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The author of a popular natural health newsletter is selling coconut oil based on this claim. He is correct that frying with various oils causes carcinogens to form, but nobody has shown that coconut oil doesn’t also form these same carcinogens.

Fats are classified by how many double bonds they have in their structures. Double bonds are the weak links in a molecule that break down with heating to form all sorts of harmful chemicals that increase cancer risk. Monounsaturated fats have only one double bond in each fatty acid. Polyunsaturated fats have more than one double bond. Since saturated fats have no double bonds, and all the others have double bonds, saturated fats are more stable and less like to break down to form heterocyclic amines. Plant sources that are high in saturated fats include coconut, palm and palm kernel oils. Animal-source frying oils such as clarified butter are also high in saturated fats.

However, they all break down with burning and high-temperature frying. You should not burn any fats. If you enjoy deep-fried foods, keep them as occasional treats; don’t believe that using any particular type of oil will make them healthful. More on fried foods

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You may have heard that the obesity epidemic in America is caused by high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) found in most sugared drinks and many types of foods. However, the evidence now blames any sugar in drinks and not the high fructose corn syrup in particular.

Researchers in the Netherlands showed that beverages sweetened by HFCS do not affect energy levels, appetite-related hormone levels or obesity any more than milk or drinks sweetened with sucrose. People did not eat more food after drinking HFCS beverages than they did after drinking milk or non-HFCS sodas. They also showed that the obesity hormones (insulin, ghrelin, glucose and glucagon-like peptide 1 or GLP-1) were affected similarly by all types of sweetened drinks. Journal reference

A sucrose-sweetened beverage contains 64 per cent glucose and 36 per cent fructose, while the HFCS is 41 per cent glucose and 59 per cent fructose, a not very significant difference. The researchers concluded that “energy balance consequences of HFCS-sweetened soft drinks are not different from those of other iso-energetic drinks: a sucrose soft drink or milk.” Currently, many scientists believe that any sugar in drinks promotes obesity because sugar in liquid form does not fill you up to make you eat less in the same way that sugar in solid food does. If you want to lose weight, I recommend that you exercise more and eat less, and avoid sugar in liquid form. More on HFCS

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HEALTHY WEIGHT LOSS - PT 6

I’d like to continue this series on successful healthy weight loss. I’ll be sharing practical things you can do to lose weight and to maintain a healthy weight for your height and body shape.

By way of review,
here are the other three keys that we’ve covered so far.

Key #1 - Stop overeating and practice systematic undereating.

Key #2 - Eat for nutrition, for energy, for life.
Listen, seek, research, learn, study, and understand that there are keys of knowledge that will help you unlock the secrets to a long, healthy life and successful weight loss and weight management. These keys to good nutrition and tips to healthy eating will open a whole new world of health, life, and vitality to you. I believe you were created by God and destined to a life of health and prosperity.
Key #3 - EAT ONLY HEALTHY ORGANIC NATURAL WHOLE FOODS

Key #4 - EXERCISE DAILYKey #5 - ELIMINATE ALL ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, AND WHITE SUGAR Key # 6 - ADD ORGANIC VIRGIN COCONUT OIL TO YOUR DIET

Adding organic virgin coconut oil to your diet will help you lose weight. If you’re interested in all of the details about this amazing natural oil, I’ve included a link to an excellent article.

“The Great Fat Debate:
Why Virgin Coconut Oil is Best”

It’s quite a lengthy in-depth article, so I’ve included the link for you to click on if you’d like to read it. It is loaded with useful information and research findings on virgin coconut oil.Before I forget, I wanted to let you know that URI International sells an excellent Organic Extra Virgin Coconut Oil called “Coconut Pure.”
Prices are: 18 fluid oz. $18.95, 32 fluid oz. $29.95, and 128 fluid oz. $72.95.

If you’d like to order some of this amazing coconut oil, click on the following link:
Coconut Pure by URI: Organic Virgin Coconut Oil
Below the link I will post a few of the most important points that I believe are worth remembering.

ARTICLE LINK: The Great Fat Debate - Why Virgin Coconut Oil Is Best

Summary of the most important points from the article:1. Coconut oil is made up of medium-chain fatty acids (MCFA’s).2. MCFA’s actually helps us to lose weight, lower cholesterol, improve diabetic conditions and reduce the risk of heart troubles.

3. One of the most outstanding benefits of consuming MCFA’s is that they do not require the liver to digest and emulsify them. This means instant energy and increased thermogenesis (increased metabolic rate in the body) which leads to more heat production as well as improved circulation.

