Those of you who are trying to realize your New Year resolution to lose weight are, in all likelihood, frustrated.  The fact is:  metabolism is turned down every fall; it is restored every spring.  Overwhelming this cycle is not very likely. 

Take heart!  Spring is just around the corner.

Children, all over the U.S., will soon be repeating a simple poem:
Spring has sprung, the grass has riz,
I wonder where the flowers is?

Plants will be budding, putting on leaves with blossoms springing toward the sun.  Animals will be awakening from their winter doldrums, or their hibernation, to welcome the return of the season of plenty.

It is the cycle of all living things on Earth; it is basic survival and, it is a testament to the adaptability of life on Earth.

Even though people live in modern homes, with central heat, abundant food and water, this natural cycle exerts the same, unavoidable impact on the human body.

There are a few steps you can take can assure you that your metabolism will come roaring back when it is time.

Are you 3 – 6’s, 2 – 9’s or 1 – 18?
It’s time for a spring-cleaning.  Your bowels should move at least once every day – preferably after each meal (3 –  six inch cigar-shaped.)  Even then, it is a good idea to clean up any residual wastes from the winter diet.  Supplements are especially effective in that regard so, choose an effective supplement to refresh your bowels.

Are you suffering a hangover from the holiday goodies and/or craving carbs, sugar and starches?
They, and most other winter foods, are notoriously short of trace minerals. Often referred to as “The Currency of Life”, trace minerals deficiencies have been known to contribute to a listless feeling, cravings and constant hunger.  Once again, the fastest way to address the issue is with a full-spectrum trace mineral supplement until fresh, mature vegetables are readily available.  By the way, if you are a vegetable-hater, you should consider trace mineral supplementation year-round.

Feed your Metabolism.
The 3 Day Diet, once attributed to the Cleveland Clinic, has been around for a long time.  None-the-less, it is still an effective way to feed your metabolism.  Follow the instructions, wait a week to repeat the diet. Two cycles is usually sufficient to jump start metabolism.

If you have packed on more than a few pounds, weight management supplements are in order.
However, caution in order, too.  Some weight loss supplements rely on stimulants to “spike” wake-time metabolism.  Advertisements for these types of supplements often emphasize energy as their most notable characteristic.  The tendency to consume more than enough sweets, bread and pasta, starchy vegetables, and caffeinated beverages (coffee, tea, soda and energy drinks) may already be taxing metabolic functions.  Adding another source of stimulants may not be the best idea.

A better choice may be weight management supplements formulated to support metabolic function while managing appetite, cravings and alertness.  While you won’t get the “buzz”, you won’t be anxious and/or jittery either.

Feed your body.
While it seems counter-intuitive, you must eat to lose weight.  Starvation and low-calorie dieting send a signal to your body that food is in short supply so it goes into survival mode – protecting fat and reducing metabolism. 

What you are consuming is the issue.
Before you put something in your mouth, ask yourself one simple question:  “Is this going to feed my body something it needs?”  If the answer is no, don’t eat it.  You already know the answer when you consume junk, packaged, comfort and fast food, so don’t eat them. 

Eat, eat, eat.
Eat breakfast, eat vegetables for lunch, eat a healthy supper early.  You should eat a baseball sized apple or pear for mid-morning and afternoon snacks. (Add a sprinkle of cinnamon and/or a dash of lime juice for variety.)   Here are 10 healthy, easy to fix recipes.

Drink water to help flush away the byproducts of burning fat – at least 8 – 8 ounces glasses each day.

Lose it and keep it off!
Besides appearance, losing weight is a healthy choice.  Researchers have shown, time and time again, that maintaining a healthy weight will reduce your chances of enduring many of the health issues that are confronting others.

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Editor’s Note:  Rather than the prevalent “miracle in a bottle” paradigm, we believe maintaining health is a life-style. We have developed a strategy that promotes and maintains health.  You can review our work at the Natural Health Consulting Center at NURPO.

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Mother patiently showed me how to identify my expenses, label an envelope for each expense, divide my money between each expense and put it in the appropriate envelope.  She explained that when the expense came due, the money would be “tucked” away.  All I needed to do is take the money out of the envelope to pay the bill.

And, my mother explained, once my expenses were provided for, I needed to prioritize any remaining money between needs, wants and building a nest egg; then make choices. 

