Most people, these days, believe they are healthy if they haven’t been diagnosed with a condition.

1. When they feel “off” they ignore it … and soldier on.
2. When the feeling persists, or it gets worse, they schedule an appointment with a physician.

Once they receive that all-important diagnosis, they believe a pill, treatment or technological intervention will intercede on their behalf to restore their health.

And, if they’re lucky enough to have an infection or injury, their condition goes away and so does  the prescription.  It reinforces their beliefs … there is a magic bullet.

So, next time they follow this same scenario.

If it doesn’t work, they climb on the merry-go-round of living with sickness.

The 1^st sign, that their belief was in error, is when their condition doesn’t go away and it requires management with medication.

It is that precise moment, when people start taking a medicine to help them deal with their abnormal state – the symptom of sickness – when they need to be aware their life might be changing – that they will be living with sickness for a long time.

And if asked, the physician who prescribes the medicine will readily admit that person will be taking the medicine for the rest of their life – because the condition won’t go away by itself.

SO IT BEGINS … living with sickness and living with side effects of the medicine.

The 2^nd warning sign, a stop sign really, is when another situation arises that requires more management, because now their life is being defined by their “managed sickness” and the medicines that are prescribed to manage their condition(s) of declining health.

Now, they’ve bought the e-ticket for the ride on the sickness merry-go-round.

1. … another trip around
2. … trying to grasp the elusive brass ring
3. … hoping for another chance
4. …  next time around

How to Change the Scenario for a Different Outcome

Let’s start with a basic definition:  The Merriman-Webster Dictionary definition for disease is; … a condition that prevents the body or mind from working normally.  Dis means: being without – ease means: comfort.  (NOTE:  Today, the meaning of the word “disease” is being used to describe a medical diagnosis.)

Then, let’s add an irrefutable piece of science: The body requires adequate amounts of water, nutritious food, moderate exercise and adequate rest to function normally.

Next, let’s reach logical working theory:  when the body isn’t functioning normally, it may be deficient in adequate amounts of water and/or nutritious food, and/or moderate exercise and/or adequate rest.  When the deficiency is resolved, normal function may resume.

Now, let’s test the theory against reality:

1. Most people think “they eat pretty good” when, in fact, they don’t.  The vast majority, while they have a passing familiarity with the Balanced Diet, seldom hit the daily recommendations for a balanced, healthy diet.
2. Most people fail to achieve the required unmanaged 8 hours of sleep each night. (Pills don’t count!)
3. Most people fail to achieve even 20 minutes of walking each day, the rest over exert themselves with strenuous exercise.

And, the nut doesn’t fall far from the tree.

Dependent children exhibit similar characteristics.  Obesity, hyper-activity, moods, concentration, to name just a few, could be attributed to similar issues.  And, after they’re grown, they simply keep on keeping on. 

It is a cycle of creating sickness through diet and lifestyle.

I’ve written several versions of this same message.  My two favorites are titled:  The Missing Diagnosis:  Hand to Mouth Disease and Chemcuisine – the New Standard American Diet.  These two articles highlight the point that the food most people are consuming does not reach the level of nutrition that the body requires to stay healthy. (NOTE:  They are both available on the blog for your review.)

Young or old, male or female – the food you are consuming and the things you do, on a daily basis, guaranties that you will be living with sickness – for a long time – or not.

To Change The Way Things Are – You Must Change The Things You Do

That is exactly why Jeanie Traub and I wrote our book:  Creating Radiant Health – Keys to Releasing the Healing Power Within.  It is the ultimate handbook for the care and maintenance of your body.  Everyone should own a copy for reference.  Order it here.

And, that is also why NUPRO developed an easy to understand, simple to follow three-step-plan for taking control of your health – before you become the next statistic.  You can review the plan here.

Living with health or living with sickness?   It’s Your Life – It’s Your Choice

P.S.  If you are caught in the vortex of sickness, don’t despair.  If it is not too late, you might be able to change the direction.  Review one of your options here.

It’s too bad, because virtually all of the recommendations emanating for the “medical experts” are predicated on the assumption that you are eating this “Balanced Diet”.

When asked, most people will tell you they eat “pretty good.” 

But, the fact is they are not eating any where near what the body needs to stay healthy.

What people are consuming is a conglomeration of processed, preserved, packaged and convenience food products that, thanks to advertising, are masquerading as food.

Joel Wallach dramatizes this issue, in his controversial presentation “Dead Doctors Don’t Lie”, when he explains:”… if you bring home bags of cans, boxes and bags of food, from the supermarket, you would be better off throwing away the contents and eating the packaging.”

