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		<title>When Does &#8220;Not Me!&#8221; Become &#8220;Why Me?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"> <strong>Who among you believes you will suffer the indignity of<br />
Failing health, Cancer, Diabetes, Stroke, Heart Attack or Cardiovascular disease?</strong></p>
<p> Anyone?</p>
<p> Well, if you believe the statistics, about half of you will suffer and ultimately succumb to one of these.  And, if you add another leading cause of suffering and death &#8211; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allopathic_medicine">Allopathic </a>errors &#8211; the number is higher.</p>
<p> The exact moment when “Not Me.” becomes “Why Me?” is when your body stops sending you suggestions that things aren’t right and issues a formal complaint.</p>
<ul>
<li>Like the moment when you didn’t lose the 5 pounds you gained over winter</li>
<li>Like the moment when the antacids you were taking for your indigestion stopped working.</li>
<li>Like the moment you stopped needing the bathroom everyday.</li>
<li>Like the moment your blood pressure, cholesterol, or sugar jumped off the charts.</li>
</ul>
<p> You received your body’s formal complaint the exact moment when you clutched that little piece of paper that contained a prescription for “managing” your condition or a referral to a specialist.</p>
<p><strong> Avoidable And, In Many Cases, Reversible</strong></p>
<p>The body requires 4 actions to occur, in a particular order, along a long tube called the digestive tract.  It is open on both ends, able to resist acids and digestive juices and it supports a significant population of microbes to support the efficiency of these 4 actions.</p>
<p> The <strong>4 actions</strong> are:</p>
<ol>
<li>Ingestion (eating) food that contains the threshold of nutrients</li>
<li>Elimination of wastes and toxins, in the digestive tract and inside the body as well, to make room for the new batch of nutrients</li>
<li>Digestion (breaking down food into nutrients)</li>
<li>Assimilation; which is the transport of nutrients out of the digestive tract to your tissue and cells.</li>
</ol>
<p> Once the nutrients arrive, the body carries out <strong>4 functions</strong>:</p>
<ol>
<li>Mend any damage to cells and tissue</li>
<li>Defend itself from external organisms and internal toxins</li>
<li>Energize itself</li>
<li>Rebuild itself  (Some estimates suggest the body totally replaces every cell every 7 years.)</li>
</ol>
<p><strong> When Does” Not Me!” become “Why Me?”</strong></p>
<p><strong>Answer</strong>:  It is the exact moment when your body can longer compensate for failing to have its minimum threshold of nutrition, water, moderate exercise and/or rest.</p>
<p><strong> How to Become a NOT ME!</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Drink at least 8 – 8 ounces of clean water everyday.</li>
<li>Exercise everyday – walk 2 blocks away and back briskly &#8211; everyday.</li>
<li>Go to bed.  Your body needs to rest.</li>
<li>Eat nutritious food and STOP skipping meals.</li>
<li>Take dietary supplements.</li>
</ol>
<p><strong> There are those who contend that people don’t need supplements and that food contains all the nutrients your body needs – Hah!</strong></p>
<p>1.      <a href="http://www.nupro.net/store/deficientindietarysupplement.asp">Processed, packaged and convenience food is a joke</a>!  They’re nutritionally deficient and produced to make you eat more of them.</p>
<p>2.      “Fresh” vegetables and fruit are, for the most part: commercially grown, harvested early and transported; all of which affects their nutritional value negatively.</p>
<p><strong> Pay Me Now or Pay Me Later</strong></p>
<p>You can take this to the bank:  everyone one of you, sooner or later, will experience the affects of nutritional deficiencies unless you change your ways and start filling the gaps in your diet with supplements.</p>
<p> <strong>You can choose to ignore the situation or do something about it.</strong></p>
<p>I recommend the later.</p>
<p> There are many options to help you supplement your diets. And, as you would expect, I recommend NUPRO supplements, but there are others.</p>
<p> <strong>Your 1<sup>st</sup> choice</strong> should be supplements to help <a href="http://www.nupro.net/store/products.asp?cat=Fundamental+Nutrition">build a foundation of nutrition</a> that supports your body.  Choose dietary supplements that can help fill the gaps in your diet.</p>
<p> <strong>Next,</strong> make another choice based, not on your most recent complaint, but on the 1<sup>st</sup> complaint that you can remember.  Often times, that 1<sup>st</sup> issue started a cascade that landed you where you are today.  Choose dietary supplements to <a href="http://www.nupro.net/store/categories.asp?cat=Specific+Needs">support that declining function</a>.</p>
