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NOTE: From time to time, we receive outside articles to consider for posting on our site. This is a terrific article. We hope you enjoy it. We would like to thank Richard Moyle, National Awareness Coordinator at the Mesothelioma Center for this informative article.

Good Nutrition Vital in Fighting Mesothelioma Cancer

According to the National Cancer Institute, at least 35 percent of all cancer cases are related to poor nutrition. Though mesothelioma is not a cancer that is related to poor nutrition, improving nutritional intake can help mesothelioma cancer patients fight the progressive disease.

The primary cause of mesothelioma is exposure to a naturally occurring mineral known as asbestos. The cancer develops in the mesothelial cells that make up the lining of the lungs, heart and abdomen. The symptoms of mesothelioma can take 20 to 50 years to become noticeable and it is typically diagnosed in its later stages. By this time, treatment options often become limited. But there are a number of beneficial foods that mesothelioma patients can use to enable their body to better fight the cancer.

Berries contain a whole host of important nutrients, including plenty of fiber and vitamin C. In fact, just one cup of strawberries has the same amount of vitamin C as one cup of orange juice, and all berries are great sources of this anti-oxidant and immune-strengthening vitamin. In addition to essential vitamins, berries are packed with several different types of cancer-fighting nutrients. In one study, extracts of six types of berries were tested for their ability to prevent the growth and spread of different types of cancer cells. Amazingly, each different type of berry was found to have an entirely unique combination of phytonutrients, and all six varieties of berry extract were able to kill cancer cells in the laboratory.

Dark green leafy vegetables are bursting with essential vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients that provide important cancer-fighting benefits. Beta-carotene, Lutein, and Zeaxanthin are powerful antioxidants that help protect the body against all forms of cancer by destroying free radicals. These free radicals are highly reactive oxygen compounds that can damage and destroy the body’s cells. Cells that are damaged are more likely to become cancerous, and antioxidants play an extremely important role in ridding the body of these cancer-causing free radicals.

Flaxseed also contains a number of compounds that are believed to be of use in fighting cancer and other diseases including alpha-linolenic acid and lignans. Most of the evidence regarding the ability of flaxseed to fight cancer has been obtained via laboratory research, as well as some small patient trials. Laboratory-grown breast cancer cells that are treated with flaxseed lignans become less ’sticky’ and mobile. This ’stickiness’ is an important property of cancer cells that allow them to metastasize and spread within the body. Other laboratory studies have involved adding flaxseed supplements to the diets of rats with skin, breast, or prostate cancer. In some rats, flaxseed supplements have been able to reduce the rate of growth and spread of these cancers.

These are just a few of the many types of foods that are beneficial to those suffering from mesothelioma and many other types of cancer. Be sure to talk to your doctor to learn about more ways to decrease the risk of developing cancer. Positive changes in your diet and other areas of your life (such as your physical activity) will help prevent cancer. If you do develop this medical condition, at the very least, these changes will allow you to fight the cancer more readily.

Contributed by:
Richard Moyle
National Awareness Coordinator
Mesothelioma Center

Recently, I have been considering how to simplify what seems to be an enormous source of confusion – eating.  Clearly, most people successfully put food in their mouths everyday so, there is a question that begs to be asked:  “Why am I wasting my time thinking about such a stupid thing?”

Here are two questions for you to consider:

• If eating is so simple, why are there so many people who are overweight?
• Why are so many people experiencing declining health over time?

We know, for example, the biology of science, Senescence, is showing that your body is fully capable of rebuilding a perfect replica of itself, cell by cell, every 7 years.  By producing 300 billion cells every night that are programmed to die, it replaces all of the 750 trillion cells that make
up your body.

Every minute of everyday your body assembles and disassembling all sorts of:

Enzymes to:

• digest your food
• operate your body
• fire nerves
• fire metabolism
• repair and replace damaged tissue

Amino acids to produce:

• hormones to start and stop different functions
• neurotransmitters to operate your brain
• immune cells to protect your body
• blood and lymph cells to carry substances around the body
• repair and replace damaged cells and tissue
• and, there’s even more – suffice it to say – the scope is enormous!

