Chuck's Health & Wellness Blubber Bustin' Blog

DHEA - My friends results

2005-03-15T13:34:00.000-08:00

Of course my friends results are meaningless... after all she could have just decided to start eating sawdust 3 times a day and assumed the benefits were from DHEA.

And, of course, go to YOUR DOCTOR and see what he/she says.

But my friend went to HER doctor who takes DHEA and HE told her to start taking some herself at the rate of 50 mg. twice per day.

She lost 30 lbs. likety split.

I was so encouraged, I went and made an appointment to talk to this doctor myself!

Wow! A doctor who actually believes in the body's ability to help itself!

Cool!

I'll let you know if it helps me any.

Chuck

Weight Loss - By eVitamins

2005-03-15T13:31:00.000-08:00

More Americans than ever are losing their battles with weight loss as the number of obese men and women in America has double in the past 30 years. Nearly 60% of Americans are overweight or obese today. If you are struggling to keep your stomach from overlapping your belt then here are a few pointers for you. Listening to all the weight loss methods and messages out there can confuse you and make you forget about the very important basics to keeping your weight down.

Causes For Weight Gain

It is very easy this day and age to fall into alot of habbits that can contribute to your dreaded weight gain. Below are few of many reasons why so many Americans are becoming overweight:

Consuming 300 more calories per day then 20 years ago.

We are eating out alot more than normal.

Eating larger sized portions of their meals.

Think that low fat foods are good and can eat as much as they want.

And the big reason, not enough excerise.

Many people that try to keep their weight down do so by only eating low fat foods. However, many low fat foods have more calories than the normal food. Be sure to read the labels on foods, although fat matters calories count.

Weight Gain Prevention

Physical activity is a factor too, about a third of Americans do not get enough physical excercise. Instead we spend most of our time sitting at our computers, watching TV, driving instead of walking, taking the elevator instead of the stairs, or taking any other kind of short cut that allow us to work less. It is recommended that you get 30 minutes of moderate exercise per day such as a brisk walk or a bike ride.

By sticking with the above basics weight loss and maintenance can be achieved by adding a few simple minor changes to your lifestyle. There are no quick fixes or magic methods. Losing weight and keeping the pounds off does not come easy for many people. The idea of eating less and moving more should be the common approach.

Recommended Weight Loss Products

If you are looking to lose weight with the help of weight loss products then here are a few that we recommend. Keep in mind that there is no magic pill and everything does not work for everyone.

Anorex - Leptoprin

Anorex is ideal for you if you are looking to lose a minimum of 30 pounds. We recommend this product only for the significantly overweight individuals that find that weight loss does not come easy for them. You can order Anorex online at eVitamins.

TrimSpa

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BioSculpt

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A Startling Fact About Losing Dangerous Belly Fat-- Without Exercise By David Kern

2005-03-14T06:20:00.000-08:00

The story broke in the international press on October 4th, 2004. Scientists in Japan announced that laboratory rats lost large amounts of organ fat, and increased muscle strength, when a portion of their diet was replaced by a new fruit extract.

Could this new discovery be "Exercise in a Pill?"

These unexpected results left the researchers puzzled. No drug or food had ever shown the ability to target and dramatically decrease dangerous organ fat, also known as visceral, or "belly" fat. In fact, only one thing is proven to reduce it... exercise.

The New American Epidemic- Obesity.

And the unsightly bulge of stubborn belly fat isn't the only problem. Controlling this fat is important, say researchers at Duke University Medical Center, because increased levels have been associated with diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and the alarming rise in obesity rates in the United States, where presently two out of three adults are overweight or obese. Visceral fat is located around the organs inside the belly and is deeper in the body than ordinary fat, and much harder to get rid of.

In the Japanese study, conducted at the Nippon Sport Science University graduate school, lab rats were fed a chemical extract from apples as 5% of their diet. The animals lost an average of 27% of organ fat in only 3 weeks. Even more baffling to researchers was a 16% increase in muscle strength observed in the test animals.