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<li> If you want to learn more, we have both an <a href="http://www.nupro.net/store/nutraceuticalpress.asp">extensive on-line library</a> of articles, published by our Professional staff, as well as an <a href="http://www.nupro.net/store/resourcecenter.asp">on-line resource center</a> to connect you with leading Universities and researchers.</li>
<li>If you need personalized help, <a href="http://www.nupro.net/store/naturalhealthconsultant.asp">we will help you</a> with your decisions.</li>
<li>If you choose to ignore the situation, we wish you the best of luck, you’ll need it.</li>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong> Remember:  Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results</strong></p>
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		<dc:creator>Frank</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Judging by your comments, some of you are taking umbrage with our analysis of the weight loss sector.  In retrospect, we should have kept the analysis to ourselves.  But then, those of you who are interested wouldn’t have the perspective that the analysis provides.</p>
<p><strong>The long and short of our analysis of weight loss products shows that the historic approaches to weight loss delivers short-term benefits.</strong>  But, once the: stimulants, fat blockers, carb blockers, starvation diets, specialty diets, special packaged foods or strenuous exercise stops, people regain weight.</p>
<p><strong>Some time ago, we prepared a paper titled:  “<a href="http://www.nupro.net/store/Todayschoices.asp">Today’s Choices are Tomorrow’s Consequences</a>”.  </strong>In it, we made the point that the dietary choices people are making, everyday, contribute to either declining health or reliable health. </p>
<p>Choosing fast, processed and preserved food is a choice, made knowingly or unknowingly, to accept the prospects of declining health.</p>
<p>Further, we suggested that people could reduce the likelihood of enduring the symptoms of declining health by choosing whole, fresh food more often and filling the gap with supplements.</p>
<p><strong>Next, we prepared a paper titled:  “<a href="http://www.nupro.net/store/handtomouthdisease.asp">The Missing Diagnosis</a>”.</strong>  In it, we made the point that many of the discomforts of declining health can be attributed to one diagnosis:  Hand to Mouth Disease.</p>
<p>Frankly, I can only empathize with those of you who are experiencing declining health, because I am healthy.  I make the choice, everyday to invest in health.</p>
<p>I chose to consume foods and beverages that feed my body rather than those that challenge my body.  And, I use supplements to fill the gaps brought on by choosing to eat cooked foods (I take enzymes) and live in Colorado where fresh fruits and vegetables aren’t grown year-round. (I take trace minerals, red and green phytonutrients).</p>
<p><strong>We prepared a paper title:  “<a href="http://www.nupro.net/store/self-care.asp">Invest in Health or Pay to be Sick</a>” to describe the logic involved in making a decision </strong>like the choice I make to care for my body.</p>
<p>The point is:  dealing with being overweight or obese is not like dealing with an occasional headache.  <strong>You can’t take a pill and make it go away</strong>.  Gaining weight, from our perspective, is one of the symptoms of declining health brought on by dietary choices that culminate in metabolic dysfunction, malnutrition, constipation and addiction to foods with a high glycemic load.</p>
<p><strong>Being overweight is a symptom</strong>.  <a href="http://www.nupro.net/store/sickcarevshealthcare.asp">It is a predictor</a> &#8211; that you will experience other symptoms, in future years, that are the consequences of you choices.</p>
<p>Some years ago, we presented a paper, <a href="http://www.nupro.net/store/healthypeopledontgetsick.asp">Healthy People Don’t Get Sick</a>.  It is as true today as the day we presented the paper.  While you should read this paper, the summary is:  if you treat you body with respect, it will return the favor. </p>
<p><strong>There are 4 Simple Truths that everyone should know about staying healthy.</strong>  Rather than outlining the subject, you can read them for yourself.   The <a href="http://www.nupro.net/store/managinghealthandhealing.asp">4 Simple Truths</a> demystifies the issues surrounding what you need to do to protect your health.</p>
<p>Another report:  “<a href="http://www.nupro.net/store/caringforyourbody.asp">Caring for Your Body</a>”, strips away the scientific jargon to examine, in plain English, the simple elegance of the functioning of the body.  But, it is only applicable once you examine and discard the <a href="http://www.nupro.net/store/epidemicofchronicdisease.asp">myths that are contributing to declining health</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Back to Weight Loss …</strong></p>