Here’s the rub:
the only way your body can do any of this is if the food you are eating contains the “stuff” the body needs to accomplish the tasks.

This business of eating the food you “like” virtually guarantees that your body won’t get what it needs to rebuild a perfect replica of itself – let alone carry on all of its minute by minute activities that keep you focused, active and healthy.

There are two thresholds, energy and nutrition, that must be met or your body ceases to operate efficiently – the perfect replica starts to become less perfect.

Carbohydrates

Your body burns carbohydrates, fat and water to create energy. The main dietary source to energize your body is carbohydrates.

• If you eat too few, or the wrong kind, you will run out of energy before you run out of day.
• If you eat too many or you are eating the wrong kind – you will get fat.
• If you hit the threshold, you will breeze through the day.

The “wrong” ones are easy:  white flour products, vegetables that grow underground, sweet fruits, sugar and sugars that added to packaged food.

• If you cannotburn these simple carbohydrates within two hours your body will turnthem into fat.
• And, you willget hungry because you need energy again.

The best carbohydrates come from whole grains, vegetables that grow above ground and fleshy fruit.  The Harvard School of Public Health provides guidance to help you select the “right” carbohydrates.

Fat

Fat has been painted with too broad of a brush so, people avoid it at all costs – this is a big mistake!  Granted, there is a “wrong” kind that can turn into plaque and body fat if you eat too much of it.

But, the “right” kind is essential to your body – that’s why they are called essential fatty acids.  Essential fatty acids keep your heart and arteries flexible, fight inflammation and support metabolism.   Harvard, once
again, explains the details if you want more information.

Water

Research has shown that within 10 minutes of drinking a pint of water, the metabolism increases by as much as 30 percent.  Other drinks did not show the same effect.

If you drink too little water and you may be at risk for headaches, muscle cramps, dizziness, constipation and other nasty symptoms.

If you drink an adequate amount of water you gain some great benefits such as a clearer mind, more energy and even help your body metabolize body fat.  

The second threshold is nutrition.  The tissue of all plants and animals are made up from building blocks, called Amino Acids.  Your body disassembles the plant and animal tissue then reassembles their Amino Acids, along with minerals to produce your tissue.

Protein
Protein provides the building blocks your body uses to create all of its cells, tissue and fluids are amino acids – they come from protein.  The source for protein is plant and animal tissue.  If you eat too many of the wrong kinds you will plug up digestion, the heart, arteries and your brain.  If you eat too few, your body will start to gradually deteriorate.  If you hit the threshold, you will be blessed with perfect replacement cells that maintain an efficient, perfect body.

The “right ones are easy:  vegetables, fleshy fruit, fish, poultry and limited
meat from vertebrates (beef and pork).  The Harvard School of Public Health provides guidance concerning meat and plant protein.

Minerals

Particular minerals like calcium have received lots of attention, so, there isn’t much to say about it and the other minerals for which a recommended daily intake has been established.

BUT (and there is always a but), most authorities fall silent when it comes to an entire category of minerals called trace minerals.  Also known as electrolytes, this obscure collection of water-soluble minerals are, in fact, essential for your well being.  They are co-factors in virtually every activity of your body.

The assumption is: you will receive sufficient amounts of these important nutrients when you consume fruits and vegetables.

This assumption is wrong in two ways:

• most people do not consume enough vegetables and even if you do consume the recommended 9 servings of vegetables and fruit
• the soils, on which the plants are grown, have long-since been depleted of these elements due to commercial farming practices.

In fact, this is one area were you must rely on a dietary supplement to support your body’s requirements.  They are marketed as Colloidal Minerals and/or trace minerals, typically liquid and a must if you plan on staying healthy.

Water

Did you notice that water is in both thresholds?  Water is your body’s principal chemical component, making up, on average, 60 percent of your body weight.

Every system in your body depends on water.  Water flushes toxins out of vital organs, carries nutrients to your cells, plumbs your body to protect vital tissue and provides a moist environment for ear, nose and throat tissues.

Possibly the most important thing you can do for your body is to keep it hydrated.  The biggest mistake most people make is to believe beverages count toward hydrating the body.