Proven Health Results from Apple Chemicals

Chemical extracts from apples have been extensively studied for years for their health benefits in cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and other chronic diseases. Recently, apple extracts have been shown to protect the brain against nerve damage associated with Alzheimer's Disease. But this is the first evidence that these phytochemicals- termed apple polyphenols- have been shown to reduce belly fat deposits.

The Japanese researchers have now turned their attention to confirming these results in human subjects, and one Japanese company announced plans to market health drinks containing the extract in the U.S. later this year.

Too Early to Tell?

Although it will likely be some time before human weight loss trials are reported, some consumers aren't willing to wait. Since November, a small group of people in the U.S. have had access to these apple chemicals in pill form. You can track their intriguing results, which are now being reported on our web site, where you can also follow the latest news and research about apple polyphenols.

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David L. Kern is a health researcher and publisher of New Health & Longevity, a newsletter devoted to the latest advances in nutritional science. Get more info on this new health discovery now at http://www.applepoly.com/bellyfat/. You can find a link there for current medical studies and breaking news on apple phytochemicals.

Look out! How Antibiotics Might Be Making You Chubby! by Kelley Eidem

2005-03-09T07:31:00.000-08:00

Does this situation sound familiar to you? 'Mary,' a customer in the health food store where I work, had a dilemma. Mary was a little chubby.

But she craved starches and sweets. She had tried to lose weight before, but you know how that story goes – she was losing the battle.

I asked her if she had ever taken antibiotics. Of course the answer was yes, because frankly, who hasn’t? I told her struggles weren’t her fault. I told Mary that her cravings might be coming from excess yeast in her body.

That’s why I suggested to her that she get a bottle of caprylic acid, which she did. In a little bit I’ll tell you why I recommended caprylic acid – an inexpensive fatty acid.

But first, here’s the climax to our little story. Mary came back three weeks later and spent about 10 or 15 minutes thanking us profusely. Her cravings for sweets and starches had evaporated.

When she went to the grocery store, the bad foods that had previously magnetized her taste buds and 'forced' her to put the fattening foods into her mouth no longer had any attraction to her!

She said that when she was at work, she did buy a Coke out of habit. But when she took two sips, she decided she didn't want it! This was NEW behavior for her!

No one counseled her. I hadn’t given her a pep talk. And she didn't have to listen to a motivational tape.

She simply lost her cravings for sweets and starches!

How is it possible to lose weight and keep it off if we crave the stuff that pads our tummy, hips and thighs? Sure, we can lose weight short term. We might even be able to drop 50 pounds or more.

But our old cravings never really leave. So sooner or later our cravings win out. And we put the pounds right back on.

Here is what I think happens. At some point in our life, we are given an antibiotic (or maybe steroids). Probably we’ve gotten antibiotics several times. Antibiotics kill the all-important friendly bacteria in our digestive tract.

Well, here is a little known secret: yeast and our friendly bacteria compete for the same space in our digestive tracts. So when the good bacteria gets killed by the so-called ‘wonder drugs,’ the yeast spreads, because antibiotics don’t kill yeast.

And then, the yeast sprouts roots that burrow into our intestinal walls. Once that happens, the yeast is not leaving. Well, guess what yeast needs to live – sugar! And guess what our brain needs to live – yup, it’s sugar!

When we have excess yeast, it eats up a lot of the sugar our brain needs. So our brain tells us, “Hey, I’m dying up here! Get me some sugar – now!”

And it walks us to the refrigerator, or to the store if need be, to get our brain some more sugar. (If it weren't for yeast overgrowth, there might not be any convenience stores or Krispy Kremes. LOL)

Of course, we don’t grab a spoon and dig into the sugar bowl. No, we eat something with lots of extra calories to get the sugar our brain needs.

It’s all really quite simple, if you think about it. Still, psychologically we might not want to believe it. Don’t we practically beg the doctor for antibiotics?

But who knew? No one said antibiotics could make our belly spill over our belts and waist bands.

