarettes and other tobacco products contain a drug called nicotine. It makes your heart beat faster than normal. It narrows the blood vessels so less blood flows through them. Nicotine also causes dependence, which is the need for a drug. People who use tobacco often find it extremely hard to quit.

Tobacco smoke also contains carbon monoxide a poisonous gas that replaces some oxygen in the blood. Tar is another substance found in tobacco smoke. Tar builds up in a smoker's lungs where it can cause cancer cells to grow. Substances in tobacco smoke can also cause emphysema and contribute to atherosclerosis.

Alcohol found in beer, wine, and liquor, is another drug to stay away from. Alcohol slows down the work of the brain, changing the what a person acts, thinks, and feels. After many drinks, a person may have trouble making decisions or remembering things. Muscles may not work together properly. A person's vision may be blurred. Someone who drinks and then tries to drive a car is more likely to have an accident.

Drinking a lot of alcohol over a long period of time can cause brain damage, liver disease, and cancer of the stomach and other organs. Alcohol can also cause dependence. Alcoholism is an illness in which a person is dependent on alcohol and cannot control his or her drinking.

Drug abuse is the intentional use of drugs for reasons other than health. Some people abuse alcohol. Others abuse marijuana, cocaine, or heroin. Those drugs are illegal. They can harm health. They can cause dependence. The only drugs you should take are medicines from a doctor. If anyone else offers you any other drug, say "no".

Answer 3

One good piece of advice I can give you is to break up what you have to do into separate units of work. A soft drink always gives me a boost.

Answer 4

for you to be verry active and responsible all the time for people to respect you

Answer 5

protein is good for the brain.. any kind