Water is . . . water!  Beverages:  coffee, tea, soda and juice are liquid food.  So, don’t get caught in that trap.

Drink at least 8 – 8oz. glasses of water everyday – more if it is hot, cold or your are sick.   There is no substitute for water and it is free from your tap and, if you let the water sit overnight in an open container, all of the chlorine will dissipate.  Fresh, clean, free water.  What could be better? 

You make the choice then you will experience the consequences.

• Too many simple carbohydrates – you will get fat.
• Too much exercise – you will tear up your joints.
• Too few minerals – your body can’t work right.
• Too little protein – your body will deteriorate.
• Too little water – metabolism slows down, you will become a husk, plus your body can’t clean itself.

Let me make it simple:  today’s choices are tomorrow’s consequences.  Too many people, me included, have been sugar coating the facts for too long.

• If you are not healthy, you have bought your own trouble.
• If you are neglecting your body but not experiencing the signs of neglect now, you have agreed to a layaway plan to experience
  those same sign of neglect – later.

You are paying, every day, with the choices you are making about convenient, fast food and adhering to a false paradigm that there is some special person or some magic bullet that can fix what you are breaking.

• The special person who can change the consequences is YOU.
• The magic bullet is the “stuff” you are consuming – everyday.   

You can change the way things are by changing the things you are doing.  The arguments that it is too expensive or you don’t have the time won’t hold water.

You either make time for health or spend time being sick.  The latter is very expensive in both money and the quality of your life.

• Start with an action plan to meet the thresholds your body needs to stay healthy or get healthy.
• Assess what you are eating for breakfast, lunch and dinner – everyday -  to care for the needs of your body.
• Fill the gap in your diet with the best nutraceutical supplements you can buy.  Know this: the better you do with the foods you are eating – the fewer supplements it takes to fill the gap in your diet.
• Do your best.  It is not practical to expect to “eat right” everyday.  There is a principal in health that you can take to the bank:  It is not
  what you do occasionally that hurts, it is what you do everyday.
• Splurge once in a while.   After all, life is worth living.  But, get back on the wagon as quickly as possible. 
• Health is a journey.  You can choose to accept the fact that you are in charge of your own health or cling to the false hope that someone orsomething can fix what you have broken.

It’s Your Life – It’s Your Choice.

The human body is a self-defending, self-repairing, self-replicating vessel – virtually every cell of the 750 trillion cells in the body is replaced every seven years.

While you are sleeping, your body builds 300 billion cells every night just to keep up with the task.

If You’re Born Healthy, You Should Die Healthy

 
The study of aging, called Senescence, is revealing that every cell in the body must be replaced every 7 years over your lifetime.Discoveries surrounding aging report a phenomenon, called Apoptosis,
that determines, at the cellular level, when and how many times particular cells of the body are replaced.

Furthermore, DNA, the recipe for a perfect cell, assures that each regeneration of your body can be an exact duplicate of the original – without cellular degradation – if the ingredients called for in the cellular recipe are present.

The entire process happens automatically, it won’t stop until you die except, there is one chink in the process;  this magnificent, automatic process is totally dependant on what you choose to put in your mouth.

It All Depends on YOU

•  If the food you are consuming contains the minimum quantity of the basic cellular building blocks, called the threshold, the quality of all the cells produced that day are exact duplicates to the
  ones that are being replaced.  Your health will remain constant.
• If you consume more than the minimum quantity of the basic cellular building blocks you will benefit in two ways:  the quality of all the cells produced that day are exact duplicates to the ones that are being replaced and your body can save the difference for use when there is a deficiency.   Your health may improve.
• If the food that is being consumed falls below the threshold, it is deficient in basic cellular building blocks thus the quality of all the cells produced that day diminishes – the quality of cells and
  health degenerates.
• The speed at which health declines is proportional to the number of days, weeks or years that the body is forced to produce substandard cells.  That’s why it is called degenerative disease.

Ingest:  The balanced diet recommends the quantity and type of food your body needs to stay healthy, youthful and vibrant.   Meeting or exceeding these thresholds through diet or a combination of diet and dietary supplements pays you dividends – supporting your health, length of life and quality of life.   YOU control this process.