By the way, antibiotics don't just come from your doctor's prescriptions. Our food probably has small amounts in them since antibiotics are fed to livestock.

Do antibiotics make us fat? How ridiculous is that! No medical journal is saying that. No famous diet guru is saying it either. Which just might make this idea a Huge Health Secret.

But before you dismiss this 'crackpot' theory of mine, remember Mary. Something made her desire for sugar-laden foods to go away. I didn’t hypnotize her.

It was simple – her excess yeast died. The caprylic acid smothered it. I knew it would work because reducing the yeast load had already worked for me.

Depending on where you shop, you can get your hands on some caprylic acid for under $10. An inexpensive herb called “pau d’arco” also kills yeast.

Who knows, maybe because everyone has gotten antibiotics, those drugs might be responsible for more obesity than any other single factor. Maybe more than lack of exercise. (There are 'tons' of people who exercise like crazy but remain fat because they are still hooked on soft drinks, sugar and carbs.)

When our brain cells are close to dying, we eat a cookie - or five cookies - or something else that helps to make us chubby or tubby. Things like chips, and pasta provide us with sugar, too, with the excess being turned into bad fats by our liver, including bad cholesterol.

That's why I suggested to the woman to take caprylic acid. It smothers yeast.

You might want to try it for yourself. Go to a health food store and get a bottle of caprylic acid or some pau d'arco. Get your yeast under control.

And then watch your sweet and starch cravings diminish - or even go away! Let me know your results.

Kelley Eidem is the author of "The Doctor Who Cures Cancer." He also writes a FREE newsletter called "Huge Health Secrets" available at: http://www.itsnotjustforsex.com/Huge_Health_Secrets_Newletter.html

The ORIGINAL Low Carb Diet!

2004-12-09T13:05:00.000-08:00

Before Atkins, before South Beach... there was BANTING.

Read his original low carb diet testimony here!

Nourishing Traditions - A Sneak Attack On The Diet Fascists

2004-12-09T13:02:00.000-08:00

If you're sick of the "politically correct" nutrition crowd telling you that you need to eat tons of bran and avoid meat, butter, and raw milk like the plague so you can lower your cholesterol, sit back and enjoy this devastating critique of the people getting rich off processed food while poisoning you in the process.

And get ready for some good eating... if you like real food with fat in it that is.

2004-08-04T07:15:00.000-07:00

The Dinosaur Diet

The points are getting kind of tedious so I'm looking for a new diet.

Could the Dinosaur Diet defeat my sweet tooth I wonder?

Actually, upon reading the plan, I guess this is more like the "Caveman Diet".

High protein, high fiber, anything a hunter-gatherer could track down and some wooly mastadon chops for dinner. No milkshakes I notice. But lots of meat.

It sounded pretty good until he reminded me that the diet only works if you're being chased by sabre toothed tigers occasionally for exercise.

Oh well, every plan has its downside.

But the saber tooth tiger requirement has me thinking I'll stick with the points a while longer...

2004-07-31T19:36:00.000-07:00

Zone Diet Update - 30 Seconds To Health & A FREE Book!

Well, I achieved a great success. You know I've been trying to count points and count them in such a way that I'm also sort of staying in "The Zone"!

My achievement? I got off two diets at once!

Am I a health superstar or WHAT?

But at least I am taking my supplements!

Maybe that's the way you feel too. It's tough to stay on the old diet, so you really need to make sure your supplements are in order.

I completely understand. That's why I wanted to alert you to a great new offer from Dr. Barry Sears.

For a limited time, you can order Dr. Sears "30 Seconds To Health" system and get a copy of his book THE ANTI AGING ZONE, for Free! It's a $25 value! Wow!

I wish I had time to recount the amazing benefits of Sea Health Plus and Omega RX, but hey, that's why he wrote his books!

If you want a one-two punch that will help you keep your nutrition up when you're not eating as well as you should, visit Zonenet about this special book offer today!

195,000 U.S. deaths blamed on hospital error

2004-07-28T13:07:00.000-07:00

Why Altnerative Health? MSNBC - 195,000 U.S. deaths blamed on hospital error

I take a break from my humor routine to break in with this sobering statistic.