4. For anyone with impaired fat digestion or a removed gallbladder, coconut oil is the only oil to consume as it is very easily digested.

5. MCFA’s are also known for having antimicrobial and anti-fungal properties, so they are beneficial to our immune system.

6. In addition, coconut oil assists people with under-active thyroids by increasing the metabolic rate of the body and creating more energy.

Ray Peat Ph.D., a physiologist who has worked with progesterone and related hormones since 1968, says that the sudden surge of polyunsaturated oils in the food chain post World War II has caused many changes in hormones. He writes:

“Their [polyunsaturated oils] best understood effect is their interference with the function of the thyroid gland. Polyunsaturated oils block thyroid hormone secretion, its movement in the circulatory system, and the response of tissues to the hormone. When the thyroid hormone is deficient, the body is generally exposed to increased levels of oestrogen. The thyroid hormone is essential for making the ‘protective hormones’ progesterone and pregnenolone, so these hormones are lowered when anything interferes with the function of the thyroid. The thyroid hormone is required for using and eliminating cholesterol, so cholesterol is likely to be raised by anything that blocks the thyroid function. It is very interesting to note that high cholesterol is not a sign of eating too much saturated fat. High cholesterol in a lot of the cases is due to an under-active thyroid which affects the liver as well as the many loops and feedback systems within the endocrine system. Stress and the over consumption of carbohydrates/sugars also form high levels of cholesterol.”

And always remember, the secret to losing weight and keeping it off, is to make nutritious and healthy LIFESTYLE CHANGES that become positive healthy habits in your daily routine. Systematic undereating and resisting the temptation to overeat is the first step to change.

Thank you so much for visiting my health and nutrition blog. Please check back often for my most recent postings on good nutrition and on eating healthy, and consider adding my RSS FEED so that you can be kept up to date on all of these health and nutrition articles. As a defender of your health, I am dedicated to providing you with the Keys to Good Nutrition and Tips to Eating Healthy. I’m also devoted to encouraging you to eat 5-9 servings of fresh organic fruits and vegetables every day, and the next best way to do that is by drinking the Feast, by Uri International, which is a live whole food based InstaFresh juice powder drink by Yuri.

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Even though muscle cramps are extremely common in athletes and exercisers, we really do not know what causes them. Nobody has shown consistent benefit from any of the most common treatments: multivitamin pills; mineral pills with calcium, zinc, magnesium, salt and/or potassium; massage or chiropractic manipulation; drinking large amounts of water; dietary manipulations; or bio-mechanical stretching and strengthening.

Known medical causes of muscle cramps are extremely rare in athletes. These include narrowed blood vessels, usually from atherosclerosis; compression of nerves, low thyroid function, or side effects of medications such as diuretics. Some cramps are caused by low mineral or fluid levels. However, for the vast majority of people who suffer exercise-associated muscle cramps, blood levels of sodium, potassium, calcium and magnesium are normal. Research in athletes after they ran in 52-mile races showed that the runners who suffered cramps had the same level of dehydration and blood mineral levels as those who did not get muscle cramps. Cramping during exercise usually occurs in healthy people without any underlying disease or known cause. Journal reference

I think that the most common cause of exercise- associated cramps is damage to the muscle itself. Before you get a cramp, you will probably feel that muscle pulling and tightening. If you slow down, the pulling lessens, but if you continue to push the pace, the muscle goes into a sustained cramp and you have to stop exercising to work the cramp out. Further evidence that muscle damage is the cause of the cramp is that the muscle often hurts for hours or days afterwards.

You may be able to prevent cramps by exercising more frequently but less intensely and for shorter periods of time, but most serious exercisers do not want to do this. There is some evidence that taking sugared drinks and foods during prolonged exercise helps maintain endurance and muscle integrity which helps prevent cramps. So take a source of sugar every 30 minutes or so during a vigorous workout, and back off if you feel a group of muscles pulling and tightening during exercise. Most exercisers just accept that occasional cramps will occur and cause no long-term harm.

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HEALTHY WEIGHT LOSS - PT 5Let’s continue this series on healthy weight loss.

Today I’ll be sharing practical things you can do to lose weight and to maintain a healthy weight for your height and body shape.

By way of review,
here are the other three keys that we’ve covered so far.

Key #1 - Stop overeating and practice systematic undereating.

Key #2 - Eat for nutrition, for energy, for life.

