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4 Smart Reasons to Start Your Day With Citrus

2011-04-10T20:20:00.001-07:00

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And the secret to true happiness is… (drum roll please)

2011-03-15T19:46:00.001-07:00

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In my last journal entry I spoke about happiness being within ourselves as opposed to some external thing making us happy. How does one weather proof the soul and create a happiness generator within? Well, in my opinion, there are two key components to happiness:

1) Take the initiative and be proactive rather than reactive to your environment. When we “let things happen to us” we are enslaved to circumstance, waiting for the next circumstance to react to. Instead, let the world react to you. Decide on your course of action beforehand and stick to your well thought out intentions and plans despite the ominous well intentioned warnings from people who think they know you and what’s best for you. If you internalize the fears of others, you immobilize the force of your dreams and they are never realized. If you need advice in a particular area, make you get it from people who have proven their success in that endeavor.

2) Whatever decision you make, make sure it is your decision. There is a difference in deciding to serve others and being enslaved by others. Many people, for their own selfish motives, seek to make you feel obliged to serve them or do things their way. Well, not even God forces us to serve him for he loves a cheerful and willing servant. So we should never do things based on a nod of approval from others, this motivation always proves to fail when our decision proves faulty and those we sought to please suddenly withdraw away from us into the shadows. The moral of the story is, we alone are always held accountable for the decisions we make, and so those decisions should be based on what we feel is right after we’ve weighed the evidence to the best of our ability.

In these two components we are not advocating a selfish me first attitude, which is opposed to enjoying personal interactions or sharing an interchange of thought with others. What we are discussing is true autonomy that enhances our enjoyment in interacting with people who are who they are by choice. Would you rather hear the words, “I love you” from someone who said it just to please you or some moral institution or would you rather hear those words springing forth from a heart and mind that genuinely admires you? Of course, if you’re like most people, you want an expression of affection to be out of a person’s free will, unpretentious.

So there you have it. Happiness is something within the realm of conscious decisions. You choose to be happy or you choose to be miserable when you let happenstance and the wills of others dictate it. Always be the captain of your ship, keep sight of your goals- even in stormy weather- and you will reach all your destinations in life.

By Lewis Jackson

Natural Solutions for Total Fitness
http://www.mistergoodbuy.com

Adventure is not outside; it is within...

2011-03-13T01:12:00.001-08:00

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Yesterday, my Chinese Fortune cookie said, “Adventure is not outside; it is within.” And today I say, “Happiness is not outside; it is within.”

Hmmm, yesterday my adventure was truly outside, The Jacksonville Gate River Run.” The grim reality of recovery is now hitting my 16 year old daughter. She’s sleeping as I type this, but I’m sure she’s going to wake up like a groggy bear this morning. As for me, it’s 5 am and I know better to be up typing in my journal…

Anyway, there is some good food for thought today: “Happiness is not outside; it is within.” I felt miserable yesterday due to recovering from the flu. Some glimmers of sunshine shown through to my face I’m sure. The happiness and energy that surrounded me yesterday somehow did infiltrate into my inner soul and struck a cord. The energy of people around can certainly affect you. But you have to let your environment affect you; happiness is an inner working that largely is in your control.

Your thoughts and feeling do not happen to you, you generate them and make them happen. You are the captain of your ship. One thing I do know for certain is that when you let others steer your ship it leads to shipwreck. Good advice, “Take counsel from people who have proven their success.” And when you do, make sure it is only after quite reflection that you have come to agree this is the best choice for you.

Okay, I can see this is going to be one of those long and deep journal entries—but I think you get the point. Cherish your autonomy, avoid the habit of reacting to life and instead take time by the horns and plan your future; avoid being superficial, take time to meditate and search your soul for true genuine feeling and thought. These are the ways of the genuinely happy person.

By Lewis Jackson

Natural Solutions for Total Fitness
http://www.mistergoodbuy.com

Time to pass the torch...

2011-03-12T16:00:00.001-08:00

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My daughter, Shannan, and I completed the Jacksonville, Florida Gate River Run today. It’s a 15k, 9.3 mile course that has a hill, two bridges, at the beginning and near the end. After 8 miles it’s basically all down hill into the coliseum.

Today was a new experience for me jogging in the “turtle pack.” No offense guys, knowing many of the 10 minutes per mile plus runners are giving it their all and many are newbies like my daughter. The objective for a first race is always just to finish the race. I took great pride in my daughter jogging the whole way, stopping only for water breaks. So many people cut corners or walked the last mile. Some were injured, dehydrated, or just had a ‘blowout’ from running out to fast at the start—I take my hat off to you as you did the best you could. But I know many simply cheated themselves of a best effort. I ask how can you honestly accept that finisher’s medal and look yourself in the mirror and be proud of yourself?!

For me this was a semi-dangerous run having still some remnants of the flu running through my veins. I felt very weak and sensed a hint of pneumonia. Oh. I hope I didn't have pnuemonia. I expended every effort to prep myself for this race to run with my daughter-- Golden Seal, Cayenne Pepper and Apple Cider Vinegar drinks, eating raw garlic, staying away from meat-- in fact, I went vegetarian, but that's another story.

Anyway my daughter totally surprised. She blew out on a 4 miler just a few days before race day complaining of cramps. I wondered if I over trained her by having her do 2 miles of fartleck at a bridge and then jogging another 4 miles—all this a week before the race. But we stuck to our game plan—nice easy pace without letting yourself get excited by the racing atmosphere.

Oh what an atmosphere (okay, I’m going to use an antiquated word here, watch out)full of such gaiety, nice circa 72° weather, racers hooting, singing, and hollering the whole way, live bands pumping out rhythmic beats, and even livelier spectators who were very interactive with us racers. One boy gave my daughter a necklace, another woman have her a a very enthusiastic high 5. There were people running in Superman, Wonder Woman, and Flash costumes. I saw one guy dressed up like a carrot, a fireman with real water tank on his back, a soldier wearing a fully packed backpack. Believe they real know how to throw a party. One spectator group had bear and bacon handouts, really.

Anyway, I looked at my daughter Shannan near the top of that last bridge. She asked me how people could give up and walk so close to the finish line. I looked at her face and she had the look of pure determination. Nothing more needed be said. The last few yards of the race she let loose a burst a speed that caught me totally by surprise. It was time to pass the torch.

By Lewis Jackson

http://www.mistergoodbuy.com

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2010-08-29T10:07:00.001-07:00

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Restore Your Health and Energy!

2010-08-13T20:20:00.001-07:00

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Scientists Get Closer to Understanding Why We Age

2010-02-20T12:13:00.000-08:00

Scientists Get Closer to Understanding Why We Age

Female athletes injured more than male athletes

2010-02-20T03:59:00.000-08:00

Female athletes injured more than male athletes

New evidence that green tea may help fight glaucoma and other eye diseases

2010-02-20T03:41:00.000-08:00

New evidence that green tea may help fight glaucoma and other eye diseases

What you eat after exercise matters

2010-02-15T08:41:00.000-08:00

What you eat after exercise matters

Biological risks of eating reptiles

2010-02-15T06:39:00.000-08:00

Biological risks of eating reptiles

Scientists Discover Influenza's Achilles Heel: Antioxidants

2009-11-01T03:57:00.000-08:00

Scientists Discover Influenza's Achilles Heel: Antioxidants

Moderate Amounts Of Protein Per Meal Found Best For Building Muscle

2009-10-28T18:45:00.000-07:00

Moderate Amounts Of Protein Per Meal Found Best For Building Muscle

CT Scans Better Than X-rays When Detecting Abnormalities In Patients With H1N1 Virus

2009-10-27T08:46:00.000-07:00

CT Scans Better Than X-rays When Detecting Abnormalities In Patients With H1N1 Virus

You will never eat pork again after reading this....