Digest:  The body uses  enzymes, caustic acid, neutralizing fluids and relies on friendly microbes to convert the food you eat into the nutrition your body requires to stay healthy, vibrant and youthful.

Assimilate:  Nutrients are delivered where they are needed over an arterial highway where they pass through the cellular membranes into the cells.  The old saying “You are what you eat.” should be “You are what you assimilate.”

Eliminate:  The body accumulates cellular wastes, toxins and undigested debrisover the course of the day.   The timely, efficient and complete elimination of waste, shortly after each meal, stops the
drowning on cellular waste, lessens the impact of environmental toxins, parasites and other infective organisms

 Sustain: The body depends on a minimum level of nutrients, called the threshold, to stay healthy.  If you stay at or above this threshold, you reduce the risk of experiencing chronic disease or declining health.

Mend: Millions of cells wear out each and every day; others are damaged through the process of living.  If you stay at or above this threshold, the body has all of the components it needs to renew itself at optimal levels keeping you healthy, vibrant and youthful.

Defend: The body is constantly under attack from the environment, microbes, parasites and other forces.  Staying at or above the threshold provides needed protection from the ravages of everyday living.

Energize: The body depends on fuel (glucose) and trace minerals from your diet for mental clarity, endurance and energy.
 

Experts and nutritionists agree: “There is a direct relationship between staying healthy and consuming 7 servings of colorful vegetables and fruits each day.”

Everyday, people choose to eat the food that contributes to their decline in health.  Fast, sweet and convenient are the dietary guidelines for the day.
People eat whatever they feel like eating—whenever they feel like it.

Children are developing the very same diseases as their parents because as children, they are putting their feet under the same dining table as their
parents. 

A great first step is to examine the habits that contribute to declining health and lead to sickness, then begin changing them.

Be honest! Could you do better if you tried?  Do the best you can.  And, don’t despair if you can’t eat everything you need to become and stay healthy.  Simply fill the gap in your diet with a well crafted nutraceutical supplement, system or program to address your particular need or the gap in your diet.

Remember, it is not what you do occasionally that damages your health, it is what you do everyday. Eat whole foods, drink clean water and use nutraceutical supplements to sustain your healthy body.

After all, who wants to die sick?

Self – Care

Self-care is taking responsibility for your health – it is health care.  Self-care is founded in the belief that no one has more to gain, when you support your health, or lose if you do not.

Health Care is not Sick Care

When you are threatened with the loss of your most important asset, your health, physicians may play an important part in helping you recover by diagnosing your symptoms, prescribing appropriate medications and following your progress until you have recovered.

Recovery is More Than Controlling Symptoms

Sick-care has a beginning and an end.  Once your body has been stabilized, your progress is the result of your body’s ability to heal itself.

The old adage, “It’s not the bullet that kills, it is the body’s inability to react to the sudden change in circumstance” sums up the body’s ability to heal itself. If a person is shot, the personnel in the emergency room stabilize the body and wait for the body to heal itself. 

Few people give their health a second thought

Granted, every-day-living leaves little time for anything else.  They believe they will avoid the likelihood they, like millions of others, will suffer from the most insidious of conditions – declining health.  Or, when it is their turn, and most people will have to take their turn, there will be some wondrous something – man made or naturally occurring – that will fix what has broken.

Why Me?

The most frequently asked question, from people who have lost their health is “Why me?” 

When you consider what happens when health starts to decline: the seemingly endless visits to physicians and specialists, the ever-increasing number of prescriptions, the ongoing calls to the insurance company and the loss of quality of life, it easy to understand the frustration.

Choices and Consequences

For the most part, declining health is the consequence of neglecting the responsibility to care for the needs of the body – for years.  Declining health is the consequence of historic choices in four areas:  lifestyle, exercise, rest and diet.  

The Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control report: “Today, chronic diseases—such as cardiovascular disease (primarily heart disease and stroke), cancer, and diabetes—are among the most prevalent, costly, and preventable of all health problems.  . . . The prolonged course of illness and disability from such chronic diseases as diabetes and arthritis results in extended pain and suffering and decreased quality of life for millions of Americans. Chronic, disabling conditions cause major limitations in activity for more than one of every 10 Americans . . . .” 

