Just Say NO To Margarine – “It Will Make You Stupid”

March 24, 2010 05:01 AM

Avoid Margarine

According to scientists at the University of Auckland, kids who ate margarine daily had considerably poorer IQ scores by the age of 3 or 4 than those who did not eat margarine.

The calamity here is that margarine was promoted to us as a “healthier” choice over butter. In reality, it may be the worst “food” ever produced for human consumption.

You couldn’t understand this by reading the food labels. You will find statements like “100% Natural” and “Mother Nature’s Own” and “Heart Healthy”. But they are actually man made chemical brews made in a laboratory.

The vegetable oils used in most margarines are hydrogenated  making them solid. This turns the oil into a very unhealthy trans-fatty acid.

These man-made fatty acids have been exposed to raise “bad” cholesterol (LDL) and decrease the “good” cholesterol (HDL). Trans Fatty Acids have also been linked to inflammation, one of the chief causes of heart disease.

Another study titled, “Margarine Intake and Subsequent Coronary Heart Disease in Men,” tracked people for 20 years and recorded the number of heart attacks suffered.

The results of the studies were very revealing.

As margarine eating went up, heart attacks increased. As more people ate butter, heart attacks declined.

And that’s not all…

During the 2nd twenty years, the research group consuming the most margarine had 77% more heart attacks than the group eating no margarine!

Looking at the study it is safe to say that staying away from margarine may make you smarter, and it could very well put a stop to heart attacks or strokes.

Butter is a more healthy choice. Real butter contains short- and medium-chain fatty acids, which are easily converted to energy. This means that the natural fat in butter is less likely to be stored as fat in your body.

Plus, it’s packed with vitamins and essential nutrients your body needs. Here’s a little morsel you probably haven’t heard: Butter contains more vitamin A than carrots. It also contains vitamin E and selenium. These 3 nutrients are essential to protect your heart from free radical damage.

To Your Good Health,

Dr David Alan


1 Theodore, RF., Thompson, JMD., et al. “Dietary patterns and intelligence in early and middle childhood,” Intelligence. 2009;

2 C. Oomen, M. Ocke, et al, “Association between trans fatty acid intake and 10-year risk of coronary heart disease in the Zutphen Elderly Study: The Lancet, Volume 357, Issue 9258,

3 Matthew W. Gillman, L. Adrienne Cupples, et al. “Margarine Intake and Subsequent Coronary Heart Disease in Men” Epidemiology,

4 Price, Weston, DDS. Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, 1945, Price Pottenger Nutrition Foundation, Inc.,

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Key Pointers When Buying a Treadmill

March 17, 2010 03:33 PM

The Most Important things to Know When Choosing a Treadmill.

By Anthony Shelton

If you ever had the desire to buy a treadmill, you were probably hit by all sorts of questions:

  • “What treadmill should I buy?”
  • “Where will I put it?”
  • “When will I have the time to use it?”,
  • “What are the most important things to
  • take into consideration when choosing a treadmill?”
  • “Which treadmills will help me look fit?”




This article will try to answer these questions and give you an insight of the most important factors that are to be taken into consideration when choosing a treadmill for exercise and fitness.

First thing you should do before choosing a treadmill is figure out how much free space you have inside your home, because treadmills come in different sizes and designs.

Once you know approximately how much space you can free up, you can go look for a treadmill of that exact size.


Don’t put yourself in the unnecessary and awkward position where you come home with your newly purchased treadmill and are forced to put it in the closet because of the lack of room.

When choosing a treadmill, apart from size and design, another important factor you should take into consideration will be its quality. A quality treadmill can last for years,while poor quality ones can break apart in a matter of weeks or months.

What gives quality and longevity to a treadmill is its motor. The ones with a larger, heavier motor will have a smaller chance of breaking down, because of their solid configuration, but of course there will still be a small risk that it could break down.

Still they are a great choice to make if you have the money and room for them. Also look for quality and time-tested brands and don’t let yourself attracted by the really small prices low-quality treadmills offer. You could pay half the price of a good, quality treadmill but you could end up with
it breaking down in a matter of weeks.