 Discussion

There is a litany of health concerns that can be attributed to this blind spot regarding what people are consuming.

The difference between what you are consuming and what your body needs, to stay healthy and flourish, leads to the predictable decline in health that is plaguing adult men, women and now teens and children.

While the Medical community has ascribed any number of names for the symptoms afflicting their patients, most of their complaints boil down to a single diagnosis: Hand to Mouth Disease.

The following chart may help you demystify the Balanced Diet.

There are 2 questions that are likely crossing your mind right now:

1. Who has the time?
   Between commuting, work, the kids, most people’s hectic schedules leave barely enough time to sleep, let alone time to prepare 3 meals everyday.
2. How can anyone afford it?
   Grocery bills are sky high the way it is.  Adding all that organic, fresh food could send us to the poor house.

These arguments may seem real, now, but they’re really false dilemmas.

There is one inescapable fact: 
if you aren’t feeding your body the nutrition it needs,
your body is decomposing and your health is declining.

Situation

Your body has a big job.

1. Every day the body replaces millions of cells that, through a process called Apoptosis, are preprogrammed to die
2. In the course of a day, millions of other cells are damaged by the rigors of everyday life
3. More cells – due to normal wear and tear, brought on by work
4. More cells – due excessive wear and tear, brought on by our penchant for strenuous exercise and recreation
5. … well, you get the picture.

But, your body is challenged.  Is there enough nutrition, consumed in your diet, to support the repair of damaged tissue and replacement of all the dead and dying cells – everyday?

1. If there is sufficient nutrition – your body is regeneration your body is producing perfect cells and your are staying healthy
2. If not – your body is decomposing and you are becoming less healthy  - the cells and tissue, are produced and repaired imperfectly.

This almost imperceptible decline in the quality of the cells of your body is directly attributable to declining health, and it will culminate in an unhealthy state.

This decline, in your health, occurs in stages, over time.
It is predictable, but not inevitable.

Impact

Caring for the needs of your body may be the most important task you have, because all those other things, that you have prioritized above treating your body kindly, won’t matter once you have lost your health.

Amazing as it may seem, most adults, teens and children in this land of plenty are malnourished.  Certainly, they’re not starving, but they are lacking the basic nutrition their bodies require to function and flourish.

It catches up with you – sooner or later.

The decline will start with nagging inconveniences such as: diminished energy, indigestion, food sensitivity, weight gain, irritability; escalating to some sort of “managed condition”, using drug store preparations and/or one, or more, prescriptions: culminating in the miserable state of declining health.

NOTE:  You can either:  invest in your health or pay dearly when you are not healthy

Solution

The situation isn’t as bleak as it appears.

There are steps everyone can take to avoid the predictable outcome.

First, Start Taking Care of Your Body’s Nutritional Needs

1. You know what to do … eat more healthfully … so, do the best you can.  NOTE:  There is one thing to remember … if you don’t buy it, you can’t eat it.
2. Once you’ve done your best, fill the gaps in your diet with supplements.  Those gaps will likely be consuming enough raw, mineral rich, vegetables and fruit.  NOTE:  the supplements you should consider are:  Trace minerals, Enzymes and Phytonutrients from Vegetables, Fruits, Berries and Grasses.

These 1^st  two steps will address diet/health issues going forward,
but there are residual nutritional deficiencies from past years.

Next, Undo the Affects of the Historic Deficiencies of Nutrition

1. Choose supplements that address your specific needs and will support the body’s ability to restore that particular function.
2. Don’t be surprised!
   The body will establish it’s priorities, and they may be different than your priorities.  The good new is:  your body is beginning to restore itself thanks to your decision to treat it kindly.
3. Be patient!
   The healing process is fairly predictable, too.  It takes about 1 month of treating your body respectfully for each year you have spent neglecting it.

NOTE:  The NUPRO 3 Step Plan for Health and Healing can help guide you through the process and make suggestions that may be helpful along the way to maintaining or reclaiming your health.

No One is Going to Get Out of This Life – Alive

While the statistic are changing, most reputable sources proudly proclaim that life expectancy is longer now than at any other time in history.

It’s true! You can expect to live longer than your grandparents.

But, At What Cost?

One of the fastest growing industries in the Industrialized World is managed health care.  That’s right – managing people’s declining health is big business!

