How We've Become Over-Fat

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My friend and fellow CHEK Practitioner, Vreni Gurd, wrote a very interesting piece on how we, as a society, have become over-fat. It makes good sense to me and I hope it will with you. And of course, if you have any questions please ask.

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How we become over-fat

There is evidence to show that over-fatness and obesity is a problem involving both sugar and fat metabolism, resulting fat deposition and an inability to mobilize fat from the fat tissue.

In the two previous tips here and here I have been trying to suggest that there is a fair bit of evidence showing that low calorie, low fat diets don't work, and that historically speaking, we have eaten meat and saturated fat for millennia, whereas grains are relatively new to our diet. Once farming began, some traditional cultures did eat grains, but they were fermented first, reducing the amount of sugar in them and increasing their digestibility. Only in the last 150-200 years or so have our diets included growing amounts of processed sugar and such huge and growing quantities of baked goods, pasta, and other foods that contain unfermented flour. To me, just knowing that information alone is enough to make me suspect that perhaps it is the sugar and flour products that are the cause of the rise of modern diseases of civilization (obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, osteoporosis, cancer, etc.), as opposed to saturated fat and cholesterol, as we have been told by medical/nutritional pundits.

As I said previously, much of the research on the metabolism of obesity occurred prior to World War 2 in Germany, and for the most part, has not been considered much since. In the 1920s, biochemists such as Rudolf Schoenheimer realized that our fat tissue is very metabolically active, and not simply a place to store fat like a safety deposit box, that only gets looked at once in a blue moon. Instead Hilda Bruch suggested that fat metabolism works more like a coin purse, where free fatty acids are continually being deposited into our adipose (fat) tissue and turned into triglycerides for storage, and also are continually being broken back down into fatty acids, and sent into the bloodstream to be burned as fuel depending on the requirements of the moment. Fat provides the ready coin for the momentary energy needs of the body.

Triglycerides are a combination of 3 fatty acids held together with glycerol, and they come from the fat in the diet and they are made in the liver and fat tissue from the carbohydrate in the diet. Triglycerides are the form in which fats are stored, and free fatty acids are the form in which fats are burned as fuel. So, people become over-fat when their body is very good at storing triglycerides, and not good at breaking down the triglycerides into free fatty acids to be sent into the bloodstream to be burned. It is not so much about the quantity of food being consumed, but rather about whether the environment in the body is forcing deposition or mobilization of the triglycerides in the fat tissue. Ernst Wertheimer said in 1948 in a review of the science of fat metabolism at that time, that "The 'classic theory' that fat is deposited in the adipose tissue only when given in excess of the caloric requirement has been finally disproved".

In 1956, it became possible to measure free fatty acids in the bloodstream, and it was discovered that after a meal, blood sugar levels tend to be high, and fatty acid levels are low, but fatty acid levels rise in the hours after the meal. If sugar or insulin is injected into the bloodstream, fatty acid levels plummet. This is the key. When sugar is available for fuel, fats get stored as triglycerides. When no sugar is available, fats get mobilized into free fatty acids to be used as fuel. Robert Gordon of the NIH published this information in 1956. Why have we forgotten it today??? The more carbohydrate consumed, the more triglycerides get made and stored. The more glucose/insulin in the bloodstream, the more "stuck" the fat is in the fat cells. When blood glucose/insulin is low, free fatty acids can escape from the fat cells into the bloodstream to be burned. Therefore, how many free fatty acids can be burned depends entirely on the amount of glucose and insulin in the bloodstream.

Furthermore, in order for triglycerides to be manufactured, the molecule glycerol phosphate is required, and that molecule is supplied only by carbohydrates. So, if there is little or no carbohydrates in the diet, little or no glycerol phosphate is available to make triglycerides and store fat, so little or no fat deposition can occur.

So a diet high in starchy carbohydrates (baked goods, pasta, other flour products, sugar and fruit) leads to fat accumulation in two ways. First, it sharply increases blood sugar which increases insulin, our storage hormone, which in turn controls the production of glycerol phosphate and therefore the conversion of sugar into triglycerides and the storage of fat in the fat cells, causing fat deposition. Secondly, when blood sugar and blood insulin levels are high, fat is stuck in the fat cells and cannot be mobilized, resulting in an inability to use fat as a fuel. A combination of fat deposition and an inability to mobilize our fat for fuel leads to fat accumulation, over-fatness and obesity. Some of us can tolerate more carbohydrate in our diet than others without suffering negative consequences (biochemical individuality), and those that can't tend to develop problems like over-fatness, type 2 diabetes, heart disease etc.

Next week we'll explore why the medical / scientific community has not endorsed low starchy-carb diets as being a healthy way to eat, do a cost / benefit analysis, and see what conclusions we come to.

I HIGHLY recommend the recent book by Gary Taubes, Good Calories, Bad Calories if you are interested in the topics of diets, obesity, heart disease and diabetes. Or watch this webcast of a lecture given by Gary Taubes at Berkley last November on this topic. I look forward to your comments on my blog.

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Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes and Heart Disease - what does history tell us?
Obesity - a behavioural or a metabolic problem?
Insulin, our storage hormone
Sugar, the disease generator
Another "healthy heart guide" that got it wrong
Saturated fat, the misunderstood nutrient
Cortisol, our stress hormone

Taubes, Gary Good Calories, Bad Calories, Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2007.

Chek, Paul; You Are What You Eat CD Series Chek Institute, San Diego, CA, 2002.

McGarry, JD. What if Minkowski had been ageusic? An alternative angle on diabetes. Science. Oct 30;258(5083):766-70, 1992.

Greenwood MR et al. Normal and abnormal growth and maintenance of adipose tissue In Hirsch and Van Itallie, eds. 1985, 20-25.

Greenwood MR et al. Adipose tissue metabolism and genetic obesity In Bjorntorp, Cairella, and Howard, eds., 1981, 75-79.

Bruch, H. Eating disorders, obesity, anorexia nervosa, and the person within New York, Basic Books, 1973.

Gordon E. The metabolic importance of obesity In Symposium on Foods: Carbohydrates and their roles ed. HW Schutz. Westport, Conn.: Avi Publishing, 322-46, 1969.

Reynold A. and Cahill G, eds. Handbook of Physiology. Section 5. Adipose Tissue. Washington DC; American Physiological Society, 1965.

Randle P.J. et al. The Glucose Fatty Acid Cycle: It's role in Insulin Sensitivity and the Metabolic Disturbances of Diabetes Mellitus Lancet Apr. 13; 281(7285):787-89, 1963.

Schoenheimer, R. The Dynamic State of Body Constituents Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, 1961.

Yalow RS and Bernson SA. Immunoassay of endogenous plasma insulin in man J Clin Investigation July; 39:1157-75, 1960.

Krebs, H. The cause of the specific dynamic action of food-stuffs Arzneimittelforschung May; 10:369-73, 1960.

Wertheimer, E and Shafrir R. Influence of Hormones on Adipose Tissue as a Center of Fat Metabolism Recent Progress in Hormone Research 16:467-95., 1960.

Yudkin J. The causes and cure of obesity Lancet Dec. 19; 274(7112):1135-38, 1959.