When you decided to buy a treadmill you probably thought about your health first, it’s very important that the treadmill provides a healthy and effective way to work out.

One of the most important factors in this matter is the thickness of the walking deck and the size of the walking track, both having a bad effect on your feet and ankles if they don’t respect a set of healthy measures.

Therefore if you plan to do both walking and jogging on your treadmill, its walking deck’s thickness needs to be at least 3 inches in order to provide a healthy solution. The walking track should be around 48 inches in length and 17-18 inches in width to provide the necessary space for you to work out in a comfortable position.

The next step you need to figure out when choosing a treadmill is what you want it to show you on its electronic board. The electronic board differs from treadmill to treadmill, although some of the basic parameters almost all of them offer are speed, distance, calorie burnout and maybe inclination degree.

Some of the newer treadmill models have an interesting extra feature that measures your heart rate and shows it on their monitor. A really important factor you should take into consideration when choosing a treadmill if you have heart problems.

The benefits of choosing a treadmill for home workouts instead of going to a gym are immense. First off, it will save the precious time it takes you to go and come back from the local gym, not to mention you save the money it would take you to pay for the gym training session or monthly fee.


The second main advantage is that by having a treadmill in your home, all members of your family will have the chance to work out (which of course can turn into a disadvantage when everyone wants to work out at the same time, but that’s highly improbable if you make a precise time-schedule).

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Weight Watchers Endorse McDonalds – What a Crock

March 15, 2010 04:11 PM

Weight Watchers has now officially endorsed Chicken McNuggets as a “healthy meal” in New Zealand, where McDonald’s restaurants will begin carrying the Weight Watchers logo on several menu items.

This bizarre and irresponsible decision has now made Weight Watchers the laughing stock of the health world. News Flash; Competent nutrition and weight loss experts don’t use “McDonald’s fast food” and “weight loss” in the same sentence.

As The Guardian reported, “As part of the deal, which the company says is the first of its kind in the world, McDonald’s will use the Weight Watchers logo on its menu boards and Weight Watchers will promote McDonald’s to dieters.”

Nutritionists, not surprisingly, were shocked at the announcement.

The idea of eating at McDonald’s to lose weight seems a bit insane, and anyone who believes that eating Chicken McNuggets will cause you to lose weight is arguably delusional. Sometimes you just have to point out the stupidity of these things.

Watch your weight!

Weight Watchers, by the way, never actually claims that eating the foods they endorse will cause you to lose weight. If you examine it carefully, even their name isn’t really about weight loss. It’s about weight watching… as in, watch your weight grow larger by the day…

A “weight watch” is sort of like a “tornado watch” or a “tsunami watch.” You keep your eyes peeled and wait for something disastrous to happen — such as ballooning to 300 pounds while engaging in unhealthy eating McHabits based on snarfing down meat processed food at fast food restaurants.

If Weight Watchers is going to endorse McNuggets, then why not just endorse the entire McDonald’s menu and throw the logo behind Big Macs and ice cream shakes, too?

Of course, McDonald’s products merely join a long list of questionable foods marketed under the “Weight Watchers” brand name — a brand that in my opinion has discovered great commercial success in selling the false hope of weight loss to clueless consumers who are unwilling to discover the truth about weight loss.

Not coincidentally, Weight Watchers has now become the “McDonald’s” of the weight loss industry — and industry filled with so many scams and shams that the idea of eating Chicken McNuggets to lose weight doesn’t even seem that strange to many people.

We live in a world where corporate promotional lies are disgusting at best, and criminal at worst. We’re told that psychiatric drugs will make you happy, that chemotherapy will make you healthy and that eating at McDonald’s will make you lose weight. We’re told that sugary junk drinks will give you “energy”, that toxic vaccines are necessary for your immune system to work correctly and that buying a lottery ticket will make you rich.