Choices like: wanting to go to the movies to have fun or needing to maintain my car.  Mother pointed out that the car would need tires, the oil changed and repairs; all of which, if not tended, would affect my ability to earn money.  The choice, and the consequence, would be mine.

It was like hearing Aesop’s fable about the grasshopper and the ants.  The grasshopper whiled away the summer – the ants worked to store away food for winter.  When, inevitably, winter came, the grasshopper starved and died – the ants did not.  The grasshoppler failed to budget.  The moral of Aesop’s fable is:  It is best to prepare for the days of necessity. 

The body is a marvel of engineering: joints, ligaments and muscles, working in synchrony to produce force and motion; cells, coordinating with one another, to produce energy, sensation and thought; systems for protection from external and internal agents that could disrupt the harmony that we describe as health; systems to repair damaged and injured cells and tissue.  The coup de gras is the miracle of regeneration that provides the ability for the body to completely rebuild itself, perfectly, every 7 years.

 With one exception, this miracle of life happens automatically.  The body converts food, using water as medium and catalyst, into building blocks that are reassembled to become part of a healthy body, the systems that support it and then, dispose of the waste.

What is the Exception?

The one, and only, thing your body cannot do for itself is select the quality and quantity of food that enters the system.  That is your job.  Making sure that you are “putting enough in the envelopes” to pay the bills when they come due – with something left over for emergencies. 

You can make 3 choices:

When you choose whole food: vegetables, fruit, whole grain, fish, poultry, lean red meat and water, your are meeting your health budget, with a little left over for emergencies.  These whole foods contain the building blocks on which your body relies: protein, essential fatty acids, complex carbohydrates, minerals and vitamins on which the body depends to flourish.  You will enjoy the bounty of health.

When you choose cans, boxes and bags of processed, packaged and preserved food, convenience and fast food, soda, artificial sweeteners, coffee and energy drinks, you are bankrupting your health budget.  The labels on these foods clearly proclaim that they contain flour, sugar and chemicals, the hyphenated words that you can’t pronounce, to enhance taste, color and shelf life.  None of which benefit your body.  If you aren’t sick, you soon will be.

When you choose a combination of the two, you are creating a deficit or, as my mother would say, “You are going broke slowly – ask for a raise or get a second job.”  Your body will do the best it can with what it has to work.  Lacking energy and endurance, obesity, frequent illnesses, declining quality of life and vulnerability to degenerative disease are all predictable outcomes.  You won’t be sick, but you aren’t healthy either.

Are you the grasshopper or are you the ant?

The grasshopper fiddled the summer away, while the ants spent time preparing for winter.  Enjoying a life- time of radiant health is truly a simple issue:  Are you investing in health or are you paying for sickness? 

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 When people did go to the Doctor, they went to an office.  They used the Doctor’s services for injuries, inoculations, a “shot” for protection from viral infections, anti-biotic pills for bacterial infections and an occasional surgery at the hospital.

Today, people practice sick-care.  They go the Doctor at the drop of a hat.
The 1^st Physician, at a Medical Center, offers a prescription and a referral to a Specialist for further evaluation, and/or for tests and/or more prescriptions and/or a referral to a Surgeon for more tests and to schedule surgery and/or a referral to the 1^st Physician, who  . . .  .  

 Pointing to life expectancy charts, some people argue that the transition from self-care to sick-care has resulted in a longer life.

 Could it be that better waste management, cleaner water and food, safer machines at work, safer cars and highways and a more gentile society could have accomplished the same thing?

 And, in the final analysis, is living 10 years longer, if you spend the time in a nursing home, a dream come true?

 Ignoring your health is foolishness.  It is your most valuable asset.  You will lose a lot when your health fails you.  But, what do you gain when you allow a stranger, even if that stranger is a professional, to manage your health for you?

Get off of the sick-care merry-go-round.
Take control of your most valuable asset, your health, and start managing it by selecting professionals based their field of expertise and training.  Besides Medical Doctors, Chiropractors, Dieticians, Herbalists, to name a few, all have a place. Use their expertise to address your needs.

Clean up your act!

1. Make lifestyle choices that respect your body.  It is the only one you will get.
2. Make dietary choices that feed your body instead of your desires.

Stop kidding yourself.

The gap in your diet, created by fast and convenient food and the preserved, processed, packaged and commercially produced food, available at the super-market, is creating a gap in your diet between what your body gets and what it needs is real.  Choose supplements to fill that gap.

