The supplement comes from New Zealand and the omega 3 oils come from green-lipped mussels. One gelcap of Moxxor is equal to 248 capsules of salmon oil. It has high concentrations of Omega 3 oils and it is extracted carefully to get the full benefits into the product. It also includes, in one very small gelcap, a powerful antioxidant made from grapes grown in pristine New Zealand.

There is much more to this, including an opportunity to become a distributor. This is a brand new product (with more in the pipeline) and this is an opportunity to get in early with a great product, no fillers at all, and a chance to have a safety net for you and your family. If you are interested in this, please contact me through the website, or if you want to go for it, you can click the Enroll Now link on the website.

The website (mymoxxor.com/realhealth) is also the place to go to place an order. Give it a try, I think you’ll like it. It’s done great things for my bad knees and ankles and I’ve only been using it about 3 weeks.

Barbara

Of course, you want these stresses to be good ones. Stress from weightlifting, rebuilds your muscles stronger and fitter. Stress from cardio workouts, makes your cardio-vascular system work better and more efficiently. Bad stress from work or worry, wears down your body.

So get out, exercise, walk, run, bike, lift weights, whatever. Get moving and your body will thank you for it!

Barbara

This year has been a good one. I personally have continued learning more and more about how to lose bodyfat, how to get fit, and what to eat for health. The mainstream press is reporting more and more about health issues, particularly the obesity epidemic and its causes.

For 2007, resolve this:

No trans fats, hydrogenated anything, no MSG or autolyzed or hydrolyzed protein of any sort. No aspartame, or splenda or any other chemical sweetener.

Eat more vegetables, especially broccoli and kale and tomatoes. Make fresh food from local, organic ingredients. Eat smaller, more frequent meals, with high quality, low fat protein at each meal. Skinless chicken breast, salmon, tuna, turkey breast, beef bottom roast, and egg whites should be a mainstay in your house.

My personal new favorite is an oldie. Fat free cottage cheese, mixed with peaches in juice. Perfection!

Workout at least 3-4 times a week, preferably more. Make it a priority in your life. This year I have worked out an average of 4 times a week. Next year I am shooting for 5 times a week. Lift weights to build muscle, which burns more calories. Do high intensity cardio for shorter workouts and greater effect on calorie burning for the rest of the day.

You can do it. I have been and will continue to do so. Eat healthy and clean 90% of the time and you will lose weight, exercise and make sure that the weight you lose is body fat and not precious muscle.

Have a great 2007!

Barbara

First is peanut butter. I did a little research online. The two biggest sellers in peanut butter are Skippy and Jif. Surprisingly, you can’t get any ingredients list from the Skippy web site. They do offer a natural version (Skippy Natural Creamy). It advertises that you don’t have to stir it. It does this by adding palm oil to the peanut butter. Palm oil is a source of added fat and unnecesary saturated fats. All so you don’t have to stir it. The actual ingredients list is peanuts, sugar, palm oil and salt.

Jif does have listings of ingredients on it’s website. The standard Jif Creamy has:

MADE FROM ROASTED PEANUTS AND SUGAR. CONTAINS 2 PERCENT OR LESS OF: MOLASSES, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OIL (SOYBEAN), FULLY HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OILS (RAPESEED AND SOYBEAN), MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES AND SALT.

I have a jar of Trader Joe’s Natural Creamy Peanut Butter. Ingredients: Roasted peanuts. This is the unsalted version.

You should always buy natural peanut butter for your kids. Yes, you need to stir it, because oils collect on the top. But, my experience has been that you need to stir it throughly once. After it’s open, store natural peanut butter in the refrigerator, and I’ve never had to stir it again. You get the real peanut taste. Peanut butters like Jif and Skippy taste like sugar with a little peanut taste.

Natural peanut butter is good for you. There is nothing added and the fats in peanut butter are healthy ones. Of course, you need to not overeat nuts of any sort. But you don’t need sugar, molasses, and added oils in your peanut butter. The fact that the oils added are partially and fully hydrogenated means that they have trans fats and are very bad for your health, particularly heart health.

So, one easy way to make your child’s diet healthier, is to buy peanut butter with one ingredient (roasted peanuts) or maybe two (if you like salted peanut butter). Skip the Skippy and the Jif. Read the labels and see what it is you are buying.

Barbara

Exercise is a very important part of losing bodyfat and getting fit. You need weight training to build muscle, which increases your metabolism, which helps you burn fat easier. You need cardio to develop your cardiovascular endurance and to help your body burn calories throughout the day.

Find something you like and do it!

Barbara

It talks about changes in several Florida schools to try to make the school lunch program healthier. There are struggles with prices, government foodstuffs, and just getting the kids to eat new things. It’s rather long, but worthwhile reading.

