Those of you who have been following our blog understand our deep appreciation for how remarkably the human body is created.

Our position regarding health is straight forward – if you take care of your body, it will take care of you.

Caring for the body is more than keeping the outside clean – it is treating the body kindly, with respect and attending to the nutritional needs that support the efficient functioning of the body that manifests in health.

 Health is path one follows; it is not a quest for a procedure, potion, lotion or pill that you initiated once your health begins to decline or falter.

Living has an inevitable end – death.  One hopes life ends in a peaceful repose; however, that is, often, not the case.

To that end, we have prepared a commentary, Keep Life Simple, for your examination, and, if you desire, links to further readings to help put you on a path that allows you to prosper in the bounty of health.

Enjoy

 

 Average life expectancy is falling in many parts of the United States and for many demographic groups, most notably women, according to a study that was published Wednesday (June 15, 2011) in the journal Population Health Metrics, and conducted by the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington in Seattle.

 In the study, Dr. Ali Mokdad, an IHME official who is researching causal factors affecting life expectancy, listed four reasons for the trends found in the report:

1.  Poverty and lack of education
2. Access to health care
3. Quality of medical care
4. Preventable risk factors like:  obesity, untreated high blood pressure and smoking.

 The enormous increase in obesity, which has doubled in the past 30 years, from 17 percent to 34 percent of the population (editor’s note:  the real number is hovering around 80%) may be the most alarming. He points out that obesity is linked to: low incomes, education levels, lack of access to healthy food choices, particularly fresh fruit and vegetables and the dominance of fast food (editor’s note:  and packaged, processed and convenience food).

 What could you take away from this report?

1. There is a conspiracy between Big Pharma and Big Health Care to keep their profits high – at our expense – and Doctors are in on it?
2. The Teacher’s Unions have a socialist agenda to dumb down the population on matters of nutrition?
3. The US Congress is conspiring to “kill off” segments of the population to reduce the budget?
4. Big Food rents Super Market shelf space, builds fast food restaurants and convenience stores to sell packaged food to make a profit?

 Who will get the blame – this time?

 Here’s another perspective.

1. Commercialized farms and ranches grow and sell food commodities that are measured by quantity, price and appearance
2. Their largest customers are not consumers, they are food manufacturers

 Food manufacturers make their products to:

1. Appeal to customers with advertising, packaging and price
2. Create repeat business with taste and convenience
3. Stay on the shelf as long as possible to protect their investment in inventory

 There is a marketing term, “Give the Gorilla a Banana”, that means sell what people want to buy.   Commercial farms and ranches are growing and food manufacturers are making what you are buying; therefore,  … .

 Frankly, I believe the statistics – I choose not to be one, and you can too. 

 We speak with our checkbook.  We buy the best real food we can find, prepare and eat it; then, we fill in the gaps with supplements.  We’re in our mid 60’s, close to our healthy weight, without prescriptions and active.

 Our program is easy and it is working for us.  Why not try it?  It sure beats being another statistic.

 P.S.  Don’t despair if you are on the way to becoming a statistic.  You might be able to change that, too.  Read this report.

 

The long and short of our analysis of weight loss products shows that the historic approaches to weight loss delivers short-term benefits.  But, once the: stimulants, fat blockers, carb blockers, starvation diets, specialty diets, special packaged foods or strenuous exercise stops, people regain weight.

Some time ago, we prepared a paper titled:  “Today’s Choices are Tomorrow’s Consequences”.  In it, we made the point that the dietary choices people are making, everyday, contribute to either declining health or reliable health. 

Choosing fast, processed and preserved food is a choice, made knowingly or unknowingly, to accept the prospects of declining health.

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.

Next, we prepared a paper titled:  “The Missing Diagnosis”.  In it, we made the point that many of the discomforts of declining health can be attributed to one diagnosis:  Hand to Mouth Disease.

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.

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).