Just remember:  there are no magic bullets.

You have the most to gain when you are healthy or lose when you’re not.

Some truths are ageless and will never change.
 ”If you want to change the way things are, you must change the things you do.”

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If you have vowed to slim down, congratulations on you decision. You will feel better, live longer and, according to a mountain of studies, you may avoid the degenerative diseases that might plague you in later life.

You are faced with the daunting task . . . deciding how to go about it. Fad diets, excessive exercise and skipping meals will not work for long-term weight management. You will either get tired of the grind, the boring food, the constant hunger, the sore muscles, the inconvenience, the time away from home or work and you will give up.
Make this motto your motto: weight loss is a journey.
You didn’t gain your weight over night nor will you lose it overnight so, set reasonable objectives.

Trying to lose weight in the dead of winter is a fool’s mission.

Here’s something you need to consider: people are mammals – mammals hibernate, or slow down their metabolism considerably during the winter months to assure their survival during the cold, least abundant time of the year. They pack away fat for insulation and protection from starvation. In the spring, they “wake up” with higher metabolism and energy. Even though we live and work in buildings with central heating and shop at supermarkets with plenty of food – people are mammals – it is unlikely you will change wintertime mammalian metabolism.
Here’s what you can do until your body is released from winter’s grip:

• You do need to eat three balanced meals everyday to lose weight so, don’t skip any meals – especially eat a perfect breakfast. And, if you need “a little something” to eat, sprinkle a little cinnamon on an apple or pear for a tasty treat.
• Break the fast food lunch habit. Start a new habit – bring something from home.
• Break the comfort food habit. White flour products, like bread and pasta; starchy foods, like potatoes and rice; table sugar, sugary tropical juices and fruits, like mangos and pomegranates; milk and milk products provide too many calories and too little nutrition.
• Break the “What’s for diner habit.” Find different, more healthful recipes that will suit your pallet and start preparing them. By the time your metabolism rebounds, you will be ready to start burning away the winter fat with your new, but familiar, healthy meals.
• Make your plan of action for when winter releases its grip on your body. It should include moderate exercise – everyday. Walking after lunch, an evening stroll with your family or parking further away from your destination adds a good bit of opportunity to burn calories.
• Determine why you gained weight in the first place. It isn’t always what you think. Consider other possibilities for your weight gain before you assume you are suffering from gluttony.
• Choose a dietary supplement to support metabolism, appetite and cravings. Often, lingering mineral deficiencies can affect your success. The combination of a better diet and quality dietary supplements will pay dividends.

When winter has finally changed to spring, start your program. Be decisive, dedicated and disciplined.

Your motto should be: losing weight is a journey. It requires a commitment, dedication to your program and the discipline to maintain the choices you’ve made to achieve your objective. Healthy weight loss is in the range of 10 to 12 pounds each month. If you are particularly heavy, it might be more.

Finally, and most importantly, sustaining the changes that you have made to lose the weight will assure you a lifetime of living in your perfect body.

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What should I do if I’m not healthy?

What should I do if I am sick?

There is never a shortage of people willing to give you their opinions on the subject. It is easy to be overwhelmed by the many opinions on the topic of health.

My mechanic has a sign in his garage that says: Answers: $5.00 – Correct Answers: $50.00. We’ve all experienced the frustration of going back and forth with the same problem because the mechanic guessed wrong. On matters of auto repair, I want the correct answer because I want my car fixed right the 1st time.

Health is a knottier question.
Certainly, the old adage: “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” is the best advice you will ever get for free.

What is an ounce of prevention?

•  Is an ounce of prevention frequent visits to a Physician for tests;
• is it some magic pill, potion, lotion or drink (natural or pharmaceutical);
•  is it a “special treatment”;
•  is it a handful of supplements everyday?

Here’s another opinion for you to consider - people are clinging to 5 myths that can, and are, getting them into the healthcare quagmire.

Have you ever wondered it there is a way to assess your state of health?   Try this questionnaire. There is another adage: “forewarned is forearmed.”

Fixing a car is easier than fixing your body. The car has a part that can be replaced – your body doesn’t. Your body has the ability to “fix” itself – if it has the right tools.