1. Dealing with the nagging complaints using non-prescription medications
2. Managing the symptoms of declining health with Doctors, specialists and prescriptions
3. Housing and caring for the infirm, once the other treatments become ineffectual

 … IS BIG BUSINESS.  And, it’s growing.

At each phase, along this predictable journey, there are:

1. Ethical companies, producing aids to ease the suffering
2. Caring, highly trained people, offering aid and comfort, working to stabilize the stages of declining health.

What’s Missing?

Too many people believe that “showing up” is enough; that technology and expertise will win the day.

People think they do not need to be part of the effort.

Here’s the travesty:  the person, who is beneficiary of the effort, often continues to practice the same dietary and lifestyle choices that delivered him or her to this predicament.

As of this writing, instances of lung cancer are decreasing in the general population.
The report rightly attributes the change to a person’s choice to stop smoking.  After all of the suffering, effort and expense, lung cancer is succumbing to a lifestyle change – the decision to stop smoking.

Why?  Because people started “getting it” – they started showing up.
People stopped smoking. That choice changes the predictable outcome: smoking increase instances of Lung Cancer.  People became part of the “cure” by making a different lifestyle choice.

Conclusion

You can change the way things are by changing the things you do.

One predictable outcome is:
Bad Nutrition Increases the Instances of Declining Health

Another predictable outcome is:
Good Nutrition Equals Good Health

It’s Your Life … Just remember, you’ll be wrestling with the consequences

Review/Return to the NUPRO Holistic 3- Step Plan Here

PS Jeanie Traub and I have written a book “Creating Radiant Health – Keys to Releasing the Healing Powers Within” that some people have called ”the ultimate handbook for health and healing”.  I think it’s a common sense owner’ manual for the care and maintenance of your body.  I recommend that you have a copy of your own.   To good health … Frank  You can review and order an e-book or soft cover book here  …

40% of People Who Were Trying to Lose Weight Were Successful

The American Journal of Preventive Medicine published a study, Successful Weight Loss Among Obese U.S. Adults, April, 2012 that concluded:

1. 2/3 of Americans, who are overweight, try to lose weight.
2. Of them, 40% are successful, at least in the short term.”

How?  … The “old school way” – by eating less, exercising more and switching to a more healthful diet.

1. Of the successful dieters:  65% ate less food, 44% ate less fat, 41% switched to food with fewer calories; 4% took medicine prescribed by a doctor.
2. Of the unsuccessful dieters:  41% drank more water, 14% ate “diet foods or products”, 10% used nonprescription diet pills, or herbal remedies, 7% adopted a “liquid diet formula”.

The secret to losing weight and improving health isn’t such a big secret - after all.  Well, thank you for rehashing that old tome. 

Eating less and exercising more
has been the “solution” for weight gain for, at least, the past 50 years
and it hasn’t worked yet! 

The rate obesity and being overweight is growing – almost exponentially - for adults and children, alike .

Why?  The two qualifiers contained in this study tells it all:

1. …switched to a more healthful diet
2. …at least, in the short term.  You know what happens, after.

Returning to the habit of eating “stuff”, instead of “things”
dooms people to a fate of being fat, tired and sick.

What’s the difference between “Stuff” and “Things”?

“Things” are food that have a proper name.  Tomato, for example, is a thing.

“Stuff” is a brand or vernacular name.  Katsup, for example, is stuff.  Wheat? – Thing; Flour? – Stuff;  Potato? – Thing;  French Fries? – Stuff;  Home Cooked Meal? – Thing;  Take out? – Stuff.

How Can You Recognize the Difference?

 “Stuff”:

• Comes in a box, bag or can
• Advertised on and in various media, depending on the target audience, featuring some sort of mascot, model or spokesperson
• Has a trademark
• Occupy most of the selves in the Supermarket
• Contain: white flour, table salt, sugar (table and of course:  high fructose fruit juice, tropical fruit and corn syrup), starchy grains and starch, underground vegetables.

“Things” don’t.

Here are the “take aways” from this:

1. Eating mostly “things” will produce health and weight loss.
2. Eating mostly “stuff” will produce unhealth (Is that even a word?) and weight gain.
3. Regardless of what you hear or read, or what the label says, “stuff” is not a “thing”.
4. If your objective is: to lose weight, or to protect your health, or improve your health, you need to be consuming more “things” than “stuff”.
5. Supplements are “things” that fill the gap in your diet, when you can’t or won’t eat enough “things”
6. Supplement are not “stuff” to take when you experience the effects of eating too much “stuff”.

Many, if not most, of the weight and health challenges you will face can be traced back to one diagnosis:  “Hand to Mouth Disease”. 

