{"id":16,"date":"2006-07-17T02:42:39","date_gmt":"2006-07-17T09:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goodhabitsgoodstudents.com\/blog\/?p=16"},"modified":"2007-03-11T01:30:15","modified_gmt":"2007-03-11T08:30:15","slug":"eat-properly-get-enough-sleep-and-stay-drug-free-book-excerpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/2006\/07\/17\/eat-properly-get-enough-sleep-and-stay-drug-free-book-excerpt\/","title":{"rendered":"Eat properly, get enough sleep, and stay drug-free (book excerpt)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your brain\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhave I mentioned this already?\u00e2\u20ac\u201dis part of your body.<\/p>\n<p>You can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t expect your brain to do its best unless you take care of it. Junk food, irregular meals, inadequate sleep, cigarettes, alcohol, caffeine, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153recreational\u00e2\u20ac\u009d drugs\u00e2\u20ac\u201dall of these diminish your brain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ability to work. All of them, too, are entirely avoidable\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbad habits people slip into because they take the easy way, the lazy way. Be smarter than that.<\/p>\n<p>And if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve already developed, or begun to develop, a bad habit in this area, break it now!<\/p>\n<p>Skipping breakfast is a common error in today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s society. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve made this the topic of my sample goal. If you aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sure what a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153proper breakfast\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is, now is a great time to learn a bit about nutrition. Your parents and teachers may be able to help you with this (see Chapter 4: Getting Help from Parents and Teachers).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your brain\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhave I mentioned this already?\u00e2\u20ac\u201dis part of your body. You can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t expect your brain to do its best unless you take care of it. Junk food, irregular meals, inadequate sleep, cigarettes, alcohol, caffeine, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153recreational\u00e2\u20ac\u009d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-excerpt","category-personal-habits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}