At the same time, we’re told that vitamins are dangerous, that sunlight causes cancer and eating meat causes heart disease.

I suppose in light of the corporate-sponsored sick-care insanity that passes for medical advice these days, the idea that eating at McDonald’s will make you lose weight doesn’t seem as insane as it really is.

But that doesn’t make it true.

To effectively lose weight, and achieve the figure you have always wanted the steps are really quite simple. Have the desire, get the right information, and implement the steps including high intensity exercise for 7 -12 minutes per day and eat quality food. Metabolism boosting food. To discover the truth about weight loss visit Doctor Directed Weight Loss Program!

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Achieve Your After Burn – Burn Fat After Exercise

March 11, 2010 05:13 PM

The Key to High Speed Fat Loss is When You Burn Fat

According to Dr Sears Your body can select from several fuel sources. It can burn fat, it can burn carbohydrates or it can get energy from breaking down protein. Check out these healthy books.

When you exercise for different durations or at different levels of intensity it alters the relative proportion of energy you derive from these three sources.

For the first couple of minutes, your body uses something called ATP, the most readily available source of energy. But your supply of ATP is limited.

After two to three minutes, your body switches to carbs stored in muscle tissue. This lasts for 15 to 20 minutes before you switch to fat. I recommend routines that are very short, never lasting for more than 5 to 12 minutes if you really want to remove and burn fat.

It is proven that at low intensity activity your body derives most of its energy from carbohydrates and only 15% from fat.

When you look at the lifestyle of our ancestors, this makes sense. Low intensity activity, like walking long distances, was natural for hunter-gatherers. But they would step up their activity level to high intensity when they wanted to catch their prey or run from danger. It is this high intensity exercise that increase the percentage of the energy burned.

Now notice when you increase your  activity to high intensity you dramatically reduce your dependency on fat and derive nearly all your energy from carbs.

It is once you stop the exercise when your body burns fat to produce the carbs for your body. This is what is called your after burn. You can see an increased metabolic fat burn for up to 24 hours after high intensity short burst exercise.

Short duration exercise actually increases levels of growth hormone and burn fat. Researchers from Loughborough University in Leicestershire, England tested growth hormone levels in sprinters and endurance athletes. On average, the sprinters had three times as much growth hormone as the endurance runners.

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Love is Positive Energy … Starts With a Smile!

March 10, 2010 10:43 PM

Love is the greatest energy in the world, so watch this and pass it on!

I send you love and smiles and hope you’re having an amazing day!

Bless Someone Else Today – invite them to this site. Pass it on!

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Boost Your Metabolism & Lose 20 Pounds Fast

March 10, 2010 03:52 PM

This is where we are today. No one knows how to effectively boost metabolism.



We have a population that doesn’t really realize how they gained weight, or where to go to correct the problem. Half of them don’t even think about the problem of obesity in America.

Many of the obese will tell you they are satisfied with their weight, and don’t want to put forth any effort to change anything.

They don’t intend to do anything until they are diagnosed with hypertension, diabetes, or thyroid conditions. Then they realize maybe there is a problem and they want someone else to pay for their poor choices in the past.

The down side to this; by the time you reach this stage, it is often too late and too difficult to correct one health problem without creating another.

Your biggest punch for weight loss. Boost Your Metabolism.



UNDERSTANDING METABOLISM
In the simplest terms, metabolism is the rate at which your body burns calories. The rate differs significantly from person to person.



You and your friend can have the same activity level, diet, and weight but still gain or lose weight at different rates based on differences in metabolism.

To quickly boost metabolism perform some metabolism boosting exercises; they only take 7 – 10 minutes per day and they can be done in the comfort of your home.

Facts regarding metabolism:

  • Metabolism generally slows 5% per decade after age 40.
  • Men generally burn calories faster than women.
  • Heredity influences your metabolic rate.
  • Your thyroid gland can slow or quicken your metabolism.
  • Metabolism increases with muscle mass.