We prepared a paper title:  “Invest in Health or Pay to be Sick” to describe the logic involved in making a decision like the choice I make to care for my body.

The point is:  dealing with being overweight or obese is not like dealing with an occasional headache.  You can’t take a pill and make it go away.  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.

Being overweight is a symptom.  It is a predictor – that you will experience other symptoms, in future years, that are the consequences of you choices.

Some years ago, we presented a paper, Healthy People Don’t Get Sick.  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. 

There are 4 Simple Truths that everyone should know about staying healthy.  Rather than outlining the subject, you can read them for yourself.   The 4 Simple Truths demystifies the issues surrounding what you need to do to protect your health.

Another report:  “Caring for Your Body”, 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 myths that are contributing to declining health.

Back to Weight Loss …

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?

All of the attempts to deal with weight gain fail to deliver, 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.

When you stop treating weight gain and obesity as a disease, 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.

The choice is yours.  If you continue to abuse the resiliency of the human body, it will, sooner or later, fail to bounce back from your abuse.

 

The fact that weight loss products continue to lead the dietary supplement industry in gross sales is testament to public interest.  Thanks to all of you who have purchased our new weight management systems.  Be sure to collect your tips.  You will find them helpful during the process of remodeling your body. 

 If you missed the announcement, our new weight loss systems are on sale for a limited time. 

 Changing subjects: 

we have been clarifying our view of natural healing.  In particular, we have been investigating the work of an early microbiologist, Antoine Bechamp and a scientist, Claude Bernard.   The two theories:  Pleomorphism and Internal Melieu are intriguing. 

 Considering both men were working at the turn of the century, their work is admirable.

 Our penchant to address “symptoms” declining health, either medically or naturally, might be all wrong.

 According to Bechamp and Bernard, a decline in the life force of the body may be the source of the problem.Sounds pretty new age, doesn’t it?  But, if you think about it, the name, life force, that describes the intricate interplay between the various functions of the body, is spot on. 

 The complimentary theories of the two scientists, describe the possibility that the internal environment is the foundation for the efficient function of body.  Furthermore, changes in the internal environment will set off a cascade of dysfunctional events that lead to declining health and, ultimately, death.

 This approach suggests that, rather than focusing on particular symptoms of degenerating health, the first effort should be directed at returning the internal environment of the body to the state that supports efficient function.

 Heady stuff!

 The long and short of it is: our diet of processed, preserved, packaged, convenience food, replete with all the various additives, is throwing the body’s internal environment out of whack.  In turn, normal functions, due to the out of balance condition, fall into dysfunction.

 Next, the approach leads on to suggest that until the internal environment is restored, the various dysfunctions will continue.

Does this approach apply in all circumstances?  Certainly not.  What it points to is the importance of maintaining the general well-being of the body through diet, exercise and rest.  And, if for some reason, you can’t provide your body all of the nutrition it requires to maintain itself, dietary supplements can fill the gap on two levels:  restoring internal balance and rebuilding dysfunction(s).

 Do you think we might have stumbled into something?  It’s pretty neat when old becomes new again.  We just completed an analysis of the possibility that you might find interesting. 

Also, you might want to take this health test again.  It might help shed some light on your state of health.

 Thanks for all of your comments.  We read them.  And, thanks to all of you who have selected our Company to support your quest for health.

 

 We just finished the landing page for the NUPRO weight loss systems and products.  I would appreciate you taking a look and, if you have a minute, reporting your impression.  Thanks for your time.

 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.  So, no excuses about money.   What is the price tag for your health? 

 I wrote, earlier, that the campaign would be called:  A New You in 90 Days!   It is and it performs as advertised!

Thanks again for your help.

 

From:  the Editor

RE:  NUPRO is having a sale on their weight loss products.  You can save up to $30.00

Spring is the right time to start your weight management project,

So, NUPRO is having a sale to help make it easier than ever to become the person you’ve only imagined! 