Your choices really do have consequences.  Choosing to follow you conscience and implementing the Goldilocks Paradigm will go a long way toward resolving your dilemma with your weight and your inevitable issues of declining health.

Adding supplements, like the ones available from NUPRO, can go a long way to filling any long standing nutritional deficiencies that are contributing to your circumstances.

And, once you’re back on track, supplements, especially nutriceutical supplements like NUPRO holistic supplements, can help fill the few gaps left in your diet of mostly things.  In the end, who expects to be sick?  Anybody?

It’s Your Life – It’s Your Choice.

And, the older I am, the more I rely on that little voice that we all hear.

Depending on your perspective, conscience could be genetic, learned or spiritual.  Regardless, I’ve learned, mostly the hard way, that the counsel of the little voice is the right advice.

Looking back, the things I regret most were failures of conscience – the times I didn’t hear or listen to my little voice.  And, some of those lapses resulted in more than regrets – they had consequences.

After you consider what I have just written, take a moment to focus your thoughts toward the meals you, and your family, are consuming every day.

Now, consider what your little voice is telling you about that choice.  Are you basking in the glow of Radiant Health or are you hearing the moans and groans of declining or failing health?

These moans and groans are classified, medically, as indicators of degenerative disease.  They are a whole litany of health complaints that occur because the body isn’t working right.

Complaints like:

… are just a few examples of the moans and groans associated with declining health.

They are complaints that are often managed with prescriptive or over the counter medications to silence the little voice that is trying to warn you about the decline of the efficiency of your healthy body with symptoms.

And, they are the predictors of the Big 5 killers:  Cancer, Diabetes, Stroke, Heart Attack, and Chronic Respiratory Disease – the diseases that are seldom cured – just managed for a slower descent to a predictable, suffering end.

Knowingly or unknowingly, peoples’ fate is predictable when they ignore or try to silence their little voice.

• Who thinks they know what makes up a good diet?
• Who thinks they know what to do to compensate for a “not so good” diet?
• Who thinks Supermarkets sell food?
• Who believes that snack, fast and factory food – laced with sugar, salt and chemicals – is good for your body, your spouse or your children?

It is the lure of convenience, the seduction of addictive salt and sweets, and the barrage of chemicals, contained in nutrient depleted factory food that starts the moans, groans and declining health.

The simple truth is:  If your meals consist of food that comes in a bag, box or can, you should throw it away and eat the packaging.

1. Your body knows …
2. It is trying to tell you to stop …
3. If you would only listen and take the appropriate action.

So … Who do you Trust?

Is it:

• A stranger with a brief case (expert)?
• A likable guy with a diploma?
• A TV personality?
• A neighbor who “knows something or someone”?
• An ad on TV or …?
• Any straw that might stop you from sinking into the abyss of failing health?

… or is it good ol’ common sense?

Everything of value – your car, appliance, electronic device you own comes with an owner’s manual to advise you about its care and maintenance – except your most valuable asset – your body.

What if you could get the manual for $20.00?  Would you buy it?

I may be just another one of those strangers with a briefcase, or not.  You’ll need to decide for yourself.  But, I’ll tell you this – it is easier to stay healthy than it is to get healthy once you’re not.  It’s your life – it’s your choice.

Just Released

Creating Radiant Health – Keys to Unlocking the Healing Power Within

“It’s the owner’s manual you should have received when you were born”

My co-author and I are extremely proud of this effort.  It is a 140 page treasure chest for anyone who is interested in the care and maintenance of their body.  If you’re interested in common sense ways to promote health and healing, naturally, I recommend this book.

By the way, keep it handy – you’ll refer to it often!  Review and Order

Who thinks that taking a daily multi-vitamin is not the healthy thing to do?  Anyone?

When people are asked to say why they take a particular supplement, they will smile and answer: “ … because it’s good for me”

Seriously, why do people take a particular supplement? It’s because they have read or heard about the benefits, and they want them.  For example:  One a Day … it’s easy; Special Greek Yogurt … regularity; Calcium … strong bones; Vitamin D … the sunshine vitamin.

Dutifully, people:

1. Go to the Big Box Store, Vitamin Store or the web
2. Review their options (or ask the clerk)
3. Make a price decision
4. Pay
5. Go home and start taking their vitamin the next morning

The next time they read or hear a benefit statement they may want, people repeat the cycle and buy that one, too.

And, so it goes.  People end up taking a hand full of low priced pills, every morning, and, probably, with a cabinet full of expired bottles of “vitamins” that they purchased at one time, or another, for one reason, or another (that they can’t remember).