Yudkin J. Diet and Coronary Thrombosis: Hypothesis and Fact Lancet July 27; 270(6987):155-62, 1957.

Bruch, H. The importance of overweight New York, WW Norton, 1957.

Dole VP A relation between unesterified fatty acids in plasma and the metabolism of glucose J. Clin Investigation Feb. 35(2):150-4, 1956.

Gordon R et al. Unesterified fatty acid in Human Blood Plasma J Clin Investigation Feb.; 35(2);206-212, 1956.

Laurell S. Plasma free fatty acids in diabetic acidosis and starvation Scandinavian J of Clin and Lab Investigation 8(1):81-82, 1956.

Wertheimer, E and Shapiro R. The Physiology of Adipose Tissue Physiology Reviews Oct.; 22:451-64, 1948.

Bruch, H. Dietary Treatment of Obesity in Childhood J Am Dietetic Ass 20:361-364, 1944.

Copyright 2008 Vreni Gurd

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Quick Recipes To Get You Started

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To follow up with what I said yesterday about choosing high quality
meal alternatives such as IsaLean Shakes and IsaLean Bars by
Isagenix and adding them to your nutrition plan, I want to mention another resource
that may be of benefit to you. Visit www.Tyron.Isagenix.com for
more information on Isagenix supplements (for wholesale prices
please contact me).

I've had clients ask me on different occasions when we're either
talking nutrition or going over a plan for them, what recipes I
recommend.

Not being a chef and considering my cooking is pretty bland, you
know a mix of steamed veggies with half a cup of ground turkey and
hald a cup of adzuki beans, its great for me but doesn't
necessarily appeal to the masses so an
alternative was in need (side note: if you haven't tried adzuki
beans I HIGHLY recommend them however do follow the proper way to
prepare them at this link
http://tyronpiteau.blogspot.com/2007/10/how-to-cook-beans-without-ha
ving.html).

The resource is called Gourmet Nutrition. Its a 288 page full
colour, softcover cookbook that comes with:





1. Over a 100 recipes
2. Colour photos of each recipe
3. Full nutrition data for each recipe
4. Large and small serving sizes
5. Post-workout and anytime meal classifications (this one is key
as it helps you know which types of foods you should eat post
workout to optimize your training efforts and to lessen or markedly
reduce fat storage).
6. Meal plan templates
7. Cooking strategies and tips
8. Tools and equipment list
9. Grocery list
10. Food preparation instructions

I heard the author, Dr. John Berardi, touch on it at a lecture he
was presenting at a few months ago. Everyone doesn't necessarily
want to eat like me (even though I think its the best...hehe jj) so
to help people get the results they want I need to provide them
with the food THEY want and I believe this resource can do just that.

If you need some help or just want a few tips and pointers with your
meals visit the link below to read more about it and to pick up your
own copy. Visit
http://www.gourmetnutrition.com/cmd.php?pageid=699292.

Another tool to help you in your search to resurrect the body you
were created to have.

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What To Do When Meals Are Hard To Come By

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I hope you had a wonderful Easter and were able to celebrate the
true meaning of the holiday, the resurrection of the Lord Jesus
Christ.

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Ever had trouble following a nutrition plan whether it be for
fat loss, weight gain, or just overall health and wellness?

Following a good nutrition plan can sometimes be tough if you don't
have the right resources to make it a success, specifically quick high
quality meal alternatives.

With the schedule you keep you probably don't have time to eat
every 2-3 hours let alone sit down and have a real meal.

You may have asked yourself at some time, "What can I eat that's
quick, but isn't completely junk?"

The thing that I tell clients is it doesn't matter if you have the
best nutrition plan in the world that's going to get you looking
EXACTLY the way you want, have the body shape you want, be able to
fit into the dress or pants you've always wanted to, and have the
percent body fat of your dreams if you are not able to follow it.

Am I right?

Really that can go for anything in life. If you are not able to
follow whatever is put before you, you will most definitely fail.
So in regards to the correct nutrition I mentioned above, you need
meal alternatives to keep you on track so you get the results YOU
want.

When it comes to alternatives, what you want to look for are high
quality sources that have a high amount of quality protein,
carbohydrates, fat and fibre. Also its good to stear clear of
products that have a number of fillers, preservatives, artificial
sweeteners (aspartame, acesulfame potassium, sucrolose, etc),
stabilizers, trans fat, etc in them.

Two that I recommend are the IsaLean Shake and the IsaLean Bars by
Isagenix. Both are excellent sources of high quality protein and a
blend of essential vitamins and minerals, enzymes, that can definitely hit
the spot when whole food is not around or isn't convenient to have,
say in a business meeting.

Remember though your whole food choices should be the staple of
your diet to have optimal results, but high quality meal
alternatives will definitely help you along the way.

IsaLean Shakes
http://tyron.isagenix.com/ca/en/cleanse_isalean_shake.dhtml.

IsaLean Bars
http://tyron.isagenix.com/ca/en/cleanse_isalean_bars.dhtml.

Remember the best plan in the world is useless unless it can be
followed...consistently!

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Burn Calories While You Sleep?

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Is there really something that can burn calories while you sleep?...I mean legitimately.

Back in the 90s dietary companies would make claims that if you took such and such supplement right before you went to bed you'd lose X amount of fat. Not knowing every supplement that made this claim, I can't generalize, but as a large majority of them this wouldn't be the case.

The great thing is is there is in fact something that can help you burn body fat even while you sleep.

What's the secret? Well if you've been to one of my seminars you'll know there are no secrets so maybe I should say, "What's the key?"

Resistance Training!

I know you were probably wanting something that didn't require work but really anything that is worth getting (and is long lasting) is hard to get.

Mom was right!

Fat loss is simple, but requires hard work and a long term approach...but you can do it!

The research shows that resistance training works, not just for building muscle, correcting injuries, building bone, strengthen the heart, lowering LDL cholesterol, raising HDL cholesterol, lowering blood pressure, etc, etc, but for BURNING BODY FAT WHILE YOU SLEEP!

One study I particularly like is:
Schuenke MD, Mikat RP, McBride JM. Effect of an acute period of resistance exercise on excess post-exercise oxygen consumption (EPOC): implications for body fat management. Eur J Appl Physiol 2002 Mar;86(5):411-7.

This study looked at the effects of circuit weight training on how long it took subjects to recover their metabolism to pre-exercise levels after finishing the session.

The exercise routine consisted of three exercises (the bench press, the power clean, and the squat), performed with 10 RM (rep max.) loads as a circuit (moving from one exercise to the next with little rest).

The circuit was performed 4 times per week for 12 totals sets and took 31 minutes each time.

Now for the good stuff. The study showed that their metabolic rates were elevated for 38 hours post workout (possibly longer as this was when the researchers stopped measuring).

The length and magnitude of the elevated metabolic rate observed strongly points towards high intensity resistance training for fat loss.

So in fact you can burn body fat while you are sleeping for as I'm assuming that in that 38 hour time period you'd be sleeping at some point unless you're like my brother who pulls all nighters on occasion. So get your metabolism revved up over this Easter long weekend to burn off some of that yummy food. Remember, summer's just around the corner!

If you are interested in getting started with some thing check out Turbulence Training.