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The Evolution of Disease

Everyone believes:

“Disease is never going to happen to me.” , but when it does:

• It seems like the condition happened to them overnight.
• There was absolutely nothing that they could have done to spare themselves.
• They feel like victims, completely without choice, with fear and the feelings of helplessness.

Disease is predictable, not inevitable nor final

These three characteristics are both a blessing and a trap.

• They are a blessing because the body can adapt to periods of poor nutrition, abnormal exercise and rest patterns and stress.
• They are a trap when it lulls you into the false sense of indestructibility.

Until recently, people believed each subsequent generation entering retirement years would be in better physical shape than the preceding generation.

In March 2007, a Health and Retirement Study research published by the nonprofit National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and supported by the National Institute on Aging (NIA),
a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), revealed the disturbing trend of Americans in their early to mid-50s reporting poorer health, more pain, and more trouble doing every day physical tasks than their older peers reported when they were the same age in recent years.

Many of today’s common diseases didn’t even exist 40 years ago. While there have been remarkable advances in the Medical Arts with: more technology, more doctors, more specialties, more pharmaceutical drugs and more hospitals; we are the least healthy generation of Americans in history, and we are experiencing ever increasing rates of disease.

Modern society is so preoccupied and overwhelmed with every day activities that people have lost contact with what is the most important asset they possess – their health.

Have you ever thought about the miracle of the human body?

Or considered the way the body functions in perfect harmony – with lungs breathing, heart beating, senses sensing, muscles moving, healing and regenerating itself every 7 years? Few have the time to think about this until a problem develops.

Everyone believes:  “Disease is never going to happen to me.”  When it does, it seems like the condition happenedto them overnight and there was absolutely nothing that they could have done to spare themselves. They feel like victims, completely without choice, with fear and the feelings of helplessness.

The Human body is meant to function in a state of balance - NOT a constant state of distress.

Degenerative disease is like a thief in the night: it sneaks up on you to steal your most valuable asset – YOUR HEALTH.  It may take years to create a disease condition – but these poor choices and the consequential imbalances in the whole body allow disease to happen.

There are 4 phases of disease:

• Denial:  the belief that “Disease will never happen to me.” 
• Decline:  ignoring the inconveniences of “feeling off”.
• Deterioration:   searching for solutions for problems that have no answers.
• Disease:  the hapless state that has you asking: “Why me?”

Denial

The 1st phase, Denial, doesn’t require analysis because it is all attitude – the illusion of invencibility that gets all of us in trouble..

And, it is the easiest place to make the changes that help you avoid participating in the arduous march toward the avoidable final phase of the Evolution of Disease.

 There is one simple rule:  What you do occasionally won’t harm you, it is what you do everyday that helps you.    Good dietary habits, moderate lifestyle choices and rest, along with one or two easy to find supplements to fill the gap in your diet will help you avoid the evolution to disease.

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 Typical American asks:  “What do I need to do to feel better?”

Answer:  That is an easy question to answer.

 TA: “OK, big shot, what makes you such a know it all?”

Answer:  I don’t need to know it all, I just need to know one thing – what the typical American is eating.

 Everything, in the typical American diet, is backwards: red meat and other fatty foods take the forefront, while fruits, vegetables, and whole grains are pushed aside. In addition to fat and calories, the Western diet is loaded with salt, and sugar. If that weren’t bad enough, it’s critically short on dietary fiber and many nutrients.

 Add more than 170,000 fast-food restaurants and 3 million soft-drink vending machines spread across the country, huge doses of calories are never far away, and the picture is pretty clear.

 TA:  “That’s not me.  I have a healthy diet.”

Answer:  Sure you do.  The typical American diet consists of products, processed, preserved and packaged, that companies promote through media advertising and price.  The objective is to create brand recognition and consumer loyalty.  The fact that you are eating these products is simply a feature of the market segment in which these companies compete.  When you purchase canned food, frozen food, fast food or packaged meals, you are part of a market share created by packaging, advertising, price and perceived convenience.  So, save your breath because you are only kidding yourself.

 TA:  My fill in the blank (Grandfather, Grandmother) was 90 (something) before they died, so I’m not worried.

Answer:  The super market, preservatives and consumer-level refrigeration are all a post World War II phenomena.  So of course they live a long time. That generation ate food that was in season and didn’t have refrigeration, so they shopped frequently, because the food would spoil if the bought too much.