NOTE:  It is impossible to take the benefit statements out of advertising.  If the advertisers stopped including the benefit statement, it would be called begging and that doesn’t always have the same effect as the benefit statement.

Let’s take another look at this process.

The logic is just fine – supplements can be good for you.

But, when people put it into action, then the process is missing the most important piece – a plan.  That missing piece allows the whole thing to spin off in all sorts of unexpected directions.

DISCUSSION

Let’s examine the logic.

1^st, supplements are good for people because they fill the nutritional gaps in the daily diets that would otherwise contribute to a decline in their health.   Consequently, choosing, and using, a supplement, or group of supplements, to fill the holes in a balanced daily diet, created by people’s preferences and situations, will contribute to a healthy, alert and energized condition.

2^nd, declining health can be stopped or reversed by choosing, and using, supplements to restore the nutritional levels created by the prior gaps in the diet.

Let’s make a plan.  It has 3 steps.

1^st, many people have a general idea about the balanced diet.  But, the devil is in the details.  So, before starting the plan, let’s see what really makes up the balanced diet.   There are several ways to explain the balanced diet, but for this discussion, NUPRO three step action plan is the place to start.

Did you read it?  Were you surprised?  Most people are; which is one explanation for the number of people who are experiencing the symptoms of declining health.

2^nd, compare what you are consuming, every day, to the Harvard recommendations to see the differences.

Everyone has preferences and situations that interfere with consuming a balanced diet every day.  You will need to decide which of them can be changed, permanently, then, make the changes.  The rest need to be covered with supplements.

3^rd, the difference between what you have been eating and what you should have been consuming has, likely, created the symptoms of declining health that you may be experiencing.

Those need to be addressed.  As you can imagine, many of these symptoms are shared with many other people.  Once you’ve addressed the fundamental nutritional needs, and given them a chance to affect your body, choose, and use, supplements that strengthen the particular function or structure of the body that is giving you the most grief.

If your situation is uncommon, you may consider seeking help.

Of course, urgency and intensity are matters to consider.  This discussion on issues of health and healing are intended for educational purposes only and in no way should be taken as medical advice. Readers are encouraged to make health care decisions based upon personal research and in partnership with a qualified health care professional.

CONCLUSION

The commonly accepted formula for good health and long life is:  good diet, moderate exercise and sleep.  Modern living makes it hard to enjoy that bounty.

Too many people find the bounty of Radiant Health slipping away and begin searching for a magic bullet to restore what they once had.   And, there is no shortage of benefit statements from every health related field.    Yet, the carnage continues.  Perhaps it’s time to get back to the fundamentals – good diet, moderate exercise and sleep.

The next time you hear or see an ad for double-strength magnesium, ask yourself: “So what?”   You’ll know your body needs a bunch of different minerals, not stronger magnesium.  It’s just another benefit statement!

NUPRO can help with a plan, with fundamental nutritional supplements that fill the gaps in your diet, support with nutrition for your specific needs and, if you choose, professionals to help answer your questions.  Moderate exercise and sleep are on you.

It’s Your Life – It’s Your Choice

Visit the NUPRO website – it may be what you need to become the master your own health.

Wow!  I wonder what happened to Pluto.  … Did it disappear?  … Was it vaporized by a rogue comet?

As it happens, nothing happened to Pluto – except the rules.  Astronomers decided size matters; and since poor ol’ Pluto didn’t measure up – poof, it’s gone.  But, it’s still out there – orbiting the sun – in the same place!

Here’s another example of dogma being confused with fact.

In the late 18^th century, three scientists fought it out over competing theories of disease – Louis Pasteur, the father of conventional medicine versus Claude Bernard and Antoine Bechamp, proponents of alternative medicine.

One side, Pasteur’s, believed that germs, from outside the body, were the source of all diseases.

The other side felt disease followed imbalances inside the body and that the imbalance triggered a change in a normally symbiotic microbe, contained within the human body, which triggered the decay of tissue, organs and disease.

Dubbed, Zymotic Disease by the proponents of alternative medicine,  the latter had a similar fate to that of Copernicus, while Pasteur’s Germ Theory of Disease became the foundation of conventional medicine.

The nature of the competition between these two theories, conventional medicine or alternative medicine,  has been dramatized by repeating an anecdotal death-bed statement, by a repentant Pasteur, “It is not the germ that causes disease but the terrain in which the germ is found.”