Tyron
www.MakersBody.com

p.s. I'm doing two more fitness seminars next week at a couple businesses in Vancouver so I just wanted to ask you if a company you know of or the company you work at is interest in having someone come in to speak during the lunch hour, please let me know as I'd be happy to contact them. tyronpiteau@gmail.com Thanks! Tweet This

DON'T Just Run!

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Nagging aches and pains are a common occurrence for those who
do endless amounts of aerobic training, i.e. continuous running and
DON'T do any corrective exercise or muscle balancing exercises.

World renowned strength coach Mike Boyle says endurance training
probably isn't good for most people (GASP!). The endurance cycle as
he puts goes like this:

Train...Injury...Rehab/Physical Therapy
Train...Injury...Rehab/Physical Therapy
Train...Injury...Rehab/Physical Therapy

Can you relate?

Good way to help put physiotherapist's kids through college eh?

I know most people won't change just because their training is
leading to them getting injured so what could someone like yourself do to
offset these nagging injuries and keep yourself healthy?

1. Resistance Training: As Eric Cressey, strength coach from
Boston, has noted on several occasions, a University of Alabama meta-analysis of the endurance
training scientific literature** revealed that ten weeks of
resistance training in trained distance runners improves running
economy by 8-10%. That’s about 20-24 minutes off a four-hour marathon – and likely more if you’re not a well-trained endurance athlete in the first place. Not only
will they get stronger and improve force production (improved
times), but they’ll also stay a little healthier due to the fact
that they’re not on the road or on the treadmill as much.

** Jung AP. The impact of resistance training on distance running
performance. Sports Med. 2003;33(7):539-52.

2. Intervals: as strange as it may sound, interval training
develops aerobic capacity BETTER than aerobic training. The fastest
way to increase VO2 max, the standard measure of aerobic fitness,
is through interval training not long duration distances.

Journal of Physiology, “Short term sprint interval versus
traditional endurance training: Similar initial adaptations in
human skeletal muscle and exercise performance.” Sept 2006, Vol 575
Issue 3.

Study specifics - comparison of 20 minutes of interval training (30
sec sprint/ 4 minute rest) with 90-120 minutes of cardio in the
“heart rate zone.” Sixteen active men (21 +/- 1 years, ) were assigned to a SIT
or ET group (n = 8 each) and performed six training sessions over
14 days. Each session consisted of either four to six repeats of 30s
'all out' cycling at approximately 250% with 4 min recovery (SIT)
or 90-120 min continuous cycling at approximately 65% (ET).
Training time commitment over 2 weeks was approximately 2.5 h for
SIT and approximately 10.5 h for ET, and total training volume was
approximately 90% lower for SIT versus ET ( approximately 630
versus approximately 6500 kJ)

Results - same improvement in oxygen utilization. 2.5 hours per week
vs. 10.5 hours per week.

If you are trying to get the fastest results possible in the shortest
amount of time and to improve their aerobic capacity, which do you
think would be the best approach to choose? Intervals right?
Not only will interval training get the job done infinitely faster,
but you won’t have to deal with all the nagging injuries as well (less ground contacts
compared to long distance training).

Don't get me wrong I am NOT against aerobic exercise as its great
for your heart, but when it comes to boosting your metabolism,
burning fat, building muscle, and looking great, it's not the way to go.

I, in fact, go for runs, but NOT to lose body fat, but to compliment
my resistance training, burn additional calories and help further
strengthen my cardiovascular system (NOTE: apart from what most people
think, resistance training is HUGE for strengthen the cardiovascular system).

So keep running, cycling, or doing aerobics but DON'T JUST do them,
incorporate a good resistance training and interval program into your
current program.
You'll feel a lot better and get better results with your aerobic
work.

I wrote an article on this for North Shore Magazine that you are
welcome to read at www.NorthShoreMag.ca. The article was featured in
December 2007's issue. Click 'past issues' and click on Dec/Jan's issue.
It's pages 18-19. If it doesn't come up check your pop up blocker as it
comes up as a separate page.

Tyron
www.MakersBody.com

p.s. I'm giving a fitness and nutrition seminar at a business in
Vancouver tomorrow and I just wanted to ask if you know of any businesses or
groups where I could speak. I'd be happy to do it for free and contact
them if you'd like. Please let me know either the specific individual to
contact or the business. Thank you!

p.p.s. My next fitness boot camp starts Monday March 17 and runs
for 4 weeks until Friday April 11. The cost for the entire 12 sessions is $180.
There will be three sessions per week (Mondays, Wednesdays, and
Fridays) from 7:15-8:00pm. If you are interested please visit
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Throw Away the Bathroom Scale - Part 2

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There seems to be a fear with bathroom scales, as I wrote about HERE, so I just wanted to add this to that post to help end this obsession with the reading on the bathroom scale HAVING to go down.

Alwyn Cosgrove, a world renowned fat loss expert and author of Afterburn, gave this interesting scenario (thanks to Chris Shugart) which I believe appropriately shows why we want to avoid be ingso fixated on the bathroom scale going down.

If we had a magic fat loss machine -- that you stepped in and pushed a button and you came out looking EXACTLY how you've always dreamed of looking and feeling - the exact dress or pant size you wanted, with the definition and muscle tone you want, at the bodyfat percentage you want, you can see your abs (if that's what you want), etc etc.

Would you be interested? Of course you would!!

But what if the side effect of the fat loss machine is that it increased bone density and muscle density by 100%. So while you looked and felt better than you've ever felt before -- the scale is 50lbs higher than it's ever been. So for example a 150lb-er would come out looking amazing, but weighing 200lbs...

Would that number on the scale make you not want the other results?

Now what if the machine did the reverse - you look exactly the same as you always have, but you'd weigh 50lbs less? Would you be happy with that? Probably not right?

I posted this picture quite a long time ago and used it in a recent seminar of mine as I believe its a good visual of the difference between body fat and muscle of the same weight.

At the top is 5-pounds of fat compared to 5-pounds of muscle below.

As you can see there is a huge difference.

So essentially if you were to add 10 pounds of muscle and lose 10 pounds of fat you'd look like you lost at least 20 pounds! But in this case the scale wouldn't move, but again does that really matter?

Tyron
www.MakersBody.com

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This May Throw Your Eating Habits For A Spin

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What I about to share will most definitely ruffle your nutrition
feathers (if there is such a thing).

Raw fruits and vegetables (and the eliminating of unrefined sea salt)
may be doing more damage than good. You may in fact be EATING TOO
WELL!

As strange as that sounds, I'm beginning to believe this is true.

As you may know I have battled intestinal problems for about 10
years. Without going into detail I believe I have found the
solution. With the help of God directing me, I came across Dr.
Jonn Matsen, a
naturopathic doctor in North Vancouver, author of Eating Alive,
The Secrets to Great Health from Your Nine Liver Dwarves, and
Eating Alive 2.

He has presented to me in person and in his books, particularly
Eating Alive 2, that the root of my problem and a myriad of other
chronic conditions that people suffer from such as atherosclerosis,
heart
disease, strokes, etc is mercury toxicity (whether from amalgam
fillings or vaccinations)
and yeast overgrowth.

Without going into too much detail and boring you to tears I'll try
summary his theory.

