Apparently ABC is looking for a personal trainer for their weight loss show . A new weight loss show is on the hunt. The producers of the hit reality series SUPERNANNY are searching the country to find the new face and body of American fitness to train the heavy set cast of ABC's brand new transformational weight loss show. The new show combines physical and mental challenges with the opportunity for the cast members to win a large cash prize, while the fitness expert inspires them to transform.
Although it may make for great TV, the message sent of overhauling a diet and lifestyle in such a short time may not be a good one. We know from experience and from the feedback of thousands that a gradual approach that minimizes the "side-effects" is the surest way to succeed in the long-term.
Check out the Vice Busting Diet Program for more info. Read more about the weight loss show search.Learn how to get the nutrients from 17 different fruits, vegetables, and grains.
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Is your diet journey a Comedy or a Tragedy
The best inspiration can be found all around us, every day--if you are on the look out for it!
Last Friday I was at Mass at my daughter's school and the priest delivered the best message--from a movie plot no less! (see, inspiration really does come from everywhere around us!)
The movie was "Stranger than Fiction" w/ Will Farrell and the plot is that he discovers he/his life is the main character in a book that is being written by an author known for killing off her main characters! I haven't watched the movie yet, but here is the message I heard:
"Who is the author of YOUR life? and "Is your life a tragedy or a comedy?"
Great questions to think about and like all things in life, I like spinning it to what we can learn from it to improve our weight loss journey and get better results.
Who is the author of your weight loss journey? Are you in control and creating the outcome you desire or are you floating in the wind hoping that someone or something (or the next "diet") will come along and solve your problems and you will wake up thin in the morning? (I know we all hope for that on some days!)
Is your weight loss journey a tragedy or a comedy? Will it have a happy ending? Are you moping around acting like the 'diet martyr' wanting everyone to feel sorry for you simply because you have to go without unhealthy foods or are getting some exercise? (sounds silly if you look at it that way, doesn't it!?) Or, are you carefree, living healthfully and letting everyone see your sense of humor, joy and empowerment? Still would be the same person, same journey but with a totally different feel to it!
Life is short. Isn't it time to take charge, be in control and write the ending to your story and realize the outcome you want?
Carpe Diet!
Julia
http://www.vicebustingdiet.com/ to bust your vices
http://www.jpsupplement.com/ to learn about my recommended nutritional support
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Jumpstart your diet, lose weight and help end Obesity!
Jumpstart your weight loss!
Wouldn’t it be great if there were jumper cables that we could attach to our thighs to get our weight loss engines rev’d up?! I know that I would buy them! Short of having fat loss jumper cables, how best can we jumpstart our efforts?
I think the best way to do so is to write down 5 things that your weight hinders you from doing today that you would really like to do in your lifetime.
I know people have goals of rock climbing but today can not even walk around the block, but having the goal to rock climb some day serves as a daily motivator to take the first few necessary steps towards realizing their bigger goals.
What would your top 5 To-Do list contain?
• Rock climbing
• Wearing a certain size clothing
• Looking great for an upcoming event
• Doing public speaking
• Getting a better job or a raise
• Having sex with the lights on?!
• Skiing
• Going dancing
• Showing your dogs
The list is as varied as our lives and lifestyles are, but I am sure there are some things that you can name that you really really want to do but aren’t doing now either because you are embarrassed by your weight, physically unable to do so because of your weight or just don’t think that you could do it.
In any event, identifying some things that you WANT out of life can serve as a great motivator in getting them.
Now that you have a few things listed that you would like to do, write down 3 actions that you should take over the next month that would help you get closer to realizing the most important one to you.
I would recommend that you incorporate drinking more water, increasing your exercise time and limiting food vices in your list of actions. I am confident that they will help you to realize any and all of these goals.
Now, set a plan to get each of the 3 actions ingrained in your daily schedule each day. Make specific tasks that will help you do this. For example:
1.Drink 8 ounces of water each hour that I am at my desk.
2.Walk for 10 minutes each 2 hours—that will add up to 40 minutes of walking over the course of the typical work day! Or, wear a pedometer and shoot for getting 10,000 steps a day (if you only do 2,000, then GRADUALLY build by 10% each week or two until you are safely and comfortably to 10,000!—don’t try to change overnight!)
3.Bust your worst food vice. If a daily candy bar is your “thing”—change it to a daily apple.
These simple changes will jumpstart you weight loss and have you coasting towards a healthier lifestyle in no time!
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The body's ability to heal and the role nutrition plays in it.
A little more than a year after a roadside bomb in Iraq nearly killed him, ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff has returned to talk about his experience – appearing this week on Good Morning America and The Oprah Winfrey Show. He and wife Lee also have documented the incredible recovery in a new book, In an Instant: A Family's Journey of Love and Healing.