2009-08-05T20:35:00.000-07:00

source page: http://www.theherbdoc.com/ConsumerEducation/Reference/PorkFacts.htm

Please Pass [on] the Pork Chops
Download PDF
Pig and Pork Facts

by "MB" talmidim@...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BneiHaMelech/message/559

The pig or swine is a very popular food item with most Christians. Yet Christians are [either] unaware [or choose to ignore] that the God they profess to believe in had condemned the eating of swine's flesh. The condemnation was based on some very sound biological principles. Here are some facts on pork that prove it to be a very unhealthy food to eat:

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A pig is a real garbage gut. It will eat anything including urine, excrement, dirt, decaying animal flesh, maggots, or decaying vegetables. They will even eat the cancerous growths off other pigs or animals.

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The meat and fat of a pig absorbs toxins like a sponge. Their meat can be 30 times more toxic than beef or venison.

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When eating beef or venison, it takes 8 to 9 hours to digest the meat so what little toxins are in the meat are slowly put into our system and can be filtered by the liver. But when pork is eaten, it takes only 4 hours to digest the meat. We thus get a much higher level of toxins within a shorter time.

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Unlike other mammals, a pig does not sweat or perspire. Perspiration is a means by which toxins are removed from the body. Since a pig does not sweat, the toxins remain within its body and in the meat.

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Pigs and swine are so poisonous that you can hardly kill them with strychnine or other poisons. Farmers will often pen up pigs within a rattlesnake nest because the pigs will eat the snakes, and if bitten they will not be harmed by the venom.

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When a pig is butchered, worms and insects take to its flesh sooner and faster than to other animal's flesh. In a few days the swine flesh is full of worms.

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Swine and pigs have over a dozen parasites within them, such as tapeworms, flukes, worms, and trichinae. There is no safe temperature at which pork can be cooked to ensure that all these parasites, their cysts, and eggs will be killed.

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Pig meat has twice as much fat as beef. A three-ounce T-bone steak contains 8.5 grams of fat; a three-ounce pork chop contains 18 grams of fat. A three-ounce beef rib has 11.1 grams of fat; a three-ounce pork spare rib has 23.2 grams of fat.

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Cows have a complex digestive system, having four stomachs. It thus takes over 24 hours to digest their vegetarian diet causing its food to be purified of toxins. In contrast, the swine's one stomach takes only about four hours to digest its foul diet, turning its toxic food into flesh.

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The swine carries about 30 diseases which can be easily passed to humans. This is why God commanded that we are not even to touch their carcass. (Leviticus 11:8).

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The trichinae worm of the swine is microscopically small, and once ingested can lodge itself in our intestines, muscles, spinal cord or the brain. This results in the disease trichinosis. The symptoms are sometimes lacking, but when present they are mistaken for other diseases, such as typhoid, arthritis, rheumatism, gastritis, MS, meningitis, gall bladder trouble, or acute alcoholism.

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The pig is so poisonous and filthy that nature had to prepare him a sewer line or canal running down each leg with an outlet in the bottom of the foot. Out of this hole oozes pus and filth his body cannot pass into its system fast enough. Some of this pus gets into the meat of the pig.

There are other reasons grounded in biological facts that could be listed to show why pigs and swine should not be eaten. But a true Christian should only need one reason why not to eat this type of food: because God prohibits it.

"And the swine, because it divides the hoof, yet does not chew the cud, it is unclean unto you: you shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcass." (Leviticus 11:7,8; Deuteronomy 14:8)

Those who say Christ abolished the law condemning pork are motivated by their stomach, not Scripture. The problems with pork are biological, and Christ never changed the laws of biology.

To Market to Market to Buy ... a Fat Hog

by "MB" talmidim@...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BneiHaMelech/message/560

It's amazing how much confusion there is out there today regarding what is healthful food.

The world is full of individuals who have fallen prey to all manner of infirmity, sickness, and disease — sometimes merely uncomfortable, but more often crippling or even fatal — who, either in ignorance or with supposed superior knowledge, have disregarded the unchangeable health laws.

Hogs! They were created as scavengers; as a rule they are meat-eating animals that clean up anything that is left dead in the fields, etc. If any animal should die in the field and lie in the sun until it is broken open and the maggots and putrefaction have set in, the swine or other scavengers will come and eat up the filth and putrid matter. Scavengers were never meant for human consumption.

Scavengers, such as the swine, are the filthiest and most abominable creatures. In their very nature they are poisonous, diseased, and deadly. The flesh of the swine is said by many authorities to be the prime cause of much of our American ill health, causing blood disease, weakness of the stomach, liver troubles, eczema, consumption, tumors, cancer, trichinosis, etc.

The swine's anatomy has but one poorly constructed stomach arrangement and very limited excretory organs generally. Consequently, in about four hours after the pig has eaten his polluted swill and other putrid, offensive matter, man may eat the same, second-hand, off the ribs of the pig.

John Johnson, a farmer of Williams, Iowa, speaks on this subject. He states that the swine in Iowa are principally fed on corn, but "will eat anything we give them. If anything dies, we throw it to the hogs. I have actually seen hogs chewing at the cancer of other hogs and these hogs are shipped to market. Many times cattle are infected from the incurable diseases of the hog called the `mad itch.' It is transmitted by the hog's saliva left on the corn, which cattle eat. The itching in the cattle becomes so intense they will run from stump to stump until they rub their skin from their mouths and soon die. When the saliva from the hog's mouth will poison cattle in this way, how can hogs be fit for man to eat?"1

Farmers know that when they are feeding cattle, it pays for them to keep hogs, so that the hogs can follow after the cattle, eat the filth from the cattle, and thus turn it into pork for the public market.

Swine have "running sores" under their hoofs. If you ever get the opportunity to visit a farm that raises hogs, lift the front hoof of the hog, and, with just a little pressure, greenish matter will ooze out from between the toes. This is one small outlet for the various heinous poisons that the hog takes into his body. Occasionally this artery becomes stopped up, the poison backs up into his system, and greenish growths are formed in various parts of his body.

"On a close analysis of this filthy scrofulous serum, or the `culture' of its bacilli under varied conditions, it is seen to contain the elements of many dangerous diseases and combinations; yet how toothsome is pickled pig's feet to ignorance, unbelief, and disobedience."2

Some may be led to conclude that if the hog was kept in clean quarters and given nothing but pure food to eat, its flesh would then be just as desirable for human consumption as the flesh of any other animal, but that just isn't true. The naturally filthy hog could be forced into the most sanitary conditions, nourished upon delicacies, and still would be unfit for food due to the basic physiological functions of it system. For this reason, God states in the Scriptures, "It is unclean to you. Of their flesh shall ye not eat."

