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.

 

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 to re enter the weight loss supplement market.  The analysis was insightful and, surprisingly similar to the analysis we concluded in 1990.

 You may find the analysis interesting, and it may help you make sense out of all the “stuff”, on the web, about weight loss.

 Here is an overview of our analysis of the weight loss options we investigated.

 There are several options available to assist people during the weight loss process in the market today. 

They are:

 Eat less – Exercise More

Certainly, there is nothing new here.  Logic dictates that this approach should work, but, in most cases, it doesn’t!

 In fact, it may contribute to the difficulties for long-term weight management.

 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.

 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.

 Fat Blocker Dietary Supplements

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.

 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 – 9 calories/gram. (For most of us, a gram is approximately 3.5 ounces.)

 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.

 The issue boils down to the good fat – bad fat dilemma.  Indiscriminately blocking fat may not be such a good thing for supporting healthy metabolism.

 Carbohydrate Blocker Dietary Supplements  (Recently, this category has been recast as a sugar blocker)

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.

 There are two types of dietary carbohydrates, categorized by how quickly the body converts them into glucose:  Simple and Complex.

1. Simple Carbohydrates 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).
2. Complex Carbohydrates 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.

 While both types of carbohydrates have the same caloric value, 4 calories/gram, the impact is vastly different.  An easy way to understand the difference is:  simple carbohydrates “explode” into the metabolic process while complex carbohydrates are “metered” in.

 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”.

 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.

Stimulants

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.

 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.

 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.

 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.

 Other Approaches

As one would expect, from an issue that impacts so many people, there is a plethora of choices.  Strenuous exercise tops the list, followed closely by weigh-in clubs, clubs with mail order “healthy food portions”, Clinics offering injections, hypnosis and bariatric surgery that seeks to restrict, or remodel the digestive tract to disrupt the absorption of nutrients.

 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.

 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 … and growing.  There is ample opportunity if … .

Next week:  What are the  formulation objectives for NUPRO’s new weight loss products.

 

 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.

 

•  There are theories espousing the merits of dieting that range from starvation to consumption of mostly carbohydrates, mostly protein and mostly water.
•  There are theories extolling the merits of exercise from gym enthusiasts, yoga, and other instructors.
•  Others, who adamantly believe they have found a secret potion, lotion or twig, extoling the anecdotal benefits of their remedy for obesity.

 At this point, you must know our Company formulates and sells dietary supplements.  So, bear that in mind as you read on.

 To help clear up matters, there isn’t one simple way to lose weight (or to become healthy).  Each person is different – with diverse lifestyles, diet and heritage so results may vary.  But, there is a commonality the runs through all of us.

Humans are not the fastest or strongest creatures on the planet – we are among the most successful species on earth because our ancestors were farmers and ranchers.

• Early on, living by harvesting wild plants and animals and, later on, harvesting domesticated versions of the same.
•  There was, amonst our ancestors, a minimum level of exercise required to keep thier bodies fit.  It involved walking to find food, stooping to pick it up, light lifting to make their environment habitable.
•  Our ancestors were experts at recognizing a pending danger from one of the stronger, faster other creatures and taking an appropriate action by choosing to fight or run. 

 On one hand, those who didn’t, or couldn’t, follow this regime are not our ancestors because they didn’t survive.   On the other hand, thanks to the survivors who are our ancestors, we are blessed bodies that are adaptable, resilient and forgiving bodies.

 This brief review of the past 5000+ years of history is particularly helpful when applied to the context of the last 100 years. 

Today, we have automobiles, supermarkets, homes that are automatically heated and cooled and jobs with challenges that are often threatening. 

 The adaptability of the human body is being tested by this explosion of creature comforts and stress.  They are creating disparity between what the body expects and what it is getting that, if left unfilled, produce the predictable outcome we are experiencing:  obesity and declining health.

 One would think that we could overcome 5000+ years of adaptation in short order with all the technology at our disposal, but we haven’t – so far.