 Your grandparents either lived on a farm, eating the food grown in their garden, or purchased food from a local butcher, baker, fish monger, dairy and a fresh produce cart or market.  These vendors earned their living selling seasonal food, grown on their farms or by local producers with care and pride.  If their food wasn’t up to snuff – their customers knew it and told them so – they had a vested interested in quality and keeping their customers happy.  Those vendors didn’t rely on slogans – they delivered the goods or perished.

 TA:  Ok big shot, why are all the experts predicting I will longer than my parents?

Answer:  When will you ask a hard question?  You live in a safer world.  All you need to do is go to a museum and look at the tools and machinery your grandparents were using.  Then, take a tour of a cemetery.  Wars, accidents and infections killed people.

 Anti biotic medications, a safer world and work place are also part of the post World War II phenomena we talked about earlier.  In fact, those same experts you are quoting are predicting that you are raising the first generation that, in all probably, won’t live as long as you.  These same experts are noting that your generation will spend more money on “health care” and suffer longer than any preceding modern generation.  Why do you think your health insurance bill is going through the roof? 

Oh, by the way, have you looked into the newest advancement – long-term care – yet?

 TA:  That’s not funny!

Answer:  No, it isn’t, but it makes you think doesn’t it?

 TA:  So what, do you want me to buy your magic pill?

Answer:  Well, no.  That kind of thinking is just another trap.  What I want you to do is to pull your head out of the sand.  I want you to get it.

 The problem is the “wisdom of the day” is a shifting tide.  It changes every time you turn on the TV, read the paper or buy a new book.

 Some truths are ageless and will never change.  What you are consuming has a direct effect on your health which, of course, is no news to you.  And, if you were to say that when the Father of Modern Medicine, Hippocrates (460-377 B.C.),  made that statement, “Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food.”, there wasn’t the problem of preservatives; food dyes and chemicals that plague our modern diet – you would also be right.

 The things you do occasionally won’t harm you, it is what you do everyday that helps you.

 TA:  Stop confusing me with facts.  What do you want me to do?

Answer: 

• Take responsibility for you own wellbeing because you have the most to lose.
• Trust the source of the information you are getting.  Most of the reports you hear or read about some “new “ miracle are sensationalized.
• Familiarize yourself with dietary recommendations regarding what you should be eating to stay healthy.  I recommend two sources:  Harvard University School of Public Health and the University of Michigan Integrative Medicine Department. 
• Review your current diet to determine the changes that you can practically make in your dietary habits.  It is a fools mission to make big promises that you can’t or won’t be able to keep – so don’t.

 If you have done your homework, you will have a pretty good picture of what you are doing to yourself.

 If I were going through this process I would:

• Make the changes in my diet.  (Remember:  there is a direct correlation between the recommendations put forth by Harvard or the University of Michigan and the amount of supplements it will take to fill the gap in the diet.)
• Add supplement(s) to fill the gap between what I was eating and what I should be consuming to stay healthy.  At a minimum, I would compensate for the food preservatives and additives that pollute my body and interfere with digestion with a trace mineral supplement and an enzyme complex.
• Start slowly (unless I had neglected you diet for 5 years or more). 

 TA:  You still haven’t told me what to do.

Answer:  Watch out!  You’re falling into that trap – again.  This is your deal.

 But, I will tell you what I do.  First, I know that most fruits and vegetables are grown on farmland that is lacking in more than a few trace minerals.  I would take a trace mineral supplement and see how it goes.  I would expect to experience a difference in the 1^st week.  Since most of the food I eat is cooked – and, I know cooking damages or destroys the raw food enzymes my body uses to make all the other enzymes that make my body work – I take an enzyme complex supplement with every meal.  Also, I take a probiotic supplement, before bed, to keep my digestion in tip-top shape.

 I’m pretty careful about my diet so, my supplements cost about $2.00 a day.  I think that is a good investment. You investment is probably going to be different because you live your life differently than I.

 If you have done your homework, you can make decisions for yourself.  In the end, you must take control of managing your health or you will be forced to deal with the consequences.

 There is one final thing I want you to think about.

 Insanity is doing the same thing over and over while expecting that something will change.

 The lesson is – it’s your life, it is your choice.  If you want to change the way things are, you must change the things you do.

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Answer:  Both or Neither.  If the minerals that are essential for your well being are not in the soil, it cannot be in the plants that are growing in it.