The Scriptures warn us about the diseases lurking in these unclean animals (they are scavengers of the earth). These signals have been placed there for very good reasons. They are flashing red lights to keep us from impending disaster.

During recent years discoveries by the medical establishment has brought to light reasons why God, thousands of years ago, condemned the hog as unfit for food. The microscope has revealed that the flesh of hogs is often infested with trichina worms, which when taken into the human body, multiply and begin to work their way through the entire system, even into the brain and heart. This condition is known as trichinosis. Even today in America, the public is warned and advised to cook ALL pork well done. This is to make sure that the only trichinae worm you eat is a cooked one.

But it is a known fact that heat does not guarantee the killing of all pork worms. The larva are very tiny and you can unknowingly swallow several hundred of them. Then when the natural warmth and even temperature of your body envelops them, they dissolve and become free to go about the task of growing and breeding further in your body. To suffer the symptoms of pork worm poisoning you need not eat but one pregnant parasite. If the number of parasites is sufficient, the body responds with symptoms similar to reactions to food poisoning. Later, rheumatic-like pains may begin, or the worms may settle temporarily in the heart. Inflammation in the cardiac region may follow. In some cases the brain or nervous system may be disturbed, as though worms had invaded brain or nerves, which possibly they do. Even invasion of the muscles may be fatal if the worms are numerous enough.

"In the pork which we Americans eat, there too often lurk myriads (countless numbers) of baffling and sinister parasites. They are minute spiral worms which scientists call Trichinella spirals. A single serving of infected pork — even a single mouthful — can kill or cripple, or condemn the victim to a lifetime of aches and pains. In the flesh of a pig, the trichinae are often so minute and so nearly transparent that to find them, even with a microscope, is a task for expert scientific inspectors ...

"Remember this: When you see stamped on a pork product the words `U.S. Government Inspected and Passed,' those words do not mean that any official inspection whatever has been made as to whether this pork has trichinosis or not. It has merely passed the routine inspection given meat in general.

"The trichina is just one worm found in the swine. There is a large round worm, the gullet worm, three kinds of stomach worms, a tiny hairworm, a hookworm, and the thorn-headed worm, in the small intestine. There are several species of nodular worms and one species of whipworm in the large intestine, and the kidney worm. The large round worm can be as big as eighteen inches.

"A special report given to medical personnel at a Doctors and Nurses Conference on Communicable Disease at the Wesley Medical Center, Wichita, Kansas, in 1962 said that one out of three people are infected with trichinosis."3

"In a Colorado town pork sausage showing the trichina worms was taken by the federal pathologists from a peddler of fresh pork sausage after a family had been made severely ill from eating his product. One girl, age 18, was so ill that she was taken to the hospital where, on account of the heavy infestation of her diaphragm, her breathing was so bad that she had to receive oxygen inhalations three times a day to keep her alive. A small piece of muscle taken from her deltoid, or shoulder, muscle showed trichinae infestation. The family was at first diagnosed as having influenza, or muscular rheumatism. This mistake is probably often made in light cases of trichinosis, which probably affects about one person out of every four in this country.

"In an effort to cull out the trichinae-infested hogs, or the worst of them, an attempt was made for a time to examine microscopically the tissues of each hog, by having a room full of microscopists examining bits of muscle tissue. The difficulty of this can be better understood when it is known that in Chicago alone there are two packing houses that can kill, dress, and pack six hundred hogs an hour each, which means an average of one every six seconds. This effort had to be abandoned as impractical and expensive, and so the Department of Agriculture, in a bulletin on trichinosis, says that `no practical system has yet been devised by which persons who eat raw or imperfectly cooked pork can be protected from the danger of trichinosis.'

"In this same bulletin it is pointed out that in Germany, where microscopical examination of pork for trichinae is systematically carried out, there occurred in seventeen years 6,329 cases of trichinosis, 32 percent of which were from inspected meat that had been passed as free from trichinae infestation. To safeguard the consuming public, the government has prepared a poster for the use of the meat trade, warning the public to `cook pork and its products thoroughly.' The reason is not given on the poster, but it offers to send an explanatory leaflet on request. It would not add to the attractiveness of pork as a food, nor would it tend to increase the sale of pork products, to inform the public bluntly that among garbage-fed hogs trichinosis infection is common, with a slightly decreased frequency among hogs in general. Garbage-fed rats have their tissues loaded with the trichina worms. Hogs eating such rats quickly become heavily infested with this loathsome disease.

"As in all the wonderful instruction given by Moses, there was an excellent reason for his warning against the filth-eating hogs; and certainly those who do eat them should follow the government's warning, for dead trichinae worms are preferable to live ones."4

Protein is best meal after a workout.

2009-06-12T08:39:00.000-07:00

You've heard that you need carbohydrates before working out, especially for a grueling endurance workout. But it's equally important, as far as recovery goes, to have protein after a workout. If you're training to improve performance, then likely you've wore down some weak muscle. In any event, you need to recover and you need amino acids/ protein to aide in that repair. It's also important to have your protein with vegetables. I believe in using protein as a base for dietary recovery, but in essence you want to have on hand complete nutrition to counteract any deficiencies. It's important, I think, for athletes to have variety in their diet. It makes eating special and fun. Like I tell my son, "If you're going to eat, then eat." Sit down and have a meal, satisfy yourself in the healthiest way possible. I think nuts of any kind are a great immediate snack to have after a workout. But this morning I'm opting for the sausage and eggs. ;^)

Lew Jackson
mistergoodbuy

Should you cheat and eat a Snickers bar?

2009-05-29T17:57:00.000-07:00

By all means cheat! I am not being fascitious. I'm quite serious. Yes eat green leafy vegetables. Eat a variety of healthy fruits and vegetables. Find a great whole food supplement. Etcetera, etcetera. How do I feel about heavily processed foods, fats, and sweets? They are absolutely horrible for your body. They make you feel sluggish and actually act as sludge in your circulatory system causing a whole host of problems and possible diseases.

They argument is closed on garbage food. They do absolutely nothing for the body. However, I still think it's healthy for your outlook to treat yourself to a sweet desert in moderation once in awhile. I think it can actually be detrimental to be so rigid with diet and regimen that we squeeze the fun out of staying healthy. In the long run, I say give yourself a little treat and be the better for it!

What are your thoughts on this touchy topic. To treat or not to treat?

Lewis Jackson
mistergoodbuy.com

A Change of venue and being your own ally in the battle of the bulge

2009-05-26T13:44:00.000-07:00

Hi all,

The MisterGoodBuy Health Spot will change venue a little and now focus primarily on diet and nutrition. This will be a little more focused than a general health and fitness topic. My other blog http://mistergoodbuy.wordpress.com will continue to focus on my daily fitness journal.

So let's talk a little about diet and nutrition as it relates to staying healthy and getting in shape. My son is battling the battle of the bulge and seems to think he can literally have his exercise and eat his cake too! (LOL, I normally don't laugh at my own jokes, but wasn't that a good one?) Anyway... in getting in shape, we need to become our own best allies and not work against our training by packing in calories.

I think one discipline to master is what we eat between meals. Those little nibbles between meals add up to a lot of calories and they prevent true digestion of preingested food, i.e, your breakfast, lunch, or dinner. I tell my son, eat a satisfying breakfast, lunch, or dinner... have your fill and then stop eating!!! This is a unwelcome counsel and a hard lesson for him to learn. Especially, since Dad gets away with regularly breaking this rule and stays so slim. What can I say, some of us who are very active got it like that.

