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

WHAT ARE AMERICANS EATING?

An analysis of the diet of Americans reveals that sugary snacks and sodas are consumed more readily than fruits and vegetables.

Researcher Gladys Block, PhD. and Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health Nutrition at the University of California, Berkeley, discovered that at least 30 percent of the total calorie intake of Americans surveyed was from sweets, desserts, salty snacks, fruit-flavored drinks and alcoholic beverages. [ UC Berkeley Press Release by Sarah Yang, June 1, 2004]

The result?

JUNK FOOD that provides calories but not vitamins and minerals - in other words, “EMPTY CALORIES.”

Did you know this shocking fact:

89% of Americans DO NOT eat enough fruits and vegetables;

they’d rather eat fast foods or processed foods.

The American Heart Association, World Health Organization, American Cancer Society, and the USDA all agree - everyone needs to EAT MORE FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.

Click on the link below to find out how David Uri LeBaron, the pioneer and innovator of live, whole food-based nutrition, can help you and your family get your 5-9 servings of fruits and vegetables each day.

Uri’s revolutionary InstaFresh drying process turns freshly juiced fruits and vegetables into a powder in thirty seconds, without every going over 99 degrees F., as crazy as that sounds.

Getting your and your kids their 5-9 servings of fresh fruits and vegetables a day - ONCE DIFFICULT, NOW EASY!

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Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin

A new study from Israel shows us once again that dieting without exercise does not work. The participants took off only six to 10 pounds in two years. No matter what diet they were on, most regained some of the weight they lost in the early months by the end of the study (New England Journal of Medicine, July 17, 2008). It didn’t make any difference whether the overweight person was on a low-fat or low-carbohydrate diet, or the healthful Mediterranean-type diet that stresses fruits, vegetables, whole grains beans, seeds, nuts and seafood. However, their small weight loss did result in improved cholesterol and blood pressure readings.

If you really want to lose weight for good, you have to exercise. Appetite is controlled in a part of your brain called hypothalamus. If you try to lose weight just by eating less food, your hypothalamus makes you miserable when you see tasty food and know that you shouldn’t eat it. If you exercise, you will eat more, but you will not increase your intake of food to equal the extra calories that you burn when you exercise. After you have been exercising for a few months, your muscles will be stronger, you will feel and sleep better and you can actually start to enjoy your new activity. Then you are set for a life-long pattern of burning up the calories you take in.

Unfortunately, the majority of older people who start exercise programs drop out in the first six weeks. People are more likely to stay in an exercise program if they have company and find a sport that is fun for them. The best success comes when a husband and wife exercise together. You can also increase you chances of sticking to an exercise program by having a personal trainer, going to regular exercise classes, or joining an exercise group that is also a social club, such as Road Runners, a bicycle club or a square dancing society.

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Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin

Several of you have asked about our training progress since I retired from my radio show and full-time medical practice. Diana and I are a 66-year-old woman and a 73-year-old man who want to ride a tandem bicycle faster than any one else in our age group. We know that training for sports requires stressing and recovering. On one day, we take a hard workout in which we ride as fast as we can, feel sore the next morning, and then go slow for as many days as it takes for the soreness to leave our muscles.

Since we often go to rallies on weekends, we usually ride very fast on Saturday and Sunday. I feel so sore on Monday that I take the day off, and then go slowly for the next four days because it takes that long for my muscles to recover. So we are doing two hard days, followed by a day off, then four recovery days and repeat the cycle. I must tell you that training depends on how you feel, so our schedules vary from week to week, depending on how sore or tired we are. There are days when we plan to ride hard, but have to take an extra easy day or even a day off, or we can expect to become injured.

It took many years for us to get up to schedule we do now. Diana had never exercised hard until she was in her late forties, so she has built up gradually over the last 17 years. She has never had a wear-and-tear injury from riding too much, but she has had three serious injuries from crashes. On the other hand, I have spent my lifetime trying to exercise hard all the time and have paid with repeated, persistent wear-and-tear injuries. Until recently, I just refused to take days off.

