Achieving Total Wellness Now

So many overweight people feel that their lives are a choice between being thin and miserable with hunger or fat and green with envy.

We have stated it here so many times before (after all, it is what we are all about) that losing weight and staying slim or “where you want to be” does not have to be a titanic struggle.  It is more about planning and due care with the right diet and nutrition plan than about suffering.  Of course, a small amount of self-discipline goes a long way too.

Remember the man we had over to dinner a couple weeks ago who had lost 25 pounds since the 1^st of January.  He called yesterday, March 2, 2010, and said that he is now down 32 pounds.  Up until the last couple of months he had been carrying around this extra weight for at least a dozen years.  He called to order another round of diet shakes, cleanser and stress supplements from us.

Before going on this diet plan he could eat most people “under the table.”  When in a nice restaurant he would sometimes order as many as 4 appetizers, plus drinks and an enormous entrée; and laugh at Joanne and me for the way we eat.  Now he tells us that he feels so much better, has more energy and has no desire to eat like that anymore.

If you are sick of being “green with envy” and are ready to make a life-changing decision, contact us. We will show you how you can still enjoy food and your life while eating much healthier.

Our weight-loss program works without a lot of pain and stress. More importantly, the results can be permanent. Every time I go up a pound or so I can pull myself right back down in a day or two; and as everyone knows who knows me, I still like and eat cookies, brownies and dark chocolate on occasion.

Joanne & Paul

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A study started in the late 1990’s by the Diabetes Prevention Program of 3,200 people who were at risk for diabetes dramatically demonstrated the positive effect of exercise on delaying the onset of diabetes.

If you are overweight or obese and have a fasting blood sugar level of 95 mg/dL you are at risk of acquiring Type 2 diabetes, which is a fasting blood sugar level of 126 mg/dL or higher.

The people were divided into three groups.

1. The people in the intensive lifestyle group were encouraged to lose at least 7% of their body weight and to exercise for at least 2 ½ hours per week.
2. The drug group was given an oral diabetes drug twice a day.
3. The placebo group was given lookalike but inactive pills.

The study was stopped in 2001, a year earlier than planned because the results were so clear.  The risk of diabetes was 58% lower in the intensive lifestyle group than in the placebo.  The oral diabetes drug cut the risk by 31% versus the placebo group.

A follow-up study over the next six years showed that the people from the original intensive lifestyle group maintained their lower risk of diabetes from the original drug and placebo group.

How much proof do you want?  Lose that excess weight and get moving. 

{Note: This article was taken from the “Nutrition Action Health Letter” published by the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest.}

Sincerely!

Joanne & Paul

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Everyone has cancer cells in his body; but a strong immune system will prevent the cancer cells from growing and forming into tumors.  At present, cancer cells are undetectable until they have multiplied to a few billion cells. 

A diagnosis of cancer means that a person has multiple nutritional deficiencies which can be caused by diet, lifestyle, environment and/or genetics.   

Cancer has been treated for decades in the same way.  It is usually a combination of radiation therapy and chemotherapy; but can also involve surgery.  All three treatments are unpleasant to say the least and often just temporarily successful.   They also destroy lots of good cells along with the cancer cells and leave a residue that builds up toxins in the already compromised body so that the immune system is further weakened.

The alternative treatment being advised today is to:

• Get rid of the nutritional deficiencies by changing the diet and adding supplements.
• Starve the cancer cells of the foods that they need to grow on.  Such things as sugar, milk, table salt, caffeinated drinks and foods, distilled water and alcohol.
• Substitute small amounts of honey or molasses for sugar, sea salt for table salt, eliminate the milk completely for its mucous causing properties; and substitute green tea and alkaline water for beverages.
• Substitute fish and poultry for red meats.  Like so many other things, the red meats have lots of bad things including parasites, antibiotics and hormones; and cause the body to be acidic.
• Eat lots of vegetables, especially raw vegetables, and fresh fruits along with nuts, seeds and whole grains.
• Do exercise that causes you to do deep breathing.  Deep breathing will bring oxygen quickly to the cellular level.  Cancer cells cannot live in an oxygenated state.
• Alkalinize your water.  Most of the water we drink today is acidic for a number of reasons and not helping us maintain our body’s alkalinity. 