<p>A good guess is that most of you are malnourished from eating too many “quickie” meals and over-stimulated at work and home.  Why throw more wood on the fire?</p>
<p><strong>All of the attempts to deal with weight gain fail to deliver</strong>, in the long run, because they fail to account for the cause – habits.  The false paradigms the allow people to believe they can ignore the needs of their bodies and still stay healthy; that someone, or something, can fix what they have broken.</p>
<p><strong>When you stop treating weight gain and obesity as a disease, </strong>and recognize that it is a sign of declining health, which is a symptom of Hand to Mouth Disease, the prospects for meaningful long-term weight management improve dramatically.</p>
<p><strong>The choice is yours</strong>.  If you continue to abuse the resiliency of the human body, it will, sooner or later, fail to bounce back from your abuse.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:56:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WOW!  Today, a Google search for “loosing weight” delivered 68,981,654 hits. You have a lot to see, and to consider, if you’re trying to get information about losing weight from the web.  With all those options, it is no wonder people are confused.  Earlier this year, we went through an intensive analysis before we decided [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WOW!  Today, a Google search for “loosing weight” delivered 68,981,654 hits.</p>
<p>You have a lot to see, and to consider, if you’re trying to get information about losing weight from the web.</p>
<p> <strong>With all those options, it is no wonder people are confused.</strong></p>
<p> Earlier this year, we went through an intensive analysis before we decided to re enter the weight loss supplement market.  The analysis was insightful and, surprisingly similar to the analysis we concluded in 1990.</p>
<p> You may find the analysis interesting, and it may help you make sense out of all the “stuff”, on the web, about weight loss.</p>
<p> <strong>Here is an overview of our analysis of the weight loss options we investigated.</strong></p>
<p> There are several options available to assist people during the weight loss process in the market today. </p>
<p>They are:</p>
<p><strong> Eat less – Exercise More</strong></p>
<p>Certainly, there is nothing new here.  Logic dictates that this approach should work, but, in most cases, it doesn’t!</p>
<p> In fact, it may contribute to the difficulties for long-term weight management.</p>
<p> In the world of metabolism, the body views less food, with more exercise, as a famine.  It responds by turning down Basal Metabolic Rate (the metabolism that is responsible for burning 70% of you calories, everyday) to conserve energy expenditure.  When the famine continues, the body begins to use the protein, in tissue, as a source of BMR energy (ketosis) to conserve the ready source of energy in fat for emergencies.</p>
<p> Once the calorie restriction stops, BMR may, or may not, reset to its healthy “burn rate”.  The individual, whose BMR fails to reset, soon gains the lost weight back – and often more!  Thus begins the cycle that is the phenomenon referred to as the YO-YO effect.</p>
<p><strong> Fat Blocker Dietary Supplements</strong></p>
<p>This category of supplements for weight loss, espouse another concept that seems to make sense.  The theory goes:  if you stop fat from leaving your digestive system, you can stop the fat from accumulating around the body.</p>
<p> You need to know that calories are a measure of the energy value of food:  Protein offers 4 calories/gram, Carbohydrates – 4 calories/gram, Fat &#8211; 9 calories/gram. (For most of us, a gram is approximately 3.5 ounces.)</p>
<p> Back to the world of metabolism, fat is a critical part of energy production.  The engine that sparks metabolism (mitochondria) burns water, glucose (sugar) and fat to produce energy.   Stored fat requires more internal activity than dietary fat, which slows down the production of energy at the cellular level.</p>
<p> The issue boils down to the good fat &#8211; bad fat dilemma.  Indiscriminately blocking fat may not be such a good thing for supporting healthy metabolism.</p>
<p> <strong>Carbohydrate Blocker Dietary Supplements  </strong>(Recently, this category has been recast as a sugar blocker)</p>
<p>To understand the theory of carb blocking, you need to know that all carbohydrates are rendered into glucose in your digestive system and that glucose is the primary energy-producing component of metabolism.</p>