Juice Plus+ Capsule. Like our Dr Oz diet approved weight loss plan, this is a healthy choice. Oprah's Dr. Mehmet Oz knows that a diet is temporary but a healthy lifestyle is for good. Even Juice plus+ is made with an orange, a lot of orange juice, that gives it a lot of nutrition when a cup of results and lemon is added. Add fountain water without some breville and juice fountain, although fruits and other juice is the convenient way to get nutrients but many convenient even if you have apple juice. When I can't have healthy and fresh products, juice plus, and juice nsa plus is a way to get health with juice plus vitamin, so if you are a distributor juice plus, then the gummies juice plus is juice plus supplement. The juice plus scam that we see does not hold much credence, but it is a problem. You may have read a juice plus review that is similar to acai juice plus. If you are interested in any juice plus product and you want to learn if there are any benefits, then look at the juice plus research. Breville fountain juice plus is not one of the things that is available, but a complete juice plus line can be found at www.jpsupplement.com. If you have a complaint juice plus, then any distributor juice nsa plus can help you. Juice noni plus is not something you can find when you try to buy juice plus. Every single ingredient juice plus has fiber juice plus and can be found in the capsules. Don't get ebay juice plus because you can't be sure of the quality. You may use to find inc juice nsa plus for you diet, but don't expect to use a breville fountain. If you look for the capsules or the pills - don't be confused it's not a Dr Oz Diet, be sure to consider thins, the vineyard, and even the gummy. There is dog juice plus and gummy juice plus, too. Use juice plus for any pregnancy as a perfect alternative to most vitamins on the market. There is a juice plus study, actually many that validate the quality and effectiveness of the nutrition. Juice Plus+ is made by juicing 17 different fruits and vegetables, then with a cup of vitamins and a tablespoon of apples, you get a healthy start. When you start with a juice, and then you add another, you get a healthy combination. Juice plus is made with an orange, a lot of orange juice, that gives it a lot of nutrition when a cup of results and lemon is added. Also, there are many weight loss plans out there, but the one that most people agree is the best is a Dr Oz diet approved plan. If you have used a Dr Oz diet, then you know it's a weight loss plan that is healthy, and if followed will lead to a permanent healthy and fit lifestyle! When I have fresh and useful product, I get apple with my convenient and inexpensive meal, juice of one many way but only one way to add more fruits and vegetables to add more nutrition to your juice plus diet, and the sugar and water are removed through a drying process that leaves you with orange juice. Do you know the juices from which juice plus is made? Apples, oranges, pineapples, cranberries, peaches, cherries, and papaya juice - and that's just the fruit juices! Add fountain water without some breville and juice fountain, although fruits and other juice is the convenient way to get nutrients but many convenient even if you have apple juice. When I have fresh and useful product, I get apple with my convenient and inexpensive meal, juice of one many way but only one way to add more fruits and vegetables to add more nutrition to your Dr Oz diet, and the sugar and water are removed through a drying process that leaves you with the healthy nutrients you need!
My daughter Taylor and I watched the feature on Bob Woodruff's miraculous recovery on television last night. The story of what he went through was unbelievable, the love he was surrounded by is enviable and the dedication that he now has to helping others suffering from head injuries is admirable.
There was one scene in the story that stood out to me though, and it is what I would like to focus on for this article. Bob Woodruff was shown eating lunch with one of the injured soldier's. They were eating a hot dog, chips and Coca-Cola--this at a rehab hospital?!
I have to think that the person would heal much more quickly and better in the long run if he did not drink Coca-cola and had water instead. If he consumed an apple or mini carrots rather than a bag of chips and finally, if a turkey sandwich was offered rather than an overly processed hot dog!
A family member of ours is in the hospital in very critical condition following a heart valve operation. After a month, he is finally coming around and keeps asking for water, but they can't give it to him because he has a tracheotomy in his throat. I can't help but think his body NEEDS water as he is trying to recover. Dr. B's book, "Your bodies many cries for water" discusses many serious health conditions reversed, improved and even cured when water intake in increased. I can't imagine what having NONE does to the body.
It's amazing when we can't have any water how much we want it and equally as amazing to me, that when we should be drinking water we opt for Coke or other soft drinks instead.
To help our bodies heal from surgery, trauma, daily function--there is NOTHING better for your body than sound, healthy nutrition and you won't find that in a McDonald's bag, in a Lay's bag, in a bottle of Coke or in an IV.
We need water, whole grains, lean meats/proteins, fruits and vegetables if we are to live optimally healthy, and those recovering from seriuos injury or illness need it even more so!
What have you consumed today that if someone watched your day on a video would stand out as unhealthy or not belonging in the diet of someone wanting to lose weight and be optimally healthy?
My day so far? A smoothie made with Soy milk, a banana, some fruit juice, flax, wheat germ and ice cubes mixed with a scoop of protein powder . Later today I will have a salad w/ lots of veggies, brown rice and crab meat and probably, although I am trying no to do so, a Starbucks coffee (that is what you would scold me at if my day were filmed!)
What does your day look like and how can you make it better?
Prince Charles abdicates the throne; the Burger King title!
Speaking to nutritionist Nadine Tayara at the Imperial College London Diabetes Centre in Abu Dhabi, Charles said, "Have you got anywhere with McDonald's, have you tried getting it banned? That's the key." --StarPulse.com
Go Chuck! I have always been a big fan of Prince Charles, but now, I think I may just love him! Watch out Camilla! LOL
Seriously, what GUTS this man has! I have to make a prediction though, IF the media picks up on this story and Prince Charles' comments are made known to the masses, he is going to get a backlash of negative publicity the likes of which he can't even begin to imagine!
Since coming out with my book, The Vice Busting Diet , in which I call for a personal ban of ALL fattening, nutrition lacking and unhealthy "FAST FOOD", sugar-laden, chemical-laced bubbly "SOFT DRINKS" and limited TV viewing, I have gotten a slew of unwanted press--Coca-Cola called me "crazy"--but hey, when you have 3 BILLION dollars to spend advertising your unhealthy food and drinks--your message gets heard a lot more often then my little "hey don't drink soft drinks or eat fast food--it is why you are obese" message!
Now, I have a Prince on my team! Do you think he might put me up for knighthood? Dame Julia? I could get used to that! LOL
Bust your vices ; before they bust you!
Julia
2-28 update: I told you it would happen! Already, less than 24 hours after he made the comment about banning McDonalds, out comes the spin doctors over at the Golden Arches!
A McDonald's spokesman, Nick Hindle, called the remark disappointing. He said other members of the royal family "have probably got a more up-to-date picture of us," alluding to reports that Charles' son, Prince Harry, was spotted eating a chicken burger at McDonald's in 2005.
"This appears to be an off-the-cuff remark, in our opinion," Hindle said. "It does not reflect our menu or where we are as a business."
They are calling him OLD and not up to date!!! Uh, Mr Hindle, his son at a CHICKEN burger 2 years ago, and he is at a healthy weight! We are talking about those with Morbid Obesity, the 2.6 million for instance who died last year and obesity was a factor in their death. Or the 300,000 who died DIRECTLY due to Obesity last year.
