Obesity Epidemic: How To Lose And Win The Battle Of The Bulge ASAP!

Understanding The Obesity Problem And Winning The War:

Presented by Youngevity Ranger

The battle of the bulge is and has been officially on for years in our beloved country!  This is a battle of which we must learn how to lose in order to win. Today America is fatter and sicker than ever. It doesn’t seem to be getting any better folks, check out these statistics;. According to a 2010 study released by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 3 of 4 Americans will be obese or overweight by 2020. But this dire prediction doesn't have to come true. The solution lies in understanding how we got here and making some essential lifestyle changes to reverse this disturbing trend.

 

Although we are all well aware of the epidemic of obesity, most of us do not appreciate its extent and its impact in both human and economic terms. One striking illustration of this is evident when you look at the progression of obesity by state. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in 1990 Colorado was among the thinnest states in the United States, with an obesity rate of <10%. Back then, the fattest states, mainly those in the South, had obesity rates between 10% and 14%. Today, Colorado is the thinnest state in the United States, with an obesity rate between 15% and 19%. This rate would have placed it alone as the fattest state in the union back in 1990. All other states today have obesity rates of ≥20%, and many have obesity rates of> 30%.

Only a few generations ago, obese individuals were few and far between, and their weight problems were primarily attributable to slow metabolisms. Today the cause is rarely from slow metabolism problem; rather, it is attributable to our computer-TV-video game–centric, sedentary, fast-food lifestyle, which has rapidly evolved over the past 30 years. When obesity is caused by our modern lifestyle, fat is stored primarily in the belly, leading to the apple shape, rather than primarily under the skin in the thighs, buttocks, and elsewhere, which results in the pear shape. Importantly, the insulin-resistance, apple pattern of obesity is associated with wide-ranging health risks, not the least of which is heart disease.

 

Today, in adults between 35 and 45 years of age, there is evidence that the rate of heart attacks and the amount of coronary artery atherosclerosis is on the increase. Why? Because this generation is really the first to be raised on fast food, video games, TV, and computers. It's a generation that's been eating poorly and spending too much time sitting since childhood, and these same men and women are sleep-deprived as well. We can now conclude that today our toxic lifestyle is trumping our advances in medical science.

 

Just 30 years ago, before the beginning of our epidemic of obesity, Americans had access to plenty of calories, yet most of us were not walking around fat. Today, we are walking around far fatter and hungrier than in the past. What has changed? The answer is too much fast, processed food, too little exercise, and too little sleep.

Highly processed food is absorbed too quickly into our blood streams, inducing abnormal insulin responses that in turn lead to exaggerated swings in blood sugar. This has us walking around hungry, consuming excess calories to combat that hunger, and storing the excess energy in our bellies as fat. According to official medical publications, that belly fat is linked with inflammatory factors that are associated not only with heart disease but also with many forms of cancer, arthritis, dementia, macular degeneration, and other chronic diseases.

Additionally, we now know that lack of sleep promotes weight gain because it affects the production hormones that help regulate your hunger levels and your metabolism.

There's no question that the digital revolution has Americans expending much less energy at work and often during recreation as well. Little or no exercise means fatter and sicker Americans. In fact, statistics show that approximately 65% of the population routinely sits instead of stands, drives instead of walks, and rides the elevator instead of taking the stairs, which puts those Americans at an increased risk for the same chronic diseases just mentioned.

 

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Enough bad news, now let’s see some hope. Compared with recent decades that were characterized by great confusion regarding what constitutes healthy eating, today the principles of a healthy diet are largely settled: Consume a variety of healthy carbohydrates, healthy fats, and lean sources of protein and get plenty of fiber (which is easy to do when you're choosing the right carbohydrates). Experts now agree that we must evaluate the quality of the carbs, fats, and proteins we eat, not just the quantity. We must also provide our bodies with quality absorbable plant-derived supplements in order to make up for what we cannot get from our foods now days. It is a well known fact that the nutrient availability of our soil has been deleted over time due to the industrialization of our farms. Our bodies still require 90 essential nutrients to avoid nutrient deficiency deceases, and the best way to painlessly ensure that is through proper nutritional supplementation.

The best strategy for sustaining an ideal weight and good overall health is to apply the principles of optimal nutrition as mentioned above. Too often, dieting in our culture has been thought of primarily from the calorie-cutting perspective.