<p> There are two types of dietary carbohydrates, categorized by how quickly the body converts them into glucose:  Simple and Complex.</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Simple Carbohydrates</strong> are converted very quickly into glucose.  They are generally white:  flour, starchy grain (white rice), milk (and things made from milk), sugar, fruit juice and starchy tubers (things that grow underground).</li>
<li><strong>Complex Carbohydrates</strong> require more digestion, and, therefore, the glucose “trickles” into the metabolic process.  They are typically whole foods:  grains, fresh vegetables (that grow above the ground) and fresh fruit.</li>
</ol>
<p> While both types of carbohydrates have the same caloric value, 4 calories/gram, <a href="http://www.nupro.net/store/sugar.asp">the impact is vastly different</a>.  An easy way to understand the difference is:  <strong>simple carbohydrates “explode”</strong> into the metabolic process while <strong>complex carbohydrates are “metered” in</strong>.</p>
<p> The best analogy is to view the process like the way gas is metered into a car’s engine.  Too much fuel, too soon, the engine will flood.  In the case of glucose, the body works hard to avoid “flooding out”.</p>
<p> The issue boils down to a good carb – bad carb dilemma.  Like fat blockers, blocking the source of glucose, the primary source for energy, will affect healthy metabolism.</p>
<p><strong>Stimulants</strong></p>
<p>Natural stimulants, like caffeine, are common and widely used in weight loss supplements.  Their theory is: stimulating the adrenal system, with a natural stimulant, will increase caloric demand thereby increasing the burning of stored fat to accommodate that demand.</p>
<p> The issue boils down to one question:  “How much is too much.”  A typical consumer ingests lots of caffeine:  coffee, tea, soda, and now, energy drinks.  Besides caffeine, sugar, contained in these various beverages, in processed and fast food and in juices, is stimulating the adrenal system.</p>
<p> Add stress, at work, home and the background stress created by worrying about economic issues, friends, etc, the adrenal system is at a tipping point as it is.  Adding more pressure on the adrenal system, without supporting it, might carry the process too far.</p>
<p> In fact, one of the most likely new supplement categories will be adrenal dysfunction.  Research is surfacing that suggests that modern lifestyle choices may already be taxing the adrenal system.  As a result, NUPRO is evaluating historical uses of herbs, various current findings to access the possible application of a natural supplement, or system, to address the issue.</p>
<p><strong> Other Approaches</strong></p>
<p>As one would expect, from an issue that impacts so many people, there is a plethora of choices.  <strong>Strenuous exercise</strong> tops the list, followed closely by <strong>weigh-in clubs,</strong> <strong>clubs with mail order “healthy food portions”</strong>, <strong>Clinics</strong> offering injections, <strong>hypnosis</strong> and <strong>bariatric surgery </strong>that seeks to restrict, or remodel the digestive tract to disrupt the absorption of nutrients.</p>
<p> On the main, the options in this category are expensive, and due to the radical life style changes they require, provide a possible short term benefit that diminishes once the participant can no longer afford the time or expense or lacks the discipline to proceed.</p>
<p> <strong>Judging by the almost epidemic state of being overweight or being obese, these approaches may not be  working quite as well as one would expect.  The weight management issue is big &#8230; and growing.  There is ample opportunity if &#8230; .</strong></p>
<p><em>Next week:  What are the  formulation objectives for NUPRO&#8217;s new weight loss products.</em></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just a quick note this Friday afternoon:</p>
<p> We just finished the landing page for the <a href="http://www.nupro.net/store/thinrite.asp">NUPRO weight loss systems and products</a>.  I would appreciate you taking a look and, if you have a minute, reporting your impression.  Thanks for your time.</p>
<p> As an aside, any of you who are paying more that $3.00 per day for your weight management program, or supplements, should pay close attention to the featured system at the site.  It is a bargain at the suggested price; with the discounted sale price, it is a steal.  <strong>So, no excuses about money.   What is the price tag for your health?  </strong></p>
<p> I wrote, earlier, that the campaign would be called: <em><strong> A New You in 90 Days!  </strong></em> It is and it performs as advertised!</p>
<p>Thanks again for your help.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[ It appears a nerve has been struck in the “exercise more” weight loss camp. Well … easy big fellas!