None the less, building on past success with penicillin’s ability to kill bacteria, practitioners of conventional medicine, today’s physicians, who are supported with pharmaceuticals to “manage” a particular condition, seek external factors that cause a diagnosed condition and substances and use machines and/or medical methods to eradicate that “disease causing factor” – with varying degress of success.

Apparently, the medical controversy about the causes of disease wasn’t settled.

Perhaps it’s time to dust off the old theory and take a closer look.

• Could, as Bernard and Bechamp’s work shows, the inner condition and health of the cells (sometimes described as the “terrain” in works of the time) determine whether disease would manifest or spread in the body?
•  Could factors, like poor diet, stress, lack of rest and life style choices, be the catalysts that alter the “internal terrain” of the body that give rise to the conditions that plague the industrialized world?
• Could that “friendly” microbe, the microzyma (named by Bechamp), change into the predator that is decaying the body, little by little – from the inside, be the culprit?
• What if adequate sleep, relaxation, moderate lifestyle choices, mild exercise and a balanced diet is the prescription for a long life and a healthy death?

The inescapable fact is:  what we are doing doesn’t alway work.

The chances of succumbing to one or more of the degenerative diseases: Heart and Cardiovascular disease, Cancer, Respiratory disease, Stroke, Diabetes, Lung disease, Kidney disease and suicide, is greater than ever before.

Odds are, a person will be a statistic sometime during life – if he or she isn’t now.  After spending billions of dollars on the theory of conventional medicine:  searching for cures, managing disease, medical treatments with surgeries and machines, poking and proding, enduring the heartache of declining health and financial ruin, people are worse off.

Oddly enough, the factors that may be affecting the internal terrain of the body are manageable.  They are simply choices that people make.

People choose:

• Edible substances, masquerading as food (Chemcuisine), that are fast and easy over a balanced diet of real food.
• Anything else, except clean water to drink
• Too much or too little exercise
• Inadequate sleep
• Lack of relaxation
• Risky life styles

People make excuses for their choices.  It’s the kids’ schedule … It’s the boss … It costs too much … It’s the commute … It’s the ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­_______ (fill in the blank).

And, just as perplexing, people are dumb-struck when they are forced to confront a very predictable situation – their failed health.

Years ago, the makers of Fram oil filters produced a television commercial that featured an oil soaked mechanic who said “Pay me now, or pay more, later.”, insinuating that investing in an oil change and a $3.00 Fram oil filter, now, is better than replacing the engine in your car – later.

Likewise, treating your body with respect, now, will pay dividends – now and in the future.  And, in this case, this body is the only one you’ll ever be issued.

Is that alternative medicine or is it just good sense?

For those of you, who are interested, read: How to Become the Master of Your Health or visit this site.

For the rest of you:  Good Luck.  You’ll need it.

Both hosts were mystified.  The discussion intensified while they kept asking:  “How can overweight kids be undernourished?”   Somehow, they were unable to differentiate between having a full belly and consuming a nourishing diet.

Being overweight, or obese, is a cultural problem that isn’t limited to children.  This confusion of “filling our stomachs” with whatever, as long as it is fast and convenient, is making people fat and malnourished.

Fast and convenient manufactured foods are exceeding the caloric values required to energize the body and not meeting the nutritional values that are required to sustain a healthy body.  The decision to consume that bill-of-fare is making people fat and not healthy.  Suggested reading:   Chemcuisine, the New Standard American Diet

The cry, on one side of the debate, is: “We need a law!” so, Legislators are considering, and in some cases passing, laws that ban the use of certain food additives in an effort to protect people from themselves.  Suggested reading:  Are You Digging a Grave with Your Fork

The likelihood of success, from this fruitless effort, is zero.

Why?

Until people realize that they are sacrificing their health for fast and convenient, a law is meaningless; there will be another fast and convenient way to “fill the belly” that replaces the last.  Suggested reading:  Hand to Mouth Disease

The cry, on the other side of the debate is: “Promote the balanced diet!” so, researchers, Universities and nutritionists are bombarding the Public information and food-value advertising.

There are 3 sources to read about the balanced diet:  University of Michigan, Harvard University and the United States Department of Agriculture.

 The likelihood of success, from this fruitless effort, is also zero.

Why?

Until these purists accept two practical matters:  first, food isn’t what it used to be and second, the modern society doesn’t provide the time to purchase, prepare and consume their recommendations, they will go heedless.  Suggested reading:  You Get Everything You Need From Your Food

Is There Another Choice?

Of course, compromise.