Listen, seek, research, learn, study, and understand that there are keys of knowledge that will help you unlock the secrets to a long, healthy life and successful weight loss and weight management. These keys to good nutrition and tips to healthy eating will open a whole new world of health, life, and vitality to you. I believe you were created by God and destined to a life of health and prosperity. Here’s the next key to add to your lifestyle.

Key #3 - EAT ONLY HEALTHY ORGANIC NATURAL WHOLE FOODS
Key #4 - EXERCISE DAILY

Key #5 - ELIMINATE ALL ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, AND WHITE SUGARTo put it rather bluntly, all artificial sweeteners, high fructose corn syrup, and white sugar will make you fat. They will mess up your metabolism. They will trigger insulin overproduction.

Do NOT believe what you’re being told by food manufacturers and their slick advertisements! They are simply lying to you about their artificial sweeteners in order to cause you to choose their products and to keep you fat.

AVOID ASPARTAME, NUTRASWEET, SPLENDA, SAACHARIN, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, and all other types and kinds of artificial sweeteners. If it’s a “Man-Made Sweetener,” then you want to avoid it. All of these artificial sweeteners are DANGEROUS to your health and are not good for your waistline. There is a TON of EVIDENCE out there that proves just how dangerous these poisons are to your body and how they have caused so much illness to millions of Americans.

I have written several posts all about the dangers of these artificial sweeteners and why you should avoid them at all costs. Please take some time to look back at my earlier posts and read what I have already written. I do not want to repeat myself in this posting, except to give you this very important WARNING: ELIMINATE ALL THESE WHITE ARTIFICIAL MAN-MADE SWEETENERS from your diet and AVOID ALL PRODUCTS MADE WITH THEM.

Let me give you a clear warning. These artificial sweeteners are just about in everything. You’ve got to start READING LABELS when you’re out shopping for your groceries, and you’ve got to start avoiding all products that contain these dangerous, unhealthy, and fattening ingredients. Be particularly careful to avoid these artificial sweeteners in the following products:

Diet Soda, gum, candy, fruit juices, ice cream, cake, cookies, pastries, jam, etc.

And finally, don’t be suckered in by terms like “diet,” “fat-free,” “sugar-free,” “calorie-free,” “carb-free,” “no net carbs,” etc. These are terms advertisers use to get you to buy their junky, unhealthy, fattening foods. For example, when something says that it is “sugar-free” or “diet,” it usually means that it’s loaded with artificial sweeteners like Aspartame that will poison your system, cause you all kinds of long-term health problems, and make you fat as well.

QUESTION: WHAT SWEETENERS ARE HEALTHY?

Good question.

STEVIA
ORGANIC AGAVE NECTAR
ORGANIC UNHEATED, UNFILTERED NATURAL HONEY

These are the three best natural “God-made” sweeteners
that are good for your health and that won’t make you fat
if you use them in moderation.

And always remember, the secret to losing weight and keeping it off, is to make nutritious and healthy LIFESTYLE CHANGES that become positive healthy habits in your daily routine. Systematic undereating and resisting the temptation to overeat is the first step to change.

Thank you so much for visiting my health and nutrition blog. Please check back often for my most recent postings on good nutrition and on eating healthy, and consider adding my RSS FEED so that you can be kept up to date on all of these health and nutrition articles. As a defender of your health, I am dedicated to providing you with the Keys to Good Nutrition and Tips to Eating Healthy. I’m also devoted to encouraging you to eat 5-9 servings of fresh organic fruits and vegetables every day, and the next best way to do that is by drinking the Feast, by Uri International, which is a live whole food based InstaFresh juice powder drink by Yuri.

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HEALTHY WEIGHT LOSS - PT 4Today I’ll continue this series on healthy weight loss.

I’ll be sharing practical things you can do to lose weight and to maintain a healthy weight for your height and body shape.

By way of review,
here are the other three keys that we’ve covered so far.

Key #1 - Stop overeating and practice systematic undereating.

Key #2 - Eat for nutrition, for energy, for life.

Listen, seek, research, learn, study, and understand that there are keys of knowledge that will help you unlock the secrets to a long, healthy life and successful weight loss and weight management. These keys to good nutrition and tips to healthy eating will open a whole new world of health, life, and vitality to you. I believe you were created by God and destined to a life of health and prosperity. Here’s the next key to add to your lifestyle.

Key #3 - EAT ONLY HEALTHY ORGANIC NATURAL WHOLE FOODS

Okay, I hope you’re still with me. In this series I’m going to cover all of the most important aspects of losing weight and keeping it off. For that reason, please stay tuned and follow with me as I proceed over the next few weeks to give you all the pieces to the puzzle.