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> It appears a nerve has been struck in the “exercise more” weight loss camp.</p>
<p> Well … take it easy on me big fellas!</p>
<p> If gym exercising is your deal, more power to you.  If you find solace in your time in the gym, or however you choose to “sweat”, knock yourself out!  If others choose to join you, more power to them, too.</p>
<p>But, you need to know that <strong>many of us don’t share your enthusiasm</strong>.</p>
<p>Gym exercise is not my thing.  My exercise of choice is riding horses.  For me, the experience is physical, mental and, because I compete in events with other like-minded people, social.  I particularly enjoy the therapeutic qualities of the partnership with my highly athletic partners – my quarter horses.</p>
<p><strong>While there is a multitude of ways to manage weight – all of them must involve 3 things</strong>:</p>
<ol>
<li>Better diet</li>
<li>Exercise that fits your schedule, ability and proclivity</li>
<li>Lifestyle choices including: sleep, rest and stress management</li>
</ol>
<p> When people have lost, or are losing, their ability to control their weight, one, two or all three of these components conspire to layer on the unwanted pounds and put their health at risk.</p>
<p> The issue can be viewed as a balanced mathematical equation: <strong> Diet + Moderate Exercise + Lifestyle = Healthy.</strong></p>
<p><strong>When</strong> any one, two or all of the pieces of <strong>the left side of the equation is out of balance, the result is “not healthy”.</strong></p>
<p> Of course you’ve heard or seen this before, because it is <strong>an unshakable truth with a predictable outcome.</strong></p>
<p><strong>That truth is:  the body will begin to decay when the health equation is out of balance</strong>.  <strong> The <a href="http://www.nupro.net/store/delvalle1.asp">symptoms of decay</a>, and the path they take, are predictable, too.</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>At first, it is weight gain</li>
<li>Followed by self-medicating with stimulants like caffeine and/or mood enhancers like comfort food and/or alcohol;</li>
<li>Followed by over the counter medications;</li>
<li>Followed by prescriptions for a condition that can’t be resolved – only managed;</li>
<li>Followed by a search for the “magic bullet”</li>
<li>Followed by the ultimate symptom of an imbalanced health equation – premature death.</li>
</ol>
<p><strong> Of course, there’s always the issue of bad luck to consider.</strong></p>
<p>People experience accidents and/or infections.  Depending on your overall health, the severity of the injury or infection and the competency of your medical doctor, accidents or infections may be bumps in the road, or not.  If you want more details regarding <a href="http://www.nupro.net/store/naturalhealthcenter_disclaimer.asp">the conflict between Germ Theory and Pleomorphism</a>, we have prepared a paper on the subject for your review.</p>
<p> Personally, I believe that <strong>weight gain is a sign of decaying health</strong>; that this particular sign, weight gain, is brought on by disregarding the health-equation. </p>
<p>And, while simply putting the equation back to balance will change things going forward, it will do little to change the systemic dysfunction caused by the prolonged imbalance.</p>
<p> <strong>Weight gain may have as many 5 factors:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li><a href="http://www.nupro.net/store/sugar.asp">Imbalance in calories</a> (consuming more empty calories than you burn)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.nupro.net/store/sugar.asp">Imbalance in nutrition</a> (satiety and/or cravings)</li>
<li>Dysfunction in daytime metabolism (sluggishness and or alertness) and/or nighttime metabolism (sleep and/or moodiness and anxiety)</li>
<li>Irregular bowel habits</li>
<li>Producing fat cells to wall off internal acids and other toxic substances</li>
</ol>
<p> The penchant for identifying one culprit for weight issues is the source for frustration, and often failure, for most people choosing to lose weight. </p>
<p>Typically, being overweight or obese is <strong>a combination of several or all of the factors:  diet, moderate exercise and lifestyle</strong>.</p>
<p> When you change the health equation you will <strong>change the situation, going forward</strong>.  And, when you <strong>support the dysfunctional bodily systems</strong> with high quality, <a href="http://www.nupro.net/store/products.asp?cat=44">well-crafted dietary supplements that support healing the dysfunction(s) of weight management</a>, or health for that matter, <strong>the dysfunctions will begin to right themselves</strong>.</p>
<p> The false paradigm &#8211; there is a quick fix to address the manifestations of a dysfunctional body &#8211; is an unfulfilling, and often risky, track to follow.</p>
<p>On the other hand, electing to balance your health equation will pay dividends.</p>