In our Blog 41 we speak of the importance of ridding the body of toxins and maintaining it in an alkaline state.  When we are able to do both of these things our bodies will begin to once again perform as the highly tuned, magnificent systems they were designed to be.

Here we are again providing you with the links that you need to find out more about good nutrition, cellular cleansing and alkaline water.

Sincerely,

Joanne & Paul

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Cancer is a complex and hard to understand group of diseases that continues to elude simple solutions and treatments.  However, there is growing evidence that there are common factors to all diseases, including cancer, that at least point to possible preventive treatments.

Common to our present day understanding of diseases such as cancer are the roles that diet, exercise, toxins in our environment and the acidity/alkalinity of our body play in either promoting these diseases or preventing them.

In many of our blogs that are posted here on this site and available to you we have discussed the roles of these factors.  Recently, we talked about the mounting body of evidence regarding toxins in our environment and their effect on the huge rise in the incidence of breast cancer.  That diet and exercise have an enormous effect on our health and well-being is at this point in time beyond dispute.  Here is some information on alkalinity.

The body’s natural state of well-being is to be slightly alkaline…a PH of about 7.365; and the body works hard to maintain that state.  However, many of the things we eat like meats, high sugar foods, dairy, coffee and alcohol along with toxins in our environment can overwhelm the body’s ability to neutralize the resulting acid ash left by these substances. 

An even larger problem is that much of the water we drink is acidic because of processing and the environment; and our body needs lots of water on a daily basis.

The bottom line is that an acid state leads to inflammation and promotion of disease.  What should we do?  Here is what we suggest.

Use a cellular cleanser on a daily basis to rid yourself of toxins; and turn acidic water into alkaline water with an alkalized concentrate that you just add to the water. 

Sincerely,

Joanne & Paul

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In 1940, 1 in 22 women was diagnosed with breast cancer.  In 2008, 1 in 8 women had the disease.   Only 5% to 10% of breast cancer cases come from heredity factors.  Most women who get breast cancer have no family history of the disease. 

Medical science wants to know what is driving this dramatic rise in the incidence of this dread disease and are now looking much harder at chemicals within the home.

It is a fact that there is more breast cancer in industrialized areas than in rural areas.  In the United States the incidence of breast cancer is highest in the heavily industrialized northeast.  It is reasoned that as chemical toxins build up in the body over decades one of the results is the huge increase in breast cancer.

Certainly, it has been established that women exposed to higher than normal levels of estrogen in the form of xenoestrogens from toxins have a higher incidence of breast cancer.  Now it is feared that many ordinary household chemicals, cosmetics, shampoos and even food packaging are playing a role in this increase.  

What might be a good defense?  We are big believers in daily cellular cleansing to fight the ravages of all forms of toxins.  We have suggested this before in previous blogs on this site.  It cannot hurt and may well help.  You will definitely feel better. 

Feel free to contact us: totalwellnessteam@gmail.com/.

Sincerely,

Joanne & Paul

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Most of us do not want to hear diet and or weight loss during the holiday season.  However, there are many of us who do not want to lose all the progress we have made in the last year either.  Here’s a little secret to help you get through to the New Year with a minimum of damage.

Do two simple things:  Drink three cups of good Green Tea during the course of the day; and drink two ounces of cellular cleanser in the morning and another 2 ounces in the evening with a water chaser.  You will be amazed.

I love good dark chocolate truffles this time of year (or any other time of year for that matter.)  My favorites come from Harry & David, the online and mail order Company in Oregon that sells fruits and goodies.  They are fat and calorie rich and I cannot resist them.  As long as I drink my Green Tea and do my Cleanse I have no problem.  It seems that the goodies magically lose their calories.

We have more advice for you on maintaining your weight right on this page and in previous blogs so feel free to look around.  Whether it is weight maintenance, weight loss or an excellent nutrition plan to get and keep you healthy we can help.

Here is where you can get the best Green Tea:

  and the best Cellular Cleanse:

So go ahead and enjoy yourself (within reason) and we will compare notes in January.

Happy Holidays!

Joanne & Paul

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