According to Laurie Hudlund L.P.N. certain factors determine your metabolic rate, the amount of calories your body uses every day, the rate your body uses energy for vital body processes, how fast you burn energy during physical activity and the rate you use energy during digestion of food.

To boost metabolism you only need to alter what you eat and change what you do slightly to experience a difference in how you look and feel.

One effective way to jump-start your metabolism is to exercise. The right exercise will reduce body fat and increase lean muscle mass. By increasing lean muscle mass, your metabolism will increase and aid in the weight-loss process. Additional calories will be burned off long after you stop exercising.

Muscle tissue uses more calories than fat tissue because it has a higher metabolic rate.

Weight lifting, resistance or strength training, does not speed up your metabolism, but it does burn fat and increase your lean muscle mass which increases your resting metabolic rate.

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A combination of fast moving exercise and resistance training is best for optimal fat burning and metabolism boosting.

Exercise in the morning and you will reap the benefits of a faster metabolism throughout the day, exercise in short 1 or 2 minute bursts multiple times through the day to keep your metabolism pumping.

Exercise any time you can fit it into your day and you will burn that fat away. By exercising just a little more than usual you can boost metabolism and lose stored fat in the process.

Your Positive Approach to Weight Loss

March 9, 2010 05:51 PM

Make up your Mind
Once you have made up your mind to lose weight, make a commitment yourself and someone else who is a dream encourager not a dream squasher, and go into it with a positive attitude.

Losing weight can be quite a challenge.

Think Like a Winner
Always think like a winner not a loser and remember your emotions are like muscles and those you use most grow the strongest.

Think Positively
Understand God loves you, and He wants the best for you. He will be there for you to encourage you and to give you hope. Seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened. You can accomplish all things with the Lord’s help.

Negative thoughts don’t do you any good they only hold you back from accomplishing the things you want to do.

Support From Family and Friends
You should see to it that you have the support of your family and friends for working out with the weight loss tips. It can be an enormous help to discuss obstacles and share skills and tactics with others on the same path.

Self Talk
Write and then read outloud daily your goals for weight loss and how you are accomplishing them. Include how your body will look, how you will feel, how much more energy you will have, how you will gain respect in your circle of friends and at work.

God Talk
Prayer is a powerful weapon. Understand you will be attacked, by others, by yourself and negativity. Go straight to the Lord and ask for renewed strength. He will deliver.

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“How Many Reasons Do You Need to NOT Eat Sugar”

March 9, 2010 03:39 AM

According to a slew of experts, it’s sugar, not fat, that causes chronic overeating and adds extra pounds that wont budge. Sugar, in its many forms, is an increasingly common ingredient in processed foods. Many people eat the equivalent of 53 heaping teaspoons of white sugar every day!

As recently as 400 years ago, refined sugar didn’t even exist. In the year 1821, the average American consumed about 20 pounds of sugar per year. According to USDA statistics, the average consumption of sugar is now well over 100 pounds per person per year.

Please do not fall for the claim by processed food companies that sugar is a natural product. That is a lie. Sure if you eat sugar from the field as sugar cane there is some nutritional value, however when you bleach it, refine it, process it, kill it so it can stay on your shelf for years without going bad, you have destroyed any nutritional value and all you are left with is high calorie fat producing, health robbing substance.

Here are multiple reasons to avoid refined white sugar:

  1. Sugar contributes to tooth decay because it decreases the effectiveness of a particular type of white blood cell that “eats” bacteria.
  2. Sugar causes the body to release more adrenalin, which may explain hyperactivity in young children.
  3. Calcium loss in urine occurs when a person consumes a soft drink containing sugar.
  4. Ingesting sugar makes the pancreas work harder to produce insulin. Diabetes results when the overworked pancreas can no longer eliminate sugar from the blood stream.
  5. Bleached with chlorine, when white refined sugar is exposed to certain organic compounds it converts to dioxin, a lethal compound.
  6. Sugar can hinder weight loss because high insulin levels (see #4 above) cause the body to store excess carbohydrates as fat.
  7. Sugar increases the likelihood of chronic fatigue.
  8. Sugar increases mood swings, irritability and anxiety.
  9. Sugar compromises your immune system because it lowers the efficiency of white blood cells for a minimum of five hours.
  10. Eating sugar can decrease helpful high-density cholesterol (HDLs) and result in an increase in harmful cholesterol (LDLs).
  11. Eating white processed sugar causes a rapid rise in blood sugar and provokes a dramatic and costly physiological response to lower it. The hypoglycemia that typically follows causes us to crave more sugar and start this damaging process over again.
  12. The consumption of sugar and refined carbohydrates can have a direct effect on your brain chemistry that initially may provide a boost in energy and mood, but ultimately results in a depletion of neurotransmitters that causes fatigue, depression, irritability.
  13. Lowered Immunity: Because sugar is similar in structure to vitamin C, it can prevent white blood cells from absorbing the amount of vitamin C they need to function properly. This results in suppressed immune activity that can lasts for hours.
  14. Other Conditions Associated with Sugar and heavily processed and refined Carbohydrates: As a result of the many physiological problems that sugar and refined carbohydrates can cause, frequent consumption can lead to fatal diseases such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes, and is also associated with diseases of the kidneys and liver, hyperactivity, attention deficit disorder, criminal and violent behavior, and mood problems including depression.



Because of sugar’s sweet taste and addictive nature, many people have a difficult time eliminating it from their diet despite the damage it can cause. In fact, some diabetics end up losing their sight or having their feet amputated because they’re unable to control the sugar habit that caused their diabetes.

Need to sweeten your food? Add raisins, dates or honey. Stevia is also a safer alternative. It’s available in several forms, has no calories and doesn’t raise blood sugar levels. Clearly, a better choice to satisfy any sweet tooth!

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Set Your Goals and Achieve Them

March 8, 2010 02:42 AM

Setting Goals and Sticking to Them

Who else wants to set goals and achieve them? Goals such as losing 40 pounds before bathing-suit season or spending 90 minutes a day sweating at the gym. Changing your eating habits to choose less junk and more quality. Finding a better job, or a soul mate.

The problem with goals is life intrudes, work and family demand our time. And in regard to exercise you find that walking on a treadmill is just plain boring. Discouragement sets in, followed by inaction, guilt, avoiding thinking about your goal, eating lots of calorie enriched foods. And you say the battle is lost.

This cycle isn’t inevitable. You can set realistic, achievable goals for a more healthy life when you have the right information. What’s more, your goals-whether for weight loss, exercise or both-will produce results that enable you to look more desirable, feel more energy and be healthy.

Get going the right way

Goal-setting is more than making a wish and hoping it will come true. Done correctly, goal setting is proven to be effective for making real changes in your physical & mental activity.

To set and achieve your goal, research shows it helps to follow this process.

  • Understand what you want to change. (Many times you need guidance)
  • Establish a goal.
  • Write the goal down with a timeline
  • Begin a goal-directed activity
  • Track your progress
  • Reward yourself

Sounds simple? So why do January’s good intentions often end up discarded by February? Many goals start out being too difficult or too general. That’s a set up for failure.

Before deciding on your goal, get a clear view of your current lifestyle, what you want to change, and how fast. Be realistic. Are you looking for a huge transformation? Like you want to lose 75 pounds… that is great, but you will want to plan on 8 – 10 months. Do you need a 15 pound reduction to fit into your skinny jeans? Plan on 3 – 4 weeks to accomplish this in a healthy manner.

Be certain you understand that a weight loss goal must include long range changes to be effective, don’t fall for the diet pill in a bottle routine or a super starvation diet!

Be careful to not sign up for more than you can commit to. Don’t make a goal to spend 2 hours in a gym 4 days a week, when you know that is not possible to maintain for the long term.

Your time commitment is often the reason most goals are never reached. The GOOD news regarding weight loss is 12 minutes should be all you need for exercise if you know what you are doing. The Doctor Directed Weight Loss Program has proven that 7 -12 minutes of the right high metabolism exercises will cut your fat 9 times more than 60 minutes on a tread mill, or a 50 minute aerobic exercise class.

