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For some reason our culture has confused fighting disease with being healthy. They even call it “health care.” Perhaps it would be more accurate to call it “lack of health care.” Real health care implies that a healthy person is taking steps to maintain or care for their healthy condition. While we're at it, the term health insurance is also misleading. The real truth is we don’t need it as long as we are healthy.
Being healthy obviously includes the absence of disease. But a truly healthy person does not suffer from symptoms like migraine headaches, constipation, catching one cold after another, persistent digestive problems or feeling tired all the time.
These types of symptoms may or may not indicate the presence of disease but they certainly do indicate a health problem. Our body is telling us we need to care for our health and if we refuse to listen that’s when “lack of health care” comes in.
When we are blessed with good health we feel good. That is because health is not limited to our physical condition. Our mental emotional and physical conditions all come under the general category of personal health.
Something to think about,
J. Wells
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In his new book, “YOU: staying young,” which is to be released on October 30, 2007, he includes these 12 steps that he believes can make your “real age” younger than what the calendar says. For the full list, please see the Press of Atlantic City link, but here is a sampling of his tip sheet:
- Take one aspirin a day after the age of 40 to reduce your real age by 1.9 years
- Floss your teeth to gain 6.4 years
- Reduce your blood pressure to gain as much as 25 “real age” years
- Reduce your stress level to erase as much as 30 years from your real age
- Take your vitamins (C, E, calcium, D, folate, and B6) to gain 6 years
- Be active, as even small amounts of exercise can make your real age nearly 5 years younger
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My site has been around for over 10 years and from day one I have been extolling the importance of insulin in nearly all chronic degenerative diseases. Well now we have a landmark study confirming that insulin is the central part of the weight-loss equation.
There are over 200 million Americans who are overweight, and collectively they are carrying around an extra 5 BILLION pounds of excess fat.
What the Boston researchers specifically found was that those who secreted high insulin levels had a far more difficult time losing weight than those who secreted low levels of insulin.
I am very grateful that these researchers produced this landmark confirmation of insulin truth. Unfortunately, they completely blew the interpretation of what they found. So let me help you sort through the researchers’ confusion.
Like most scientists they want to attribute the problem to your genes. They want you to believe that 200 million Americans are heavy because they have flawed genetics that make them hypersecrete insulin.
Folks, nothing could be further from the truth.
The reason 200 million Americans are overweight is not because of flawed genetics that cause them to make excessive insulin. Hypersecretion of insulin is an effect -- NOT the cause. The reason 200 million are overweight is because they have impaired insulin receptor sensitivity.
Impaired Insulin Receptor Sensitivity
How do your insulin receptors stop working effectively?
Very simple.
This is a natural consequence that occurs when you don’t exercise and move the way you were designed to. Your body dynamically makes this adjustment because the receptors are not being used. This is very similar to what happens if you lie in bed for a few weeks; your muscles start to atrophy. Some have called this the “use it or lose it” phenomena.
So when your insulin receptors become desensitized the only way your body can adjust is to make MORE insulin. You become an insulin hypersecretor.
Why Is This Important?
Once your body releases insulin it immediately starts to inhibit your fat-burning hormone called hormone-sensitive lipase. This hormone is responsible for releasing fat into your bloodstream to be utilized as fuel. Once this enzyme is inhibited, your body is unable to burn fat and will then begin utilizing amino acids from your muscle and carbohydrates as fuel.
This will cause you to become abnormally hungry, which further feeds this vicious cycle.
The key is to have LOW levels of insulin so your body can produce large amounts of hormone-sensitive lipase and burn fat all day so you can look thin and slim.
You might want to pick up the paper edition of this week’s Time magazine as the online version of How the World Eats only shows one of the pictures from Japan, which for the most part is really healthy food. No wonder they live over 80 years. They show a picture of a family from Chad, which is virtually no food, and then a picture of food for a typical U.S. family.
This is one of the most powerful graphic illustrations as to why the United States has an obesity epidemic. Nearly all of the U.S. food (over 90 percent) was highly processed junk food. Of course, if you shop at a grocery store you probably see this all the time. It is shocking what people are putting into their bodies.
Processed junk foods will absolutely impair your insulin receptor sensitivity.
So What Can You Do?
The bottom line is very simple here, folks. Keep your insulin levels low, very low. You can measure this with an inexpensive blood test that nearly any doctor can draw for you. Your level should be about 2 or 3. The way you lower it to these levels is by exercising, avoiding processed foods and refined carbs, and by eating the appropriate amounts of carbs for your nutritional type.
This is NOT rocket science. If you apply these simple principles you will see dramatic and remarkable improvements not only in your ability to achieve your ideal weight but also in just about every other chronic degenerative disease.
Personally, I think it is criminal malpractice that fasting insulin levels are not aggressively monitored in all cases of cancer and heart disease, because they are central to the causes of both of these diseases.
We hope to offer a weight loss coaching program later this year but in the meantime you can use krill oil and fucoTHIN to help support your weight loss efforts.
Time Magazine June 11, 2007
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With so many people trying to lose fat these days I thought is was time someone explained why dieters often fail to meet their goals and what is needed to overcome the challenges of fat loss.
There are 3 factors that must be addressed if you want to lose the weight and keep it off.
You need a food program that is nutrient dense but not calorie dense. Your menu needs to vary daily so your metabolism does not have a chance to adapt. And your diet must stimulate your body's fat burning hormones.
You need to find a way to curb the craving that can undermine all your hard work in a very short time. This is often what causes dieters to give up. Even if all of your nutritional needs are being met, you will still experience cravings.
Losing fat causes your body to release toxins into your blood stream. This will make you feel terrible. If dieting makes you feel bad you will probably quit. You need a way to pull those toxins out of your body as they are released.
EACH OF THESE STEPS IS VITAL TO YOUR LONG TERM SUCCESS
Ignore even one of the 3 and sooner or later, you'll be back where you started.
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