<p> In the end, it’s your life &#8211; it’s your choice.  Choose wisely</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 17:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: small;">It may have seemed, based on the last post, that weight gain, and the observable declining wellbeing, is limited to traveling professionals.  </span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Nothing could be further from the truth. </strong></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: small;">People who do not travel exhibit the same demographics and similar, if not the same, characteristics.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">A fair question would be “Why?”</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">The answers lie in two areas: </span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">lifestyle </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">the paradigms that seem to regulate the choices all people make, on a daily basis.</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">No one will argue that <strong>the modern lifestyle is significantly different than your grandparents </strong>or your great grandparents, depending on your age.  There are dramatic changes in diet, k-12 education (and beyond), the type and expectations of employment, family, childrearing and healthcare, to name just a few.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Daily commuting is </strong>… a challenge … and a great source of frustration for almost everyone.  So, everyone’s day starts and ends with a bang!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">Regardless of you career choice, blue collar or white, <strong>each work day is packed with demands </strong>that, as we’ve come to accept, require sacrifices such as working late and weekends to achieve those work related demands using <strong>technology that limits or, in some cases, eliminates physical effort </strong>to accomplish the task.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Work, for the most part, is no longer a job; it is a career </strong>that entails entry, mid and upper levels of management.  While you may not be waiting in an airport for your connection to the next big meeting, you are in your cubicle, or office, working, preparing, or awaiting, for a similar “make or break” conference … all under the watchful eye of a supervisor.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">Travelers don’t have a corner on the market for <strong>fast food, petulant teens, understanding spouses or mobile devices</strong>, either.  They’re in your life, too.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></strong><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Two income families are the norm</strong>.  Even if you’ve chosen to raise your children with one parent staying at home, your children’s school and extra-curricular activities create <strong>a schedule that is challenging </strong>or, if you have more than one child, very demanding.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">In fact, the only difference between travelers and those who stay near their home is the venue.</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Ask yourself this question</strong>:  “When was the last time you sat down, with your family, for a home cooked meal?”  And, when you did, try to recall how much of the food, on your table, came from some sort of package.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">My guess:  everything but the meat.</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">The components of being overweight or obese, and declining health, can be broken down into two dominant categories:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">Physiological:  including body metabolism, hormones and the neurological components of regulating appetite and cravings.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Environmental:  including the abundance of convenience, package and fast high calorie foods, the prevalence of an increasingly sedentary lifestyle due to the changes in the technologies and expectations of work.</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">Therein lies the explanation for why the old standby plan for losing weight, “Eating Less and Exercising More” is doomed to fail you every time you try to lose weight.  It misses ½ of the equation – the physiological component.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">And, <strong>matters could be made worse </strong>if you add dietary supplements that over-stimulate your adrenal system.  The low, medium and high stress, from the modern lifestyle, are assaulting your adrenal system &#8211; as it is.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">In fact, if you were to make an honest assessment, you can’t help but conclude: </span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">your diet is a mess </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">you have too many responsibilities</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">there aren’t enough hours in a day.</span></li>