For once, I wish someone in the Chicago headquarters would just be honest and say, you know what; we are largely to blame for Obesity, but people love our foods, it's a free market economy and we choose to keep selling it.
But PLEASE, get some ethics and stop saying that those of us who speak out about the dangers of soft drinks and fast food are "old", "crazy", "out dated"--we are articulate, intelligent and passionate. You are only adding fuel to OUR fire!
UN says fake diet pills world's fastest-growing drug problem!
Have you ever thought about ordering a weight loss pill on line? Prescription strength, no doctor appointment, private...sounds tempting and many people are giving into that tempation--but for you do, please read this:
The International Narcotics Control Board called for tighter controls over the market in products that should only be prescribed in exceptional circumstances.
In its annual report, the board said drugs developed for life-saving anti-obesity treatments were being bought through the internet and used by women desperate to lose weight. Anorectic drugs suppress the appetite or sensation of hunger and are mainly prescribed against obesity, narcolepsy and attention deficit disorder. They can be addictive, and indiscriminate use can cause panic states, aggressive behaviour, hallucinations and even death,
Increasingly these drugs, both real and counterfeit, are being sold over the internet when they should be prescribed by doctors and dispensed by chemists.
The INCB said an unregulated market in counterfeit medicines through the internet was the world's fastest-growing narcotics problem.
''Substandard and sometimes even lethal medication is being sold to the unsuspecting consumer," the report said.
''Unregulated markets are often supplied with stolen and diverted drugs, illicitly manufactured pharmaceuticals or through illegal sales in the internet and distributed through mail and courier services."----fin
OK< this article even talked about the recent death of a sickly thin supermodel saying these illegal, fake and dangerous pills could have been part of the cause of her death. Is that a price you are prepared to pay? I KNOW you can lose weight healthfully without dangerous drugs!
Thursday, March 01, 2007
Does an Obese child mean child abuse?
An unidentified health official was quoted as telling The Sunday Times that taking custody of Connor would be a last resort, but said the family had repeatedly failed to attend appointments with nurses, nutritionists and social workers.
"Child abuse is not just about hitting your children or sexually abusing them, it is also about neglect," the official was quoted as saying.
Dr. Colin Waine, the director of the National Obesity Forum in Nottingham, England, called Connor's lifestyle "extremely dangerous," adding he is at risk of developing diabetes in his early teens, and cardiovascular and nervous system problems in his 20s.
"He's really at risk of dying by the time he's 30," Waine said.
Dr. Michael Markiewicz, a pediatrician, agreed.
"I'm not saying they can't care for him, but what they are doing is through the way they are treating him and feeding him, they are slowly killing him," he said.
Connor's case attracted national attention after his mother allowed an ITV News crew to film his day-to-day life over the course of a month.
Connor's mother said he steals and hides food, frustrating her efforts to help him. He eats double or triple what a normal seven-year-old would have, she said.
"If I didn't give him enough at teatime then he would just go on at us all night for snacks and stuff," she told ITV.
Connor, who lives with his mother and sister, has difficulty dressing and washing himself, misses school regularly because of poor health, and is targeted by bullies.
"People pick on us because of my weight. They call us fat . It makes us feel sick of the nutters always shouting at us," Connor told ITV.
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OK, that is the newspaper's story. What is your opinion?
What if your child hounded you all night for McDonald's, would you give in? What if that child was 100 pounds overweight , would you keep giving in?
I have raised this issue before and found myself in hot water because I have said that those who bring food to morbidly obese shut ins or parents of these horrifically obese children are guilty of accessory or at the very least of enabling their suicide by food.
I hope now is the time that we as a society are going to say enough is enough and take away some freedoms in the name of health if we are ever to win this battle against raging obesity .
We have to win.
300,000 DIED last year and had OBESITYHERE on their death certificate as the cause of death.
2.6 million died and had OBESITY as a contributing cause of their death on their death certificate, estimates are that number would double if EVERY contributing cause were listed.
100 BILLION dollars was spent by our gov't to fight obesity in 2006.
We spent 45 BILLION dollars buying pills, powders, programs that offer quick weight loss results only gotten fatter as a whole.
Connor's mother isn't to blame. It is the Obesigenic society that we live in that is at fault and if we collectively don't raise our fists and demand change, more mothers like Connors are going to face losing their child--either to protective services or to early death. This kid isn't 218 pounds because he eats too many fruits and vegetables, goes heavy on the lean proteins, has too many chicken breasts or eats one too many handfuls of nuts. No, this boy is obese because he eats JUNK food! He fills his body with soft drinks, fast food, processed foods and doesn't get enough exercise--THE three biggest diet vices that are causing the obesity pandemic across the globe...and in your neighborhood.
I really think we can do better and we must.
Bust your vices, before they bust you! To bust your vices, http://www.vicebustingdiet.com/
Julia
In the weekend edition of USA Today the article "Trans fat: Infamous but not the only villian" caught my eye and I wanted to share it with you.
I couldn't find a link to it so I will sum it up, it was by my favorite USA Today columnist, Nanci Hellmich and she said:
"Yes, they're (trans fats) bad for heart health, but nutritionists say focusing on them could distract from the real devil: Our diets!"
Well said! The article talks about the rush that marketers and food makers have recently gone through in getting trans fats out of our diets and finding a more acceptable fat while continuing to make their otherwise unhealthy and unnecessary food items available to us.
"It is important to remind ourselves that changing oils and removing trans fats does not magically turn a deep-fried food into a health food" says Dawn Jackson Blatner, spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association.
The reason that American diets are SO bad is that for our hearts is that we eat too much junk food and not enough fruits and vegetables!"