And anyone can commit to 7 – 12 minutes per day… Doctor Directed even shows you how to use the commercial time of your favorite TV program to lose buckets of fat for life.

Be Specific

Choose a well defined, positive goal for a short period of time. Make it taxing enough to motivate you, without stretching your capability.

If you haven’t exercised in years, don’t overdo it the first week – you’ll get sore and the exercise is over. Instead, think of your goal as, “I’ll start at this level and work myself up to more intensity.”

When setting goals your secret is to always state “so that” Example: I want to lose 25 pounds… So That – I can fit into my new swim suit… So That – I can go to the beach… So That… I get noticed by the right men…. So That Well you get the idea. The more specific you make your goal the higher your chances of pushing yourself to attain your goal.

Choose The Right Exercise For Weight Loss

Pick a goal-directed metabolism boosting exercise that’s fun and enticing enough that you’ll keep doing it. Social support helps you stay motivated, so try to exercise with a friend, spouse or child. There is no one who will keep you accountable more than your own kid. Especially those between the ages of 5 and 14.

Split your goal into smaller achievable chunks. Instead of saying, “I want to lose 50 pounds,” state your goal as “I will lose two pounds this week.” You’ll probably be able to meet that goal successfully, and even repeat it the following week. Remember, recommended weight loss for most people is 1 – 3 pounds per week. It is easier to lose the first 10 pounds.

Many people get overwhelmed when they have a huge goal, so they put it off. By setting and achieving a smaller goal, you get encouraged which spurs you on to continue the process.

Remember for something to become a habit, you need to continue it daily for at least 23 days.

Benefits of High Metabolism Exercise

Short bouts of the right high metabolism exercise – for 7 -12 minutes per day are the most healthy for anyone wanting to achieve health, shrink their waistline, or improve their fitness level. Gone are the days of the 60 minute jog or the 75 minute treadmill routines. Those aerobic exercise routines have been proven to actually cause your body to store fat, decrease your heart size and shrink your lung capacity.

Weight Loss Without Exercise Is A Waste.

Weight maintenance without exercise is a waste of your time,” says Dr Hackbart, director, Natural Health Research Institute. You can lose weight with diet alone, or special diet formulas but without changing your metabolic rate it is inevitable your weight will come back, and usually with a vengeance. Most weight loss diet programs generally only cause your fat cells to shrink.

If you are not increasing your metabolic rate, you are only shrinking fat cells; in a sense you are dehydrating yourself making yourself less healthy. When you go off the diet, your fat cells rehydrate causing you to gain weight rapidly. The bad news is you also will create more fat cells.

Incorporating the Doctor Directed High Metabolism exercises only take 7 – 12 minutes per day, boosting your metabolism for up to 24 hours and completely eliminates fat cells. You stay hydrated, improve your health and have less fat cells. With this formula you stay in your skinny jeans for as long as you want.

Track your progress

Track your progress by writing your goals down with a timeline.

Check off items as you accomplish them. The act of placing a check mark next to a goal accomplished is very encouraging and motivates you to move to your next goal. It also serves as a reminder to put things into action or catch up on your goal. Successful people are compulsive record keepers.

When you reach a pre-set goal – reward yourself with a relaxing bath, a special treat, time alone listening to a favorite CD or other enjoyment. Rewards for good accomplishment make attaining your goal more desirable and inspire you to continue moving forward.

Keep going – Never give up

Don’t give up just because you missed the first goal you set. Reload and fire again. Look at what’s possible to achieve right now. When you put together multiple short-term goals, you soon discover that you have accomplished your long-term goal that once seemed so impossible. When you make a small change, it’s an awesome accomplishment.

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Laugh More & Stay Young

March 6, 2010 08:10 PM

Hope this puts a smile on your face

Enjoy this video, I did.

Share with your friends, they deserve a smile today as well! :-)

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