But still I think all of us can benefit by eating healthy satisfying meals three square per day and avoiding the mostly junk foods we eat in between.

Keep up the good work!

Lew aka mistergoodbuy

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2009-05-23T15:56:00.000-07:00

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2009-05-18T17:28:00.000-07:00

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Master Shane is dethroned!

2009-05-15T16:01:00.000-07:00

Another run (really a very slow walk/ jog) under the belt for Shane and I. He became upset that I was jogging backwards and he couldn't keep up. He complained several times that you're a long distance runner. Stop showing off!!! I said, "I don't mean to show off, it's just that we're jogging so slow." Now when you're training with someone who is not on your level it's NOT a good thing to frustrate them. After all, they may be giving it all they got. So you let them save face, try not to do anything to rub it in. But I really felt insulted, does a bull tell a cheetah not to run fast. It's what a cheetah does. And when it's not running fast, it's playfully prancing along, exploring it's dynamics. Anyway, that's what I was doing. So I says him, "Son, you think you're big and bad when you play your video games, but you're not so hot out here on the road in reality. And then you gripe at me." "I can't play video games like you. I can't even imagine playing at your level. But I never tell you stop playing video games because you're stealing my thunder?!" At first, it didn't make sense to him. But he gradually came to understand the connection-- if you're not good at something, don't complain, improve your game. And like I always tell him, "drive your own car." Compare yourself to yourself alone and drive toward your goal. You can't do it for anyone else and know one can do it for you.

Total Gym gives an excellent stretch workout.

2009-05-15T03:56:00.000-07:00

My son, Shane, and I have been going at it regularly everyday this week with our rigorous morning and sometimes afternoon workouts. However, this morning we decided to switch up our routine with the Total Gym. We also have Joe Weider version of the Total Gym called Total Body Works 5000, which I believe to be superior to the Total Gym. Anyone these machines are great for stretching the body as you extend during the exercises. They also work the muscles in safe unique ways. This added variety helps prevents injuries and moves you towards your fitness goals more quickly.

Wow, New Tahitian Health Homes!

2009-05-14T15:16:00.000-07:00

What does it mean to have a Tahitian Noni Home? As Craig Colyar put it recently, it means replacing your old, unhealthy and unnatural products with superior products from Tahitian Noni International.

Tahitian Noni International is of course known for its world-famous and industry-leading TAHITIAN NONI® Juice, but many people still haven’t tried TNI’s other incredible products.

Three products for your TNI home
Adam May 12, 2009 Product, TNI Blog Posts

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What does it mean to have a TAHITIAN NONI® Home? As Craig Colyar put it recently, it means replacing your old, unhealthy and unnatural products with superior products from Tahitian Noni International.

Tahitian Noni International is of course known for its world-famous and industry-leading TAHITIAN NONI® Juice, but many people still haven’t tried TNI’s other incredible products.

Here are three products from TNI that everyone can use in their daily lives.

1. High Protein Drinks. Protein is one of the most important compounds found in the human body. It is a crucial component of weight loss, and it helps build lean muscle. A reliable source of protein is vital for every human body, and TNI’s High Protein Drinks contain 20 grams of bio-available protein in every serving.

High Protein Drinks come in chocolate and vanilla, and they mix with either water or milk.

I love these drinks. I drink High Protein Drinks in the morning for breakfast, at night for a snack or after a workout. They taste great (especially the chocolate), and they are perfect substitutes for an unhealthy treat or meal.

2. Fiber Blend Juicy Orange. According to an article found on WebMD, healthy diets should include about 20-35 grams of fiber every day. The average American diet, however, includes only about 14 grams of fiber a day.

Fiber aids in digestion and helps fight certain forms of cancer, like colon cancer. TNI’s Fiber Blend Juicy Orage contains 10 grams of fiber in every serving.

Fiber Blend Juicy Orange is one of my favorite products. I think it’s safe to say that we all need to add more fiber to our diets, and this drink is the perfect way to do it. Mix one scoop of Fiber Blend Juicy Orange with water, drink it quickly, and follow it with another glass of water. You will love the results!

3. HIRO Energy. Energy drinks are some of the most popular products on the market these days. Commercials run on every station, billboards dot the road and displays are in every supermarket. These energy drinks promise a shot of energy to get you through your day.

The problem is that energy usually comes from a heaping helping of sugar or caffeine, and can usually lead to a crash later. TNI’s HIRO beverages are powered by TAHITIAN NONI® Juice, and contain no sugar or unnatural caffeine. HIRO Energy is only 10 calories, and it will give you the boost you need to conquer your day.

I love to run races, and before every race I drink a HIRO Energy. They are completely natural, and they work like a charm. I love drinking HIRO Energy before I exercise, or even just when I need a boost.

There are three TNI products that you–and everyone else–can use in your everyday life. Try these products if you haven’t already, and go out there and spread the word! New TNI Home Pricing make these products more affordable than ever, and their quality make TNI products unbeatable!

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Another good workout with Billy Blanks

2009-05-14T04:10:00.000-07:00

Another good workout with Billy Blanks. Working on 100 push ups this morning. My son, Shane, is steadily losing that weight! Good job, Shane!!!

Building the Immune System

2009-01-12T16:45:00.000-08:00

Peak Energy Science Weekend Update
Saving Money on Healthcare
Many families, having to care for both children and aging parents, are looking for ways to do natural healthcare before spending their dollars at the doctor's office. It is not just the 50 million uninsured to whom politicians keep referring. Everyone else -- those employed and insured are looking for ways to avoid high deductibles and up-front costs of doctor visits. Recent surveys by the Kaiser Family Foundation tell us that a third of Americans reported having problems paying their medical bills.

I have been reading a raft of recent newspaper articles about how a poor economy is actually good for our health. In his article, "Are Recessions Good For Your Health?", economist Christopher Ruhm reviewed two decades worth of economic and health data and concluded that U.S. society as a whole is healthier during economic downturns. His reasoning was due to the fact that in such times, folks begin to look at ways to stay healthy and avoid high medical costs. Ruhm pointed out that focusing on better nutrition was the key to staying healthy.

It certainly seems that way. While other companies are seeking “bail-0ut” money, Dr. Bob Marshall and Quantum Nutrition Labs has just moved into a new 86,000 square foot manufacturing facility here in Round Rock. This new facility will increase our output over ten times what it is presently! The future is bright for QNL because people realize getting sick is very expensive in medical costs and missed work.

Stay in touch with QN Labs and our staff of QRA Certified Nutritionists. We are here to help you with your nutritional questions and health concerns. THIS IS A FREE SERVICE!

During tough economic times, tried and true advice about staying healthy bears repeating: Make those little decisions to stay healthy on your own: Eat well and enjoy Dr. Marshall’s Super Food Nutrition, plus - get daily exercise.

Thank all of you, again, for your continued interest in nutrition that really works!

Health and Blessings for the New Year!