Can you lose weight just counting calories without understanding the principles of good nutrition? Over the short term, the answer is yes. You can even lose weight on junk food if you eat very little of it. There's no question that on any calorie-restricted diet you will lose weight, but you are unlikely to sustain the weight loss, and even if you do, eating primarily nutrient-poor food, even in limited amounts, will certainly not lead to good health. Calories count, but counting calories alone is an unhealthy and an invariably unsuccessful approach to weight loss. By choosing a healthy variety of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, while getting proper nutrient supplementation, enough exercise and proper sleep, your body will usually find its optimal weight. So when you think about food and diet, think nutrition, not just calories.

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The Medical Miracle of Plant Derived Minerals: What you don’t know can KILL!!

Contains excerpts from Dr. Joel D. Wallach, B.S., D.V.M., N.D.
author of "Dead Doctors Don't Lie"

By: Youngevity Ranger

The Medical Miracle of Plant Derived Minerals: What you don’t know can KILL!!

Two thirds of our essential nutrients, 60 out of 90, are minerals. Everybody knows everything there is to know about vitamins; therefore, we are talking about minerals today.  There are 3 types of minerals that you have to concern yourself with which we will focus on.

First are metallic minerals. These are things like oyster shell, egg shell, limestone, coral calcium, sea bed minerals, clays of various types, (Tums is a popular one with doctors) lactates, gluconates, citrates, oxides, sulfates, carbonates. These are essentially ground up rocks. Animals and human beings are only able to get 8 to 12% of these minerals. We are not designed to eat ground up rocks as a source of minerals. Have you ever wondered why people suddenly fall apart when they hit the big 50.  Their back goes, their teeth get loose, whatever hair left is gray, no interest in sex and so on.  That’s because your ability to absorb these elemental minerals drop precipitously to 3 - 5%.  People dread turning 50 for that reason.

Now a lot of patients say, “Look, Doc, I have been taking 2000mg calcium everyday for 20 years, cause I knew it was good for me, yet I still have hypertension, insomnia, loose teeth, receding gums, low back problems, bone spurs, kidney stones, arthritis, osteoporosis, all the stuff you say I shouldn’t have.  I’ve been taking 2000mg calcium everyday”. I said “Well what kind do you take?” He said “I take calcium gluconate, calcium citrate, calcium lactate, oyster shell, eggshell, I take things like Tums.” I said “Well, there’s your problem. If you take 1000mg calcium lactate, for example, you’re not getting 1000mg of calcium, because 86%, 860mg is lactose, or milk sugar.  Only 14%, or 140mg is metallic or elemental calcium, and let’s use 10% for usability factors, a fair number, plus its easy math, 10% of 140mg is 14.  So if you take 2 of those calcium lactate tablets, each 1000mg, you’re not getting 2,000mg of calcium, you’re getting 2 times 14, or 28 mg. To get 2000mg of calcium from these 1000mg calcium lactate tablets, you would have to take 30 of those with each meal.  Almost a full 100 tablet bottle of these calcium lactate tablets a day. At $5 a bottle, of course, for the cheapest one, you’re looking at $150 per month just for calcium! You’ve 59 more minerals to go, 16 vitamins, 12 essential amino acids, 3 essential fatty acids, so this is not an economical way to get your nutrients as elemental minerals. Also, if you took in 90 tablets of anything a day, you’re going to develop what we call B&F disease. B&F disease stands for belching and farting. You’re going to sound like an elephant out in the woods with a horrible gastro-intestinal problem.

Now during the 60’s the animal industry came up with what we call chelated minerals. That’s because farmers are not dumb enough to put a dollar in an animal’s mouth and have $.99 come out in the manure.  We learned that by adding amino acids, proteins or enzymes to the elemental mineral, it increases absorbability tenfold, from 3-5% to 40%, and everybody got excited about chelated minerals during the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. If you look at the good multi-vitamin-mineral tablets today, you will see a mixture of elemental and chelated minerals.

Fact is, the way that animals and people are designed to consume and absorb minerals is in the plant-derived colloidal mineral form. We are not designed to eat ground up rocks. Nobody can show you where humans or animals are designed to eat ground up rocks. We’re designed to get our minerals by eating plants, grains, vegetables, fruits and nuts, and as a result, plant-derived colloidal minerals are 98% absorbable. They are two and a half times more absorbable than chelated, ten times or more absorbable than the elemental or metallic minerals.