Key #4 - EXERCISE DAILY

I know most people don’t want to hear about this “Key” to losing weight, but deep down in their hearts, they know that daily exercise is fundamental to losing weight and to fitness. I’m not going to go into all of the reasons that it’s important to exercise daily because I believe you already know most of them. Most people don’t need more knowledge about exercise and why they need to do it. Instead, they just need a firm “kick in the pants” to get them out the door until it becomes a daily habit and part of their daily routine.

The best kind of exercise that I can recommend is first of all - WALKING.

Walking is free; it doesn’t cost you anything to do and you don’t need to go out and buy any special equipment to do it. It’s relaxing to your mind and invigorating to your body. You can do it before work, during your lunch break, or after work.

Here are a few guidelines. First, make sure you walk fast and make your time a “power walk” rather than a gentle stroll. Second, don’t do your exercise walking in congested streets full of automobiles and toxic gases! Go and find a quiet, beautiful, scenic place to walk where the air is clean. Third, try to walk for at least 30-60 minutes a day. If you don’t have that much time at one time, then break it up. Walk for 15 minutes in the morning, and then 30 after work. Wear good walking shoes or running sneakers.

I also recommend using a MINI-TRAMPOLINE, also known as a “REBOUNDER.” This looks like a small trampoline, and all you do is jump up and down on it. To increase your work out, you can have small weights in your hands that you pump up and down or curl with your arms. Work out on your rebounder for 5-10 minutes a day. It sounds easy, but it’s not at first. You’ll have to build up to 10 minutes. However, this simple work out will work and energize every cell in your body, so it’s actually very effective in weight loss and helping with your metabolism. In fact, most exercise will help increase your metabolism.

The third type of exercise I would like to recommend is SEXERCISE!

Let me qualify that statement a bit. By “sexercise,” I mean having vigorous sex with your spouse. If you’re not married, then this recommendation is not for you at this time (wait till you have found the right one and entered the covenant of marriage). In order to do this type of exercise, of course you’ll need the cooperation of your spouse. Here’s what I suggest. Sit down with your spouse some quiet evening, look him or her directly in the eyes, and share your heart with them. Tell him/her that you are very serious about losing weight, that you’re starting to apply what you’re learning in this blog (elaborate for their benefit), and that you’re now ready to start adding exercise to your daily routine. Explain my recommendations about walking, and ask him or her if they’d like to join you in your daily walk. Then explain about the rebounder and that you’re going to go out and buy one and start using it. Finally, explain that you’d also like to do the third type of exercise that I recommend, which is called “sexercise.” After he or she stops laughing, ask them if they would be willing to help you out with this third type of daily exercise and when you can schedule it into your busy lives. If daily sexercise is just too much for your spouse, then seek to compromise and do it every other day. Remind them how much you love them, how much fun sex is, that it’s free, that it’s a gift of God for married couples to enjoy, that it has been proven to be very good for your health, and that you’d like to share this intimate time with them every day or every other day. * Who ever said losing weight couldn’t be fun!!

There are lots of other forms of exercise that you can also choose to do, but the most important thing is to choose something that you like doing, that is fun for you, and that you enjoy. That will give you the highest chance of sticking with it and doing it every day. Of course, it’s okay to take one day off a week from your exercise.

Here are some other good forms of exercise to consider.

Swimming, bicycling, hiking, running/jogging, rowing, skiing, rollerskating, volleyball, tennis, raquetball, soccer, etc.

I encourage you to start exercising daily right away and add this “key” to your weight loss program and new healthy lifestyle.

And always remember, the secret to losing weight and keeping it off, is to make nutritious and healthy LIFESTYLE CHANGES that become positive healthy habits in your daily routine. Systematic undereating and resisting the temptation to overeat is the first step to change.

Thank you so much for visiting my health and nutrition blog. Please check back often for my most recent postings on good nutrition and on eating healthy, and consider adding my RSS FEED so that you can be kept up to date on all of these health and nutrition articles. As a defender of your health, I am dedicated to providing you with the Keys to Good Nutrition and Tips to Eating Healthy. I’m also devoted to encouraging you to eat 5-9 servings of fresh organic fruits and vegetables every day, and the next best way to do that is by drinking the Feast, by Uri International, which is a live whole food based InstaFresh juice powder drink by Yuri.
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HEALTHY WEIGHT LOSS - PT 3

Today let’s continue this series on healthy weight loss.

I’ll be sharing practical things you can do to lose weight and to maintain a healthy weight for your height and body shape.

By way of review,
here are the other two keys that we’ve covered so far.