Provided by Walt

BWO Lew Jackson

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New Health-2-Fitness website

2008-09-03T02:25:00.000-07:00

3 Simple ways to vastly improve your health and fitness

Read my brief life story: http://www.health-2-fitness.com

Hi I am Lewis Jackson and I am an avid health and fitness enthusiast. As a youngster, I had a very active lifestyle. My Dad played college football and later became a marathon runner. I literally followed in his footsteps and ran numerous 10ks, half marathons, and marathons. I continued to run through college, but after I got married and built a family, I began to slow down. Health problems involving my teeth contributed to my demise.

However, I fought back and refused to succumb to the damages of a sedentary lifestyle. The importance of exercise, nutrition, and proper rest are now more important in my life than ever. This website shares the resources I’ve found to be most helpful on my road to recovery.

I’ve found regular exercise of 30 minutes or more each day is very important to maintaining physical conditioning. It should not be underestimated in its ability to maintain the circulatory, respiratory, and skeletal systems of the body. We look in the mirror and its hard to detect the body wasting away through atrophy from the inside out. When symptoms of disease or damage occur, it is often too late to affect full recovery. The best health 2 fitness medicine is prevention, even if it is only mild walking each day for half an hour.

Nutrition was something I cheated on as a youth. I loved McDonalds, Burger King, and other processed foods and sugary drinks. My first wake up call was when I learned that many sodas contain up to nine teaspoons of sugar– not to mention the other chemical additives and acids. Even many supermarket foods you buy are heavily processed and contain toxins and synthetics. The nutrition links found on this page will provide alternative food sources that will help rebuild and vitalize your health and fitness from the inside out.

Finally, proper rest and sleep is paramount for full recovery and recuperation from each day’s rigors. You should schedule time for eight hours of sleep each night. Take catnaps to lessen stress on the body during the day. Maintain a positive outlook by feeding your mind and heart positive sources of motivation. It is also important to avoid emotional upheavals and drama in your life. Try to avoid allowing responsibilities to pile up, be proactive, keep life simple, and stay organized.

The three areas, exercise, nutrition, and proper rest, I briefly discussed above are part of what I call my well-being triangle. I hope my brief health and fitness tips have been helpful to you.

Determining the Quality of a Nutritional Product

2008-08-22T16:52:00.000-07:00

Determining the Quality of a Nutritional Product

With every "health" and "nutritional" product, learn to read the label and ask the questions: Has the product been clinically tested by licensed healthcare professionals in actual clinics with a substantial number of patients? Where are the plants grown? Are they tested for irradiation? If so, what method is used for testing?

Is each plant tested for heavy metals and chemical contamination? If so, what method is used for testing? Is each plant tested for pesticides? If so, what method is used for testing? What species is used? What method is used for determining the species of plants? (There are many species of every plant and herb. Each has vastly different nutrient content, depending on where and how it is grown.)

What does the term "natural flavors" mean? (Most juice products have this on their labels - the new name for MSG – Monosodium Glutamate – a known brain neurotoxin that kills brain cells.)How is the product preserved? Is it pasteurized? (Destroys nutrient content) Does the product have toxic preservatives such as sodium benzoate, sorbic acic, or potassium sorbate?

If it is a tablet - how is it hardened and held together? (Answer: glues, binders, heat and pressure which destroys nutrients) If it is a capsule - Is it 100% vegetable fiber? (Rather than gelatin made from animal hooves.) Are any ingredients synthetic? (Studies show synthetic vitamins degrade cells and shorten the user's lifespan.) What are the "Other Ingredients" listed on the label?

(Many labels will show toxic ingredients such as magnesium stearate, stearic acid, silicon dioxide (or "silica" - common sand), titanium dioxide, etc.) Are any ingredients fractioned out of plants and herbs? (Using harsh chemicals - Labels should list real plants and herbs, not isolated vitamins and minerals, such as "ascorbic acid" for real vitamin C.) Any distributor of a nutritional product should be able to answer these questions.

ARE YOU ABLE TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS ABOUT YOUR HEALTH PRODUCTS?

If not, do your research, read all the information on my Peak Energy website, or email me and I’ll try my best to answer questions you have about our Living Source Nutritionals.

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Are B Vitamins Supplements Really Necessary?

2008-08-06T05:56:00.000-07:00

The B Vitamins

Peak Energy Science FYI

The entire family of B Vitamins should be on your list of “must-have” nutrients.

Vitamin B12 — the cobamide, fully reacted coenzyme form

Vitamin B12 is one of the building blocks of life. It is thought to play a primary role in the origin of DNA. Vitamin B12 plays a key role in the body and is associated with lower levels of homocysteine in the blood. Homocysteine is now believed to be toxic to the cells that line blood vessels, and also may increase blood clotting. B12 is required for energy production and overall health of the body, including red blood cell formation. Other roles of B12 include proper nervous system development and prevention of infertility in men. It has also been shown to improve memory and promote heart health.

Lack of sufficient amounts of vitamin B12 can create a deficiency or absorption problems that can lead to anemia. Research has shown that Vitamin B12 levels decline with age. It is estimated that one-third of people over the age of 60 cannot extract the vitamin B12 they need from the foods they eat.

Vitamin B12 has also been shown to guard against strokes and contribute to relieving asthma, bursitis, depression, low blood pressure, multiple sclerosis, and even certain mental disorders by supporting normal brain cell activity and encouraging healthy cognitive, memory, and emotional function. A blood level of vitamin B12 that is even moderately below normal can result in considerable damage to the brain and nervous system.

The time-honored method of addressing vitamin B12 deficiency is by injection; however, now with powerful nanized green tea, taking it in a liquid form can be just as beneficial and much less invasive. Vitamin B12 has been shown to be extremely safe and nontoxic even in high doses.

Folic Acid — the folate form

Imagine eating 2 heads of lettuce, 3 apples, 5 bananas, and 7 carrots every day to try to get the minimum requirement of folate (400 micrograms). Yet folate is an essential part of the daily diet.

Women of child-bearing age are now being urged to increase their folate intake in order to help prevent neural tube defects and spina bifida in infants.

In addition, adequate levels of folate have been associated with lower levels of homocysteine in the blood (homocysteine is considered a risk factor for serious heart and immune problems).

Vitamin B6 — the pyridoxal-5-phosphate form

Like folate and B12, vitamin B6 has also been associated with lower levels of homocysteine. In addition, vitamin B6 is well known in this computer age for its role in relieving carpal tunnel syndrome, the weakness, numbness, tingling, and pain in wrists and arms caused by repetitive motion.

In his book, Vitamin B6 Therapy, J.M. Ellis, M.D., explains how insulin resistance (elevated blood-glucose levels now at crisis proportions in the U.S. due to eating refined sugars and grains) causes reduced blood levels of B6 which then lowers both pancreatic and circulating insulin levels.

Vitamin B5 — the coenzyme A form

Best known as pantothenic acid, vitamin B5 was discovered by Dr. Roger Williams. B5 has long been considered the “anti-stress” vitamin for its role in helping balance adrenal gland function and thus, help us cope better with the stressful situations life has to offer.

In his book, The Vitamin Revolution, Michael Janson, M.D., says that insufficient amounts of pantothenic acid can lead to fatigue, mood imbalances and sleep concerns.

Until now, only the inferior form of vitamin B5, d-calcium pantothenate, was available. Now for the first time in history, Dr. Robert Marshall has developed the superior end-chain form of B5 coenzyme A in a stable form along with the high powered derivative acetyl coenzyme A. No other product on earth can deliver this form of B5!

