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Sunday, April 6, 2008

To Use Medifast or Not, That is the Question

Those who have read our blog have asked why Medifast is recommended when we make it clear that a healthy diet should be all about natural foods like fruits and vegetables instead of someone else's diet plan. While that is true, people still don't take up the cause to improve their health and do the actions that would bring about a healthy lifestyle. Therefore, with a Medifast plan it is easier to follow the diet that is already organized in the hopes of getting weight loss going. Medifast is a meal plan, not so much a plan for building a healthy lifestyle. So while a healthy lifestyle is the goal, Medifast can at least be a choice that will help you move in that direction. And anything we can help you do that is better than what you're doing now, is going to help you get to where you want to go - weight loss and fitness and better health.

So if you aren't following the transitional steps to lose the weight and build a healthy lifestyle with The Vice Busting Diet Plan, or maybe you aren't following it exactly and you need help with a meal plan, then by all means you can try Medifast. We'll continue to recommend fruits and vegetables and daily exercise, and drinking water over any other beverage, but Medifast will be there as an option to help you get started while you put all those other healthy actions in place.

If you are interested in a meal plan to assist with your weight loss and health, Medifast provides a diet that makes it easy to plan the foods and meals you will eat. Click here - Medifast - to try the Medifast diet meal plan to help you get started losing weight. Medifast is physician-developed.

Note: Because most people are not getting their daily recommended intake of fruits and vegetables, we recommend a supplement to make up for this deficiency. Here's the deal - Diet and exercise can help reduce the risk of degenerative diseases like heart disease and stroke, diabetes and cancer. Click here to learn why eating fruits and vegetables is especially important, and how you can benefit from adding Juice Plus+® to your diet. Juice Plus+® is the most thoroughly researched nutritional product in history.

The Health & Wellness Institute, DC PC

Saturday, April 5, 2008

Promoting Medifast - World Health Day Needs a New Diet

You've heard World Health Day is April 7th, or maybe you haven't.

Not many people may because news services may just make this a quick mention that isn't given much airtime or print space. But this blogger's purpose is to try to wake up the world to the real threat of mankind (no, it's not global warming!). That threat is our food supply.

How many people are there on the Earth? How much food is needed to feed them? If you said there isn't a problem with enough food, it's getting the food to people who don't have access to it, then you're only partially right. The problem goes much further than just not getting food to those who need it. You don't see Coca-Cola having a problem getting their product into third-world countries - ok, other than a few political hurdles. You also see a rise in tooth decay, overweight citizens, and an entire gamut of health problems show up within 1 year of soft drink introduction in these countries. Same goes for fast food restaurants (names you know, obviously!)

The food supply is not the issue. The quality of foods and our water supply is the issue. Health problems can be traced to a poor diet - one that is void of fruits and vegetables and filled with high-fructose corn syrup-filled products and fatty foods and processed foods and everything else that's not fruits and vegetables. Even fruits and vegetables are seeing a compromise to their quality, due to poor soil conditions, environmental pollutants, and probably even competition to turn out an inexpensive product so consumers won't be deterred from purchasing them.

So while we have the ability to feed the world - and some reports say many times over every day - we do not have the proper supply of nutrient-rich food to supply the entire population on Earth. Think of the numbers of fruits and vegetables that have to be available everyday if every citizen on Earth was to consume just 5 servings per day - that would be something close to 20 Billion pieces of fruit or vegetables? If you haven't seen this world clock that shows some interesting figures about the Earth's population, check it out.

It's time to wake up and realize that each person's diet choices each day is important to the future health of our planet. Choose fruits and vegetables more often and more quality fruits and vegetables will show up (eventually). Keep choosing fast foods and soft drinks and those companies will keep making them and keep counting their money while we all get sicker. It's the law of supply and demand. A healthy diet demands healthy foods, and healthy foods will become more predominant than unhealthy ones. The choice is yours, it's ours. The future health of our planet depends on all of us and our choices.