Key #1 - Stop overeating and practice systematic undereating.

Key #2 - Eat for nutrition, for energy, for life.

Listen, seek, research, learn, study, and understand that there are keys of knowledge that will help you unlock the secrets to a long, healthy life and successful weight loss and weight management. These keys to good nutrition and tips to healthy eating will open a whole new world of health, life, and vitality to you. I believe you were created by God and destined to a life of health and prosperity. Here’s the next key to add to your lifestyle.

Key #3 - EAT ONLY HEALTHY ORGANIC NATURAL WHOLE FOODS

Eat foods that are grown organically, not with chemical pesticides and herbicides. Eat live whole foods, not processed foods. Eat natural foods, not artificial foods and additives. Eat foods that are grown naturally, without hormones and antibiotics. Eat raw foods. Try to eat at least 75% of your foods raw in their natural whole food state. Eat a lot of vegetables and greens, organic of course. Also eat plenty of fruits and berries. Eat non-GM (genetically modified) foods; avoid all genetically modified and genetically engineered foods. Eat whole food grains, legumes, beans, seeds, and nuts. Eat only organically grown and grass fed natural chicken, turkey, lamb, bison, and beef. Eat only wild ocean fish with fins and scales, and avoid all farm raised fish and seafood scavengers. Eat only full spectrum Himalayan crystal salt, avoiding all table salt (sodium chloride). Eat traditionally fermented lactic acid foods like sauerkraut, sour pickles, miso, raw yogurt, raw kefir, apple cider vinegar, etc.

One of the biggest reasons that people become overweight is they are eating the wrong kinds of food. Therefore, one of the first steps to correct the situation is to stop eating the wrong kinds of food and to start eating the right kind of nutritious foods that the body needs to function properly.

And always remember, the secret to losing weight and keeping it off, is to make nutritious and healthy LIFESTYLE CHANGES that become positive healthy habits in your daily routine. Systematic undereating and resisting the temptation to overeat is the first step to change.

Thank you so much for visiting my health and nutrition blog. Please check back often for my most recent postings on good nutrition and on eating healthy, and consider adding my RSS FEED so that you can be kept up to date on all of these health and nutrition articles. As a defender of your health, I am dedicated to providing you with the Keys to Good Nutrition and Tips to Eating Healthy. I’m also devoted to encouraging you to eat 5-9 servings of fresh organic fruits and vegetables every day, and the next best way to do that is by drinking the Feast, by Uri International, which is a live whole food based InstaFresh juice powder drink by Yuri.
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An interesting study from Japan suggests that eating fast is a risk factor for diabetes. Researchers at Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine in Aichi studied middle-aged men and women and found that the faster a person ate, the more likely he or she was to be fat (Preventive Medicine, February 2008). Furthermore, both insulin levels and blood sugar levels were higher in people who ate faster. High insulin and blood sugar levels are markers for being diabetic or at risk for developing type II diabetes.

Before insulin can do its job of driving sugar into cells, it must first attach to special hooks on the surface of cells called insulin receptors. As a person gains weight, excess fat blocks insulin receptors so they cannot drive sugar into cells. Blood sugar levels rise and the pancreas responds by putting out large amounts of insulin. Insulin makes you ever fatter by acting on your brain to make you hungry and it acts on the liver to make even more fat and on the fat cells in your belly to pick up and store that extra fat. Early diabetes is characterized first by high insulin levels, then by storing fat in the belly, rather than the hips. Eventually the pancreas exhausts itself and stops making insulin completely, and person then must take insulin. More on insulin resistance

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HEALTHY SUCCESSFUL WEIGHT LOSS - PT 2

Today let’s continue this series on healthy weight loss.

I will be sharing practical things you can do
to lose weight and to maintain a healthy weight.

“EAT TO LIVE - DON’T LIVE TO EAT.”

One of the keys to good nutrition and tips to eating healthy is to eat for the right reasons. Have you ever thought of that? Have you ever asked yourself why you eat every day? It seems, on the surface, like a simple question with an obvious answer. However, when you understand the deeper ramifications of this question, you will realize that it is really quite a profound question.

Key #2 - EAT FOR NUTRITION, FOR ENERGY, FOR LIFE

Some people eat as though they were going to go out and do the hardest kind of physical labor! They sit down at the table, for example, and eat a large heavy breakfast loaded with protein, carbohydrates, fats, and sugars. And yet the truth is that they are very sedentary people who eat out of habit and conditioning. These same people often work in an office or in a store where they sit or stand around all day doing very little physical labor at all. They will usually eat a quite unhealthy snack in the morning. Around noon they will eat a heavy meal, followed a little later by an afternoon snack. After work, they come home and have the biggest meal of the day consisting of meat, potatoes, bread, dessert, and a beverage. Typically they watch TV after dinner while eating yet another fattening snack.