He states that the mercury in your body acts as an antibiotic
killing off the good bacteria in your gut. As a result yeast that
are usually kept in check by the good bacteria begin to flourish
and grow. On a side note, yeast prefer an alkaline environment
whereas the good bacteria (probiotics) produce an acidic
environment and thus compete with the yeast for space. With the
yeast not kept under control they begin to affect a whole slu of
systems and metabolic processes in your body.

On top of this (feather ruffling about to occur) most people are eating too many raw
fruits and vegetables (high in potassium) which if not balanced by
higher sodium foods such as meats and/or sea salt, low calcium
absorption soon results. This low calcium absorption will lead to
calcium being taken from other parts of the body namely bones, valves, etc. We all know the implications of losing bone so I won't go into that but what about losing calcium
from valves? Well Dr. Matsen shows that as calcium absorption
decreases due to eating too many high potassium foods in relation
to higher sodium foods that your ileocecal valve (which connects your
small intestine to your large intestine) becomes weak. When this
valve weakens yeast and previously good bacteria that resided in
your large intestine back flow into your small intestine and cause
havoc. Good bacteria now become "bad guys" as they are where they
shouldn't be.

A few things these "bad guys" do are:
-eat sugars, from which they make alcohol
-eat your fats and your minerals
-steal your vitamin B12 as well as tryptophan and other amino acids
(proteins)
-deconjugate the bile salts in your upper small intestine which
further disrupts your amino acid absorption
-destroy the anzymes of your digestive tract so you can't digest
lactose or maltose or gluten (in wheat among other grains) any more
-most important they can overwhelm the glutathione enzymes in your
liver (think having problems with detoxification and elimination of
wastes).

Not to good so far eh?

The reason why he believes eating too many raw fruits and
vegetables (salads included), or eating too well, is a problem has
to do with your kidneys.
Belows I've included his explanation of it.

The hot, sunny weather of August makes fruits and vegetables grow
and the quantity of these nutritious fresh foods in our diet
increases. August is also the time of year that many of us take
time off work and get outdoors much more. This combination of fresh
food and outdoor activity make August the healthiest month of the
year for many people.

During September, there's a tendency to continue eating a lot of
fresh fruits and salads. However, people are usually back indoors
more because the new school year begins and jobs resume. This sets
the scenario for ileocecal valve problems, commonly seen in people
who "eat too well."

The ileocecal valve is located between your small intestine and
your large intestine. This valve is usually kept closed so that the
food you've eaten stays in your small intestine long enough to be
digested and absorbed fully. It also prevents the good
micro-organisms in your large intestine from getting into your
small intestine, where their waste products could easily be
absorbed. As digestion and absorption are completed in your small
intestine, your ileocecal valve opens, and the food passes into
your large intestine or colon.

When your ileocecal valve is weakened, the billions of normally
"good" bacteria that live in the large intestine get through the
ileocecal valve, up into your small intestine, where they're not
supposed to be. There, they can become "Bad Guys"--they steal
important nutrients like vitamin B12 and tryptophan before you have
absorbed them, and they can also dump toxins into your liver. Once
your good bacteria become bad, yeast soon join the party. The
alkaline pH of the small intestine allows the yeast to multiply
vigorously.

Your ileocecal valve can become weak when your calcium levels are
low for more than five days--calcium helps to strengthen this valve.
Increasing your calcium intake doesn't necessarily solve the
ileocecal valve problem, because the cure depends on whether the
calcium is being absorbed by your body. Vitamin D is required for
calcium absorption--it stimulates your intestinal cells to make a
calcium-binding protein that dramatically increases your absorption
of calcium. Vitamin D is made by your skin when exposed to the
ultraviolet (UV) rays of the sun, and then it is stored in an
inactive form in your liver.

Vitamin D is relatively passive until it's activated by your
kidneys, which change the activation of vitamin D as the weather
changes. Sodium in the diet tells the kidneys it's not sunny, so
they activate vitamin D, while potassium tells the kidneys it is
sunny, so they don't activate vitamin D.

As I stated before, the ileocecal valve problem is commonly seen in
people who "eat too well." That is, they consume too many foods
that are high in potassium (such as salads and fruit), and don't
consume enough sodium in the form of animal protein or salt. This
confuses the kidneys into assuming they are in the hot sun of
mid-summer, so they deactivate vitamin D, resulting in less calcium
absorption and ultimately a weakened ileocecal valve.

As temperatures get cooler this month and/or if you're not getting
outside in the sun very often, I recommend that you switch over to
a more warming diet as outlined in Eating Alive II (cut back on raw
vegetables, including salads; seasonal fruit for the climate in
which you live; etc.). You might also consider taking calcium
and/or horsetail in supplement form, and if you're unable to get
regular sun exposure, take vitamin D as well. Eat leafy green
vegetables regularly for their vitamin K, which gets the calcium
into your bones. You can continue to eat salads when you're out in
the warm sun, but switch to steaming your greens the rest of the
year. And remember to add a little bit of unprocessed sea salt to
your vegetables and grains.

Visit Dr. Matsen's site at www.eatingalive.com

Sorry for throwing your whole nutrition paradigm upside down but I
hope this was helpful and made sense.

If you have any questions please feel free to ask.

Resurrect the body you were created to have,
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Is Cholesterol The Real Cause Of Heart Disease?

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My friend and colleague, Vreni Gurd, a kinesiologist and CHEK Practitioner Level 3, just recently sent this out to me and I thought you'd be more than interested to know how the whole cholesterol-heart disease debate is backwards. I hope at some point we can put an end to the whole "cholesterol is bad and leads to heart disease thing". Its really blown way out of proportion. Do watch the short videos she mentioned if you can.

Cholesterol, heart-disease mortality, and cholesterol-lowering drugs

More BIG news on the diabetes front this week, but I'll comment on it in a couple of weeks, as today's post is at least a month overdue. The idea that the saturated fat / cholesterol = heart-disease hypothesis is false has been in the popular press a lot (in the NY Times here, here and here, in Business Week for example) and coupled with the failed Vytorin cholesterol-lowering drug trial that was finally disclosed mid January, more and more people are beginning to question how in the world this idea was perpetuated for so long. The medical and pharmaceutical blogosphere is filled with doctors and scientists writing about the failed drug trial and what it means. All I can say, is it's about time!

Please indulge me, and take a minute and 17 seconds to watch this video on cholesterol levels and heart-disease deaths, based on data from the MONICA study that has been going on for 40 years, involving tens of thousands of people. Notice that there is no relationship at all between cholesterol levels and deaths from heart disease. On top of that, the effectiveness of cholesterol-lowering drugs (statins like Lipitor, Crestor, Zocor etc.) at preventing heart attacks is now being questioned. These paragraphs from an article on the topic in Business Week Magazine explains the issue better than I could.

"The second crucial point is hiding in plain sight in Pfizer's own Lipitor newspaper ad. The dramatic 36% figure has an asterisk. Read the smaller type. It says: "That means in a large clinical study, 3% of patients taking a sugar pill or placebo had a heart attack compared to 2% of patients taking Lipitor."