Last Saturday we raced 62 miles over a hilly course almost as fast as we could, holding back a little because we knew that we had to ride fast the next day also. On Sunday we raced 45 miles. On Monday, my legs were so sore that I took the day off. On Tuesday, my legs were still sore so we rode 20 slow miles. On Wednesday, my legs were still tired so we rode 43 miles, mostly easy with slight pickups when other riders came along. On Thursday, we rode 38 miles and on Friday, 46 miles. That amounts to 253 miles for the week with one day off. We are doing so many miles now that I try to stay off my feet when I’m not riding, because I know that walking and standing delay muscle recovery from hard exercise. We have several wonderful cycling trips planned this summer and will post some pictures soon.

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Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin

People who have huge muscles usually have high levels of insulin because insulin causes muscles to grow. Exercise makes muscles so sensitive to insulin that it prevents blood sugar levels from rising too high. However, when these people stop exercising, their muscles are not as sensitive to insulin and blood sugar levels rise, this causes insulin levels to go even higher, so they eat more and gain weight.

A study from Mt. Sinai Medical Center shows that National Football League linemen are more than twice as likely as other Americans to develop diabetes in later life. More than 60 percent of NFL linemen become diabetic, compared to only 30 percent for the average American (The American Journal of Cardiology, May 2008).

People who have large muscles when they are young need to continue to exercise for the rest of their lives. If they reduce the amount of exercise or stop exercising for any reason, they must do everything in their power to protect themselves from gaining weight. Before insulin can do its job of driving insulin into cells, it must first attach to special insulin receptors on the surface of cells. Extra fat in the body prevents these receptors from responding to insulin, so blood sugar levels rise even higher. To compensate for this, insulin levels rise higher also, which sets the person up for diabetes and premature death.
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Submitted by Keys to Good Nutrition and Tips to Eating Healthy with Uri Feast

INTRODUCING THE BREAKTHROUGH TECHNOLOGY THAT LOCKS IN THE REAL NUTRITIONAL VALUE OF FRESH ORGANIC FRUITS AND VEGETABLES - GUARANTEED!

This article was written by David Uri LeBaron,
pioneer and innovator of live, whole food-based nutrition,
expert with over 30 years of experience in whole foods, herbs, and nutrition,
developer of the proprietary Insta-Fresh Drying Process that preserves higher nutritional qualities than any other drying process in the world,
and founder and CEO of Uri International, a leading company in the development of whole food-based nutrition.

“Today I’d like to share with you another reason why The Feast gives you REAL nutrition as only whole food-based nutrition can. It’s your most convenient source of REAL whole food-based nutrition that’s

An unparalleled quality, quantity, variety, and value
of live whole foods and fresh raw juice concentrates.

The Feast gives you a quality, quantity, variety, and value of REAL whole food-based nutrition found nowhere else.

It’s the one and only live whole food-based nutritional product on the planet that delivers a full, synergistic spectrum of over 176 all natural ingredients, including:

30 antioxidant rich fruits and berries

30 powerful greens and vegetables

11 nutrient dense seeds, nuts, and sprouts

83 plus active enzymes and full spectrum fulvic mineral blend

22 resilient living, beneficial probiotics

All in ONE concentrated whole food-based supplement for today’s active and demanding lifestyles. Feed your body the feast it deserves!

But there’s even more.

This unique breakthrough gives you more REAL whole food-based nutrition than any other supplement, formula, or green food or drink I’ve ever seen because…

It locks in the nutritional INTEGRITY of these fruits, vegetables and whole foods, so you get the nutritional benefits as Nature intended!

As soon as a fruit or vegetable is picked off the vine, it begins to die. So if you eat an apple or a tomato that’s been picked days or weeks ago, you don’t get all of its nutritional benefits. You may only get a fraction.

But not so with the fruits, vegetables, and whole foods found in the Feast. Many are locally grown, on our own certified organic farmland or on our network of partner farms that produce organic and/or natural crops, so we can control the freshness of the harvest.

This farmland is some of the most nutrient rich soil on earth! This fertile land began as a prehistoric lakebed, layered with deep soil, created and kept rich by volcanic ash, mountain run off, and organic matter.

It’s absolutely laden with selenium, friendly and beneficial organisms, fulvic acid, rare earth and vital plant micronutrients necessary for optimal plant growth.

Combine this with clean air, sunshine, elevation, low humidity, proper crop rotation, and continued re-mineralization from surrounding snow capped mountains, and you get SUPERIOR, NUTRIENT DENSE, ORGANIC CROPS!