The person living the average, inactive and sedentary life can’t possibly burn up these large amounts of food! What happens to people who eat this way? They end up being overweight or obese, they feel tired or exhausted most of the time, and they live their entire lives being sick. They fill the doctors’ offices, pharmacies, and hospitals with all the health problems brought on by their unhealthy eating habits.

This kind of daily compulsive over-eating is making millions of people exhausted, fat, and sick. This habitual over-eating is sending them to doctors, hospitals, nursing homes, and too many to an early grave! As the Roman philosopher, Seneca, once said,
“Men do not die; they kill themselves.”
This tragic story is being played out all across the Western world. Millions of people are grossly overweight and sick due to unhealthy lifestyles and poor eating habits.

Not only do millions of people overeat or overfuel their bodies, but they also overfuel on the wrong kinds of food. The food that they consume is generally not nutritious and is loaded with toxins and other substances that make their bodies fatter and sicker and more tired. Because their bodies are truly malnourished from bad nutrition, they constantly feel hungry because their bodies are not getting the nutrients that they need. In addition, overeating puts a severe strain on the body’s organs and the digestive tract to try to keep up with all of that food. By overeating they are stressing out the machinery of their entire body because they never give their body time to rest and repair itself. What they really need to do is to get into the habit of fasting one day a week to help their system unclog and cleanse itself.

Why Do You EAT?

Many people eat three large meals a day because they were told at a young age that they should. They have been conditioned to eating not only three large daily meals, but also to eating snacks throughout the day. I believe that most people eat this way out of habit and conditioning, and for the wrong reasons. A lot of times people eat because it meets some deep emotional need in their souls such as comfort, which is why we call some foods, “comfort foods.” Some people overeat because they are lonely and eating food makes them feel better. Some people overeat simply because they are bored. Other people overeat because they are simply gluttens, meaning they have an unhealthy kind of “lust” for food that gives them a lot of pleasure and a physical high. All of these reasons are not good or healthy reasons to eat or to overeat.

EAT FOR NUTRITION AND ENERGY AND LIFE

I would like to suggest that the best reasons to eat (not overeat) are to feed your body the good nutrition it needs, to provide your body the energy it needs to work and live, and to give your body the life that it needs to be happy and productive. In other words, “eat to live!” Think of food as fuel for your body. You can put in good high-quality fuel that will energize your body and help you accomplish what you need to every day, or you can put in bad poor-quality fuel that will cause your body to feel tired, weak, and sickly and will prevent you from accomplishing what you need to do.

Finally, there is a time and a place to enjoy the pleasure of eating good food. God created us to enjoy great variety of foods that He put on the earth. Enjoying good healthy food is a blessing from God that we should be thankful for. However, we do need to protect our hearts from gluttony and overeating by practicing moderation in our eating habits. My advice to you is to reflect a while on why you eat, and then make some healthy changes. Start thinking differently about food and eating. Discipline your body and make it your servant, rather than your body being the master and you being the slave to its appetite. Take control of your appetite and eating habits, and learn the healthy habit of eating to live.

And always remember, the secret to losing weight and keeping it off, is to make nutritious and healthy LIFESTYLE CHANGES that become positive healthy habits in your daily routine. Systematic undereating and resisting the temptation to overeat is the first step to change.

Thank you so much for visiting my health and nutrition blog. Please check back often for my most recent postings on good nutrition and on eating healthy, and consider adding my RSS FEED so that you can be kept up to date on all of these health and nutrition articles. As a defender of your health, I am dedicated to providing you with the Keys to Good Nutrition and Tips to Eating Healthy. I’m also devoted to encouraging you to eat 5-9 servings of fresh organic fruits and vegetables every day, and the next best way to do that is by drinking the Feast, by Uri International, which is a live whole food based InstaFresh juice powder drink by Yuri.

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Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin

The greater the force you put on your bones during exercise, the stronger they become. Researchers at the University of Missouri in Columbia showed that recreational runners have denser bones than cyclists (Journal of Metabolism, February 2008). Another study from Université de St-Etienne in France show that youth soccer players have an increase in bone density over three years of playing high level soccer (Joint Bone Spine, January 2008). They failed to show that the soccer players had denser bones than their classmates, yet their intuition told them that heavy forces on bones while playing soccer must strengthen bones, so they stated that “The yearly gain in bone density is greater in soccer players than in controls.”