The CDE further reports: “ . . .  Although chronic diseases are among the most common and costly health problems, they are also among the most preventable. Adopting healthy behaviors such as eating nutritious foods, being physically active, and avoiding tobacco use can prevent or control the devastating effects of these diseases.”

Self-Care is Health Care

Self-Care is the ounce of prevention that is worth a pound of cure.  It is making informed decisions regarding your health before you are forced to make decisions about sick care.  

• Be Decisive:  decide how you will invest in health.
• Be Dedicated:  make the time to invest in health.
• Be Disciplined:  do the things it takes to stay healthy, lifestyle choices, moderate exercise, rest, eat a healthy diet that feeds your body.

The growing market for natural supplements to promote and maintain health points to an ever-increasing interest in self-care. Using dietary supplements is a choice to invest in health, not because the supplements are natural magic bullets, but because a well crafted dietary supplement can help fill the gap in your diet between what you are eating and what you should be consuming to stay healthy.

Choices and Consequences

Regardless of your state of health, whether you are considering, old-fashioned dietary supplements, state of the art nutraceutical supplements or pharmaceuticals, it is important to make informed, cautious decisions, because after all, no one has more to gain, or lose, than you.

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

It is not what you do occassionally that damages your health, it is what you do everyday.  Eat whole foods, Drink clean water, and use a dietary supplement to sustain your healthy body.

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• Manage appetite and cravings 
• Promote metabolism and energy expenditure 
•  Activate fat burning tissue 
• Manage fat producing hormones

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While NUPRO weight management supplements can be an important tool to help people reach their weight loss objectives, adding moderate exercise and making better, more moderate dietary choices can help the consumer realize their weight loss goals quickly.  NUPRO provides consumers guidance to support long-term weight management using diet pills.

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The job of the immune system is to defend the body against millions of pathogens: environment bacteria, microbes, viruses, toxins and parasites, that are waiting to invade the body.  The term pathogen is derived from the Greek “that which produces suffering. A pathogen is: a biological agent that causes disease or illness to its host.

The immune system protects the body from pathogens in three different ways:

• First, It has a barrier to keep pathogen from entering the body – the skin.
• Second, if the pathogen does get into the body, it detects and eliminate it before it can make itself at home and reproduce with which it has experience with the innate immune system.
• Finally, if the pathogen is able to get past the body’s 2^nd line of defense, it springs into action to identify the invader and create anti bodies to wipe out the invading agent with the adaptive immune system.

Your skin is an important part of the immune system.

It acts as a primary boundary between the body and the environment. The skin also secretes antibiotic substances so that most germs (bacteria, virus and spores) that land on the skin die quickly. These substances explain why you don’t wake up in the morning with a layer of mold growing on your skin.

The outer skin, approximately 9 square feet in size.

It is tough and generally impermeable to environment (air, water, heat, cold and sun), toxins, microbes and organisms. It also contains special cells called Langerhans cells that are an important early-warning component in the immune system.

The inner skin covers approximately 10,000 square feet.

Your nose, eyes and mouth (including the intestinal tract) are obvious entry points for pathogens.

• Tears and the lining of the inner skin (mucus) contain an enzyme, lysozyme, that breaks down the cell wall of many germs to kill them outright.
• The nasal passage and lungs are coated in mucus.  Many germs, not killed immediately, are trapped in the mucus linings, swallowed, then killed by stomach acid and digestive juices. Saliva is also anti-bacterial.
• Likewise, the intestines have a similar coating that is reinforced by an army of microbes (numbering in the billions) that, in addition to supporting the conversion of food to nutrition, create anti-pathogenic substances from which we benefit as well.

Specialized cells called Mast Cells, lining the nasal passages, throat, lungs and skin, are part of the innate immune system. Any pathogen attempting to gain entry to your body must first make it past these defenses.

White blood cells, created inside your bones, are part of your body’s immune response. The white blood cells are probably the most important part of your immune system. The term “white blood cells” are actually a whole collection of different cells, produced on demand, that work together to destroy germs.