What’s more, I even have samples of the fruits and vegetables delivered to me so I can check if they’re ready for harvest. If they are not ready for harvest, we wait. If so, we pick…then quickly wash them, turn them into juice, and use the InstaFresh Drying Process to “lock in” the nutritional value and integrity of these fruits and vegetables.

The result?
A synergistic, all natural, nutritionally balanced combination of Nature’s most beneficial whole food concentrates, minerals, enzymes, and probiotics.
All in a delicious, easy-to-use drink!”

This article was written by David Uri LeBaron and first appeared in print in the REAL Nutrition News Special 2008 Issue.

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Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin

A study from Toledo, Spain shows that giving caffeine to dehydrated bicycle racers helps them ride faster, longer and with more power in hot weather (Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, July 2008). When combined with water and carbohydrates, caffeine ingestion increases the force of muscular contractions which helps them to pedal with more power. Almost all professional bicycle riders take caffeine is some form because they know it helps them to ride faster.

Another recent study from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign shows that caffeine helps to reduce muscle pain in riders pedaling as hard and as long as they can (International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism, May 2008). Other studies have shown that caffeine is a diuretic only when a person is at rest, not during exercise.

These reported benefits of caffeine for cyclists can be expected to apply to other sports as well. However, people with heart damage should be cautious about taking caffeine before exercising. It is a stimulant and may increase risk of irregular heart beats. More

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Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin

A recent report from South Africa shows that the most likely cause of death during hot weather sports events is heat stroke, when the body temperature rises so high that it cooks the brain (Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, July 2008). The treatment for a person who collapses from heat stroke is immediate immersion in cold water.

An excessive rise in body temperature is caused either by producing too much heat or by inability to dissipate the extra heat. When you exercise, almost 80 percent of the energy that is used to drive your muscles is lost as heat. That means that the harder you exercise, the more heat you produce. But heat stroke is more likely to be caused by inability to get rid of heat than by producing too much heat. Stimulants such as amphetamines, caffeine or ecstacy increase the likelihood of heatstroke.

Those most likely to suffer heat stroke are those who have arteriosclerosis, are overweight or are in poor shape. An athlete or exerciser who passes out from overheating should be immersed in cold water immediately to prevent brain and multiple organ damage. However, a heart attack can also cause a person to pass out and this should not be treated with cold water immersion.

If you exercise in the heat and start to feel dizzy, stop exercising because your temperature could be rising too high. When your temperature starts to rise, your muscles start to burn. As your temperature rises further, you become short of breath and the air you breathe feels like it is coming from a hot furnace. Stop exercising and cool off because if your temperature continues to rise, you will develop brain symptoms such as headache, blurred vision, and ringing in your ears. If you press on further, you can pass out and die. More

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Submitted by Keys to Good Nutrition and Tips to Eating Healthy with Uri Feast

The INSTA-FRESH DRYING PROCESS: “Back to Basics” with a Cutting Edge Delivery SystemHere’s the NEW secret behind REAL whole food-based nutrition.

Now, you can get the quality, quantity, variety, intergrity, and value of delicious organic and naturally-grown
fruits and vegetables from the purest sources possible -
all without chopping, peeling, cooking, or juicing or
relying on yucky “green” drinks or fistfuls of pills.

The SECRET to The FEAST is our proprietary InstaFresh Low-Temperature Drying Process, which:

1. Takes newly harvested organic and naturally-grown
fruits, vegetables, greens, berries, nuts, seeds, and sprouts…

2. Makes them into whole food purees and
freshly-pressed 34 degree liquid juice…

3. Turns that juice into a concentrated powder
within 30 seconds with temperatures that
average 65 degrees F and never exceed 100 degrees F
(heat over 100 degrees kills most nutrients and enzymes).

4. All in a timely manner to ensure REAL whole food-based nutrition.

The result? A unique, concentrated whole food-based InstaFresh juice powder that locks in the nutritional value of these fresh, delicious fruits, vegetables and whole foods.

Simply mix this powder with water (or juice) in our unique
URI Shaker Cup and drink it, and you have The Feast:
the most beneficial, nutrient-dense and delicious form of
nutrition I’ve ever experienced.