WELL, knock me over with a feather! An example given in the article was the recent miracle trans fat free transformation that Oreo cookies went through, originally three cookies would would deliver 7 grams of fat (2.5 from trans fat and 1.5 in saturated fat--no mention of where the other 3 grams are from!), well the NEW and improved Oreo still has 7 grams of FAT, this time you get 2. from saturated fats and no mention of where the other 5 come from)
FAT is FAT, an Oreo is still an Oreo and whether they fry them in trans fat, butter, removed body fat or whatever other disgusting fat they replace it with, a McDonald's french FRY will still be a french FRY and still won't be an apple--or as good for you as one!
The solution to this fat problem really is quite simple; live a lifestyle that is full of exercise, plentiful with water, rich in fruits and vegetables, proteins (lean ones!), limit your carbs and be very wary of ANY processed, fast or packaged food!
Don't let Madison Avenue and it's ad execs dictate how you are going to live and what you will feed your family!
The sticks and stones diet!?
Before we get down to it, first read this great review for my book, The Vice Busting Diet that the 3FatChicks posted on their blog:
" When we surveyed thousands of readers at 3FC, we heard over and over how hard it was to get started on a diet. Why is it so hard to stick with a healthy eating plan for even a couple of weeks? One of the reasons is because old habits are hard to break. Julia Havey has found a slow and easy approach to getting past your bad habits with The Vice Busting Diet . You might not consider yourself to have a vice, but even if you have bad habits, which let's face it - most overweight people do - then this book may be able to help you."
Isn't that a super review!?
I would love it if the 3FATchicks changed their name to the 3AmazingChicks.com site, after all, what they are doing is amazing--they are helping hundreds of women to improve their lives, their health and their bodies. I see them as so much more than FAT, but they apparently do not see a problem with labeling themselves with a negative moniker, I do! I don't want any woman to EVER call herself "FAT"--perhaps her body is, but SHE, "who" she is has to be much more than simply a physically descriptive word. FAT is NOT a personality trait and it shouldn't be how we define ourselves or allow anyone else to define us! Recently actor Isaiah Washington found himself in a lot of hot water when he called a fellow cast member the "F" word even though some in the gay community may use that term; they find it offensive for others to do so. Micheal Richards used the "N" word and ended up in rehab to mend his ways depsite the fact that the term is very popular within the black culture.
In today's society we do not tolerate negative, self-depricating and insulting words, yet when it comes to FAT it is the last bastion of discrimination, tolerated hate and harassment that we have left, and until we stop calling ourselves these negative self-depricating words, no one else is going to. If you were walking down the street and someone called you FAT, you would cry inside wouldn't you?
If your spouse called you FAT, you would be devastated, wouldn't you?
If your boss called you FAT, you would want to quit, wouldn't you?
So, don't call yourself FAT, don't tolerate it from ANYONE--and that is the first step to ridding your life and your body of fat!
If you have been in a rut and are having trouble losing the weight , finding the energy, and feeling and looking great, then try a lifestyle transformation. Not a transformation that will give you unrealistic expectations of being a different person in a week. But a transformation that starts with simple actions - one step at a time. Imagine you change the course of your life by just 1 degree. It doesn't sound like much, but extapolate that out to 1 year and you will be miles away from where you would have been had you not made any changes.
You can start today by making that one change. And next week, you can make another change. That's the approach that has been helping thousands of people. Start by learning what the top three diet vices are in the U.S. and are spreading throughout the world.
Put your blinders on and get moving. Like a horse that focuses on the finish line, I think all of us would do much better if we set goals and kept our focus on those goals. Don't let unnecessary distractions take you away from what you'd like to accomplish in your life. At the end of the week, month, year and even 10 years later, you'll be able to look back and think about all the positive experiences you've had along the way. A life of healthy living is a life full of opportunity. Don't look at the obstacles and think about how many there are or how difficult you think they may be. Look at a healthy life and believe how great it is, and take action to move in that direction.
Don't accept FAT as a word that would describe you for another day!
Julia
Fast food, fast way to ruin your diet and get Obese really fast!
The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a research group that advocates good nutrition, highlighted menu items from popular chain restaurants that in some cases have as many calories in just one plateful as some people should eat in an entire day.
The examples included Ruby Tuesday’s Colossal Burger, which weighs in at around 1,940 calories and includes 141 grams of fat. That doesn't even include the fries on the side. Another entree from Ruby Tuesday, the Fresh Chicken and Broccoli Pasta, has 2,060 calories and 128 grams of fat, thanks in part to a parmesan cream sauce and layer of melted cheese.
Other chains are serving up serious splurges as well. On The Border’s Double-Stacked Club Quesadilla has 1,860 calories and 52 grams of saturated fat, the study said.
read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17349197/
OK, the meals are these restaurants are obviously out of control but unless they disclose their offering's nutritional content ON the menu, most people aren't going to realize just how unhealthy and high calorie they are!
But, it isn't just these mentioned foods that are causing the Obesity Pandemic, there are more! Today, Krispy Kreme attempted to make a really big deal out of their new "whole wheat" donut that debuted today. Well, it's no big deal! A regular donut has 200 calories, this new "healthier" option is still 180 calories and I am sure 1/2 of the calories are from fat, it isn't like they are frying it in anything different from the white flour donut!
Products that are blantanly unhealthy are being marketed to us in huge portions and equally as unhealthy products are attempting to seperate themselves from the junk food pack and declare themselves as "made with Whole Wheat" in an attempt to appear like a health food.
Don't buy it and don't buy them! Make "Caveat Emptor" your motto when shopping for food, eating out or considering where to go for dinner this weekend! It means "buyer beware"!
Monday, February 26, 2007
Is the Price Right!?
I am in a hotel and The Price is Right is on in the background. The Price is Right...or is it?
What price are we willing to pay to "eat the foods we LOVE?"
Yesterday I visited a beloved extended family member in the hospital, he is just coming to after ONE month post surgery. He had many complications and was sedated for many weeks.
I have to think the reason for his complications stem from his excess weight, at least 100 lbs of excess weight.