 Researchers are predicting that this generation of children will be the first that have a shorter life-span and experience more health challenges than any other generation in modern times.

And, judging from the ever-expanding use of healthcare services, our generation isn’t doing so well, either.

 Personally, I think it is this misconception that technology will win the day that is to blame.  This paradigm lulls us into relying on something or someone to undo the harm we cause to ourselves.

 Resilience is another characteristics that our ancestors passed on is resilience.  It allows for the body to bounce back to balance if and when it expectations have been met.

 Herein lies the your opportunity.  You can change the way things are by changing the things you do.

Our ancestors:

• experienced moderate exercise, waking, stooping and light lifting. 
• They consumed whole, fresh food.
• They dealt with threats, in a civil fashion, and then forgot about them. 

Do that!

 Admittedly, there will be gaps, particularly in your diet.

Fill those gaps with well-rounded quality supplements that will cost less than a quicky, fast-food meal or a designer cup of coffee.

 A forgiving body is the final characteristic we inherited from our ancestors which offers all of us hope.

Using its newly found bounty of moderate exercise, wholesome nutrition and lower stress levels, the body will begin to restore itself to the fullest potential.

 The questions, at this point, are:

• How many of you will actually relinquish the false paradigm that technology will save the day?
• How many of you will take responsibility to be good shepherds for your body?

 While not suggesting a return to Neanderthal time, you can manage many important factors. 

You have the power.

• The power over your checkbook.  Stop purchasing foods that you know aren’t wholesome.
• The power over how you spend your time.  Use it wisely in your work, with your family, for moderate exercise and rest.
• The power over the stress that you allow in your life.  Deal with it the forget it.

 And, if you’re still wondering what else you can do, here’s a good place to start.  Read this material.

 Returning to weight management, the same culprits, diet, exercise and stress are blame.  Losing weight is a three-step process:

1.  Maintain your weight going forward

• Change the things you do.
• Do more thing right than wrong.

2.  Put you body back into balance by addressing:

• Waking time metabolism
• Sleeping time metabolism
• Nutritional deficiencies
• Mineral Cofactor deficiency
• Regularity

3.  Address other deficiency or dysfunction:

• Nutrition:  ranging from a balanced, whole food diet to crucial trace minerals
• Phytonutrients:  found in colorful vegetables and fruit
• Digestion:  adding back the food enzymes that cooking destroys and renewing intestinal microbes
• Ph Balance: concentrate on foods that restore internal alkalinity
• Specific Male or Female issues

 Health isn’t a destination, it’s a journey and you’re in charge.

 As you were previously warned, NUPRO offers a comprehensive family of weight management systems and products to help you address the issues of weight management.  After 4 years of development, we are quite proud of our efforts.  We named the 4 systems composed of 6 products, Thinrite™ by NUPRO.  If you are thinking about embarking on a program to manage your weight, it is well worth considering.

 P.S.  While you’re there, request the comprehensive package of tips, recipes and information.  It will be worth your time.

 

 Well … take it easy on me big fellas!

 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.

But, you need to know that many of us don’t share your enthusiasm.

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.

While there is a multitude of ways to manage weight – all of them must involve 3 things:

1. Better diet
2. Exercise that fits your schedule, ability and proclivity
3. Lifestyle choices including: sleep, rest and stress management

 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.

 The issue can be viewed as a balanced mathematical equation:  Diet + Moderate Exercise + Lifestyle = Healthy.

When any one, two or all of the pieces of the left side of the equation is out of balance, the result is “not healthy”.

 Of course you’ve heard or seen this before, because it is an unshakable truth with a predictable outcome.

That truth is:  the body will begin to decay when the health equation is out of balance.   The symptoms of decay, and the path they take, are predictable, too.

1. At first, it is weight gain
2. Followed by self-medicating with stimulants like caffeine and/or mood enhancers like comfort food and/or alcohol;
3. Followed by over the counter medications;
4. Followed by prescriptions for a condition that can’t be resolved – only managed;
5. Followed by a search for the “magic bullet”
6. Followed by the ultimate symptom of an imbalanced health equation – premature death.