Minerals Are The Currency of Life

It’s impossible to underestimate the importance of minerals and trace minerals for the human body.

• Minerals are involved in virtually every function that sustains your life.
• Minerals are the catalysts for all the vitamins and other nutrients your body uses for developing and maintaining good health.
• Minerals help your body grow, develop, and stay healthy.
• The body uses minerals to perform an untold number of different functions — from building strong bones to transmitting nerve impulses.
• Some minerals are even used to make hormones or maintain a normal heartbeat.

The two kinds of minerals your body requires are: macro minerals and trace minerals.

• Macro means “large” in Greek.  Your body needs larger amounts of macro minerals than trace minerals.  The macro mineral group is made up of calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, sodium, potassium, chloride, and sulfur.  Researchers have established a Recommended Daily Intake (RDI) for this classification of minerals.
• A trace of something means that there is only a little of it. Though your body needs trace minerals, it needs just a tiny bit of each one. Scientists aren’t even sure how much of these minerals you need each day.

 Your Body Needs Balanced Macro Minerals and Trace Minerals

Balance is important to all areas of nutrition.  It is critically important when it comes to minerals and trace minerals: There are 92 elements found in nature and an additional 22 theoretical and/or observed elements, all of which may play a role, know or undiscovered, in human health.  Keeping levels of minerals in balance in every tissue, fluid, cell and organ in the human body may be the key to maintaining efficient function that, by default, promotes health.

 In agriculture, for example, the role for trace mineral nutrients in maintaining the health and vitality of livestock, poultry and household pets is well documented and universally accepted.  Trace minerals are considered essential and are regularly added to their feed because much of the grazing pasture and cropland on which the hay and grain are grown is missing one or more these essential trace minerals.

 Mineral Deficiency is Common

Trace mineral deficiencies in humans occur more frequently than are generally recognized.  Deficiencies usually occur because one or more trace minerals may be lacking in the soil in which the food plant was grown.  Commercial farming practices and dietary choices, eating processed food and failing to consume 5 – 7 serving of vegetables everyday, are at the core of the deficiencies.  Chronic under-consumption of trace minerals is of greater concern than acute mineral deficiencies because the specific symptoms that are characteristic of a trace mineral deficiency aren’t profound or as well know.

 Macro and Trace Minerals Produce Balanced Electrolytes

The body is an intricate circuit board of electric charges and impulses.  Every second, of every day, your body relies on trace minerals to conduct and generate billions of tiny electrical impulses.  Without these impulses, not a single muscle, including your heart, would be able to function.  Your brain would not function and the cells would not be able to balance water pressure and absorb nutrients.

 In fact, many vital body processes depend on the movement of substances across cell membranes supported by trace minerals

• Most notably, when your body is lacking these essential trace mineral elements, it causes your body to misfire so you feel rundown and tired.
• They may also prevent and reduce injury from environmental pollutants,
• Trace minerals enhance the ability to work and learn.
• They can also protect the body from the effects of toxic minerals.
• It’s important to keep your body’s acid base balance because an acidic body is a breeding ground for disease.  Trace minerals also have the power to maintain and even promote the pH balance in your body.
• Trace minerals condition the body to more ready absorb other nutrients.
• Trace minerals have the capacity to help renew and energize your body’s entire electrical system to promote energy and generally feel better.
• Recent research indicates that minerals may play a significant role against a variety of degenerative diseases and conditions.

 The Power of Minerals and Trace Mineral Supplement

Estimates are that 90% of Americans suffer mineral imbalance or deficiency.  The chemical and electrical processes that are occurring within your body at every moment can only function correctly if the proper balance of macro and trace minerals is continually being supplied to your system.

 Balance is the Key

The fact that the macro and trace minerals are in proportion and balanced is the key. The intricate balance of every mineral and trace element is beneficial to the human body.

 If you are deficient in minerals, you will feel the difference quickly after taking a trace mineral supplement.  Once you have experienced a mineral balanced body, performing at optimum efficiency, you will make a habit of constantly replenishing your body with minerals and trace minerals either through consuming abundant quantities of vegetables grown in pristine soil or the use an ionic, colloidal trace mineral supplement.

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This barrage of information is overwhelming.

1. People who are looking for ways to address health issues, cling to every word because is may offer a way out of their dilemma. 
2. Others, for the most part, try to ignore this drone of information.

Both of these choices are exactly the wrong thing to do.