Today I met someone who had bypass surgery and lost 50 pounds AFTER having it, saying that he didn't want to let the weight kill him after getting a second chance w/ successful heart surgery.
The taste of a piece of chocolate, bite of cheesecake, a scoop of ice cream may seemingly taste SOOOO good when you eat it, but what about AFTER?
Rarely do I met a person who doesn't regret having 'given in', eaten something they knew they shouldn't have or binged. But, we usually deal with it AFTER the fact--by dieting and trying to repair the damage done.
Not to be the bearer of a gloom and doom message but we have to start thinking about what the bite here, taste there and "just one" is doing to the INSIDE of our bodies, more than the dismay later over the effects it leaves on the outside.
300,000 people died last year directly related to being overweight/obese and another 2.6 million people lost their lives prematurely indirectly due to their obesity/overweight issues.
We can and MUST do better!
What do you consume on a regular basis that you KNOW you shouldn't?
That is your "vice" and you need to bust it!
We can live long, healthy and fulfilling lives without soft drinks, without fast foods and by moving our bodies!
I watch American Idol last night and they airred a Coca-Cola ad that said for every bottle opened, 12,000 bubbles were born. How touching.
For every bottle opened per day, 15 pounds a year are GAINED.
Is the price right? Are you willing to pay the price?
Julia
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Metabolic Syndrome - is it real?
The syndrome that is being talked about in more medical circles and is just beginning to be discussed in mainstream media is also known as Syndrome X, or Metabolic Syndrome. This is a syndrome that is "marked by rising tryglicerides in the blood, by elevated blood pressure, by increased insulin resistance - a laundry list of symptoms that seem to join forces to end men's lives," as is described in BestLife magazine.
This article goes on to say that the research is piling up and suggests a host of heart and blood related ailments on are on the rise and are closely connected. According to the National Institute of Health, some 75 million Americans may have this condition.
Now here is the kicker that I want people to know - the extra fat that has created many health problems for millions of Americans is now responsible for more problems than we previously thought. Researchers are now showing that fat acts as like "another endocrine organ in the body, with biologically active molecules...that effecct the body's sensitivity to process blood sugar."
There is only one way that you can treat such a condition: diet and exercise. You have to get your heart and lungs pumping and in shape; you have to eat fresh fruits and vegetables, grains, lean meats and fish. There is no room for sugar-filled or high-fructose corn syrup-filled liquids; and no room for fast foods or potato chips or doughnuts. The bottom line is that the number of unhealthy foods available to us is so prevalent that the # of people with diet vices is growing... and it's going unnoticed by most.
When you see a full line of cars waiting in the drive-thru for their burger and fries, instinctively most people think that it must be ok or acceptable to do the same, and the next thing you know there is an exponential growth of people doing the same thing. Apply that to burgers, fries, soda, hot dogs, chips, cookies, candy, or anything that was not made to be ingested for the health of the human body, and you've got a serious threat to the existence of a healthy mankind.
You've got to live with a daily dose of fruits and vegetables (and we also recommend a source for getting the nutrients from fruits and vegetables), healthy high-grain bread, lean meat, fish, plenty of water. You've got to bust out of your life any soft drinks, fast food, chips, pizza, cookies, cake, ice cream or any other regularly consumed unhealthy items.
Start your journey toward a healthier lifestyle. Just do one thing better today - or this week - than you did yesterday or last week. Do that each week and you'll find you're 10X the healthier person in just a few short months!
Carpe Diet!
Medications that Cause Weight Gain?
Is it hard to believe that many medications could cause weight gain? When the PDR (Physicians Desk Reference) has two pages of side effects for most drugs, is it no wonder that weight gain would be one of them? If you didn't know, the medications you are taking may be hurting you more than helping - in many ways. While some are very necessary and maybe your ailment or problem is the exception, too often most of us are victims of the 'over-prescribed.'
One of my friends who is a physician - a Radiation Oncologist - agrees that most medical doctors have one hand on the prescription pad and one on the door, meaning their so busy it's what drug is needed for this problem and on to the next patient. You really have to be careful about what it is you're taking and whether it is actually necessary.
Weight gain is just one of many side effects of many drugs, and if you're not sure why you've put on an extra 10 or more pounds, then also look at what medications you might be taking.
For those of you who want to start on a healthy lifestyle and get to a healthy weight, start here!.
Carpe Diet!
The Fittest and Fattest Cities
This years tally of last year's heaviest and slimmest cities is in. The winners take home fitness, stamina, a healthier heart, less sickness, more productivity, and happier lives...all due to their healthier and fitter liftestyles relative to the majority of Americans who are not.
The city that placed at the top - Albuquerque, NM. (More results from CBSnews.com as published in Men's Fitness Mag). A place where the outdoors offers much to do in a climate with great appeal, Albuquerque can be proud of the high degree of health that is enjoyed by it's residents. Rounding out the top ten are two cities in Colorado with entirely different climates than Albuquerque - Denver and Colorado Springs, in close proximity to one another. I suppose that Colorado has a lot of great outdoor activities as well. Either way, the people who choose to live healthy are going to have a ripple effect on those who live near them... and in turn, they will live healthy. Or it could be said that those with healthy lifestyles move to places where there are plenty of things to do to fulfill their active-seeking lifestyles.
On the other side, the fattest city is reportedly Las Vegas. And why not, considering they have the most high-end restaurants per square mile than any other place in the world, and as much of everything you want to consume as your heart (or wallet) desires. Look at the number of cities from Texas that are in the top 10 - San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, El Paso... wow! I guess the high fat steak and fries are the diet of the rich oilmen and women of Texas. I don't know, but there must be some commonality to what's being served in the star state.
