Success Begins at
Home
By Michelle Tomao
Business Guru Offers Entrepreneurs Guide to Success While
Staying Fit and Healthy Success Begins at Home author Lynn D.
Ahbonbon leading grassroots movement to promote abundant,
healthy living
Some of the world's most successful entrepreneurs devote themselves so fully to business success that they develop unhealthy
eating habits. Tech titan Steve Jobs obsessively ate single foods
for weeks at a time, believing he would become healthier as a
result.
While most entrepreneurs are not eating only apples and carrots,
as Jobs did, author Lynn Ahbonbon suggests that they too may
unwittingly be eating diets that are undermining their health.
"The life of a business owner is fast-paced and stressful," said
Ahbonbon, a University of Southern California MBA and business
coach. As a result, Ahbonbon claims entrepreneurs end up eating
the foods that are fastest and most convenient.
When three of her relatives in their 30s came down with cancer in
quick succession, Ahbonbon decided to devote herself to studying
the keys to abundant, healthy living.
The result is her newest book, Success Begins at Home, a guide
that combines her twin passions: healthy living and helping entrepreneurs create abundance. The book includes concise advice,
checklists, and do's and don'ts drawn from the author's many
years teaching entrepreneurship to business owners. First-time
entrepreneurs, as well as old hands will benefit from this book, a
well-researched guide which leaves very little room for failure.
"I wrote the book because I want to help business owners to
achieve their financial goals and to be healthy enough to enjoy
the success they've earned," said Ahbonbon.
The book includes guidance about good and bad fats, reading
food labels, which foods to buy organic, and which types of fish
to avoid because of mercury content. As well as 22 delicious and
healthy international recipes with nutritional and cultural notes.
For those who prefer the book without the entrepreneurship section, Ahbonbon offers two alternatives: Food Made at Home and
Worldly Home Cooking.
"We eat highly processed foods loaded with trans fats, salt and
sugar, microwaved in plastic dishes that leach toxins when heated,
and then we wonder why we feel tired and our immune systems
are so weak," said Ahbonbon.
Ahbonbon's wake-up call came when she was a strategic planning
administrator at an automaker.
"I was stressed, fatigued, and eating microwavable dinners four
nights a week," said Ahbonbon. "Even though I was physically fit
and worked out regularly, I kept getting bloated, having allergies
and feeling exhausted."
Success Begins at Home
by Lynn . Ahbonbon
ISBN 9780989356305
Available: Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble Booksellers, Walmart
and Sears - Coming Soon to: iTunes and kobo
www.ahbonbon.com
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