Here’s why.  Please stick with me, this analogy is important.

When I began researching this article, I was also researching current nutritional recommendations for the care and feeding of my horses.  I’ve found that is far easier to keep them healthy than it is to pay my veterinarian.  Consequently,  I update my feeding program as new information becomes available.

You’re right, horses aren’t humans – but they are mammals, so please don’t stop reading yet.

To help you keep this into the proper perspective, it is important to know that farmers and ranchers don’t have health insurance on their animals, so most of them are proactive when it comes to keeping the animals in tip-top shape.  It is an issue of economics.

During my research, I came across the Purina Mills web-site www.omoleneuniversity.com.  Purina maintains an extensive research center to produce cost-effective feed to support the health and vitality of all sorts of mammals.

The Site Points Out:

Optimal health is achieved when the five factors that affect health are in balance.

• There are five basic things that a horse needs to stay fit and healthy:  energy, protein, vitamins, minerals and water.
• There are three conditions that affect the way the horse’s body works:  deficient, optimal, and toxic.  An imbalance of too little of one or more of the factors affecting health creates a deficiency; too much creates toxicity.
• The key to maintaining a healthy feeding program is mineral balance – both macro and trace minerals.

Before humans domesticated horses, they roamed freely on vast ranges.  They consumed a vast array of grass, plants and grains to provide the balance of nutrients to stay healthy.  Once horses were domesticated, there choices were limited to a confined pasture, hay and grain.  Purina strives to formulate their feed to fill the gap between what horses are eating now and what they should be consuming to stay fit and healthy.

Here’s the Point

Today, the human pasture is super markets and restaurants.  The choices are processed, preserved and packaged food and/or fast food.  The likelihood that the average person can achieve a balance diet is zero.  There is going to be a gap between what you are eating and what you should be consuming to stay healthy.

Just like the horses that Purina study, people need balanced sources energy, protein, vitamins, minerals and water to stay healthy, except human protein needs include both animal and plants.  And, just like horses, minerals are the key.

There is one other difference, too.  Thanks to thrifty, conscious owners and research like the studies carried out at facilities like the Purina center, horses are consuming a balanced diet; consequently, they aren’t prone to suffering the degenerative diseases that are plaguing people.

People are searching for and choosing bottles of this and that dietary supplement, purchasing some “talked about” supplements to target a complaint – when what people really need is a wider perspective. 

Ask yourself this:  “If there are magic bullets to supplement the diet, why are the people at Purina spending so much time and energy to balance the rations owners feed their horses?”  The answer is:  There aren’t any magic bullets!

Shouldn’t you treat yourself as well and horses and livestock are treated?

The steps are:

1. Get a perspective on what it takes to promote a healthy body.  Everyone needs know what it takes to be healthy.
2. Next develop a workable plan that includes lifestyle choices, dietary choices and exercise choices that you can reasonably expect to follow.
3. Analyze the difference between what you can do and what you should be doing in order to promote and maintain your health.
4. Fill the gaps in your program.

Health is the symptom of providing the nutrition you body needs

More and more people have discovered the benefits of using nutraceutical supplements to provide their bodies the nutrition it requires to flourish.  They are combinations of natural ingredients that scientific evidence or documented historical use have shown to be beneficial to human health.  Well-crafted nutraceutical supplements combine synergistic natural ingredients, in just the right amount, to help balance the diet.

Health is a journey – not a destination

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For those of you who are eating a balances diet, keep it up!

But, know this:

• The fresh foods you are eating have been grown on the same cropland over and over again. These foods are likely lacking important trace minerals that have long since been depleted from the soil.
• Plus, the produce has been harvested early so they can reach the supermarket and sold to you before it spoils.

These two situations are creating the gap between what your body needs and the nutrient availability in your diet. And, when you cook this fresh food, you may be widening the gap even further because sustained temperatures of 108º affect the viability of food enzymes in your fresh food.

For the rest of us who aren’t eating the way should . . .

There is a direct correlation between your health and your diet.
You either are or will be paying the price for neglecting your diet. Hand to Mouth Disease affects everyone sooner or later. You won’t find this particular diagnosis anywhere, but you will find the symptoms described everywhere. They have names like: being overweight or obese, constipation, digestive disorders, diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, joint disease, cancer and a whole host of complaints the are managed – not cured.