You can have a healthy lifestyle and still enjoy good foods. It's the consumption of the bad foods on a regular basis that puts us on the heavy end. Look at your own diet and decide if your eating and drinking what Mother Nature has provided, or most of what your eating and drinking is man-made. Soft drinks, fast food, packaged foods (most), sweets, muffins (most), breads (most), lots of starches... those are going to put the weight on and clog your arteries eventually. Start with drinking more water than any other beverage, and eventually making it 90% of your beverage intake. Go from there and you'll find a major difference in your health. And maybe next year your community can be in the top 10 fittest in the country!
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Lies, Fries and alibis from McDonald's...I'm NOT lovin' it!
Dear julia,
Due to a rare and virtually unheard of medical condition, it is critical that you excuse julia for arriving at work late today and that you never whisper a word of this tardiness to anyone. julia suffers from an unfortunate ailment known as chris farley syndrome, which is marked by profuse swelling of the butt and an insatiable urge to eat like a cow. In this case, we found the patient deliriously jogging and mumbling in spanish. julia should also be kept away from staples for at least a week, for obvious reasons. Of course any mention of this condition could cause an adverse reaction and completely undermine the hours of coke therapy we've already completed. Please contact my office if julia has more symptoms or you notice julia beginning to die. In any case, you should expect julia soon.
Is this funny?
Please, allow me to explain. I ran across a banner today that said "Are you morning impaired?". My answer; YES! I am the first to admit that until I get my smoothie, read my emails and get settled in, I am NOT a great "morning person", so I was interested in seeing what this was all about, it said to go to http://www.morningimpaired.com/ .
Imagine my surprise and shock when I learned it was a McDonald's site!
I would like for you to stop reading and take a look at it, then come back and let's discuss!
OK..there is NO cure for being morning impaired..but can fight it??
Then, our attorney Mark Markham tells us that our coworkers say late nights of partying have us in trouble with our boss, and thank goodness he has our 'heiny covered' with the excuse generator 3000! That is what generated the email I got that actually looks like a doctor's prescription!
Cute. Clever. Perhaps a novel way for employees to waste time at their computuers rather than working (my personal favorite for that is MonkEMail from Career Builder) but I can't help but ask, regardless of what a clever marketing idea this may be; is there an excuse for eating McDonald's in the first place?
This picture is of my THREE year old Happy Meal. (Yes, you read that correctly, it is NOT my 3-year old's happy meal but A Happy Meal that is 3 years old!!--I kid you not!!!!)
I used to spend a lot of time talking to people at my live seminars about the dangers of fast food, but now I save myself a lot of unnecessary words just by pulling out my 3 year old Happy Meal and letting the folks see for themselves why it may not be such a good idea to consume McDonald's food--it's neither "happy" nor a meal for starters!
When I was recently in NYC for a taping of the Oprah & Friends XM program of Dr. Mehmet Oz, I brought my Happy Meal for him, along with a 3 week old sliced russet potato. He couldn't believe that my Happy Meal was 3 years old and had NO mold, NO mildew, NO rot, NO deterioration--it was just hard but still smells like McDonald's AND your fingers still get greasy and salty to the touch when you hold the french fries! YUCK!!!!
Clearly, regardless of what attorney Mark Markham is spewing, there is NO excuse for eating ANYTHING that McDonald's is selling! Unless of course, you are looking to die early and unhealthy! I am sure your real doctor can write you a note that your boss may buy if you need to be 10 minutes late for work because you need a few minutes to whip up a more healthful breakfast and improve your health, productivity and longevity!
Coca-Cola's Enviga may make you GAIN weight?
Stop the presses! Just as Coca-Cola and Nestle gear up for the big launch of their fat burningSuper-Uber "Enviga" calorie burning drink; now we know the rest of the study!
For Immediate Release:
Monday, February 12, 2007
Enviga Study Casts Doubt on Calorie Burning & Weight-Loss Claims
Companies' Own Study Shows Many People May Expend Less Energy-- Not More-- After Drinking New Beverage
WASHINGTON—Coca-Cola and Nestlé have claimed that an unpublished Swiss study shows that their new green-tea-flavored soda Enviga burns more calories than it provides, resulting in what sounds like a dieter's Holy Grail: "negative calories." Given the size of the study (just 31 young, lean subjects), its duration (only 72 hours), and the funding of the study (Nestlé itself!), the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) was skeptical enough to file suit in federal court against the companies earlier this month. But the full study, published today in the journal Obesity, shows that there's even less foundation for the weight-loss properties than Enviga's makers imply in their marketing materials.
In the study, 31 young men and women ate strict calorie-controlled diets and drank the equivalent of three cans of Enviga each day for three days. Participants spent the third day in a special chamber that measured how many calories they burned. Most expended slightly more calories after drinking Enviga, but Coca-Cola and Nestlé didn’t disclose publicly that the drink's ingredients had the opposite effect in a significant number of the study participants. Six of the 31 participants actually burned up to 10 percent fewer calories after three days of consuming the ingredients in Enviga.
“If you follow Coke's and Nestlé's logic, then about one in five consumers will eventually get fatter from drinking Enviga every day,” said CSPI senior nutritionist David Schardt. "They've been withholding this information from their customers."
The long-term impact of Enviga isn't clear, either. Outside the carefully controlled environment of the laboratory, some people might eat more food or engage in less physical activity and thus negate the benefit of any extra calories expended, according to Schardt.
The scientists who conducted Coca-Cola's and Nestlé's research seem to agree that the companies' claims are premature. In the study published today they concluded that "more long-term studies would be necessary" to confirm the benefit of a drink like Enviga for weight control. Coke and Nestlé evidently couldn't wait for that, according to CSPI.
Coca-Cola spokespeople have maintained that Enviga isn't marketed as a weight-loss product, while simultaneously claiming that Enviga is "much smarter than fads, quick-fixes, and crash diets," and that it keeps "those extra calories from building up." One Coke official seemed to suggest that Enviga can actually replace some physical activity. "I can choose to walk up the stairs or I can choose to have a can of Enviga," Helen Falco, Coke's director of nutrition and health policy, told USA Today.