These studies and many others comparing various sports measure bone density, not bone strength. The only way to measure bone strength is to see how much force it takes to break them. Needless to say, nobody is doing these studies in humans. So scientists use bone density, which can be measured, as a substitute for measuring bone strength. Nobody has shown that bone density determines bone strength. For example, birds have bones that are not dense because they need a low weight to fly effectively. Yet their bones are very strong. I think that, in the future, methods will be developed to determine bone strength and they will show that measuring bone density is, at best, a crude measure of whether a person is likely to break his or her bones. More

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The stress on the heart from making love is relatively insignificant, compared to that caused by exercising, according to a study from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in New Brunswick. Nineteen men and thirteen women performed a maximal-effort stress test (exercising vigorously on a treadmill) followed by home-monitored sexual activity using heart rate and blood pressure recording devices. During sexual activity the men had maximum heart rates 28 percent lower than during exercise, and systolic blood pressure 20 percent lower. In the women the heart rate was 36 percent lower and blood pressure 25 percent lower. Journal reference

The duration of treadmill exercise slowed by nine seconds for each additional year of age, and duration of sexual activity slowed by one minute for each year of age. How long they could make love correlated with how long they could run on a treadmill. For each additional minute on the treadmill, the person could make love for an additional 2.3 minutes. More

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Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin

Today, if you want your children to be champion athletes, they need to start training at a young age and play their sport 12 months a year. So naturally you want to know if heavy athletic training before and during the period of rapid growth in children will harm then in any way. The most common concern is whether heavy training will make them shorter as adults or damage the growth plates in their bones. Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan studied young gymnasts, swimmers and tennis players and showed that participation in these sports does not shorten their adult height. Furthermore it did not affect the age when they entered puberty. Journal reference

The biggest concern about starting training this early is not physical, it’s whether you will destroy a child’s desire to play that sport after you have taken away his or her childhood. Children as young as five years old are shipped off to Florida where they have private tutors and play tennis for several hours a day. Young football players are encouraged to take supplements. Gymnasts work out for six hours a day and are told to restrict calories. Try not to be one of those parents or coaches who place athletic training above the child’s best interests.

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Submitted by Keys to Good Nutrition and Tips to Eating Healthy Feast on Organic Whole Food

HEALTHY SUCCESSFUL WEIGHT LOSS - PT 1

Today I’d like to start a whole series on healthy weight loss.

I will be sharing practical things you can do

to lose weight and to maintain a healthy weight.

The information I’ll be sharing comes from years of my own personal research, as well as from my own experience.

Several years ago I was about 25 pounds overweight, and I came home from the doctor with a bad report. I went in for a simple physical exam, and came out realizing that I had high cholesterol and triglycerides, and that I was 25 pounds overweight. The photo here is after I had lost 23 pounds and no longer fit in my pants. That’s actually a big heavy bag of sugar tucked into my pants to show you just how much extra room I had created in my pants by losing so much weight. I must have dropped from about waist size of 36 down to around a 32. I literally had to buy some new pants to wear. It was a great experience!

After hearing the doctor’s report, and after getting rejected by a health insurance company for medical insurance, I realized that I needed to make serious changes to my lifestyle. There were three things that I needed to change.

First, I had to start eating right, again. I had eaten right for years, but then got into some bad habits and ended up eating all kinds of unhealthy things.

Second, I had to start exercising, again. I had stopped after we had two babies.

Third, I had to put together a plan to lose 25 pounds.

In this series, I will be sharing how I completely changed my diet, added exercise to my daily life, lost those 25 pounds, and reclaimed my inheritance of good health.

KEY #1 - PRACTICE SYSTEMATIC UNDEREATING - STOP OVEREATING

This is one of the most important things you can do to begin to lose weight and take charge of your health. A myriad of illness plague Americans because we are so prone to overeat. We are raised in a culture that says, “Big is better,” and this translates into eating bigger and bigger portions. Just look at the size of soft drinks or burgers at your local fast food joint. It’s absurd!

If you will start to systematically undereat and resist the temptation to overeat, you will automatically start eating less and start losing some weight. This simple step will help you take back control of your eating habits and your health. Who is in control - you or your stomach? It’s really all up to you. It’s your choice and decision. No one is there forcing you to eat more and more food at every meal and between meals. It’s time to take responsibility for your health and to start undereating. I promise you - you’ll feel a whole lot better after each meal if you undereat rather than overeat. This is the first step to better health and nutrition and to losing weight and keeping it off.

