Likewise, the connection between maintaining your healthy weight and consuming a wholesome diet, drinking water, moderate daily exercise and adequate, restful sleep is irrefutable. 

 Weight Issues are a Symptom

That’s right, the weight, bulges and girth that define you, are your body’s way of compensating for a deficiency in one, two, three or all four of the conditions necessary to maintain your healthy weight.

 The Problem is Habits and Addictions not Willpower

Addicted to Food?  How to Break Your Habit (Daryn Eller Prevention Magazine, TODAY) discusses, in length, the controversy surrounding manufactured food.  “… “we live in an environment perfectly designed to nurture food addictions.”

 “For decades, food-industry scientists have been working hard to figure out how better to hook people”, claims David L. Katz, MD, MPH, director of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center in Derby, CT, and author of The Flavor Point Diet. “Manufacturers now excel at hitting the sweet spot — making us crave more and more of a food.

 In a supermarket recently, I actually found a pasta sauce that, serving for serving, contained more sugar than a chocolate fudge sauce, though the sweetness was hidden because the pasta sauce was so salty,” Katz says.  “The question is, why would anybody pour a packet of sugar over their pasta?

 And the answer is that if you get used to that much sugar, another pasta sauce will taste too bland. The food industry wants us to need more and more of the substance to feel satisfied, so we’ll go out and buy more and more of it.”

 “ … Animal research at Princeton University has also shown that the way you indulge may have consequences. Bart Hoebel, PhD, a professor of psychology, placed rats on an alternating schedule of 12 hours with no food, followed by 12 hours of access to both rat chow and a solution of 10% sugar (about as sweet as a soft drink) — a pattern that results in binge eating.  As the days went by, the rats began upping their intake of the sugar solution, drinking more and more at a time.

 Hoebel found that after about a month, the rats’ brains were producing surges of dopamine during their binges. “In rats, binge eating promotes addiction just like binge drinking promotes alcohol addiction,” says Hoebel. “It’s possible that repeatedly bingeing on sweets could actually change the circuitry of your brain” — and make you want ever-increasing amounts.”

 When Hypcorates said “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” 2,500 years ago, it is unlikely he considered the lengths that Manufactured Food Companies would go to” build brand loyalty”.

 People Are Digging Their Graves With Their Forks

… and setting themselves up to suffer mightily before they meet their maker – and they don’t even know it.

Plus, they are setting their spouses and children up for heart ache and financial ruin.

 The number of books, articles and seminars designed to help people “feel OK” about their weight is staggering.  They’re right about one thing, “What others think about you doesn’t matter, just feel good about yourself.”

What they fail to point out the profound selfishness in the choice to subject your loved ones to the grief and financial implications of this predictable outcome – prolonged suffering, profound medical intervention and premature death – when people fail to manage their weight.

 The Truth Hurts

If this view is too harsh, then ignore it.

Just know this:  Everyday, people ask themselves or a loved one, “Why me?”, when they are diagnosed with Cancer or Diabetes, experience a heart attack, a stroke or suffer some incurable set of symtoms that destroy their finances and quality of life.

 There is a old saying, “When you find your self in a hole, stop digging.”, that sums up this commentary nicely. 

 Breaking the addictions that are turning you into a statistic is hard, but the reward are great.  In the end, it is your life, it is your choice.

 Editor’s note:  First, thanks to all of you who are informing us about the quick fixes, various exotic fruits and their possible application for weight loss.  While many of the claims are unlikely, the sheer numbers of them serve to confirm our conviction that being overweight or obese is the number one health challenge on people’s mind.

 NUPRO is ever vigilant for natural applications to augment our position on the cutting edge of natural health and healing modalities.  And, since weight loss occupies the top priority, we have been developing and now announcing The ThinRite Weight Management Program.

 

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

 

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.

 

•  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

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! 

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

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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

 

 So what can you do?

 Enjoy!  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.

• 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.
• 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.
• Savor the treat or desert but, cut the serving in half.  Again, take small bites and chew it thoroughly.
• Pace yourself.  Put a limit of one serving per sitting of anything you choose to eat or drink.
• Drink plenty of water.  It will help flush away all the residuals from a diet that is so different than normal.

 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.

 If you have gained weight, 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 moderate, balanced diet and a brisk, daily, 20-minute walk may help you lose weight.

 If patience is not one of your best virtues, or you have more than a few pounds lingering around your middle, you may want to consider using dietary supplements, along with your more moderate diet and walk, to help speed up your weight loss.

 One final thought, 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.

 We wish you Happy Holidays and a bountiful, prosperous New Year.