 Of course, there’s always the issue of bad luck to consider.

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 the conflict between Germ Theory and Pleomorphism, we have prepared a paper on the subject for your review.

 Personally, I believe that weight gain is a sign of decaying health; that this particular sign, weight gain, is brought on by disregarding the health-equation. 

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.

 Weight gain may have as many 5 factors:

1. Imbalance in calories (consuming more empty calories than you burn)
2. Imbalance in nutrition (satiety and/or cravings)
3. Dysfunction in daytime metabolism (sluggishness and or alertness) and/or nighttime metabolism (sleep and/or moodiness and anxiety)
4. Irregular bowel habits
5. Producing fat cells to wall off internal acids and other toxic substances

 The penchant for identifying one culprit for weight issues is the source for frustration, and often failure, for most people choosing to lose weight. 

Typically, being overweight or obese is a combination of several or all of the factors:  diet, moderate exercise and lifestyle.

 When you change the health equation you will change the situation, going forward.  And, when you support the dysfunctional bodily systems with high quality, well-crafted dietary supplements that support healing the dysfunction(s) of weight management, or health for that matter, the dysfunctions will begin to right themselves.

 The false paradigm – there is a quick fix to address the manifestations of a dysfunctional body – is an unfulfilling, and often risky, track to follow.

On the other hand, electing to balance your health equation will pay dividends.

 In the end, it’s your life – it’s your choice.  Choose wisely

 

From:  the Editor

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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

 

People who do not travel exhibit the same demographics and similar, if not the same, characteristics.

 A fair question would be “Why?”

 The answers lie in two areas: 

• lifestyle
• the paradigms that seem to regulate the choices all people make, on a daily basis.

 No one will argue that the modern lifestyle is significantly different than your grandparents 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.

 Daily commuting is … a challenge … and a great source of frustration for almost everyone.  So, everyone’s day starts and ends with a bang!

 Regardless of you career choice, blue collar or white, each work day is packed with demands that, as we’ve come to accept, require sacrifices such as working late and weekends to achieve those work related demands using technology that limits or, in some cases, eliminates physical effort to accomplish the task.

 Work, for the most part, is no longer a job; it is a career 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.

 Travelers don’t have a corner on the market for fast food, petulant teens, understanding spouses or mobile devices, either.  They’re in your life, too.

 Two income families are the norm.  Even if you’ve chosen to raise your children with one parent staying at home, your children’s school and extra-curricular activities create a schedule that is challenging or, if you have more than one child, very demanding.

 In fact, the only difference between travelers and those who stay near their home is the venue.

 Ask yourself this question:  “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.

 My guess:  everything but the meat.

 The components of being overweight or obese, and declining health, can be broken down into two dominant categories:

•  Physiological:  including body metabolism, hormones and the neurological components of regulating appetite and cravings.
• 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.

 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.

 And, matters could be made worse 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 – as it is.

 In fact, if you were to make an honest assessment, you can’t help but conclude:

• your diet is a mess
• you have too many responsibilities
• there aren’t enough hours in a day.

 You are, as they say, stuck between a rock and a hard spot.

 You need to find help to get out of your tough spot.

 You need to eat breakfast – 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.

 You need something that effectively

•  supports the components of weight management
• a program that is simple to follow
• is priced so it won’t cost you an arm and a leg.

 You need help burning fat – not just calories only when you “work out”, 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.

 If you have been searching for a way, like the one you’ve just read about – take heart – it really does exist.  It is called the Enhanced Weight Management System.

 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.

 By the way, there is a promotion through the end of the month on the Enhanced Weight Management System – the investment drops to $3.00 per day.

 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 Enhanced Weight Management System – only from NUPRO.

 PS  Thanks for the note, Maria.  Your news is heartening and, you’re welcome.

3/8/11  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.

Thanks…. Maria Slankepiller , Sweden

 

 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.