And always remember, the secret to losing weight and keeping it off, is to make nutritious and healthy LIFESTYLE CHANGES that become positive healthy habits in your daily routine. Systematic undereating and resisting the temptation to overeat is the first step to change.
Thank you so much for visiting my health and nutrition blog. Please check back often for my most recent postings on good nutrition and on eating healthy, and consider adding my RSS FEED so that you can be kept up to date on all of these health and nutrition articles. As a defender of your health, I am dedicated to providing you with the Keys to Good Nutrition and Tips to Eating Healthy. I’m also devoted to encouraging you to eat 5-9 servings of fresh organic fruits and vegetables every day, and the next best way to do that is by drinking the Feast, by Uri International, which is a live whole food based InstaFresh juice powder drink by Yuri.For more information, click here:

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Submitted by Keys to Good Nutrition and Tips to Eating Healthy Feast on Organic Whole Food

SNEAK PREVIEW OF
AMAZING and POWERFUL
URI FEAST “MAGALOG”

REAL NUTRITION NEWS

Here is a note from Brett Rademacher about the just released “MAGALOG” and how powerful a marketing tool this will be.

To get a sneak preview of the Real Nutrition News Magalog,

Click Here: REAL NUTRITION NEWS - MAGALOG

“This is the culmination of a year of very hard work by a lot of people. It is the foundation of all our future marketing efforts. It is a demonstration on Uri Lebaron’s commitment to creating powerful marketing tools that can sell product, but do NOT make unsubstantiated health claims like so many other nutritional companies do, therefore jeopardizing the long term success of their company and opportunity. I believe without a shadow of doubt, this is a key tool that will propel Uri International into the major leagues of nutritional companies in the world.

I would like to present to you:

The Uri International Magalog – The first edition of the Real Nutrition News

In my opinion, I believe this is one of the most phenomenal marketing pieces that has ever been created for a network marketing nutritional product.

This is a MUCH smaller version of the actual size of what the printed version of Real Nutrition News will be, but it will give you a basic idea of what it will look like. However, it is NOTHING compared to holding the ACTUAL size printed version in your hands. The actual printed Magalog is a HUGE (10 x 12) full 4 color, 24 page attention grabbing direct marketing masterpiece.This online flash based page viewer of the Magalog does NO justice to the actual printed Magalog piece you will be able to order from Uri corporate.

The copy was written by one of the top nutritional copywriters in the country. The design was done by one of the top direct response graphic copywriters in the country.

You will notice on page 23 there is a special offer for first time customers.

Special Magalog Offer Includes:
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Here are some of the topics covered in this Real Nutrition News Magalog:

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• The shocking truth about “Healthy Foods” Today
• Why Cooking kills or destroys most nutrients
• The Great Synthetic Vitamin Hoax
• US Food Industry Has a Shameful Secret
• Shocking Decline of Vitamins in Produce Today
• The BEST way to get Vitamins and Minerals
• New Cutting Edge Breakthrough in REAL Nutrition
• Hidden Health Risks of Genetically Modified Foods
• Dangerous Ingredients Secretly Lurking in our Foods
• Uri International – World Leader in Real Nutrition
• Natural Juices and Energy Drinks are NOT what you think
• Breakthrough Technology delivers REAL nutrition
• Special Alert: Why most grocery story vitamins are junk
• 10 dangerous ingredients secretly lurking in our foods
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- Written by Brett Rademacher

Thank you so much for visiting my health and nutrition blog. Please check back often for my most recent postings on good nutrition and on eating healthy, and consider adding my RSS FEED so that you can be kept up to date on all of these health and nutrition articles. As a defender of your health, I am dedicated to providing you with the Keys to Good Nutrition and Tips to Eating Healthy. I’m also devoted to encouraging you to eat 5-9 servings of fresh organic fruits and vegetables every day, and the next best way to do that is by drinking the Feast, by Uri International, which is a live whole food based InstaFresh juice powder drink by Yuri.For more information, click here:
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Submitted by Keys to Good Nutrition and Tips to Eating Healthy Feast on Organic Whole Food

GEORGE CARLIN SPEAKS SOBERING WORDS…

Isn’t it amazing that George Carlin - comedian of the 70’s and 80’s - could write something so very eloquent…and so very appropriate.

A Message by George Carlin:

“The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways , but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

We’ve learned how to make a living, but not a life. We’ve added years to life not life to years. We’ve been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We’ve done larger things, but not better things.

We’ve cleaned up the