But don't worry, the number is only DOUBLE what they'd projected before, but what's 100,000 deaths among friends?

News like this - plus continued fears about biological warfare and "super germs - will only hasten the interest of the public who will want to know "What the heck is going on with medicine?"

Hopefully some accountability will result... most likely there will be an increasing desire among the public to take charge of their own care and check into alternative medical options promoted by folks like Dr. Barry Sears and Dr. Dana Myatt despite the medical community's efforts to label any alternative medicine as "quackery".

Some prefer quackery to taking their chances at the hospital...

The "E" Word!

2004-07-28T07:20:00.000-07:00

I thought dieting was bad enough. I mean, Twinkie withdrawal is rough.

It's tougher than getting off drugs I hear.

After all that guy out in San Francisco beat a murder wrap with the Twinkie defense... they're mind altering ... their life dominating... well, let's just say I'm working the 12 steps of Twinkies Anonymous.

But just when I thought it couldn't get any worse, my wife came back from the unnameable diet support group and mentioned that "It's week three, it's time to _____________________!"

The "E" word.

Exercise.

Great droplets of salty sweat erupted from my brow at the mere mention of the word.

It's not that I'm against exercise.

I'm really good at it for a few consecutive days as long as I have about 6 months of rest in between bouts of it.

It's just the daily stuff that I can't seem to handle.

I think I heard once that Bruce Lee had some electrical devices that made his muscles contract while he was sitting around doing whatever martial arts experts do when they sit around.

I wonder if some sitting around muscle twitching device would work for me?

If it worked for Bruce Lee, well, it might just work for me...

I can already sort of feel the urge to go "HIYA" and do a karate chop in the air. Maybe that's really all I needed ... the thought of simulated exercise.

I think the unnameable support group expects the purging of my pores to result though. DRAT!

Help Dr. Sears does that 30 second health regimine preclude the need for the "E" word?

Cookbooks and my Sudden Fascination with them...

2004-07-26T14:20:00.000-07:00

Cookbook mania has struck meReally, I've ALWAYS been interested in them, but for some reason I find myself looking at cookbooks!

When I was a kid I read the Pepperidge Farm Cookbook... I loved the bread and other Pepperidge Farm products of course, but I really liked the STORIES of their family living in old New York City when it was, well, "innocent"... anything UNLIKE the New York City that's been around in my lifetime.

Some people think this diet is the cause of my recent fascination for cookbooks and my perusal of Cookbook websites.

It's for the stories folks! NOT my sudden longing for food which used to be my best friend.

Not all food, of course, like asparagus... or brussells sprouts.

But real stick to your ribs (or is that waistline?) food like Little Debbie brownies.

No, I read cookbooks FOR THE ARTICLES!

(I picked up that form of denial from all the guys who tell people they read girly magazines "for the articles"... SURE! Except it's 100% true in my case of course. Really. REALLY!)

OK, I'm going to tell you the truth about my Cook Book Fascination.

I read cookbooks these days to deal with my fear.

Wherever I go...home...work...church... a panther follows me and GROWLS terribly.

Whenever I call animal control, they can't find the growling panther anywhere... ANYWHERE!

Reading cookbooks keeps my mind off the panther.

I never hear the panther when I sleep so Renee tells me that it may just be my stomach growling.

Do you really think so?

Just in case I'll keep reading these cookbook stories.

It really could be a panther you know.

Counting Points is EASY if you give yourself 100 a day...

2004-07-23T13:23:00.000-07:00

Wow! Health In 30 Seconds... Maybe I could handle THAT!

I'm still doin' the points thing.

Really it's easy when you give yourself 100 per day.

Of course for my height and weight, it's supposed to be 34 points per day.

But I found that try to subsist on 34 points per day made me terribly grouchy.

I started looking at the dog and noticing the size of his drumsticks and it dawned on me "Chuck, 34 points a day just isn't enough!"