</ul>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">You are, as they say, stuck between a rock and a hard spot.</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">You need to find help to get out of your tough spot.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">You need to <strong>eat breakfast </strong>– toast and coffee, milk and cereal won’t cut it.  Neither of them provides enough nutrition to satisfy your body’s needs after the 8 hour fast we call sleep.  And, you won’t be so ravenous around your 1st break because your body’s nutritional needs have been met.  If you don’t have time, breakfast needs to be the best nutritional shake you can find so you can drink it on the go.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">You need something that effectively</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"> supports the components of weight management</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">a program that is simple to follow</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">is priced so it won’t cost you an arm and a leg.</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>You need help burning fat &#8211; not just calories only when you “work out”, </strong>but the same way you packed the fat away in the first place – around the clock.  It may seem easy to accomplish, but it wasn’t.  It took us 4 years.  And, so far, we’re the only ones who have figured it out.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>If you have been searching for a way, like the one you’ve just read about – take heart – it really does exist</strong>.  It is called the Enhanced Weight Management System.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">And, talk about easy, you take three pills with a shake before you start your day, three pills 20 minutes before retiring.  You can expect meaningful changes after 90 days and you will only be investing $4.00 per day.  That’s less than you can spend for a fast food breakfast.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">By the way, there is <strong>a promotion through the end of the month </strong>on the Enhanced Weight Management System – the investment drops to $3.00 per day.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">If you are interested in meaningful weight management, I highly recommend that you address the issues that are contributing to your weight gain.  I believe you will be well served by investing in the <a href="http://www.nupro.net/store/products.asp?cat=44">Enhanced Weight Management System </a>– only from NUPRO.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">PS  Thanks for the note, Maria.  Your news is heartening and, you’re welcome.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>3/8/11  <em>Hiya , I have been reading your blog for some time now, and just wanted to tell you that it helped me a lot. So far I’ve lost 20 pounds. I will recommend your site to my friends.</em></p>
<p><em>Thanks…. Maria Slankepiller , Sweden</em></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> The statistics about being overweight or obese show that many of you are, indeed, struggling with this issue.  It is both a drain on your self-image and a thief that will steal your health.</p>
<p> The options for managing your weight, while seeming plentiful, are woefully few once you strip away the marketing fluff.</p>
<p> There are many, too many really, books and articles regarding how to deal with the way you appear when you are overweight or obese.  These writings purport to help you deal with people who perceive your situation of being overweight in an unkind manner.  The emphasis of these writings is to help you feel like a victim of an unsympathetic society; encouraging you to focus on ways for you to rationalize your “condition”.</p>
<p> Dieting, eating less and exercising more, has failed most, if not all, of you because the approach is unsustainable and unhealthy.</p>
<p> The recent “breakthroughs” in Bariatric Surgery is another option.  It seeks to surgically remodel or redirect your digestive tract.  The potential for side effects, from this highly invasive approach, is mind-boggling.  Time is a great truth detector.  The likelihood of this approach succeeding is low.</p>
<p> There is a quote, attributed to R. Buckminster Fuller, on which I often rely:  “ … Belief is when someone else does the thinking.” </p>
<p> <strong>Today, I am appealing to your intellect.</strong></p>
<p> Which of these approaches makes sense to you?</p>
<ol>
<li>Ignoring the situation</li>
<li>Starving yourself</li>
<li>Risky surgery</li>
<li>None of the above</li>
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<p><strong>Would you consider a practical way to finally get your weight under control?</strong></p>
<p> <strong>The fact is, most of you are not eating enough.</strong>  That’s right you are not eating enough food to support your body’s nutritional needs, to allow your body to support metabolism and to become, and stay slim, trim and firm.  The <a href="http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you-eat/">Harvard School of Public Health</a> or the <a href="http://www.med.umich.edu/umim/food-pyramid/index.htm">University of Michigan Integrative Medicine</a> will provide you guidance on what, when and how to eat.</p>
<p> <strong>Another fact is most of you are eating too much of the wrong food</strong>.  The number of packaged, processed and convenience meals you eat, everyday, virtually guarantee that you will be hungry soon after you eat, experience insatiable craving, stay overweight and become more and more unhealthy. For more insights, view this short video, with <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQDA12ZV2nU">Andrew Weil, MD</a> on the subject.</p>
<h3> Stop Doing That!</h3>
<p> <strong>If your objective is to lose weight, you should make three simple changes</strong>:</p>
<p> <strong>1.      </strong><strong>From this day forward:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Start eating 3 meals each day consuming lots of the foods that feed your body</li>
<li>Stop filling the coffers of the Companies who produce packaged and fast food – buy fresh – prepare it yourself.  Here are 10 healthy, easy to prepare <a href="http://www.nupro.net/taunya's%20recipes/taunya's%20recipe.pdf">dinner-time recipes</a></li>