If you need to make a transition to a healthier lifestyle, there are some things you can do to get moving in that direction. If you are interested in a meal plan to assist with your weight loss and health, Medifast provides a diet that makes it easy to plan the foods and meals you will eat. Click here - Medifast - to try the Medifast diet meal plan to help you get started losing weight. Medifast is physician-developed. Do this and add more fruits and vegetables to your diet and help support a healthy planet.

Friday, April 4, 2008

Is Medifast a Food?

Lunch is a very important meal - one that needs to keep your metabolism going and provide you the energy for the afternoon stretch. Most people we find not bringing their own lunch to work, but instead buying. In my experience, not only is buying more expensive to you and adds up quickly if you're on a budget, but it's most often compromising to your health, especially when you can better control what you're going to eat when you make your own at home. You can get what you need at the supermarket, prepare it exactly how you like it, and be sure that the fruit and or vegetable that you want is included. And believe me, all of this is going to be cheaper than going somewhere and having someone prepare your sandwich. And if it's not more expensive, then be assured that it is certainly "garbage" that you're eating (i.e. fast food?).

Here's more from Michael Pollihan who agrees about most of what we consume being less-than-healthy-food -

According to Michael Pollan, most of what Americans consume isn't food. He calls it "edible foodlike substances." He also says that the way we consume it is not really eating. It's something we do pretty unconsciously as we work or drive or watch TV. We all know about the U.S. epidemic of obesity and diabetes over the past 25 years, on top of the steady rise of chronic diseases over the past hundred. Paradoxically, this happens just as Americans and the food industry are ever more aware of nutrition. What's going on here? Pollan claims that in the Western diet, good old food has been replaced by nutrients, mom's good advice by nutritional experts, common sense by confusion, and for most, a relatively good diet by a bad and dangerous one. The book in which he makes all these claims and advises us simply to "Eat Food. Not too much. Mostly plants," has topped the New York Times bestseller list. (from AlterNet.org)

Comments: Bottom line, most of what is offered at supermarkets, sporting events, bowling alleys, quick shops, fast food restaurants, and everywhere that has a shelf with a food item on it, is just not the best nutrition for our health. Start with those items that come from the garden, or the orchard.
Note: If you are interested in a meal plan to assist with your weight loss and health, Medifast provides a diet that makes it easy to plan the foods and meals you will eat. Click here - Medifast - to try the Medifast diet meal plan to help you get started losing weight. Medifast is physician-developed.

A Healthy Lunch part of a Healthy Diet

Here's more from Michael Pollihan who agrees about most of what we consume being less-than-healthy-food -

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Micronutrients Helps Cattle, Medifast Helps Humans

The subject of proper nutrition - which starts with healthy soil and includes a balance of trace elements and micronutrients - is always a source to turn to when discussing good health. Not only the health of humans, but animals that are used for meat and milk and many other products and consumables. It turns out that the problem of bovine tuberculosis may be related to lack of nutrients in the soil, at least as reported in the UK. What's intersting to think about here is not just the benefits on farms, but the benefits to all consumers. What about the benefits in the overall health of citizens, knowing that cattle may have so much less health problems with proper micronutrients in the soil? Is it unrealistic to think that many of world's health problems today, that weren't such an issue 25 years ago, are due to the lack of micronutrients in our diet? With so many fast foods and processed foods being consumed that have absolutely NO micronutrients or phytonutrients, is it any wonder that the total bill for health care has skyrocketed over the past 25 years?! There should be contingencies made for those who consume products that are deficient in these nutrients, especially if they are shown to reduce such things as TB in cattle. Why would the effect on humans be any different? Here's more about this story --

Mr Goodwin-Jones is director of the Carmarthen-based Trace Element Services Ltd, a company he founded in 1982 after a series of trials on his underperforming 150-acre Carmarthenshire farm.

“By trial and error I discovered the vital importance of trace elements or micro nutrients to our stock and was able to correct the problems we were having very quickly,” he said.