Burn Fat Around the Clock …

with NUPRO’s two most popular Around the Clock Weight Loss Systems.

TrimPak™ with Body Designer™ (a nutrition-packed, vegetarian friendly, protein shake), regularly $119.95, is now only $89.95 -  YOU SAVE 30.00

TrimPak™ regularly $59.95, is now only $49.95 – YOU SAVE $10.00 

Create a New You in 90 Days

If you get started now, by summer, you’ll be feeling good and looking great.  Check it out!

There’s no limit on quantity, so you can plan your whole program at these rock bottom prices.  But, be advised, the sale ends April 15, 2011

 

 The reason for its high rating is simple to understand if you will pause, during your next trip to the mall, to see what excess weight is doing to people.

 Recently, I had occasion to travel by air.  The trip involved three airports for both ends of the trip with, of course, layovers.   That was an eye-opener, too! 

There were 4 obvious groups of people:

1. Twenty somethings
2. Thirty somethings
3. Forty somethings
4. Fifty plus somethings.

 The difference in appearance was, for lack of a better word, astounding.  And, the obvious change, during the transition between demographics was … well, mind-boggling.

 While waiting for each next plane, my observations were:

 1.  The twenty somethings were, for the most part, thin, energetic and they appeared to be healthy.

They were constantly skipping between their “mobile devices” and laptops.  The excitement of their first job, the anticipation of the experiences of travel, new places, new people and few, if any responsibilities at home was obvious. 

To summarize, it appeared to be a low stress – high expectation experience for them.

 2.  The thirty somethings were beginning to show a little wear.

They were sporting a few extra pounds, had less bounce in each step and they appeared less healthy. 

The men’s hair and skin pallor had less radiance.  The women wore more makeup so, thanks to personal care products, it wasn’t as apparent. 

Their use of  “mobile devices” and laptops was more deliberate with what appeared to be longer, less animated conversations and sessions on their mobile devices and laptop.

The responsibilities, and demands, of their job, the past experiences of travel; places, people and the responsibilities at home, like: spouses, young children and a mortgage was obvious.

To summarize, stress was taking its toll on them.

 3.  The forty somethings looked unhealthy.

They were, for the most part, clinically obese.  Men and women alike were overhanging their belts or covering their bodies with loose fitting clothes.

Without trying to be unkind, it was obvious that they were attempting to reverse the trend that they witnessed in the mirror, everyday, with attire and overdone makeup.

The demands, and stress, of their corporate career are all too familiar.  Thick files extracted from a briefcase, reviewing reports on the laptop, putting out fires on the cell, preparing for a meeting that your boss or your people are “depending on you to pull off”, petulant teenagers, an understanding and overworked spouse, too many restaurant meals, too many bad airport meals, hotel rooms … .  Ick!  But, I digress.

To summarize, the stress, while mostly managed, is monumental.  It’s no wonder that they were diving into their briefcase for antacids, some sort of over-the-counter medication or their prescription because, the past abuses to their bodies is beginning to catch up with them.

4.   The fifty plus somethings broke into 2 groups:  those sitting in 1st class and those sitting where I sat.

Those sitting in 1st class were either incredibly lucky or they have more time, and money, to pay attention to their health … because the people who joined me appeared to be not healthy.

The people sitting with me, for the most part, looked like the time they spent neglecting their health had caught up with them.  I seem to remember reading that the average 60-year-old person is taking 6 prescriptions to manage the symptoms of their degenerating conditions of health. 

To summarize, it wasn’t that pretty!

 You’re probably asking yourself:  “What does this has to do with being overweight or obese?”

 The situation started back when you were a late twenty something – when you thought you could continue to eat like a teenager – when you first encountered the rigors of living a life of responsibilities.

It happened when those 2 to 5 pounds you gained during the holidays and winter, didn’t “just go away.” 

You may have tried something that was quick and easy.   But now, sure enough, you find yourself carrying around several years worth of … well, you know … those pounds that didn’t go away.