Vitamin B3 — the no-flush form, inositol hexanicotinamide

Vitamin B3 helps improve blood circulation by dilating arteries, especially important in the extremities and brain. The vitamin is a key factor in metabolizing carbohydrates, boosting energy, and maintaining a healthy brain and nervous system.

Vitamin B2 — the riboflavin-5 phosphate form

Vitamin B2 is important in the metabolism of carbohydrates, fats and proteins, and therefore, in the creation of energy. B2 also supports eye and skin health. The book, The Natural Pharmacy, points out that B2 also helps boost athletic performance and promotes brain health.

Vitamin B1 — the thiamin cocarboxylase form

Like B2 and B3, B1 is essential for metabolizing carbohydrates, fats and proteins for extra energy boosts. B1 supports the nervous system and healthy emotional balance. Insufficient vitamin B1 can create a loss of appetite, memory and mood imbalances and sluggish thinking. Many studies show that B1 enhances the ability to learn and retain knowledge.

Inositol

Inositol is involved in immunity, liver function and cell membrane health. Inositol promotes healthy liver metabolism, skin health and heart function, according to Dr. Berkson, author of All About B Vitamins.

Choline

In 1998, for the first time, choline was classified as an essential B vitamin. Choline is important for liver function, heart health, and achieving optimal physical performance. It also helps with healthy memory and mental balance.

Biotin

Even after biotin’s initial discovery, it took nearly 40 years of research for it to be fully recognized as a vitamin. Its roles include breaking down fats, constructing proteins from amino acids, and helping to manufacture various building blocks of genes.

All Are Necessary

The entire complex of B vitamins are necessary. The B vitamins in pure food form have been shown to vastly out perform the synthetic “make believe” forms of the B vitamins. Vitamin B works when it is combined with synergistic co-factors and transporters, found only in the pure food whole-nutrient complexes.

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Antioxidants and Free Radicals

2008-08-06T05:53:00.000-07:00

Antioxidants and Free Radicals

Peak Energy Science FYI:

Dr. Robert Marshall, PhD, CCN, in his paper, “The Overlooked Role of Chronic Infection in Neurodegeneration and its Reversal Using Nutraceutical Agents” writes:

All tissues of the human body are susceptible to degeneration. The process is called neurodegeneration. The number of lives affected by neurodegeneration is currently the highest in U.S. history and can ultimately be a source of major physical and mental debilitation for many Americans. For many, it is the difference between continuing a good quality of life or gradual loss of function. This process of neurodegeneration begins at the cellular level where oxidative stress relentlessly inflicts cell damage and death. The main force causing this destruction at the cellular level is known as “free radicals.”

In every cell of the body, both the cell nucleus and the mitochondrial DNA are vulnerable to free radical damage. However, the cells can be protected from this vulnerability with targeted nutraceutical agents.

Infection or trauma can initiate the inflammatory process. The process of inflammation can increase free radical activity. When unresolved inflammation becomes chronic, high levels of free radicals are constantly being generated. This eventually results in cell death. This degenerative process can feed upon itself, destroying massive amounts of cells. It is pause for thought to realize that key antioxidants can stop this destruction. The process of chronic illness may commence with symptoms such as fibromyalgia, anxiety, depression, or memory problems. All these conditions may improve by boosting the quality and quantity of nutrient uptake.

DHLA (dihydrolipoic acid) is capable of regenerating the vitamin C moleculewhich can then provide the broadest spectrum of antioxidant protection.
Nutrients such as resveratrol, green tea and the B vitamins combined together can promote the most effective antioxidant protection.

Free radicals are becoming a runaway freight train fueled by chronic infection.
Providing healing nutraceutical agents to repair the DNA of the cellsthat are infected is the only real answer.

What are “Free Radicals”?

Free radicals are oxygen molecules or atoms that have at least one unpaired electron in their outer orbit. In the process of using oxygen during normal metabolism within the cell to create energy (called oxidation), free oxygen radicals are created. These free radicals have such violent movement they have been shown chemically to create bursts of light within the body. If these free radicals are not neutralized rapidly, they create more volatile free radicals and cause damage to the vessel wall, cell wall, lipids, proteins, and even the DNA nucleus of the cell.

Chronic degenerative diseases are not diseases of old age. Their beginnings are evident in children, teens, and young adults. Oxidative stress, resulting from free radical damage, is the underlying cause of most all of these chronic diseases. This includes coronary artery disease, cancer, stroke, arthritis, and diabetes.

How do we protect ourselves from free radicals?

Fortunately, our Creator has given us antioxidants. Antioxidants have the ability to render free radicals harmless. As long as there are adequate amounts of antioxidants within our bodies to handle the free radicals produced within the cell, there is no damage to the surrounding tissues. However, the body is not able to produce enough of the antioxidants on its own to neutralize all of the free radicals. Antioxidants must also come from the nutrients that we take into our bodies. There is a support system behind the struggle to win this war. In order for antioxidants to do their job, there must be adequate amounts of all the B vitamins, which are co-factors for the antioxidants.

Many consumers take handfuls of antioxidants, but without the B vitamins,the antioxidants lose their power to handle all the free radicals produced in the body.

In his book, The Antioxidant Revolution, Dr. Kenneth Cooper emphasizes that excessive exercise is a major cause of oxidative stress leading to the development of free radicals.

Adding to the problem of free radicals are the challenges of excessive stress, pollutants in our air, food, and water, cigarette smoke, excessive sunlight, synthetic prescription drugs, radiation, and fatty foods. But once again, antioxidants have been shown to combat the above health challenges. In fact, antioxidants have been proven to decrease the oxidative stress in smokers and eliminate the bad effects of fatty meals.

The body God has given us has a great ability to heal itselfif we provide the nutritional building blocks. The body must haveenough antioxidants available to handle all the free radicals.

Poor Dietary Habits

Unfortunately, because of terrible dietary habits rooted in processed, packaged, convenient, and ready to eat “foods” our level of oxidative stress is causing degenerative disease in epidemic proportions. The average American (all ages) drinks 1.5 cans of soda pop per day, and on average, consumes 40 teaspoons of refined sugars per capita per day!

A Wellness Revolution is under way in our medical institutions!

Duke, Harvard, Georgetown, Columbia, The University of Arizona, and UC San Francisco have all begun to move their medical departments in the direction of nutritional medicine.

Professors at these and other medical schools are now teaching that antioxidants hold the key to reversing the chronic disease epidemic facing America.

Jeffrey Bland, Phd, CNS, FACN, Chairman for the Institute for Functional Medicine, Gig Harbor, Washington, writes in JANA, 2003 Spring. “Chronic diseases originate from an inflammatory process involving oxidative stress. The antioxidant status of the individual is of importance in both the prevention and treatment of disease.”

The same JANA issue quotes Mark Houston, MD, who has authored one of the most definitive papers pointing out the role antioxidants play in both prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease, the number one killer in America today.

Denham Harman, MD, PhD, founder of the American Aging Association, is best known for developing the “free radical theory of aging.” Dr. Harmon published his findings in a dietary antioxidant study in 1968, offering the first proof that dietary antioxidants can increase the life span of mice almost equal to the effects of caloric restriction. He discovered that mitochondrial decay in the cells plays a large role in aging and that the antioxidant alpha-lipoic acid can reverse this decay to levels found in young animals.