Don't worry, I realized that way before eating marinated canine chop.

Fido's fine.

And so for sanity's sake I did up my point intake... but not to 100.

My wife suggested it when I asked her if she had a recipe for dog and was it a free food.

Smart gal.

For the record, of all the diets I've investigated, the one by Dr. Barry Sears makes the most sense to me. (See his link above.) It's called the Zone, but I could never manage it too well on my own.

While I call what I'm doing points with - you know who - I find myself allocating my points in a zone like way... and I'm must closer to that 40-30-30 ratio now than before. Weird!

But good weird for now.

It's a Fat Fighting Conspiracy Against Huge Southern Boys!

2004-07-20T18:20:00.000-07:00

I've got a bone to pick with - you know who - the diet folks I can't tell you about.

But they sold Renee some books that let you count points... in theory. "Don't worry!" they said. "With these babies, you can EAT anywhere! Just look up your points!"

Yeah. Sure...

I just came back from Pigeon Forge, TN for a few days of vacation and during our point counting, I uncovered a HUGE Conspiracy directly aimed at the eating habits of Huge Southern Boys like myself.

(I'm actually sort of an adopted southerner because most southerners don't really consider people born in Maryland to be true southerners, but I can't help it that the deep south types have no idea where the Mason-Dixon line actually fell... but because I'm just espousing a conspiracy theory and hoping to make huge wave on the internet, exactitude is NOT required... just ask the folks who said Dr. Atkins died obese after he'd been pumped full of IV's during his coma. I'm at Ph.D. dissertation accuracy here compared to those dudes!)

Here, for the first time on the internet, I reveal that a national weight loss organization is engaged a conspiracy against those with SOUTHERN TASTE BUDS!

All weekend, we dragged out the "points book" geared to franchise eating places where we ate breakfast.

Wherever we went... there was NO POINT VALUE FOR GRITS at the "Name Brand Restaurants"!

So we faithfully DRAGGED out the "generic points book" and looked up GRITS.

We looked under cereals, we looked under bread, we looked under "Kiss My" just in case some Yankee put it THERE because they don't know that GRITS is (or is that are) food! (yes, I'm alleging that this is another YANKEE conspiracy even if I can't remember for the moment how to spell allege/alledge/alledge ... whatever)...

But there there were NO entries under GRITS!

We were kept guessing all weekend.

I consider this omission a cruel and devious form of Yankee mind control designed to take our minds off the fun we were having at the GREATEST TOURIST TRAP IN THE SOUTH and focusing them on that nagging little question...

Just how many points ARE in a serving of grits anyway?

We never found the answer, my friend, but we DID uncover a devious Yankee Diet Conspiracy designed to drive Southerners over the edge at the crucial time (when we're on a diet) to keep us Southern (or at least Maryland) boys chubby!

Repeat after me... It's a conspiracy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Shhh! I can't tell you something!

2004-07-16T21:59:00.000-07:00

Here's the diet I'm using but I don't want the corporate office to know I'm blogging about it!!

As I begin this blog, I'm on a diet sponsored by this really well known, 40 year old outfit.

It's Renee's idea. She was on this diet once for two years straight.

She says it's the one she can stick with.

I wanted to go on some diet based on chocolate chip cookies and Tab,
but maybe her idea is a bit more balanced.

So I don't want to like infringe on their trade marks. So I won't mention them by name. But if I lose a gazillion pounds, maybe they'll hire me as a spokesperson too...

Like the Subway Diet guy.

I sure wish Renee had chosen a diet backed by a franchise with lots of advertising dollars. Oh well, I guess they have plenty of bucks too.

So, here we go. Now I won't mention any names, but we're counting points.

Let's see ...

Thank God! Tomatoes are a FREE FOOD! I can have all I want.

5 minutes later, reality hits me!

Did you know that even though tomoatoes are a free food, that pizza - which is made with copious amounts of tomato products isn't a free food? What kind logic is that?

I can tell this diet is going down hill FAST!

Stay tuned for my next Blubber Bustin update.

Chuck!