The editors of Obesity today issued a press release that pointedly states that the Enviga study should not serve as a foundation for weight-control claims.
"Increasing metabolism is not the same as causing weight loss or prevention of weight gain," said Eric Ravussin, professor at the PenningtonBiomedicalResearch Center and president of the Obesity Society. "Increases in metabolic rate may be easily offset by increased energy consumption or decreases in energy expenditure. Far more extensive studies are needed before any claim for efficacy in human weight management can or should be made on the basis of this study."
Enviga consists of carbonated water, calcium, concentrated green tea extract, unspecified "natural flavors," caffeine, phosphoric acid, and the artificial sweeteners aspartame and acesulfame potassium. The company says its green tea extracts are high in an antioxidant called epigallocatechin gallate, or EGCG.
In addition to being the target of a CSPI lawsuit, Enviga is the subject of an investigation launched by the office of Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal. He has demanded any studies that the companies have that relate to its weight-loss claims, which he said might just be "voodoo nutrition." ____
They may call it "voodoo" but I call it Doo-Doo!
How can Coca-Cola and Nestle executives do this and sleep at night? We live in a day and age where last year 300,000 people died DIRECTLY due to being overweight and 2.6 million lost their lives prematurely indirectly due to their weight.
I was once a 300+ pound woman and I can promise every board member, scientist and marketing person at Coca-Cola and Nestle that IF they created a drink that actually drinking it would help us lose weight, even though it may cost $1500 a year; that we would buy it and drink it often. But, to lie to us and sell us something that in 6 out of 31 cases might actually help us gain more weight? I for one, if that happened to me, would kick your #*#.
I hope someone does! I am just one voice, but I am willing to be there are millions out there who agree with me! It is just plain dumb, irresponsible and a lie to suggest that ANYONE would be better off drinking Enviga than walking up a flight of stairs! Folks, just bust your vices before they bust you! Today and today ONLY take me up on my offer and order my 26-week program to help you bust your vices and I will give you a FREE copy of my book that correctly addresses Coca-Cola and most of their products as the #1 diet vice causing the Obesity Pandemic--and you can get started with a FREE 30 minute "one on one" phone consult with me personally! I will Invigorate you and save you the waste of time and money of Enviga! http://www.vicebustingdiet.com/
Carpe Diet!
Julia
Coca Cola "Vice" SuperBowl Ad--finally a product from Coca-Cola that lives up to it's claim!
What the heck is in the water coolers at Coca-Cola headquarters?
First, they give us the boneheaded "Drink, Choose and Live" campaign that to win "Sing Like an Idol" among other prizes, actually required the consumption of 4160 12 pks of Coke, 49,920 12 ounce cans, for a whopping 7, 238,400 calories which would add 2068 pounds on the typical human body and one would have to consume 151 12 ounce cans a day to keep pace with their supply over the course of the contest; note to self--DON'T try this one at home kids, after nearing 75 cans you would develop hyponatremia; your kidney's would quit and you would die! OOPSY, someone at Coca-Cola overlooked a few factoids and the silly matter of HUMAN HEALTH!
Anywho, I digress, meanwhile back at Coke headquarters the rest of the management team was putting their head together and came up with Enviga! Ah, sounds so uplifting, invigorating and tempting...AND it burns more calories than you consume! Yes, that's right folks, a workout in a can, a diet in a beverage--a Miracle cure to save you from the fat of the land and deliver you the body of your dreams!
For $1,500 a year in Enviga purcahses (and this time you are actually suppossed to DRINK what you buy vs the "DRINK, choose, live" campaign where Coca-Cola meant BUY, choose and LIVE!)
Thank goodness that someone is looking out for us! The Center for Science in the Public Interest sued Coca-Cola. (wonder if they will call these folks publicity hungry like they did me? I am sure Cokes' sassy mouthpieces will come up with some clever what to cast the blame on these folks while trying to make themselves look like the saviors of the Obesity Pandemic!)
Enviga consists of carbonated water, calcium, concentrated green tea extract, various “natural flavors,” and ingredients typically found in diet soda, such as caffeine (three diet colas’ worth), phosphoric acid, and the artificial sweeteners aspartame and acesulfame potassium. The company says its green tea extracts are high in an antioxidant called epigallocatechin gallate, or EGCG.
Many of Enviga’s claims are based on a 72-hour Nestlé-funded study of 31 people who were given a drink containing amounts of EGCG and caffeine equivalent to three cans of Enviga. On average, those subjects expended more energy, according to an abstract of the unpublished study. In any event, none of the 31 were overweight or obese—in fact all were quite lean to begin with. In other words, the company’s test may have detected some slight evidence that it increases calorie burning slightly—but only in a short-term test of thin people who were given a strictly controlled diet. And when the study was presented at a conference of the Obesity Society (publishers of the journal Obesity and also known as NAASO), the society disputed the study’s conclusions, insisting “it is improper to state or imply that the results of this study supports any weight loss” claim.
No test of Enviga lasted more than three days. One European study found that EGCG and caffeine did not increase energy expenditure after one month and did not help people lose weight. One longer-term Japanese study did show that a tea fortified with EGCG and caffeine helped people lose more weight than a control tea, but then again, the study was conducted by a tea company and the subjects of the study were 38 of that company’s male employees.
Enviga costs between $1.29 and $1.49 per can, and the company suggests that the maximum effect is gained by drinking three cans a day, or about $1,500 worth of the soda per year.
“There is no clear evidence that what’s in Enviga will help you control your weight,” said CSPI senior nutritionist David Schardt. “You’d be much better off giving up non-diet soda, which costs nothing to do, or by joining a gym, which is typically less expensive than paying for 3 cans of Enviga a day.”
CSPI will be represented by its litigation director Stephen Gardner, and by Mark Cuker and Michael J. Quirk from the firm of Williams Cuker Berezofsky, based in Cherry Hill, N.J.