1. Choose the parts of the balanced diet that you are most likely to follow
2. Then follow it religiously.  From there, fill the gaps in your diet with appropriate supplements

For example:

1. If you fall short on the RDI for green vegetables, fill that gap with a supplement like NUPRO BeneVita™ Green.  It provides the equivalent of the RDI for green vegetables with other supporting nutrients.
2. If you fall short on the RDI for colorful vegetables and fruit, fill the gap with a supplement like NUPRO BeneVita™ Red.  It provides the equivalent of the RDI for that important segment of nutrition.
3. If you can’t find the time to prepare and eat breakfast, fill the gap with a supplement like NUPRO Body Designer™.  It provides a quick, nutrition shake for people on the go.

For help with choosing supplements to fill the gaps in your diet, there is an essay, How to Become the Master of Your Health, for your review.

People are often surprised when they lose weight, once the nutritional thresholds have been met.  Of course, there are other factors that affect weight gain; those issues can often be addressed with supplement as well.  Readers are encouraged to review an essay,  Why Am I Overweight?, to help them understand the different weight loss – weight gain issues.

Conclusion

The childhood obesity conundrum is simply a reflection of adult obesity.  All the hand-wringing and debate is wasted time until the malnutrition dilemma is resolved.  That effort begins with your choices.  And, by the way, your choices will go a long way for resolving the health care crisis as well.  Suggested Reading:  Today’s Choices Are Tomorrows Consequences

• You have showered at least 15,000 times . . . .so far,
• You have brushed your teeth 30,000 times . . . so far,
• You have washed your hands . . . on a regular basis.

Most people practice good hygiene.  It is the healthy thing to do and, it minimizes offending appearance and odors.

What About the Inside of Your Body?  Did you know: you have 9 square feet of skin on the outside of your body and 10,000 square feet on the inside?

 Consider this:  Could the very things that affect the cleanliness of the outside of your body affect the inside?

 Have you ever thought about cleansing the inside of your body?  – probably not. Of all the different possibilities, the cleansing of one’s intestines is probably at the bottom of most people’s lists – irritable bowel syndrome, constipation, gas, diverticulitis and colon cancer are simply not things that people think about – until it is too late.

What You Must Know About Regularity

There is an epidemic in America. People are buying laxatives, using prescription drugs and commercial fiber supplements — to no avail — constipation, gas and bloating, weight gain, fatigue, painful, burning stomach, skin problems and a whole host of complaints are taking the fun out of life.

The expression, “Death begins in the colon.” is right on point! Sadly, the debris and toxic wastes that are accumulating between visits to the bathroom produce lots of suffering because that “stuff” is slowly poisoning you from the inside—out.

Don’t believe it? “Autopsies often reveal colons that are plugged up to 80 percent with waste material.”  (Vegetarian Times, March, 1998.)  Most people end up enduring the complaints of constipation when they could put an end to their suffering very simply — become as clean inside as they are outside.

What you Must Know About Pollution

We are all exposed to thousands of toxins and chemicals everyday—–at work, in the home, in the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat. Plus, we are eating more sugar, preserved and processed foods and taking more medicine than ever before. Our bodies are being overwhelmed trying to eliminate all of the different things that we inhale and ingest every day. Unfortunately, most of this debris simply accumulates—in our cells, tissues, blood, organs (such as the colon, liver and brain), stored for an indefinite length of time, causing all kinds of complaints, leading toward a decline in your quality of life and your health.

What You Must Know About Parasites

Every living thing has at least one parasitethat lives inside or on it, and many, including humans, have far more. In fact, National Geographic, in a documentary called The Body Snatchers reports: “parasites have killed more humans than all the wars in history.”

Scientists are just beginning to appreciate how powerful these hidden inhabitants can be. Their research is pointing to a remarkable possibility: Parasites rule the world. Living undetected in the body, damaging tissue, robbing your body of valuable nutrients and burdening your body with the additional wastes produced by the parasite. Like it or not, you probably have one or more parasites living in your body, living undetected until there are more of them than your body can support. At that point, you will start paying the price extracted by parasites.

What You Must Know About Food

Processing robs food of it’s nutritional value and the chemicals used to preserve foods lead to poor digestion causing a toxic build-up of sludge in the intestines and on the intestinal wall, including the colon.

This build up can slow digestion, block nutritional uptake and, because the sludge is waste material, produce toxins that pour into your blood stream and are distributed throughout the entire body.

Are You Clean – On the Inside?