Now do some simple math. The numbers in that sentence mean that for every 100 people in the trial, which lasted 3 1/3 years, three people on placebos and two people on Lipitor had heart attacks. The difference credited to the drug? One fewer heart attack per 100 people. So to spare one person a heart attack, 100 people had to take Lipitor for more than three years. The other 99 got no measurable benefit. Or to put it in terms of a little-known but useful statistic, the number needed to treat (or NNT) for one person to benefit is 100.

Compare that with, say, today's standard antibiotic therapy to eradicate ulcer-causing H. pylori stomach bacteria. The NNT is 1.1. Give the drugs to 11 people, and 10 will be cured."

According to Dr. Nortin M. Hadler, professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Anything over an NNT of 50 is worse than a lottery," According to the Business Week article, several recent scientific papers peg the NNT for statins at 250 and up for lower-risk patients, even if they take it for five years or more.

Posted on a pharmaceutical industry blog is this telling quote:

"What if you put 250 people in a room and told them they would each pay $1,000 a year for a drug they would have to take every day, that many would get diarrhea and muscle pain, and that 249 would have no benefit? And that they could do just as well by exercising? How many would take that?" asks drug industry critic Dr. Jerome R. Hoffman, professor of clinical medicine at the University of California at Los Angeles.

So ask yourself, if you have high cholesterol and you have been put on cholesterol-lowering medication even though you have NOT been diagnosed with heart disease, whether the side-effects of taking the drug, like muscle pain, reduced memory, diarrhea etc. are worth it, since clearly lowering cholesterol is not going to lengthen your life. In fact, many other studies are indicating that those with cholesterol levels that are too low die more frequently than those whose cholesterol levels are too high.

If you DO have heart disease, statin drugs do seem to have a protective effect, but due to the failed Vytorin (ENHANCE) trial, as well as the failed cholesterol drug torcetrapib trial that ended in Dec. '06, it is becoming clear that the reason they are protective has nothing to do with lowering cholesterol levels. One of the other many effects of statin drugs, is to lower arterial inflammation, and this may be how the drug helps. I can think of a whole host of other ways to lower arterial inflammation that won't give you terrible side effects, like cutting out sugar, flour, refined omega 6 vegetable oils, processed food, upping one's intake of omega 3 fatty acids (particularly from fish), cooking with tumeric, etc.

So, if high cholesterol levels do not cause heart disease, what does? Dr. Malcolm Kendrick hypothesizes that stress is the biggest cause, and he has noticed that those that have a flattened circadian cortisol rhythm are at higher risk. As I've tried to indicate previously, problems with cortisol are likely the root cause of many of our chronic conditions today. He also went back and looked at the historical epidemiological data with respect to peoples that had high rates of death from heart disease, and noticed that frequently those populations were displaced, or their lifestyle had been altered, like the Finnish being moved by the Russians in 1948, or the American Natives being put on reservations etc. These sorts of events are HIGHLY stressful. For more on this idea, see this video. These days, stress and cortisol rhythm disruption is very common, and the sooner physicians start testing the cortisol circadian rhythms of their patients, the sooner we will get a handle on heart disease.

I look forward to your comments on my blog.

Related tips
Saturated fat - the misunderstood nutrient
High cholesterol does NOT cause heart disease
Stress and Cardiovascular disease
Inflammation and inflammatory conditions
Cortisol, our stress hormone

Taubes, Gary What if It's All Been a Big Fat Lie? New York Times Magazine, July 2002.

John Tierney Diet and Fat: A Severe Case of Mistaken Consensus October 9, 2007

Nina Teicholz What if bad fat isn't so bad? No one's ever proved that saturated fat clogs arteries, causes heart disease MSNBC Health, Dec. 13, 2007.

John Tierney How the Low-Fat, Low-Fact Cascade Just Keeps Rolling Along New York Times, October 9, 2007

Alex Berenson Cholesterol As a Danger Has Skeptics New York Times, February 9, 2008.

Dr. Malcolm Kendrick A Raised Cholesterol level does not cause heart disease You Tube Video from BMA Meeting, Leeds, Nov. 2007.

Dr. Malcolm Kendrick Familial Hypercholesterolemia You Tube Video from BMA Meeting Leeds, Nov. 2007.

Dr. Malcolm Kendrick About Statins You Tube Video from BMA Meeting Leeds, Nov. 2007.

Dr. Malcolm Kendrick What causes heart disease? You Tube Video from BMA Meeting Leeds, Nov. 2007.

Dr. Malcolm Kendrick CVD Populations You Tube Video from BMA Meeting Leeds, Nov. 2007.

John Carey Do Cholesterol Drugs Do Any Good? Business Week, January 17, 2008

Tara Parker-Pope WELL; Great Drug, but Does It Prolong Life? New York Times, Jan. 29, 2008.

John Carey In the Real World, a Slew of Side Effects from Statins Business Week, January 17, 2008

New York Times EDITORIAL; Cholesterol Drug Bombs Jan. 16, 2008.

Merck Merck/Schering-Plough Pharmaceuticals Provides Update on ENHANCE Trial Nov. 19, 2007.

Herper, Matthew, The Vytorin Question Forbes.com, Nov. 19, 2007

Dr Aubrey Blumsohn Ezetimibe (Zetia, Vytorin): the smell of bad science Scientific Misconduct Blog, Nov. 24, 2007

Hughes, Sue Concerns Raised on Delay of Ezetimibe Data Medscape News, Nov. 23, '07.

Dr. John Mack Vytorin Study Stallin' - Notes from the Field Hands Pharma Marketing Blog, Nov. 26, 2007.

Insider Vytorin - There's none so blind.... Pharmagossip, Jan. 31, 2008.

Copyright 2008 Vreni Gurd

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Throw Away the Bathroom Scale!

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A colleague of mine in the fitness industry, Tony Gentilcore
(http://www.bostonherald.com/blogs/entertainment/step_up/), wrote
an interesting mini-article on the importance of ditching the
bathroom scale. I think EVERYONE that's trying to lose weight
(particularly fat) should adopt.

Please see Tony's mini-article below.

I’ve been working as a strength coach and personal trainer for
close to six years now, and I have trained a wide variety of women.
In my experience, most tend to have a certain “look” they’re after.

To achieve this look, women need to do three simple things: lift
weights, eat more protein, and more importantly, throw away their
scale.

















While the scale can be an indicator of progress (especially for
those women who need to lose 20+ lbs for health reasons), I do feel
that many women tend to put too much emphasis on it and are
neglecting the big picture.

The majority of women can understand why it’s important to lift
weights, and eat more protein from a body composition standpoint.
However, when it comes to suggesting they throw away their scale,
it’s as if you were saying they should dump their best friend.
Considering that most women have a love/hate (emphasis on hate)
relationship with the scale, I’m surprised more women don’t just
chuck it out the window and be done with it forever.

Many women make the mistake of equating progress with the number on
the scale going down. If they don’t see the number going down on a
weekly basis, they feel they’re failing. Let me make this simple.
The scale can be very misleading and in a lot of ways, invalid. How
do you know the weight you’re losing is fat and not valuable
muscle? You should be more concerned with what the mirror is
telling you. Are you losing inches around the body? Do your clothes
fit better? Perhaps these results are less quantifiable and harder
to notice, however, the sooner you realize that these are better
indicators of progress, the better off you will be.