When you depend on packaged foods, you are also eating additives that:

• maintain the “appealing look” of the food,change the flavor, so it doesn’t taste like it came from a package,
• stop the contents from spoiling by interrupting any microbial action. When this preservative action continues along the digestive tract, it is likely that the friendly microbes in your intestinal tract, that are responsible for the conversion of food to nutrients, are impacted as well.

Another consideration is: food additives.

Regulators have deemed these individual chemicals Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS).  However, we never eat these chemicals individually, they are part of a meal that usually consists of several different packaged foods containing different GRAS chemicals. There is limited information concerning the impact of combining these GRAS chemicals, but the possibility exists that combining the different GRAS chemicals may be creating altogether different substances than those that have been studied.

Refined grain (like white flour and white rice), peeled tubers (potatoes and other underground growing vegetables) and meat do not contain any fiber. Besides supporting timely elimination, fiber manages sugar, cholesterol, toxin accumulation and many other functions.

The Nutritionists at Harvard University suggest a minimum of 30 grams of dietary fiber, everyday. Breakfast cereal, a burger and fries and something quick for dinner doesn’t even come close. There are some studies that suggest the lack of fiber in the typical diet may be contributing to digestive distress, cholesterol issues, sugar issues and certain cancers.

One final thought. How many of you have experienced a fast? You know, where you can’t eat or drink anything for 8 to 12 hours. Can you remember how hungry and thirsty you were afterwards?

Your body experiences a fast everyday … you don’t think about it because you are sleeping. The thing is, your body is rebuilding, using energy from calories and the nutrients from you diet to repair your damaged and worn out tissue while you are sleeping. After this daily fast, your body needs water and more energy.

Hand to Mouth Disease is going to make you suffer before it kills you.
If that’s your objective – suffer mightily before you die – then keep doing what you are doing.

If not . . .

Start eating breakfast.
Whoever said: “Breakfast is your most important meal!” was right. The first glass of water is critical and you must eat breakfast to jump-start your body. Here is a great way feed you body after your over night fast.

Recipe for the Perfect Breakfast
Soak regular oatmeal in water over night in a covered pan.
Add applesauce to thin and sweeten the oats.
Add 1 tsp. of flax seed oil.
Sprinkle 1 to 2 tsp. of cinnamon on the oats.
Crumble 6 walnut halves on top of the oats.
If you must have a sweet flavor, use xylitol. It tastes like sugar, but it isn’t and it has been shown to help with dental cavities.

Start drinking water.
The Nutritionists at the University of Michigan have studied the value of gool ‘ol water. The formula is: divide your body weight by 2 to determine the number of ounces of water you need to hydrate your body and flush out the wastes. Liquids do not count. If you drink caffeinated drinks, add 2 ounces of water for each ounce of beverage.

Start losing weight.
Fad diets are a waste of time. Find a well-formulated weight management supplement to help with metabolism and cravings. Take them religiously until the reflection in the mirror corresponds to the image you have in your mind.

Start eating.
You should never be hungry. Eat more vegetables (all colors, raw, steamed and cooked to crunchy) that grow above the ground and less meat (about the size of a deck of cards would be perfect.)

Start snacking.
Eat an apple or pear (every color there is) between meals. When you heard: “An apple a day keeps the Doctor away.”, it was the truth.

Start taking supplements.
Even the AMA recommends taking a multi-vitamin everyday. Make sure it contains more than the RDI. That level isn’t enough to keep you healthy it is just enough to keep you not sick. And, while you’re at it, make sure it dissolves in you body. Add a teaspoon of vinegar to an 8 once glass of tepid water (the temperature of formula you would feed a baby.) If it dissolves in the glass, it will dissolve in your body. If not, you are wasting your money – find a multi-vitamin that is better.

I invest about $3.50 a day in supplements to help me stay healthy. I’m 62 years old, seldom sick, take no prescriptions, ride horses in an equestrian event called team penning and keep up with our grandchildren. I avoid the typical land mines – smoking and drinking to excess and I enjoy life. I plan to die healthy. Can you say the same?

Make of this what you will. We formulate and market dietary supplements. Our objective is simple: provide affordable, effective dietary supplements to help people achieve their personal objectives. Our supplements aren’t magic bullets . . . they aren’t secret potions . . . they are supplements to fill the gap between what you are eating and what you should be consuming to stay healthy.

Isn’t that enough?

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