In fact, every serving of The Feast is made from almost a half pound of the finest fruits, vegetables, berries, nuts,
seeds and sprouts you can find anywhere.

Why do you get REAL whole food-based nutrition with The Feast?

It all starts with the quality of ingredients.

The first reason why the Feast gives you REAL whole food-based nutrition compared to conventionally grown produce is the superior quality of its ingredients.

The Feast provides you with a unique “certified organic” or naturally grown blend of fruits, vegetables, greens, berries, seeds, nuts, and sprouts that are all free of chemical pesticides and other hazardous and toxic products.

Why is this important?
Because organic foods are more nutritious than conventional foods.In the biggest and most extensive scientific study done to date on organic foods, it was shown that organic potatoes, tomatoes, wheat, cabbage, onions, and lettuce had between 20-40 percent more nutrients than non-organic foods. (Newstarget.com, Nov. 18, 2007)

The Journal of Alternative and Complimentary Medicine reports that organic crops contain significantly more iron, vitamin C, magnesium and phosphorus, and significantly less nitrates (a toxin) than conventional crops (2001;7;2:161-173).

In addition, www.organicconsumers.org reveals that organic foods have higher nutritional levels of health-promoting antioxidants to keep you healthy.

The BOTTOM LINE:
the more ORGANIC fruits and vegetables you eat, the more nutrition you get. REAL whole food-based nutrition.
In my next posting I will continue with another reason why The Feast gives you REAL nutrition as only whole food-based nutrition can.

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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: http://www.livesuperjuice.com
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Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin

When children look very awkward when they run, they usually have an imbalance in their muscles, or muscle or nerve damage. Telling an awkward child to change his form won’t help and will probably just make him self-conscious. The child should first be evaluated by a physician for conditions that affect nerves and muscles. If none is found, the coach should have the child repeat the running motions over and over until the brain can coordinate the body’s motions about his center of gravity. The faster he runs, the more likely he will be to acquire a running form that is efficient and does not waste energy with unnecessary side movements.

Your center of gravity is the spot in your body with equal weight in front and in back. Every motion you make is aimed at keeping your body balanced around your center of gravity. When you move one part of your body forward, you move another backward to keep you from falling. When you move your left leg forward, you automatically move your right arm forward and your left arm backward. People who don’t do this look funny when they run. You can’t talk a person into efficient running form and you cannot think yourself into good running form. To correct poor running form, go out and run every day and when you are in good shape, start running short interval sprints as fast as you can. How to run faster

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Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin

If you believe that cancer is genetic and there’s nothing you can do to prevent it, take a look at the latest study from Dr. Dean Ornish. He reports that after just three months of a healthful diet and exercise, the genes associated with prostate cancer changed toward normal (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 17, 2008).

The study involved 30 men with low-risk prostate cancer who had chosen not to undergo treatment unless their cancer got worse. The men followed a plant-based diet that avoided meat, saturated fat, and processed or refined foods; walked at least 30 minutes six days a week and at least an hour three days a week; and participated in a weekly support group. Each day they also did an hour of simple yoga-based techniques including stretching, breathing, meditation and imagery.

After just three months on Dr. Ornish’s regimen, more than 500 genes associated with prostate cancer reverted toward normal. Cancer genes promote cell growth in a disorderly fashion. The researchers at University of California San Francisco (UCSF) showed that in these men, tumor-suppressing genes became more active and some of the cancer-causing genes switched off.

Many previous studies have shown that most cancers are caused by factors in the environment. Some people are genetically more susceptible to these factors. However, if they avoid the factors, they have an excellent chance of not suffering the cancers. We know that prostate cancer is more common in men who are overweight, diabetic, eat a lot of fat and meat, and/or do not exercise.

A leading theory is that each type of cancer is caused by many factors and the more of these susceptibility factors that involve you, the more likely you are to develop that specific cancer. For example, a woman cannot develop cervical cancer unless she is infected with the HPV virus. But more than 50 percent of American women are infected with this virus and fewer than one in 250 of those develop cervical cancer, so other factors must be involved. A woman with HPV who smokes has almost 20 times the chance of developing cervical cancer as one who has HPV and does not smoke. Other co-factors remain to be found.

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