Without getting overly technical, muscle weighs more than fat yet
takes up 25% less space. This is why you will often see contestants
on the television show “The Biggest Loser” weigh the same as many
professional athletes, despite being twice the size. Following
a resistance training program helps build muscle which increases
strength and firmness. Aside from that, muscle is also
metabolically active tissue which will also help you burn more fat.
In essence, someone might see very little overall weight loss or
even GAIN weight in order to achieve “the look.” The latter is
especially true for petite women.

As an example, a 5′4″, 140 lb woman with 25% body fat wants to look
leaner and achieve that “toned” look. She wants those flabby arms
to go away and she wants to fit into those pair of jeans that she
used to wear back in college. To do so, this particular woman feels
she should lose weight and get down to 110-115 lbs. If she takes
that course, she may look thinner, but at the expense of looking
older, emaciated, frail, and weak. In other words, she could
totally pass for an Olsen twin.

Let’s take the right course instead. Six months later the same 5’4”
woman has followed a resistance training program (which is also
great for strengthening bones and preventing osteoporosis), changed
her diet to include more protein (ie: chicken breast, lean beef,
eggs, cottage cheese, whey protein shakes) and less refined
carbohydrates (ie: cereal bars, bagels, 100 calorie snack foods),
and most importantly, she threw away her scale. Now she’s 135 lbs
with 18% body fat. She lost eleven lbs of fat and gained six lbs of
lean muscle, for a net loss of only five lbs. But she looks like
she lost 15 lbs. She’s not “skinny-fat.” She’s stronger and
healthier. And she can fit into those jeans no less!

In a nutshell there are a lot of things that have to fall into
place in order to attain “the look” that you’re after. Nonetheless,
I do feel that if more women would put less emphasis on the scale
to gauge progress and focus their attention on other indicators
such as losing inches, the better off they will be. What are you
waiting for? Throw away that scale!

Want help in knowing what to do to get that lean, "toned", firm
body? Check out Turbulence Training.

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Q: My question is...

Grimm's naturally smoked-fully cooked Turkey pepperoni
-extra lean
-No MSG added
-Gluten free

Ingredients:
turkey, water, spices, canola oil,salt, garlic,sodium phosphate,sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite, smoke.

Is it ok to eat???

Jenn <><

A: Great question Jenn. Thanks for asking.

At first it looked good as I read down the list and saw extra lean, no MSG added, and gluten free that is until I hit canola oil and sodium nitrite.

Since canola oil is a polyunsaturate fat (comes from rape seeds) and is therefore very delicate with heat, air, and light. Most, if not all, canola oil available on the market (whether in packaged foods or not) is refined, heated, and deodorized thus the fragile, delicate oil has been damaged and altered forming free radicals and trans-fat. Structurally, trans-fats (found in vegetable oils and hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated fats such as margarine and shortenings) are closer to plastic than fat!

A little tidbit of information that might be of interest to you. The process of hydrogenation began in 1912, a time when heart disease was rare. However, today heart disease causes some 40% of all deaths. Is there a connection? If heart disease resulted from saturated fat consumption as they tell us then shouldn’t we find an increase in saturated fat consumption since 1912? However the opposite is true. Animal fats (saturated) declined from 83% to 62% and butter (also saturated) declined from 18 lbs. per person per year to 4 and cholesterol has only increased 1%. The real shocker is the consumption of margarine, shortening, and refined oils (conventional sesame, safflower, sunflower, canola oils) has increased about 400% and sugar and processed foods has increased about 60%!

I would stay away from sodium nitrite, nitrates or any other preservatives for that matter (which sodium phosphate sodium erythorbate may be). These potent carcinogens have been linked to cancer of the esophagus, stomach, large intestine, bladder, and lungs. Nitrites and nitrates are colour fixatives, in that they give meats a blood red colour, convey a tangy effect to the palate, and prohibit the development of clostridium botulinum spores. Both have been found to cause cancer and tumors in test animals. According to The Safe Shopper’s Bible, children who eat hot dogs cured with nitrite, a dozen or more times per month, are ten times more likely to develop leukemia. Also, children born to mother’s who consumed hot dogs once or more weekly are twice as likely to have childhood brain tumors. Funnily enough traditionally sausage was a healthy, high-fat product containing nutrient dense organ meats and preserved through lacto-fermentation, which increases nutrients, while bacon was preserved through salt curing and smoking.

There are may safe, healthy forms of jerky-like meats out there, just look for the ones that have NO nitrites, nitrates, preservatives, or MSG in them.

Tyron

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I just had an article published in the latest issue of North Shore Magazine on how randomly choosing exercises could be dangerous. Feel free to visit the site www.NorthShoreMag.ca and read the online version.

Tyron

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"It only took a few sessions before I started to notice a difference. By the time I'd finished two and a half months, I was feeling great and had lost 12lbs (2 dress sizes!). Now, I feel really excited when I go to each session."

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As I've been saying, protein should be your best friend when it comes to what you eat.

Tony Gentilcore, a fellow fitness professional, sent this link to me regarding an interesting study that recently came out showing the power of protein to keep hunger at bay.

In a nutshell, the researchers gave 16 people three different beverages, each with varying levels of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins. They took blood samples before the first beverage, then every 20 minutes for six hours afterward, measuring ghrelin (a hormone which regulates hunger) levels in each sample.

Results concluded that proteins were the best suppressor of ghrelin and kept subjects more sated. Conversely, carbohydrates initially suppressed ghrelin, but levels rebounded quite quickly and more than doubled not long afterwards. According to the researchers, carbohydrates eventually made people even hungrier than before they had eaten. Thus ultimately leading to people eating more (and probably more of the wrong foods.

This past Tuesday, at a health seminar, I stressed this very thing. People need to be consuming more protein than they are. It is more often than not people are eating far too little protein than too much.

Remember it doesn't have to be a huge full course meal. Try things like 1/2 cup of yogurt, 4 oz. of cottage cheese, a handful of chicken, a hard boiled egg or two, a handful of nuts, a scoop of protein powder, etc. The key is to get some protein in, preferably every 3 hours. If you have to, bring it with you when you go out. If it's not with you, you'll probably gravitate toward refined carbohydrates.

So when in doubt, eat protein.

Resurrect the body you were created to have,

Tyron

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Do You Want To Learn How To Exercise And Get Results?

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I know its obvious so don't worry about answering.

There are many many fat loss books out there on the market, some good and some, well lets just say, maybe not the best.

I am a huge proponent of getting results and not fluffing around in the gym (and I reckon you are the same way as who wants to waste time in the gym of all places).

There are other things I would rather do than spend time in the gym let along train effectively and not get results. Now coming from a trainer and exercise enthusiast, you may be shocked, but don't get me wrong I love training, but there are just other things that take priority. So if I'm going to train or train a client, I'm going to do it to get results.

To get the kind of results I'm talking about, i.e. losing fat and keeping it off, consider reading either one of these books.

For men or women:

The New Rules of Lifting

Specifically for women:

The New Rules of Lifting For Women

I have learned a myriad of things from Alwyn Cosgrove (one of the authors of both books) and I can tell you he knows his stuff. He has 250 clients ranging from athletes to fitness competitors to your everyday client training at his facility in California and they get RESULTS! That's probably why he named his business Results Fitness.