Plant-derived colloidal minerals are liquid. They are a very small particle size, 7,000 times smaller than red blood cells. This is the way they are stored in your cells and are moved around in plant vascular systems and human vascular systems, in the liquid plant-derived colloidal form. They are negatively charged. I don’t know all of the physics and the chemistry; however, it is one of the basic features of a colloidal mineral, it is negatively charged.

These three factors together give you the 98% absorbability. Ideally, our  plants, grains, vegetables, fruits and nuts take the elemental or metallic minerals out of the soil, convert them to colloidal minerals for their own use, for their own metabolism and bio-chemistry, and then animals and people eat these plants that are enriched with minerals. That is how we are designed to get our minerals. Unfortunately, we have several problems here.

Number one; U.S. Senate Document #264 in 1936 says there are very little nutritional minerals left in our farm and rain soil. For over 100 years we have used a simple fertilizer known as NPK.  We add three nutrients into the soil when we really need 60 minerals. We put those three nutrients into the soil for maximum yields per ton and bushel per acre. Now then, we have to understand that plants cannot manufacture minerals. If they’re not in the soil, they’re not in the plant. Plants only have minerals in them if they’re in the soil. Plants cannot manufacture minerals.

Fact, minerals do not occur in a uniform blanket around the crust of the earth, minerals occur in veins, kind of like chocolate ripple ice cream. Also, I guess perhaps the biggest thing that has made America the most mineral deficient country in the world, is that whenever somebody would find a nifty little article in a newspaper or magazine on a mineral or vitamin, they would take it to the doctor and the doctor would poo-poo it and say “You don’t want to spend money on vitamins and minerals. You can get everything you need from your four food groups.” For fifty years physicians have been taking away the interest from the general public by making them feel foolish. “You can get everything you need from your four food groups! Why would you waste your money on those quacks? If you need a heart transplant for $850,000, I’ll do it. Why take a mineral to prevent it?”

Well, the last question you have to ask yourself is, what about those cultures that are written up the National Geographic, January, 1973. Those 10 cultures that live to be 120, 140? Are they all genetically related? And the answer is, no. They included certain tribes of Tibetans from the Himalayan Mountains, the Hunzas from Eastern Pakistan and the Karakoram Mountains, the Russian Georgians, Azerbaijani, Turkestanians and Armenians from the Caucasus Mountains in Western Russia. The Vilcabamba Indians from the Andes of Ecuador, my favorites, I just love the name, the Titicacas, and they’ve apparently picked places accidentally, certainly they weren’t knowledgeable of this, just out of a throw of the dice, they picked places that had 60 to 72 minerals in the parent rock of the mountains they chose to live in.

There’s dozens and dozens of cultures who live at the same elevation in mountains, but they only had 3 or 5 or 10 or 12 minerals in the parent rocks, and so they only lived to be 75.5 like us. That’s the number one thing, 60-72 minerals in the parent rocks they live in. Secondly, they all picked places that had less than 2 inches precipitation a year. No snow, no rain to speak of, and as a result they had to pick places that were in easy reach of permanent water, they all picked places within 50 miles of glaciers, and they built aqueducts to carry water to the valleys they lived in. Now water that comes out from underneath glaciers is not clear like Perrier or Evian water, the water that comes out from under glaciers is cloudy. It has lots of minerals in it known as “glacial milk” because it looks like milk. It’s either white, or grayish white, or grayish blue because it has a lot of minerals suspended in it. As these glaciers move up and down the mountains during the various parts of the seasons, they grind up literally tens of thousands of tons of these rocks and the rock dust or rock flour comes out in this glacial milk. Now you boil away a quart of glacial milk you get two inches of minerals in that quart jug. If you boil away a quart of Perrier water, at 20 bucks a gallon, you are going to get as much minerals as you get on the head of a pin; a huge disparity. There can be nobody more disappointed than the baby boomers when they hit 50, 60, 70 years of age and they get all this arthritis and say “Well, I don’t know how that happened, I’ve been drinking Perrier my whole life.” And so they are going to be disappointed.