The answer to the question: “Are you clean inside?” is …  “Probably not.” and, the combination of environmental toxins, an unhealthy diet, internal waste and parasites poses a threat to your health.

If your next question is:  “Will cleansing help me?“, the answer is a resounding YES!   The environment, the food we eat and the way we live virtually guarantees that everyone needs to freshen up their body.  And, feel better because they did.

The threats to your health are: environmental toxins, an unhealthy diet, internal waste and parasites.  “The secret” to great health can be described in these words:  Cleanse the Inside of Your Body.

Here’s a Quick Overview for Cleansing and Detoxing Your Body

1. Sweep away the barriers that are dragging you down.  Cleanse the colon and digestive tract to clear away the toxic plaque, debris and parasites. Plus, “cleaning up that mess” helps detoxify your liver, blood, brain, tissues—basically the first step will purify your whole body
2. Restore and balance the intestinal tract using digestive enzymes, to help breakdown food and friendly microbes to balance digestion, support the immune system that protects you and, along with enzymes, strengthens the body and supports the elimination of wastes thoroughly and often.
3. Support the body’s ability to cleanse itself with diet and nutraceutical supplements to protect your new lease on life.
4. Address parasites twice each year— spring and fall, once your body is balanced.

Most detoxification experts feel that a one or two-week program is simply not sufficient, especially when you consider that it took years or even decades to accumulate all the parasites, waste and toxins in the colon and in other parts of the body.

A more realistic approach takes at least 30 days or even longer, depending on the level of infestation and toxicity in one’s body.  There are 3 factors to consider:

1. In many situations, depending on the age and lifestyle, targeting specific areas for cleansing is enough
2. If the the debris has accumulated over a longer period of time, a thorough whole body cleansing is in order.
3. If the situation is manifesting symptoms, a more direct approach for restoring the internal hygiene of your body, like the NURPO Radiant Health Plan™, is in order.  (The Radiant Health Plan™, developed by NUPRO, is natural systems that is thorough—yet gentle.  This two step program (each lasting 30 days) offers you a gentle, comprehensive, thorough, all-natural cleansing and detoxification.)

Once you complete cleansing and restoring the balance in your body, you should consider establishing a long term strategy to protect your new lease on life.  (NUPRO Fundamental Nutrition and Special Needs nutraceutical supplements are a trusted by Professionals, effective and an affordable choice to help promote and maintain your health – naturally.

Dr. Paul Bragg is a pioneer of natural medicine and author of dozens of successful books who writes: “The secret to great health can be described in these words:  Cleanse the Inside of Your Body!”.

The question is:  “Do you want great health?“  If so, here’s the tools you need

When I saw the commercial, it triggered a memory of my grandmother.  Her favorite saying was “You are what you eat.”  When I was little, she applied this phrase when she was cooking, tending her garden or on the occasion when she scorned me for over indulging myself with foods she deemed unhealthy.

Of course, as a child, I perceived these constant reminders as harping and, after 60 years, I can still hear her admonitions.  Even today, each time I consider an indiscretion, I hear her voice asking me “Do you really think that’s a good idea?”

Did you have a Grandmother like mine?

I’m grateful for mine.  She didn’t care for white bread.  She would tell me:  “The whiter the bread, the shorter your life.” Even though we milked cows, she insisted we moderate eating cheese, butter and drinking milk to keep our lungs clear.  When I was a teenager, she attributed any complexion issues to “too much milk.”  She insisted that sugar would rot my teeth.   Kids, who were heavy, which was rare, are “eating too many sweets and drinking too much milk”, according to Grandmother.  Usually, she would finish this observation with “… that mother should know better!”

Grandmother spoke with a voice from the 1920’s.

She was versed in growing, selecting and preparing fresh food.  She was very careful to avoid accidents when working, a real stickler about sanitation and fluent in the ways of self-care, because Physicians were a long way away and expensive.  She practiced and taught me the virtues of healthy life style choices:  healthy diet, physical work and play, rest and sleep; that served her well into old age, and now me, for the past 50 years.

How Times Have Changed

Take out, fast food and microwaved manufactured food is today’s bill of fare.  Gyms and organized recreation are substituting physical work and play. Energy drinks wake people up in the morning and sleeping pills put them to sleep at night.  Physicians are readily accessible with insurance companies paying the bills.

Researchers are warning that “the 50 somethings” will suffer longer and die sooner than their parents – their children more so.

Don’t Worry, Be Happy

Perhaps the science fiction Novelists, who believe, “If we can send a man to the moon … .”,  have it right – or not.

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