In the New Rules for Lifting For Women you'll learn:

1. Learn why the terms "toning, shaping, and sculpting" need to be banned from your vocabulary.

2. The treadmill is probably the last thing you need to be doing. While it is a tool, it's not a necessity for fat loss.

3. No, you won't become "big and bulky" just because you're lifting weights.
4. Prolonged calorie restriction is the wrong approach.....how come?
5. In all actuality you may need to eat MORE to attain your goals.

It essentially tells women that they don't need to spend an inordinate amount of time on the treadmill, perform hours of yoga, or shy away from lifting any significant amount of weight. The mainstream media has hooped women (and men for that matter) into believing this stuff. Now with either the New Rules for Lifting or the New Rules for Lifting For Women you'll learn what works and gets results.

Resurrect the body YOU were created to have,

Tyron

www.MakersBody.com

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Which rat are you?

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Watch the short 2:31 video to determine which rat you are.

Omega-3 fats and brain function

Take 2-4 tsp. of fish oil per day, preferably 2 tsp. of cod liver oil and 2 tsp. of straight fish oil.

Any questions about what brands to get just let me know.

Tyron

www.MakersBody.com

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Less than 24 hours left to get your Fit Yummy Mummy Bonuses

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Hi there,

Just making sure you got my blog post a day ago about Holly Rigsby's new Fit Yummy Mummy bonus package.

This is the ultimate baby fat burning workout guide to help you loose that mummy belly and bring back the flat tummy, while getting in and out of your workouts in less than 30 minutes, three times per week.

You have less than 24 hours to grab the incredible bonus package Holly has put together to help you get back the body you want. Whether you want to get back in those skinny jeans, be able to fit into your wedding dress again, or just want to be to have the body that all the other moms envy, Fit Yummy Mummy gives you the exact roadmap to do just that.

What good is it having a great body if you have to be a slave to the gym - instead of enjoying your family? You should be able to enjoy your new body, not wasting your life away on the treadmill every day. You need short, effective workouts that allow you to get in, get out, and get on with your life.

With Fit Yummy Mummy, you'll not only reclaim your tight body and butt, tone your arms, legs, and abs, but you'll also be able to achieve balance between exercise and your optimal lifestyle because this program, unlike most workouts, requires only three short, but intense 30 minute workouts per week.

Click Fit Yummy Mummy to get your body back.

Living in Divine Health,

Tyron

P.S. Hurry, you have less than 24 hrs to claim access to the 'Closed Door' Teleseminars, 21 day motivation emails, and audio recordings. And remember, you get everything in the Fit Yummy Mummy package (including the exercise program, the nutrition program, and all the regular bonuses), PLUS the additional amazing limited-time bonuses mentioned above.

P.P.S. Try Fit Yummy Mummy for 8 weeks. If you aren't thrilled with the increased metabolism, increased fat loss, and enhanced energy from the Fit Yummy Mummy system, just let Holly know. Moms all over the country have already seen amazing results with Fit Yummy Mummy, and I guarantee it will work for you too!

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New Year, New Body in only 90 Minutes Per Week

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Every January, if you're like most people, you're ready to shed those holiday pounds and you set a resolution to get your body back. If you'd like a guaranteed way to lose fat as quickly as possible and make those resolutions a reality, then this will be an important e-mail for you to read. Here's why...

Holly Rigsby, busy mom's fat loss expert, is a busy mom herself. She knows first hand, the obstacles moms face when it comes to finding the time to get eat right and exercise. That is why she created The Fit Yummy Mummy Lifestyle System.

The body you've desired can be yours, and in less time than you've always thought necessary.

Make this the year you finally succeed!

It is very easy to get off to a great start year after year, but oh so difficult to keep it going. Your momentum quickly fades as you realize you just don't have the time to spend 30 minutes or more on the treadmill. Or maybe you just got tired of doing the same workout week-in, week-out. You felt like you were working hard enough to see results, but the scale told a different story.

Well, all of those problems and more are solved with the Fit Yummy Mummy system.

It is a comprehensive guide that includes a 16-week fat loss program with four different formats that you can easily plug into your busy lifestyle - something not found in any of the cookie cutter fat loss programs on the market. Regardless of your fitness background or level, there is a workout designed specifically for you. The best part is that each of the Fit Yummy Mummy workout programs takes up less than 90 minutes of your week – NOT 90 - minutes a day! Plus there is no need to worry about hitting a plateau with the bonus 16-week advanced fat loss program.

"I Love doing these workouts, the short burst cardio is a life saver! I have 4 boys so I don't have a lot of time, but I can always fit in your workout and I love doing it! Thanks for all your support! By the way I LOVE the workout DVD. If you're thinking about making another one, that would be great and I would love to purchase it!" ~ Pam O'Donnell

It also includes a complete Supportive Nutrition Plan that covers every conceivable nutrition issue from how often you should eat to what you should keep in your pantry.

"I think others should know how amazing it is to be able to eat more, and lose fat! It's amazing how you can eat more, feel better and see improvements in your body!!! When people ask me my secret, I tell them that I'm eating more. :-) They are amazed! It's a fabulous plan!" ~ Susan Pearson

Fit Yummy Mummy is a Lifestyle System that literally covers all aspects of losing fat, getting fit and taking control of your body and your life - and the best part is that it is written specifically for busy moms. The program is understanding the unique situations moms face, informative, and above all, commonsensical. No unrealistic recommendations, 2 hour workouts, or zero-carb diets. It is obvious Holly knows what she's talking about when it comes to mom's lifestyles

When you combine the Fit Yummy Mummy Lifestyle System along with these 5 limited-time bonuses Holly is only offering for the next 3 days, you are guaranteed to experience a brand new body thanks to all the inches you'll lose, the pounds you'll shed, and the energy you'll gain all in a matter of weeks! Just take a look at the bonus package she's put together to guarantee your success:

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Proper nutrition is not only essential for your fat loss, but also for the health and well being of your family. Cassandra Forsythe PhD (c) author of Women's Healthy – Perfect body Diet and co –author of The New Rules of Lifting for Women has put together this must-have practical nutrition guide for busy moms that spells out the essentials to help you stay on top of the nutrition you need to burn the baby fat and at the same time, keep your family healthy. Discover the absolute best foods to eat for a lean and fit mom and a healthy child, complete with lists and samples menu. ($39 value)

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Would you like to have your very own personal shopper as you set out on your quest for the perfect pair of jeans! Finding the right pair of jeans is no walk in the park – with this easy guide developed by Mom's Style Expert Tammy Gibson of www.amominredhighheels.com, you'll know the tips and to finding the perfect pair of jeans. Plus, you'll discover how to create stylish outfits using jeans to make you one hot mama. ($49 value)

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Angie Schumacher and Carmel Wieland of www.WomensDietandFitness.com have developed a complete program specifically engineered to make sure you look great in your jeans called the "12 Weeks to an Amazing Butt" workout program. In it you'll discover the top moves that will make all the difference in your ability to tone and tighten your backside. ($39 value)

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How strong is your "stick-to-it-ness"? Could you use a little accountability and motivation? As an elite member of the VIP Coaching program you have access to the top resources that will catapult your success. The VIP Coaching program gives you the jump start you need to begin burning fat and changing your body practically overnight. And that will give you the complete motivation you need to keep at it week after week. You may even reach your goals weeks in advance. The VIP 21 Day Coaching Program includes:

- 3 Weekly 'Closed Door' Teleseminars where Holly will walk you step-by-step through exactly what you must do during the most vital 3 weeks of your fat loss program

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- MP3 Recordings of each call so you can refer back to them for tips and motivation at your convenience.