When it comes to diet, whether for children or adults, the basics apply: lean protein, vegetables and fruits, whole grains. No junk food, sugar, white flour, soda, or high fat anything. With the obesity problem we have, in both children and adults, we can’t afford to do anything else but keep trying to change people’s diets.

Barbara

What gets me is this paragraph, where she talks about what she did to prepare for the surgery.

“I stopped eating fast food and drinking soda pop and made an appointment with a surgeon. I joined the Y and stuffed myself into the world’s ugliest bathing suit — a backless, braless “swim dress” with matching underpants — so I could do water aerobics and swim laps. My Russian surgeon required me to keep a journal of everything I ate, to eat six times a day and to take vitamins. I learned that after surgery I would need to do these things for the rest of my life. I developed a taste for protein bars and grilled chicken.”

Now, if she had just kept doing that, and avoided surgery, she could have lost weight. That is everything you need to do!! Exercise, even a little. Don’t eat junk food, fast food and sugary soda. Eat healthy lean protein like grilled chicken breast. Eat frequent small meals to keep your metabolism working.

If she had just kept doing all that, every day, she would be losing weight. I admit, it wouldn’t be that fast. But at least it would be a healthy way to do it, no dangerous surgery. But it would take longer. And God forbid, we here in America have no patience, we want a cure RIGHT NOW! Much like small children, we want all the bad things in our lives to go away, without us having to work at it.

I personally know four people who have had this surgery. One is doing fine. Two others have constant problems with what they can eat, getting nauseated and sick a lot. The fourth, spent weeks in the hospital afterwards due to complications and she is home now, needing a nurse to help her. Gastric bypass is a bad choice. For more eye-opening articles about the dangers of gastric bypass, check out Newstarget.com.

Barbara

The book is called Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle (BFFM for short). Now, I’ve been reading diet and nutrition and exercise books for a very long time. This is the first one that made perfect sense.

I have been using the guidelines in the book for two weeks and already I’m impressed. I’ve lost some weight and more importantly, I’ve lost bodyfat. I’m not hungry and I have a strange problem. I actually can’t eat all the food that I should! Now that is a nice problem to have!

Now you’re saying to yourself, sure, but two weeks isn’t much time. What about long term results? Go to the author’s site, burnthefat.com, and read the testimonials. I spent about 20 minutes reading them and still hadn’t reached the end. Those alone should convince you to buy the book.

You get a lot of value. There are 341 pages, a lot of reading. And you will probably have to re-read it a couple of times as your weight loss continues.

The author, Tom Venuto, is a bodybuilder. Don’t let that turn you off. He knows his stuff, and he’s done it. He explains in layman’s terms about calories, carbohydrates, proteins and the best way to eat. He lays out how to figure out how many calories you use up on a daily basis, and how many you need to eat to burn fat. He rightly points out that weight loss is not as important as fat loss.

Most diets reduce your calories to starvation level. Your body responds by slowing your metabolism and taking protein from your muscles. Muscles burn a lot of calories, so the combination of slowed metabolism and less muscle mass, leads to even more trouble losing the fat. This way of eating increases your metabolism and lets you keep the muscles you have.

This book, Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle, really does work. You owe it to yourself to go take a look. I promise you, you won’t be disappointed.

Barbara

There are two types of diabetes, they are technically called Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. Type 1 is genetic, the pancreas doesn’t work right and doesn’t produce enough (or any) insulin. This type of diabetic usually must use insulin their whole life to make up for what their body does not produce. This is also called juvenile diabetes, since of course it was something diagnosed in young people.

Type 2 has also been called adult-onset diabetes. It usually showed up in your 50s-60s. Whether for natural reasons or due to diets high in sugar and other useless carbs, a person’s pancreas would produce less and less insulin naturally. This (usually) milder form of diabetes can be treated with insulin and milder cases with other prescription drugs.

This Type 2 diabetes will need to have the name changed, because more and more children are getting it. How horrific is this?

Children are getting fed by their parents so badly that not only are they overweight and obese, but they abuse their pancreas so much that it has reached a level of damage as badly damaged by their teens as the level it took some adults 50-60 years to reach.

Do we really need any more evidence that we need to change our diet drastically if we want a healthy future? More to come.

Barbara

It covers how to get healthy, in detail. It covers many subjects from colon health to avoiding cancer to what supplements you need to take daily and even at every meal. He writes very well, clear and understandable avoiding technical and medical terms.

For example, I’ve read in several places that drinking colas leeches calcium from your bones, causing brittle bones. Jon explains exactly how that works, but in an easily understandable fashion.

I’ve changed my schedule, diet and supplementation since I read this book and I’m already seeing results. I’ve actually written up a schedule using Jon’s ideas and combining it with information from Dr Elson Haas’ book, A Cookbook for All Seasons: A Healthy Eating Plan for Life. I’ll be posting about that book soon.

So, what are you waiting for? If you want to find out how to improve your health, go download this book!

Barbara