Writing in the Journal of Gerontology, 1956, Harman was one of the first in the medical field to state that inflammatory agents are believed to contribute to heart disease and cancers, and that the primary initiating event in atherosclerosis was the oxidation of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol. Harman predicted that antioxidants could slow or prevent LDL oxidation. This is now accepted as fact. Today we know that antioxidants in DHLA, the pure form of ALA, resveratrol, and green tea, all working with the co-factors of vitamin B can indeed slow down the process of LDL, and other oxidation, and prevent free radical damage to the cells.

Now libraries are full of empirical research evidence showing the destructive effects of free radicals on biological tissues and the protection of those tissues by antioxidants. It is now believed, with a sound scientific basis, that antioxidants can significantly extend the average life span of mammals, including humans.

Dr. David Williams, author of Alternatives, writes: “Free radical damage is now recognized as the greatest contributor to most health problems. By limiting the activity of free radicals, antioxidants protect cells and their components from this damage, thereby lessening the risk of cancer, heart disease, vision problems and other diseases.”

Free Radical Reduction and Antioxidant Levels in Food

Research shows that the United States has experienced a 50% reduction in the antioxidant content of our food over the last 25 years. Therefore, it is impractical to assume that all the body’s antioxidant needs can be met by consuming typical foods. The best strategy is to supplement the diet with nontoxic antioxidant nutraceutical agents that are 100% PURE FOOD to ensure above average nutrient levels for the best protection against the destructive power of free radicals.

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Anti-Aging: Life Within Nutrition

2008-08-06T05:43:00.000-07:00

Peak Energy Science FYI:

Anti-Aging: Life Within Nutrition

By Dr. Robert Marshall

The magnificent human body has been designed to be nourished simply by eating food. However, today, finding food that is truly nourishing is becoming harder and harder. Due to commercial production farming, we have seen our food sources become so altered - from toxic poisons and chemicals to gene splicing - that we are now eating food that eventually devastates our own health.

In the early 1970s, a U.S. government study found the mineral levels of our food was as much as 50% lower than when tested in 1950. It took only twenty years to create such a nutrient wipeout. We wonder what has happened during the last thirty years, since the 1970 study.

Sadly, our food is now saturated with new classes of dangerous chemicals, chemicals so common we rarely lift a hand to protest anymore. In 1986, the FDA released its long-range Total Diet Study. In the study, the FDA obtained food from grocery stores throughout the United States. They measured the total number of pesticide/chemical residues in certain fruits and vegetables.

Here are a few typical examples of the stunning levels of toxics they found in vegetables: broccoli-45; potatoes-96; tomatoes-50; celery-78. Toxics found in fruits included: apples-80; peaches-97; grapes-63; raisins-110. Since the FDA study ended in 1986, we can only guess what the toxic levels of our vegetables and fruits are today. If you consider the EPA’s warning that exposure to pesticides is a top risk factor in cancer, the toxic residue numbers reflect one of the reasons cancer is increasing so rapidly today, and these toxic residue numbers are simply unacceptable.

To further pollute our food supply, splicing bacterial and viral genes into our God-given food seeds has created what many call “Franken-foods” - genetically tampered food - that can slowly poison and sicken consumers over time with a whole spectrum of uncharted symptoms. Current estimates are that up to 70 percent of the products on our grocery store shelves contain ingredients which have been genetically altered. Do you remember voting for bacterial genes to be spliced into the potatoes you eat? Or voting for fish genes in your tomatoes? These “Franken-foods” are a ticking time bomb that may prove to be an exploding health bomb - sooner or later.

What about eating “Organically Grown” food? Unfortunately, organically grown foods are often sprayed with chemicals after harvest, during transport, or in storage. We suggest finding a farmer’s market and getting to know a farmer who does not use toxic chemicals and pesticides in their growing of fruits and vegetables.

If there are not enough critical nutrients, especially antioxidants, or your body is not able to replace them fast enough, your body cannot fight the incoming toxic barrage. Without antioxidant power, your body has no choice but to try to store the toxics in the fat of the body, in the brain, or other organs and body tissues. The body then creates more fat cells for the toxins to hide in. This is how the tired get more tired and how we gain more and more weight.

Considering the big picture - this ever-raging battle of nutrients vs. toxic chemicals and antioxidants vs. “free radicals” (cells that have become destructive to other cells) - we have to realize that lowered amounts of vital nutrients translates into exactly what we don’t want: rapid aging, feeling tired, weight gain, greater risk of chronic disease, and deficiency symptoms (from poor memory to chronic fatigue to headaches).

Supplying the body with high levels of nutrients can mean feeling great. Low levels of nutrients can mean feeling half dead. Deficient nutrient levels also mean being at risk for the most dreaded chronic diseases such as arthritis, prostatitis, neuritis, tendonitis, diabetes, asthma, and even cancer.

To get protection from the efforts of toxic damage and stress, the smart person has to realize that regular food is not the answer. It is a real challenge today to get sufficient amounts of nutrients from food, including “organically grown” food. Many people have turned to nutritional supplements. The rapidly growing market of nutritional supplements is now a multibillion dollar industry. But are supplements giving you what you really need?

Vitamins originate mainly in plants. Vitamins are substances which are essential in small amounts for good health of the body, including growth, maintenance, repair, and reproduction. Many vitamins must be derived from food since they cannot be synthesized in sufficient quantities in the body. Each vitamin has a specific action and function and one vitamin cannot replace another.

Only since the 1920s have we begun extracting nutrients from food or synthesizing them in a laboratory, then putting them into pills to supplement our diets. But buyer beware! The body was designed to get nutrients from food, not a laboratory.

In trying to isolate the active factors in food, USP (United States Pharmacopoeia) vitamins were created to mimic real vitamins. But synthetic USP vitamins are not food, even though they are often called “natural.” USP vitamins are chemical isolates synthesized in a laboratory. In whole food, vitamins are never isolated. They are always present as a part of a larger nutrient complex. Vitamins which occur naturally in food have a wide spectrum of actions in the body whereas isolated USP vitamins are analogues of these vitamins and appear to have only some of these actions.

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More Brain Washing w/ Corn Syrup!

2008-08-06T05:16:00.000-07:00

FYI from Peak Energy Science:

New Media Brainwashing About High Fructose Corn Syrup

The Corn Refiners Association is launching a major advertising and public relations campaign designed to rehabilitate the reputation of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). HFCS has been linked by many scientists to the nation's obesity epidemic.

The group is spending $20 million to $30 million on the campaign, including running full-page ads in more than a dozen major newspapers, claiming that the product is no worse for you than sugar. The ad, which features a stalk of corn, carries the headline: 'And Now a Little Food for Thought.'

The Corn Refiners Association "has been trying to counter the bad publicity around HFCS since 2004," but concluded it "could no longer afford to rely on simple grass-roots marketing tactics such as talking with nutritionists and doctors."