The VIP Coaching Program kicks off on Monday, January 21st, so once midnight strikes on Wednesday, the doors are closed.

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If you are ready to lose the lingering baby fat and get your body back, the Fit Yummy Mummy Lifestyle System has everything you need and more!

But remember, this entire package is only available for the next 72 hours. On Wednesday, January 16th at midnight, all 5 of these fabulous bonuses will disappear from the bonus package and NEVER be offered again.

If you're ready for your resolutions to finally turn into results, the Fit Yummy Mummy system is EXACTLY what you need. And with Holly's special bonus package, you'll literally be given everything you need to be burning fat and changing your body practically overnight.

Remember, I recommend only the fitness and fat loss resources that I feel will benefit you and meet the criteria that I believe is crucial for getting results, and the Fit Yummy Mummy bonus package is one of the best.

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Tyron
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P.S. Hurry, you only have until Wednesday, Jan. 16th, at 11:59pm to claim your bonuses.

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Always live for something larger than yourself.



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Do You Know What Happens in Your Body Within an Hour of Drinking Coke?

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When somebody drinks a Coke watch what happens...

• In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don't immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down.
• 20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get its hands on into fat. (There's plenty of that at this particular moment)
• 40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dilate, your blood pressure rises, as a response your livers dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. The adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked preventing drowsiness.
• 45 minutes: Your body ups your dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain. This is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.
• >60 minutes: The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium and zinc in your lower intestine, providing a further boost in metabolism. This is compounded by high doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increasing the urinary excretion of calcium.
• >60 Minutes: The caffeine's diuretic properties come into play. (It makes you have to pee.) It is now assured that you'll evacuate the bonded calcium, magnesium and zinc that was headed to your bones as well as sodium, electrolyte and water.
• >60 minutes: As the rave inside of you dies down you'll start to have a sugar crash. You may become irritable and/or sluggish. You've also now, literally, pissed away all the water that was in the Coke. But not before infusing it with valuable nutrients your body could have used for things like even having the ability to hydrate your system or build strong bones and teeth.

Just another reason to avoid Coke and all soft drinks even the diet ones.

I'll leave you with this thought:

From what we know about sugar, phosphoric acid and calcium binding and malabsorption, could there be a connection between the high incidence of osteoporosis and the consumption of soft drinks?

Sources:

• Nutrition Research Center October 24, 2007

Resurrect the body you were created to have,

Tyron

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Hospital Food - An Opportunity Waiting?

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A friend and colleague of mine, Vreni Gurd, a corrective exercise specialist, wrote an interesting piece on hospital food and her experience with it. If you have been following any of my blog updates (www.TyronPiteau.Blogspot.com), read any of my articles, or been to one of my health and wellness seminars and believe in what I teach, you'll find this find this piece rather interesting yet somewhat troubling at the same time.

Hospital food - an opportunity waiting?

I probably should have written this a year ago when I had an intimate look at hospital food at Vancouver General Hospital. Ya gotta wonder whether this hospital at least, knows that there is any connection between food and health! From what I could tell, the food was largely highly processed, cooked to death, and they always served a sweet packaged dessert! What's with that??? We KNOW that sugar suppresses immune systems. So why is sugar fed to people that are trying to get well? And margarine and creamer/milker were on the menu each day. No butter or cream here! Important to get your daily dose of trans fats and hydrogenated oils, after all. Much better choice than saturated fat, which our bodies need to get the vitamins and minerals into our cells. Oh yeah. Food cooked to death so I guess there are no vitamins left to transport. No worries then - no transportation needed. By offering up trans fats, cell messaging will be blocked instead. That wi ll help people heal.

Okay. All sarcasm aside, what I am trying to say is that we should not be feeding sick people manufactured fats that the body mistakes for saturated fats, and we needn't be frightened about eating good quality saturated fats. Our body actually needs them to make our sex and stress hormones and vitamin D, transport vitamins and minerals into cells, create bile, stiffen our cell walls, and for cell communication among other things. On the good side, the hospital did offer eggs for breakfast. I enjoyed the actual menus and comments from Sarah Leavitt's blog, who stayed at the hospital in Nov. '06.

For a good laugh, take a look at these Heart Healthy Food Choices put out by Vancouver Coastal Health. Love the recommendation for low-fat hot dogs. Low-fat everything! If fat has been removed, it ain't a whole food. Is it logical to think that we can improve upon what nature intended? Have you noticed that since the influx of low-fat everything, we seem to be getting fatter? That's because fat doesn't make most people (most metabolic types) fat - starchy carbs, particularly processed ones, and sugar do. And it seems the nutrition pundits don't realize that so-called "non-hydrogenated margarine" either actually does have hydrogenated oils in it but at a level that is low enough that they can label it as trans-fat free, or it is another form of manufactured fat (inter-esterified fat) which is equally harmful. And notice all the processed food recommendations. Angel food cake? Ginger snap cookies? Low-fat yogurt? Pretzels? Boy, the food companies have the public health system wrapped around their little finger!!!

So, I cooked up a storm and brought in food made with home-made bone broths, grass-fed meats, free-range chicken, organic vegetables etc. and what wasn't eaten was stored in the fridge in the hospital. The next day when I went to get it, the containers were there, but the food was gone. Turns out homeless people know that to find good food, don't look at the hospital trays, but look in the fridge! Seems the hospital has a security problem too.

Hospital food doesn't have to be this way. It can be nutritious, delicious and sustainable. It is starting to happen in Oregon, for example, where some hospitals are offering hotel-style room service with delicious, healthy foods on the menu, cooked to order. Less food is wasted because it is actually eaten, and surprisingly, they have not increased their food budget. Food profits from cafeterias have gone up, due to the more food being served. Imagine patients asking for recipes! Imagine calling your hospital and then swinging by to pick up a take-out order! London England is also doing much to put healthier food into hospitals. Hospitals can and should be taking the lead on nutritious, sustainable food, and I'm glad to see it beginning to happen. VGH, please take heed!

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Vancouver General Hospital VGH Patient & Family Handbook

Sarah Leavitt's blog Healing food at Vancouver General Hospital

Vancouver Coastal Health Experience of inpatient care Notice that "overall quality of food" was rated the lowest of everything.

Vancouver Coastal Health Healthy Heart Food Choices

British Columbia Conversation on Health Food Quality in Hospital

The Oregonian This is hospital food? March 2006

Hospital Food Project Getting more sustainable food into London's hospitals. Can it be done? And is it worth it? October 2005

Hospital Food Project Sustainable Development Commission

Suite 101 Hospital Food Interview

Copyright 2007 Vreni Gurd

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