<li>Drink at least 8 – 8ounce glasses of water everyday – more if you drink caffeinated beverages</li>
</ul>
<p> <strong>2.      </strong><strong>For 90 days, replenish long-standing nutritional deficiencies using:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>High quality multi vitamin or drinking a fortified protein shake</li>
<li>Trace mineral dietary supplement</li>
</ul>
<p> <strong>3.      </strong><strong>Reset the way your body works with dietary supplements to support:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li> Waking metabolism</li>
<li>Sleeping metabolism</li>
<li>Elimination &#8211; unless you experience at least 1 easy, soft bowel movement everyday.</li>
</ul>
<p>TrimPak™  or one of the ThinRite™ Systems by NUPRO offer <a href="http://www.nupro.net/store/thinrite.asp">you a selection of professional grade supplements and systems</a> to help with these needs.</p>
<p> The unvarnished truth is obesity and being overweight, and most degenerative diseases for that matter, are symptoms of one thing:  <a href="http://www.nupro.net/store/handtomouthdisease.asp">Hand to Mouth Disease</a>.  They are predictable conditions, brought on by the decisions you make everyday, to consume foods that we all know aren’t healthy.</p>
<p> Each time you purchase a food item or choose to eat something, ask yourself one question:  Will my body thank me for this later?  If the answer is no, rest assured, there is a price for that decision.  What you choose to consume is the raw materials on which you body relies to produce energy, replace dying cells, repair damaged tissue, deal with stress and protect itself from disease.</p>
<p><strong> How’s that Big Deal Meal been workin’ out for ya?</strong></p>
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<p><em> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">“<strong>I came in a tired, overweight, sluggish mess!  I am down 5 sizes and 50 pounds and I have a renewed zest for life thanks to Nupro Nutraceutical weight loss products!&#8221;</strong>  Denise R. Parker, CO</span></span></em></p>
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<p><em>Most of what you are reading, when we report on weight loss, is compiled from our research into the factors and mechanisms that contribute weight gain. </em></p>
<p><em>That effort has produced a remarkable group of natural supplements to address weight loss.  </em></p>
<p><em>This family of natural weight management supplements allow you to target individual issues of weight management or, and this is the exciting part, combine them to produce an effective synergism to <strong>address any, some or all of the 5 factors that can impact weight gain</strong>:  waking time metabolism, sleep time metabolism, cofactors, nutrition and regularity.</em></p>
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<p><em>If you have decided that the time is right to look good and feel great, <strong>this sale will save you a lot of money!</strong></em></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> The holidays are the time when people tend to over-indulge.  Between work, friends, social events and the celebrations, the possibility, and the probability, that you will fall victim to all the “goodies”, and gain weight  is high.</p>
<p> <strong>So what can you do?</strong></p>
<p><strong> Enjoy!  </strong>Relish all of the wonderful offerings.  After all, it is a celebration!  Just be smart about it.  You can avoid or minimize losing weight when the Holiday Season is over.</p>
<ul>
<li>If you are at a buffet or family get together, use a salad plate instead of a dinner plate.  Take small portions of the many delicacies.  Take small bites and chew the food thoroughly.</li>
<li>If you choose to drink an alcoholic beverage, ask for your drink “tall” then, after the first, skip the alcohol and switch to the mix.</li>
<li>Savor the treat or desert but, cut the serving in half.  Again, take small bites and chew it thoroughly.</li>
<li>Pace yourself.  Put a limit of one serving per sitting of anything you choose to eat or drink.</li>
<li>Drink plenty of water.  It will help flush away all the residuals from a diet that is so different than normal.</li>
</ul>
<p> Hopefully, when you get to the New Year celebration, you won’t be worrying about resolving to lose the extra weight you have gained over the holidays.</p>
<p> <strong>If you have gained weight</strong>, or if there is still some weight hanging around from years past, don’t despair (or worse – over react) about your weight gain.  Some time, choosing a more <a href="http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you-eat">moderate, balanced diet</a> and a brisk, daily, 20-minute walk may help you lose weight.</p>
<p> <strong>If patience is not one of your best virtues</strong>, or you have more than a few pounds lingering around your middle, you may want to <a href="http://www.thinrite.net/">consider using dietary supplements</a>, along with your more moderate diet and walk, to help speed up your weight loss.</p>
<p> <strong>One final thought</strong>, if you are inclined to make resolutions, resolve to treat you body like it your best friend.  It is and, you’ll never find another like it.</p>
<p> We wish you Happy Holidays and a bountiful, prosperous New Year.</p>
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