The Lymph System

The lymph system is a familiar term to many people because doctors and mothers often check for “swollen lymph nodes” in the neck for an indication of an infection. Lymph nodes are just one part of a whole system that extends throughout your body in much the same way as your blood vessels.

Lymph nodes contain filtering tissue and a large number of lymph cells that, when fighting infections, swell with bacteria and the cells fighting the bacteria.

Lymph, also called blood plasma, is an almost clear liquid that fills the space between cells that make up tissue.  It is circulated by body and muscle motion bathing the cells with water, oxygen and nutrients. Blood transfers these substances to the lymph through the capillary walls; the lymph then carries it to the cells.

On the return trip, the lymph then absorbs cellular waste and any pathogens that may enter the body. Small lymph vessels collect the returning liquid and move it toward larger vessels so that the fluid finally arrives at the lymph nodes for processing.
 
The number of cells that are created and then sacrificed, every day, in the process of protecting your body is enormous. Short changing your body of the essential nutrients that are required to replace this army leads to:

• diminished immune system protection,
• diminished health
• in some cases, a confusion in purpose where this power army of cells and substances turns against the body often referred to as an autoimmune disorder.

Filling the gap between what you consume and what you should be eating with professional quality nutraceutical supplements is an essential protocol to promote and maintain immune system function.

Remember:  It is not what you do occasionally that will help or harm you . . .  it is what you do everyday.

Sick Care

The top five causes of death are:
Heart Disease, Cancer, Stroke, Chronic Respiratory Disease and Diabetes.

Countless millions of people will endure seemingly endless years of suffering before they succumb to these killers. Almost everyone who receives the bad news, the diagnosis that they have “it”, will spring into action.

• They seek out the “best medical attention money can buy”, to fight the good fight;
• And, when their insurance runs out, they mortgage themselves, to the hilt, so they can keep on fighting;
• And, if they are lucky enough to survive the ordeal, must have their condition managed to prevent its return, which in and of itself is another costly affair.
• And, all of this suffering and expense may be preventable.

At this point, 99% of you will stop reading because you think it won’t happen to you.
So . . . Good luck.
But, when it does, just remember, you won’t be able to say you weren’t warned.

For the rest of you .  .  .

To Change the Way Things Are, You Must Change the Things You Do

Our love affair with packaged and processed convenience food is killing us.
Your body does not benefit when you consume flavor enhancing chemicals, salt, sugar and preservatives. When you add in the generous amount of fast food that people consume everyday, it is easy to understand why there is an explosion of these chronic diseases.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the the U.S. National Cancer Institute report Americans are failing to get the vegetable and fruit nutrition needed for optimal health. They point out: … more than 60% of Americans fail to reach the minimum recommendation of 5 servings of differently colored vegetables/fruit per day – let alone the preferred recommendation – eating the 9 to 13 servings per day that it takes to promote optimum health.

The Journal of the American Dietetic Association (September, 2006) reports that the dietary habits of certain studied groups were especially bad.

• Boys 14-18: less than 1% reached the 5-a-day minimum target
• Women 51-70: the number was 17%.
• Other groups faired poorly prompting researchers to comment: “A large portion of the U.S. population needs to increase their vegetable and fruit intake if the minimum recommendations are to be met.

Don’t Wait to Close the Barn Door Until After the Horse Runs Away.
The formula is simple:

• Poor nutrition equals poor health with a greater likelihood you will suffer with and die from one of these chronic diseases.
• Good nutrition equals good health with a greater likelihood you can avoid these chronic diseases.

Health Care

The top 6 factors contributing to declining health are:
Poor Diet, Obesity, Constipation,Digestion, Parasites and Toxins.

The U.S. Center for Disease Control, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the American Heart Association, the U.S. National Cancer Institute and most major health authorities agree that a whole food diet is one our best weapons in the fight against chronic disease.