 Losing weight is likely the most promised, and subsequently broken, New Year’s resolution in the world. 

As previously written, trying to lose weight during winter is a fool’s mission.  Adding to this unavoidable fact, unrealistic expectations from: starvation diets, expensive, time consuming workouts at the gym or “fast-acting diet pills” will soon have you right back where you were – only, you’ll be lighter in your wallet and disappointed.

 The good news is:  spring is just around the corner and, that’s when you should start your weight loss program.

 I believe the most effective way to burn fat is to restore metabolism while you’re awake and during sleep.  (That’s how you burned away the pounds when you were 20 something). 

Therefore, in our weight loss system, we crafted in some nifty herbs to support day time and night time metabolism and to help with stress, alertness, cravings and appetite as well as helping firm up your body and support restful sleep.

 By the way, the best way to tell if the program is working is to put on something from your closet that’s a little too tight to wear in public. 

After about three weeks, put is on again. Voila, it fits!  You’ll have a new, old wardrobe. 

And, after 90 days and several visits to the archive of “cloths that are too tight to wear” in your closet, you’ll be looking for some new spiffy outfits to show off the new you.

  We will be starting a promotion for what I humbly consider our most effective weight management system beginning March 1 and continuing through the month.  You’ll save up to $30.00 for each 30 day supply you purchase.

 I voted for calling it, A New You in 90 Days.  We’ll see.  Regardless, if you intend to become the person you’ve only imagined, this is a good place to start.  And, we’ll send you a booklet to help or you can find some great tips for losing weight.  I highly recommend this approach.

 Listen to me – our marketing guys would be impressed.

 Also, we have updated our website – if you have a minute, I would appreciate your review and comments about it, too.  Sorry about all the homework!  It’s the professor in me talking.  Our website is www.nupro.net

 Next time, I’ll be writing about some nifty research about stress.

 In the meantime, I encourage you to read a past article:  Predicting Disease.  Those of you who really are committed of taking responsibility for your health, or as I see it, dying healthy, will find some interesting food for thought.  I have also prepared an internet page that tracks the stages of declining health that you might find interesting.

 Please, review them and comment.  I always look forward to your comments.

 

 The options for managing your weight, while seeming plentiful, are woefully few once you strip away the marketing fluff.

 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”.

 Dieting, eating less and exercising more, has failed most, if not all, of you because the approach is unsustainable and unhealthy.

 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.

 There is a quote, attributed to R. Buckminster Fuller, on which I often rely:  “ … Belief is when someone else does the thinking.” 

 Today, I am appealing to your intellect.

 Which of these approaches makes sense to you?

1. Ignoring the situation
2. Starving yourself
3. Risky surgery
4. None of the above

Would you consider a practical way to finally get your weight under control?

 The fact is, most of you are not eating enough.  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 Harvard School of Public Health or the University of Michigan Integrative Medicine will provide you guidance on what, when and how to eat.

 Another fact is most of you are eating too much of the wrong food.  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 Andrew Weil, MD on the subject.

 Stop Doing That!

 If your objective is to lose weight, you should make three simple changes:

 1.      From this day forward:

• Start eating 3 meals each day consuming lots of the foods that feed your body
• 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 dinner-time recipes
• Drink at least 8 – 8ounce glasses of water everyday – more if you drink caffeinated beverages

 2.      For 90 days, replenish long-standing nutritional deficiencies using:

• High quality multi vitamin or drinking a fortified protein shake
• Trace mineral dietary supplement

 3.      Reset the way your body works with dietary supplements to support:

•  Waking metabolism
• Sleeping metabolism
• Elimination – unless you experience at least 1 easy, soft bowel movement everyday.

TrimPak™  or one of the ThinRite™ Systems by NUPRO offer you a selection of professional grade supplements and systems to help with these needs.