Meanwhile, in June a nearly $5 billion merger of Corn Products International and Bunge Ltd. signaled that corn manufacturers mean business. Revenues were expected to increase 29 percent in 2008 to reach $4 billion. Our goal is to keep everyone informed so you can educate others. Keep making ripples! Walt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Murky Facts About Corn Sugar

2008-08-06T04:41:00.000-07:00

More info on High-Fructose Corn Syrup sent to us by one of our Peak Affiliates: The Murky World of High-Fructose Corn Syrup By Linda Joyce Forristal, CCP, MTA

Think of sugar and you think of sugar cane or beets. Extraction of sugar from sugarcane spurred the colonization of the New World. Extraction of sugar from beets wasdeveloped during the time of Napoleon so that the French could have sugar in spite of the English trading blockade.
Nobody thinks of sugar when they see a field of corn. Most of us would be surprisedto learn that the larger percentage of sweeteners used in processed food comes from corn, not sugar cane or beets.

The process for making the sweetener high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) out of corn was developed in the 1970s. Use of HFCS grew rapidly, from less than three million shorttons in 1980 to almost 8 million short tons in 1995. During the late 1990s, use of sugar actually declined as it was eclipsed by HFCS. Today Americans consume moreHFCS than sugar.

HFCS has the exact same sweetness and taste as an equal amount of sucrose from caneor beet sugar but it is much more complicated to make, involving vats ofmurky fermenting liquid, fungus and chemical tweaking, all of which take place in one of 16 chemical plants located in the Corn Belt. Yet in spite of all the specialenzymes required, HFCS is actually cheaper than sugar. It is also very easy totransport--it's just piped into tanker trucks. This translates into lower costs andhigher profits for food producers.

Today HFCS is used to sweeten jams, condiments like ketchup, and soft drinks. It isalso a favorite ingredient in many so-called health foods. Four companies control 85percent of the $2.6 billion business--Archer Daniels Midland, Cargill, Staley Manufacturing Co. and CPC International. In the mid-1990s, ADM was the object of an FBI probe into price fixing of three products--HFCS, citric acid and lysine--andconsumers got a glimpse of the murky world of corporate manipulation.

There's a couple of other murky things that consumers should know about HFCS. According to a food technology expert, two of the enzymes used, alpha-amylase and glucose-isomerase, are genetically modified to make them more stable. Enzymes are actually very large proteins and through genetic modification specific amino acids in the enzymes are changed or replaced so the enzyme's "backbone" won't break down or unfold. This allows the industry to get the enzymes to higher temperatures before they become unstable.

Consumers trying to avoid genetically modified foods should avoid HFCS. It is almost certainly made from genetically modified corn and then it is processed with genetically modified enzymes. I've seen some estimates claiming that virtually everything--almost 80 percent--of what we eat today has been genetically modified at some point. Since the use of HFCS is so prevalent in processed foods, those figures may be right.

But there's another reason to avoid HFCS. Consumers may think that because it contains fructose--which they associate with fruit, which is a natural food--that it is healthier than sugar. A team of investigators at the USDA, led by Dr. Meira Field, has discovered that this just isn't so.
Sucrose is composed of glucose and fructose. When sugar is given to rats in high amounts, the rats develop multiple health problems, especially when the rats were deficient in certain nutrients, such as copper. The researchers wanted to know whether it was the fructose or the glucose that was causing the problems.

So they repeated their studies with two groups of rats, one given high amounts of glucose and one given high amounts of fructose. The glucose group was unaffected but the fructose group had disastrous results. The male rats did not reach adulthood.They had anemia, high cholesterol and heart hypertrophy--that means that their hearts enlarged until they exploded. They also had delayed testicular development.

Dr. Field explains that fructose in combination with copper deficiency in the growing animal interferes with collagen production. (Copper deficiency, by the way, is widespread in America.) In a nutshell, the little bodies of the rats just fell apart. The females were unable to produce live young.

"The medical profession thinks fructose is better for diabetics than sugar," says Dr. Field, "but every cell in the body can metabolize glucose. However, all fructose must be metabolized in the liver. The livers of the rats on the high fructose diet looked like the livers of alcoholics, plugged with fat and cirrhotic."

HFCS contains more fructose than sugar and this fructose is more immediatelyavailable because it is not bound up in sucrose. Since the effects of fructose are most severe in the growing organism, we need to think carefully about what kind of sweeteners we give to our children. Fruit juices should be strictly avoided--they are very high in fructose--but so should anything with HFCS.

Interestingly, although HFCS is used in many products aimed at children, it is not used in baby formula, even though it would probably save the manufactueres a few pennies for each can. Do the formula makers know something they aren't telling us? Pretty murky!

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Your appendix is not useless!

2008-08-06T04:37:00.000-07:00

Peak Energy Science FYI:

For years, evolutionists have used the appendix as one of their proof points,saying it is a useless organ, and that the appendix has become useless asman has "evolved" from lower life forms. However, new researchshows that the apendix is very useful to the body.
Your appendix is a small dead-end tube connected to a section of yourlarge intestine. It has long been thought, by evolutionists, to be a left over remnant of some other organ. Few mammals have any appendix at all, and theappendices of those that do bears little resemblance to the human one.
Medical Researchers now believe that the appendix is a "safehouse" the bacteria that aid digestion and helpprotect against disease-causing germs.The appendix is isolated from the rest of the gut, with an opening smaller than a pencil lead. In times of trouble, such as an infection that flushes thesystem, these bacteria hide out there, ready to repopulate thegut when the danger is past.
Sources:> New York Times June 17, 2008> The Journal of Theoretical Biology December 21, 2007; 249(4):826-31

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FYI: Synthetic Nutrients Create Serious Health Problems

2008-08-05T08:32:00.000-07:00

FYI: Synthetic Nutrients Create Serious Health Problems

This is an FYI I received from Peak Energy Science:

96% of so-called "nutritional" products have synthetic ingredients.Here is information for you to pass on to others who may still be using synthetic vitamin products.

Synthetic Vitamin Studies
New England Journal of Medicine, Sepetember 1, 1994, an impact study on the effect of synthetic beta carotene andsynthetic Vitamine E on cancer was halted when rates of lung cancer, heartattacks and death increased from the use of the synthetic nutrients.
New England Journal of Medicine,November 23, 1995, this study was also halted because of a 400% increaseof birth defects for women on synthetic Vitamin A supplements.
Reuters Health, March, 2000, a study by the Canadian Institute of Healthfound that men who took 500 mg of synthetic Vitamin C, as ascorbic acid, daily over 18 months showed signs of thickening of the arteries and heart disease.

The main thing that I took away from those three studies was that in order to avoid the greatest degree of risk,it is safest to stay away from synthetic supplements. Stick to living source supplements. ALL PEAK ENERGY SCIENCE SUPER FOODS ARE LIVING SOURCE - 100% FREE OF SYNTHETICINGREDIENTS.

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not quite 8 miles

2008-08-04T15:49:00.000-07:00

I did not quite run 8 miles today. Instead I walked for an hour on my treadclimber. Yes, I read the Bible and various quotations I had put on a stack of index cards. The quotes are words of wisdom from various famous people such as Mahatma Gandhi, Muhammad Ali, Bruce Lee, William James, Dale Carnegie, et al. You can make a deck of cards for yourself like this. I've included lots of calming scriptures in mine. If you do this idea it will be very rewarding. I look forward now to my sauntering one hour retreats on my treadclimber!