Now not only do these cultures drink this water, this glacial milk, and get 8-12% and then 3-5% when they’re 40-50 years of age, cause it’s nothing more than ground up rock, metallic minerals. More importantly, in drinking the glacial milk, week after week, month after month, year after year, generation after generation for 2500 to 5000 years, depending on the culture, they irrigated with this glacial milk. And they returned literally tens of thousands of tons of these minerals, this rock dust, this rock flour, back into the soil. Their grains, fruits, vegetables and nuts took this elemental mineral out of the soil, converted to colloidal minerals and the food that they eat are rich with these colloidal minerals. All we put in is NPK, NPK, NPK.   As a result, they don’t get heart disease, diabetes, cancer, arthritis, osteoporosis, cataracts, and Alzheimer’s Disease. They don’t have birth defects, they don’t have jails full of violent criminals and drug addicts, they don’t have hospitals, they don’t have health insurance. My God, how could you live there? They don’t have health insurance! But they live healthily to be 120 or more because they have the raw materials to maintain and repair their body.


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We Are All Deficient in Essential Vitamins and Minerals; And Its Killing Us!

The story of our mineral deficient soil and how it effects our food supply based on an article from the Journal of the American College of Nutrition 

 

 

Bottom line up front: Because of soil depletion, crops grown decades ago were much richer in vitamins and minerals than the varieties most of us get today

It would be overkill to say that the carrot you eat today has very little nutrition in it—especially compared to some of the other less healthy foods you likely also eat—but it is true that fruits and vegetables grown decades ago were much richer in vitamins and minerals than the varieties most of us get today. The main culprit in this disturbing nutritional trend is soil depletion: Modern intensive agricultural methods have stripped increasing amounts of nutrients from the soil in which the food we eat grows. Sadly, each successive generation of fast-growing, pest-resistant carrot is truly less good for you than the one before.

A landmark study on the topic by Donald Davis and his team of researchers from the University of Texas (UT) at Austin’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry was published in December 2004 in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition. They studied U.S. Department of Agriculture nutritional data from both 1950 and 1999 for 43 different vegetables and fruits, finding “reliable declines” in the amount of protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, riboflavin (vitamin B2) and vitamin C over the past half century. Davis and his colleagues chalk up this declining nutritional content to the preponderance of agricultural practices designed to improve traits (size, growth rate, pest resistance) other than nutrition.

“Efforts to breed new varieties of crops that provide greater yield, pest resistance and climate adaptability have allowed crops to grow bigger and more rapidly,” reported Davis, “but their ability to manufacture or uptake nutrients has not kept pace with their rapid growth.” There have likely been declines in other nutrients, too, he said, such as magnesium, zinc and vitamins B-6 and E, but they were not studied in 1950 and more research is needed to find out how much less we are getting of these key vitamins and minerals.

The Organic Consumers Association cites several other studies with similar findings: A Kushi Institute analysis of nutrient data from 1975 to 1997 found that average calcium levels in 12 fresh vegetables dropped 27 percent; iron levels 37 percent; vitamin A levels 21 percent, and vitamin C levels 30 percent. A similar study of British nutrient data from 1930 to 1980, published in the British Food Journal,found that in 20 vegetables the average calcium content had declined 19 percent; iron 22 percent; and potassium 14 percent. Yet another study concluded that one would have to eat eight oranges today to derive the same amount of Vitamin A as our grandparents would have gotten from one.

 
What's happening to us as a result:

Cancer, type II diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, arthritis and many other common ailments are scientifically proven nutritional deficiency deceases that we don’t have to have!! They can all be prevented or reversed via methods that don’t require M.D’s or toxic pharmaceutical drugs. I'm talking about proper Nutritional intake daily combined with physical activity and regular sunshine.

For Optimal Health We Need, 60 Minerals, 16 Vitamins, 12 Amino Acids, 3 Essential Fatty Acids (Omega 3 & 6 are essential).  The lack of any these essential nutrients weakens the body's ability to rebuild itself and increases the potential for 900 Nutritional Deficiency Diseases. Every aliment discussed can be addressed with the use of Youngevities 90 For Life Products. Dr. Wallach, author "Dead Doctors Don't Lie" and veterinarian turned doctor has masterfully created the right formula of the essential minerals, vitamins, and omegas each human and each animal needs to prevent, heal, and be cured. It's time to change your life by taking control of your health.

Chances are, you're malnourished! It's disturbing, but true! When you combine today's fast-paced lifestyle with a diet of mass produced, under ripe and overcooked food, you have a recipe for disaster. The bottom line is that most people are not getting the 90 essential nutrients that they need to survive, much less thrive. Malnourishment can lead to or aggravate many of the health concerns that plague millions.

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