 The unvarnished truth is obesity and being overweight, and most degenerative diseases for that matter, are symptoms of one thing:  Hand to Mouth Disease.  They are predictable conditions, brought on by the decisions you make everyday, to consume foods that we all know aren’t healthy.

 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.

 How’s that Big Deal Meal been workin’ out for ya?

 “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!”  Denise R. Parker, CO

 Now that we have your attention:  here’s a family of well-crafted weight management systems and supplements to fit your needs and your budget, along with a comprehensive package of tips, to help you with successful, long-term weight loss .

 *  We believe that creating and maintaining health is more than the search for “a miracle in a bottle” myth.  We have developed a strategy that can help you promote weight loss and maintain your health.

 

 I, too, have been moved to make resolutions, occasionally, over the years.  For me, successful resolutions have always been practical and accomplished with simple changes in my daily routines. 

Less complicated resolutions have met with greater success.

 As it happens, we are creatures of habit.  For example, most people, who actually prepare meals, rely on the same 7 recipes, often preparing them on the same day.  I’m sure you’ve done it, too.  When I was a boy, you could set the calendar by what my mother served for supper.  “If it’s Wednesday, it’s chicken.”

 If you’re in the dinnertime rut, we offer you a free packet of information, available here, that links you to10 easy to prepare, great tasting, healthy dinnertime recipes to support weight loss.

One very helpful resolution is to eat a home cooked meal with your family – prepared together – every night.  It helps you make memories.  For many people, take out has taken the place of a home cooked meal.  Changing that would be my #1 priority … but I am digressing.

 Habits are the fount of all resolutions.  They are the admission that something, that you are doing, is producing an unwanted outcome and it needs to be changed.

 Such is often the case when people resolve to lose weight.

 People have watched their bodies grow past their wardrobe and have, therefore, resolved to shrink back to fitting into their clothes.

•  “I resolve to eat less” means you plan to starve yourself to lose weight.
• “I resolve to exercise more” means you have time in your schedule to go to the gym for an hour every other day to lose weight.
• “I resolve to eat better” means you will wake up 30 minutes sooner to prepare breakfast and abandon you lunch time haunts.

 If you can find the time, discipline or courage to follow through with these types of resolutions then more power to you.  For me, these resolutions would be complicated and therefore, likely unsuccessful.

The fact remains that most of you need to lose weight.  If you can muster up a virtue, patience, you just might be able to lose those extra pounds in time for spring – in a more practical manner.

   Is 2 to 3 months too long for help fitting into your spring wardrobe?

 Steps to Take:

 Go to our retail site, register for the comprehensive package of tips for losing weight at the bottom of the page.  They will be sent to you immediately and they are free.

1.  Read the comprehensive material in your packet.
2. Water-fast for 24 hours.  Add a teaspoon of lime juice to each of the 8 to10 – 8 ounce glasses of water you will be consuming to eliminate the residuals from all the holiday excesses.  It is easier if you start after your evening meal since you will be sleeping through most of the fast.
3. Follow the instructions for the 3 day diet that is include in you package of information.
4. For many people, dietary supplements are extremely helpful.  There are many from which to choose.  Pick one to help you.  (We offer a pretty nifty line of exclusive weight loss systems and proprietary supplements.  You night want to check them out when you are getting you packet.)
5. Follow the program for 90 days.

 Regardless of whether you have resolved to lose weight because you want to look good or you want feel great, it can be a resolution that you can keep if you have a little patience and some help.  You could be looking good and feeling great by spring – if you get started now.

 NOTE:  We have worked diligently to develop a family of proprietary weight loss supplements and exclusive weight loss systems.  Lots of people are expressing their satisfaction with the results.  We encourage you to consider one of the ThinRite™ options – you will be the next satisfied client or we will send your money back to you.  To sweeten the pot, we are offering you a 15% discount.  When you checkout, use coupon code:  thinrite2011 to receive your personal discount.

 Happy New Year