| Dear Friend, (No, I’m not
trying to sell you a diet pill!)
In this Newsletter I very much hope I can help you
understand how much of a REAL choice we have to truly BE and
STAY healthy, flexible, and high spirited with lots of energy
all our lives. What this means though is, if you’re
overweight, I must convince you how obesity and being
overweight works against this goal…yes, this more than almost
anything else.
This is a message about nutrition…nutrition that can
mold and keep your body and cells in the best condition …at
their highest level… so that whatever you do to lose weight
will work at it’s best for you …and, more so,…. will help you
KEEP weight OFF if you have already reached your goal.
I
have lived by these nutritional rules all my life. I have also
seen people completely change their life by changing their
nutritional habits. Come join in what I believe to be the best
thing you can do to go on to living the long life of good
health you have always known you should be able to enjoy.
(This is a must
read. It is not “my” information;
rather
it comes from documented scientific
research.)
Obesity Linked to More
Cancers
We all know that there is an
epidemic of obesity in the
United States
. Documented scientific research has
proved that it shortens life span, prevents us from looking
our best, lowers our self-esteem and frequently denies
satisfying day-to-day living. There is another problem
caused by being overweight, that many of us do not realize or
think about.
Cancer!
Many people don’t understand that
being overweight increases their risk of dying from
cancer. As many as 90,000 cancer deaths in the
U.S.
each year are related to obesity and
could be prevented. Moreover, these cancer deaths were
not confined to malignancies with previously known links to
excess body weight, such as breast and colorectal
cancers. Many cancers, not previously associated with
obesity, have been identified as being caused by overweight,
including stomach cancer and prostate cancer in men, cancers
of the cervix, ovary, liver, pancreas, and multiple myeloma
and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
In a report published in The New
England Journal of Medicine, 57,145 cancer deaths among a
group of 900,000 people followed for 16 years were
studied. None of the participants had cancer when they
enrolled in the study. It was found that 20% of all
cancer deaths among women and 14% of all cancer deaths in men
were associated with being overweight or obese. For
almost all cancers, the risk of death increased in direct
proportion to body mass. Among women, the heaviest of
them in the study were 62% more likely to die of cancer than
women of normal weight.
An important thing to remember, and
worth repeating, is that the 90,000 cancer deaths a year in
the U.S. related to excess body weight could be
prevented if people maintained a normal body weight
throughout their lifetime. Thus, it is now clear that
after cigarette smoking, obesity is the second quantitatively
most important cause of cancer. Can there be any more
important reason to keep your weight under control?
Photo: BBC News |
Obesity is at epidemic proportions in America
(BBC News).
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Something is very wrong
with the way Americans try to control their weight. They
tend to overeat, pick a popular diet to
lose the weight, then overeat and diet again. It goes in
cycles.
Let’s change that ---read on.
Which diet-of-the-month are you
currently counting on to bring your weight into line with your
goals: Atkins -- South Beach -- Beverly Hills --
Pritikin -- Cabbage Soup -- Revival Soy --
Grapefruit – Scarsdale – Subway -- Other? There is no lack of
choices.
Whether you choose one of these
formal diets, or pop a pill, or if no prescribed format is
your preference, you will lose weight only if you expend more
calories than you ingest. There’s no other way. You can
do this by decreasing the amount of food you eat (fewer
calories taken in) or by increasing the amount of exercise you
perform (more calories burned), or, preferably, both,
regardless of the particular diet you use to help you. I
believe the exercise portion of any diet program is as
important as the diet itself (walking counts). I also
believe you must be careful to maintain the proper level of
nutrition in order to nurture your cells and maintain your
energy level, not only while dieting, but also as an assist in
keeping your weight down. That’s were I come
in.
But before we get to that, once you
have reached your weight goal, you need to maintain that level
by taking in only as many calories as you’re burning on a
daily basis. So your program doesn’t really end just
because your weight is normal. It’s an ongoing thing, as is
maintaining a good nutritional intake. So many people forget
this, slip back into their former routine and watch their
weight skyrocket after all that work and effort getting it
down.
I consistently weigh 119 Lbs, ± a
pound or two, have maintained that weight all of my adult life
and, even at age 69, I’m energetic and flexible. I have
never been on a “formal” diet and I eat everything I have a
taste for, just not a lot of it, and, if I feel my favorite
pair of jeans getting a bit tight, I reduce the intake a
little and rev up the treadmill a bit faster, until my jeans
again fit the way I want them to. This means that my eating
habits—and, if you’re on a weight loss or weight maintenance
program of any kind, yours, too—require a close watch on daily
nutrition.
I get many of my nutritional needs
from the supplements I take every day. For me, there are
three of them that I swear by:
1)
 Oleda® Veggies & Fruit
Concentrate Powder or Capsules
(I take the powder in my orange juice, but the capsules are
just as good). This supplement gives me the vitamins and
minerals found in heaping portions of ten vegetables and two
fruits. It alkalizes my body. It’s as if I was
eating more than my full requirement of these vital foods
every day.
2)
 Oleda® AGE ENHANCER Vitamin, containing 54 highly concentrated pure,
powerful - all natural nutrients scientifically engineered to
fight the aging process and build energy
3)
 Oleda® Aloe
Vera Capsules. This Aloe adds to my zest, health, energy and helps
rebuild cells for a longer, healthier life span.
The nutrition from these vitamins,
minerals, and trace minerals keeps my cells in tune, which in
turn helps me maintain my weight. Weight management is a
balance of proper nutrition to maintain the acid/alkaline
ratios to allow your body to release the stores of fat.
Alkalizing your body prepares it for weight loss and weight
maintenance. A body in a high acid state will hold onto
the stores of fat making it difficult to lose weight. So
dieting is not merely eating less to lose weight; it is a
combination of good nutrition, exercise, and perhaps even some
lifestyle changes to avoid the pitfalls of dieting
cycles. This is what I truly believe in and it is why I
offer these products in my company.
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