Since forming his company Mr Goodwin-Jones has developed techniques of treating pastures with small amounts of missing elements, and he has an archive of correspondence acknowledging success in improving animal health.

“About 10 years ago I began to realise that the increasing incidence of bTb was related to a lack of natural immunity in cattle caused by the imbalance of trace elements,” he said.

Results from farms showed that treatment with trace elements, particularly with selenium and iodine, produced outstanding results. He even maintains that restoring trace elements to an impoverished pasture cuts fertiliser and vets’ bills, reduces problems with lambing and produces more dairy heifer calves than bulls. read more...

Comment: It is clear that a healthy diet includes the right macronutrients and micronutrients for supporting good health and preventing sickness and disease. The economic and health consequences otherwise will eventually bankrupt our society - fiscally and physically!

The Health & Wellness Institute, DC PC

Meal plan: If you are interested in a meal plan to assist with your weight loss and health, Medifast provides a diet that makes it easy to plan the foods and meals you will eat. Click here - Medifast - to try the Medifast diet meal plan to help you get started losing weight. Medifast is physician-developed.

Friday, March 28, 2008

Does Diet and Geography Determine Your Longevity?

A doctor has done a study that will let you know the average lifespan you can expect based on where you live and how much money you make. This wouldn't seem unusual on the surface if you consider the extremes - poverty-sticken areas with higher crime rates versus wealthy areas with no crime. However, there may be more questionable results when you get to the center of the curve, those areas that make up a majority of the country - average income, average lifestyle, in average-priced neighborhoods - the middle to upper-middle class of people. Dr. Anthony Iton has still managed to come up with an estimated lifespan based on these few factors. Here's more --

If you tell Dr. Anthony Iton where you live and how much money you make, he'll tell you how long you're likely to live. The public health director for Alameda County said he was startled by the results of taking the county's deaths and mapping them according to U.S. Census tracts, a far smaller and precise geographical region than ZIP Code.

"There are hot spots of death where life expectancy is literally on the order of a decade shorter than other parts of the county," said Iton, who has been on the job five years. "That's pretty astounding. That's 10 years of life lost due to social conditions."

According to Iton, the vast majority of deaths in the so-called hot spots in Alameda County were not due to crime or AIDS, but to heart disease, cancer and other chronic conditions - the same diseases that kill the general population. These diseases just kill people in poorer neighborhoods faster.

But he believes, contrary to health reform proposals nationwide, that health insurance does little to solve the problem. "Health care doesn't work to reduce health disparities. We spend way more than anyone else, and health costs are going up. The more we spend, the worse the problem seems to be getting," he said, adding that genetics account for a relatively small percentage of chronic illnesses.

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To Iton, the greatest determinant of an individual's health and life expectancy is education. read more...

Comment: According to other studies, he is correct - a higher education is associated with a longer life, something that we blogged days ago. So not only would you benefit from continue to learn each day, and live with a healthy diet at a healthy weight, but you might want to consider a move to an area where your chances are greater for a longer life!?

HWI
Recommendation: If you are interested in a meal plan to assist with your weight loss, Medifast provides a diet that makes it easy to plan the foods and meals you will eat. Click here - Medifast - to try the Medifast diet meal plan to help you get started losing weight. Medifast is physician-developed.

Medifast Diet and Weight Loss Help

Sunday, April 6, 2008

To Use Medifast or Not, That is the Question

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Saturday, April 5, 2008

Promoting Medifast - World Health Day Needs a New Diet

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Medifast Diet

Medifast Nutrition

Friday, April 4, 2008

Is Medifast a Food?

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Medifast Diet

Medifast Nutrition

A Healthy Lunch part of a Healthy Diet

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Medifast Diet

Medifast Nutrition

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Micronutrients Helps Cattle, Medifast Helps Humans

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Friday, March 28, 2008

Does Diet and Geography Determine Your Longevity?

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