“This deceptive marketing campaign needs to be nipped in the bud before many more millions of Americans get ripped off,” said Cuker. “Enviga burns more money than calories.”
CSPI’s litigation unit, formed in 2004, seeks to stop deceptive labeling or marketing campaigns or other practices that harm consumers’ health. It’s a strategy that helped spur KFC to drop artificial trans fats for deep-frying, and has resulted in improved labeling of products made by Tropicana, Quaker, Frito-Lay, Procter & Gamble, Kraft, and Cadbury-Schweppes. CSPI is soon likely to file a major lawsuit aimed at stopping Kellogg and Viacom (parent of the Nickelodeon television channel) from marketing junk food to young children.
“If the Food and Drug Administration were at all credible, major corporations like Coca-Cola and Nestlé wouldn’t try to take consumers to the cleaners like this,” said CSPI executive director Michael F. Jacobson. “Imagine—two of the companies partly responsible for the general fattening of America are now urging us to pay them $4 a day to slim down with Enviga. The chutzpah!”
don't you just LOVE that comment!
Article from ABC News:
Dr. David Katz, ABC News medical contributor and associate professor at Yale University's School of Public Health, said Enviga's calorie burning claims are based on insufficient research.
"It's putting marketing hype ahead of science," Katz said. "The science here is not ready for primetime. There is a hint in animal research and in very early studies that EGCG can boost metabolism a little bit, but we don't know if that contributes to weight control."
And finally, yesterday during the SuperBowl, the boneheads in the Coca-Cola executive box did another misstep! I am going to be very arrogant and assume that this ad was a direct message to me, but they actually ran an ad called "Coca Cola VICE"! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16566275/
The commerical shows a SKINNY guy drinking Coke running around doing random acts of "kindness"--giving others Coke, putting out fires and spinning protesters around and the song playing in the background is saying "you are going to be remembered for the things you say and do" and "give a little love, it all comes back to you"
Well, they got it right this time. YOU are going to be remembered for the things YOU say and DO Coca-Cola. YOU gave us Coke that IS the #1 diet vice that is responsible for the global Obesity Pandemic and you WILL be remembered for it.
You gave us Enviga that is nothing short of a rip-off con-artist-like SCAM and you WILL be remembered for it.
1st Week of Pregnancy, Diet Effects Baby's Health
The answer seems obvious. You're pregnant, you eat fast food and drink soft drinks... your baby starts life overweight and predisposed to being obese because of your habits.
A study done with sheep has shown that the mother's nutrition and the environment of an embryo in the first few days of life – even before implantation in the uterus – can set the scene for later disease, such as heart disease and diabetes. There's no reason not to believe this doesn't hold true across all species of life with gestation periods. More on this study...
It bears the question, 'how many women know they are pregnant the first week of life'? This study would provide an excellent argument for eating healthy and living healthy all of the time, not just when you find out you're pregnant. There are some simple steps you can take to make the transition to a healthier lifestyle if you struggle to live at a healthy weight...or live healthy at all. Don't wait until you feel you have some 'important reasons' to get busy living healthy . YOU are an important reason, so start now.
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A Cure or Some Relief for Aids
This reported in Daily Times - a news resource for Pakistan...
Iran unveils herbal remedy against AIDS
TEHRAN: Health Minister Kamran Baqeri Lankarani on Saturday announced that Iran’s scientists have produced a herbal medicine that boosts the human immunity system against the HIV/AIDS virus. “The herbal-based medication, called IMOD, serves to control the AIDS virus and increases the body’s immunity,” Baqeri Lankarani was quoted as saying by the official news agency IRNA. “It is not a medication to kill the virus, it rather can be used besides other anti-retroviral drugs,” Baqeri Lankarani said on state radio. The drug, made after five years of research, has been tested on 200 patients, IRNA said, adding that it is considered the fifth generation of medications helping control the HIV/AIDS virus. “This is a substance good for both AIDS patients and those who carry the virus without showing the symptoms,” the director of the project, Muhammad Farhadi, told state television. Farhadi said the medication would now be tested on some 3,000 to 5,000 Iranian patients in the next year to monitor its efficacy. Health Minister Baqeri Lankarani said that the number of HIV/AIDS cases in Iran stands at around 14,000 while 1,700 people have died of the disease. Last June, Iranian officials warned about the rapid spread of HIV/AIDS infections in the country.
Gambian president says he can cure Aids (same source)
Comments: An herbal remedy sounds like another way of saying 'a healthy diet'. I would have to believe that this 'remedy' would be full of nutrients that most people are missing in their diet, as well as some that are natural but not normally consumed. But a diet which is lacking in nature's nutrients is a going to be show up by way of a compromised immune system. Even if this herbal remedy does strengthen the immune system, why wouldn't this 'remedy' be marketed to help improve the health of all citizens? Sounds hopeful for AIDS/HIV patients, while good for anyone desiring a stronger immune system and healthier body.
The Power of Antioxidants
More studies and more research keep pointing to the antioxidant power that comes from a healthy diet in supporting health and avoiding sickness... and prolonging a healthy life! It comes as no surprise that the degree of health and absence of disease that an individual experiences in their lifetime is in direct correlation to their diet.
A diet full of fruits and vegetables is the best way to support a fit figure, and also provides the antioxidant power to keep you from getting sick. Even Cherries are now being touted as a great 'super food' by The Cherry Institute, which is a campaign that some will view as nothing more than a marketing ploy, but in truth the Institute is taking the greatest benefit of cherry consumption and exploiting it for higher sales. Not so bad when you consider the positive benefits.
Every fruit and vegetable provides health benefits. Our outlook toward fruits and vegetables has changed from necessity to benefits, as if to say that we have a choice in the matter. We don't, if you want to be healthy, that is. You need the nutrients from a range of fruits and vegetables. And if it's your weight your trying to control, you need a plan to make the transition to eating and living heathier.
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