• Whole foods contain the powerful protector nutrients that are our best weapons in the fight against chronic disease.
• Eating a variety of vegetables and fruit help you control your weight and your blood pressure.
• The fiber in whole grain foods can help lower your blood cholesterol and help you feel full, which may help you manage your weight.
• Vegetables, fruit and grains contain a number of nutrients, to help reduce the risk of cancer.
• Eating non-starchy vegetables (those that grow above the ground) of different color and variety can help prevent diabetes.
• Eating fish containing omega-3 fatty acids, (salmon, trout, and herring) twice a week, may help lower your risk of death from coronary artery disease.

One Final Thought
In a perfect world, our food would be our medicine. You could consume everything your body needs to grow old while enjoying the benefits of good health. Our world isn’t perfect, so do the best you can.

• Moderate your consumption of convenience and fast food
• Eat more vegetables that grow above ground and fruit for between meal snacks.
• Drink more water (at least 8 – eight ounce glasses) – less soda, coffee and tea.
• Then, consider using well-crafted nutraceutical supplements to fill the gap in your diet between what you are eating and what you should be consuming to promote and maintain your health.

If you feel that your body is less than healthy, it is likely that one or more of the usual culprits could be stealing your health.  Consider using a specific nutraceutical supplement to restore your well being.
Poor Diet, Obesity, Constipation, Digestion, Parasites and Toxins.

It is, after all, better to invest in health than it is to pay for sickness.

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There seems to be a variety of opinions regarding the value of diet pills.  There are as many people who have experienced meaningful weight loss from using diet pills as those who have been disappointed.  The simple fact is:  diet pills are not magic bullets.  But, they can be a useful weapon in your personal battle of the bulge.

Regardless of your position,  one of the most popular segments of the dietary supplement industry is weight loss, commonly sold as diet pills, to help people burn fat and lose weight. It is easy to understand why diet pills are so popular with consumers.

Americans are a growing population.
Unfortunately, it is growing wider and wider. Airline seats are becoming too small for the passengers; beds aren’t strong enough to hold the occupants; cars, that used to seat 6 people comfortably, do so for 4 people. Clothing manufacturers are even changing the cut of their clothes. Size 12 isn’t a 12 anymore – it is relaxed fit.

Prior to 2003, most of the diet pills contained an herb called Ma Huang. It has a stimulating action and, when mixed with a natural caffeine source and a natural aspirin, initiates thermogenesis: a process that creates heat by burning calories in the form of stored fat. Users experience increased energy and in most cases, measurable weight loss.

The active ingredient, Ephedra, was banned by F.D.A. in 2003.
The F.D.A. felt these ephedra-based products were dangerous and banned all supplements containing Ma Huang and any other herb that contained this particular plant compound generally referred to as Ephedra. Rightly or wrongly, people lost a valuable tool for weight loss because a few people, who were using the product, refused to follow label instructions.

What are People Doing?
People still want diet pills to help them lose weight. The industry offers a host of diet products that contain stimulants from various sources. Recently, the F.D.A. evaluated weight loss products. After the evaluation, more than 70 of them were recalled because the products were adulterated with unauthorized stimulants. The list is available on Consumer Alert website of the F.D.A.

There are better choices.
There are diet pills on the market that do not rely on over-stimulating the body to help consumers lose weight. But, because they lack the “pop” that was the hallmark of the ephedra-based diet products, they are often overlooked by consumers. In fact, many of these products can be very helpful for achieving meaningful weight loss.

People should expect three things from a diet pill:

1. A quick, experiential change of energy. It isn’t that jittery feeling – it is a sensation that people often refer to as an awakening.
2. A sustained, heightened level of energy and focus that, when taken in the morning, carries the consumer through the typical mid-morning doldrums. You can expect a similar experience if you use the weight loss supplement at lunch.
3. Appetite and cravings management to help avoid snacking between meals.

Can diet pills help you lose weight without feeling jittery?
You bet. Diet pills can help you lose weight. But, you should know that there is a difference between burning calories and burning fat. And, you can lose weight even faster if you add moderate exercise and avoid eating products made with white flour, milk and milk products, starches and table sugar. And, don’t forget fruit sugar in juices!

Whether you choose to begin your weight loss program for health reasons or appearance, you don’t have to feel like you could jump out of your skin to lose weight. All you really need is your good judgment, well-crafted diet pills and a little time.

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