Archive for January, 2010

The Legacy of the 21^stcentury will not be only of biopharmaceuticals advances. They will not shape the future unless we want a world hell bend on a disease model that helps people cling to life.

Health and wellness companies of the future will fill the void left by healthcare. There are companies that are turning on light bulbs. Yes, literally and are re-engineering our healthcare system.

Science

The health and wellness companies of the future will boost our horse power, more power means more mileage. With the future rushing into the present at a pace never before experienced, we are at the mercy of events we are not prepared for.

There are innovative companies that use information and apply it to teach people successfully master their lives in these troubling times.

Better than our healthcare system they are able to get results. The first one we are going to feature is a weight management company.

Metabolic Balance

This company gets amazing results. They proceed using a thorough blood analysis, and the support of a certified consultant that takes the guessing out of weight management. Personalized weight management is one part weight control, and another part lifestyle management. This isn’t a “here we go again diet.” This is the answer to why you are overweight.

They create a lifestyle for you and stay fully vested in helping you achieve it. This is a sure fire way for everyone, and yet it is a sure fire way for only one individual at a time. This is unprecedented in the weight loss industry.

Validation

This company has taken off in Europe, and is now being introduced in America. The European countries know there is no substitute for real health. The line between health and food is not blurred in Europe. Where here in the United States it is not just blurred, but wiped out altogether.

Europe is seeing the future. They do not allow our re-engineered food to be sold in their country. They have been demonized for protecting their citizens. Why?  Big business profits come from stocking the shelves of supermarkets with hybrid foods.

The European Union has banned hormone-treated beef, and genetically modified foods. Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) is an artificially inserted foreign ´gene´ that was developed in the laboratory and then injected into the DNA of a plant. The primary reason companies genetically engineer-plants is to make them tolerant to their brand of herbicide. These GM plants are designed to survive a deadly dose of pesticides. These crops have much higher residues of toxic herbicides. About 68% of GM crops are herbicide tolerant.

The Fake Slim

It seems that everyone thinks they are meant to be super thin, and can consume faux foods, pills, and in some cases abandon eating enough calories to subsist. Just like we are approaching being the fattest nation, we are also fantasizing about becoming the slimmest.

The trouble with that is we are stuck with a poor model of what healthy weight is, and how to archive it. Metabolic Balance is helping people who are stuck, and keep trying solutions that fail. It is a sane approach to both finding the power, and will to know what you need to succeed.

While it slims you down  it rebuilds your body by supplying the right nutrients. This way your body can find its optimal weight.

Perfect Clarity

Not only are the results perfectly clear, but so is the roadmap that is supplied. New Year means not just another resolution, but a new solution. What is needed is a transformation in lifestyle, not a short term weight lost. The thinking for the last few decades was that weight loss methods were not the great concern.

The lamest reasons were behind many of the weight loss efforts. The most used; fit into a wedding dress, look great at a high school reunion,  get ready for bikini season, and be able to wear the holiday party dress.

We have come a long way from that kind of thinking, however, the diet industry had just begun to leave the shadows of antiquated thinking.

Cracking the Code

Metabolic Balance takes you where you need to be. Finally a weight management company that does what it promises. Metabolic Balance is on track to become one of the leading health and wellness companies. That is because they know what’s right for you. They have cracked the code to what makes you function at your best. It is a science based company, which puts your health first.

As an aquatic therapist, I find my clients enjoying exercise more if they begin with aquatic training. We can do the same land exercises in the water and so much more without any effort, yet we can get the heart rate in the appropriate zone for weight loss and overall fitness results.

One female client started an exercise program with me 12 weeks ago and it began with water training. She exclaims,”Water is an excellent introduction for anyone starting an exercise program for the 1st time or returning to exercise after a long break. Water training isn’t as difficult as land-based training. It prepares you for the gym. The combination of both gives the best results.”

This client is currently in a land-based only program as she has graduated into a new fitness level. She remembers her first weeks and recalls doing a series of arm flap exercises first in the water. She moved her arms effortlessly at high speeds and later noticed arm toning effects. A few weeks later she did the same arm flap exercise routine on land and found it be grueling, difficult, and exhausting. However, through her 3 month conditioning process the same routine done on land is still challenging, but not exhausting. She is now in great condition and continues to excel at challenging exercises on land where at one time, she was only able to perform them in the water.

Below is a short intro to the Arm Flap Leg Endurance routine. FIRST try in the water and after a few weeks try on land and see the difference as your strength and endurance builds!

Going Nuts

Depression and anxiety treatment has proven to be ineffective. An increasing number of U.S. adults are being prescribed combinations of antidepressants and antipsychotic medications, according to a report in the January issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

Facts

To examine patterns and trends in psychotropic polypharmacy-or the prescription of more than one psychiatric medication-Ramin Mojtabai, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., of Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, and Mark Olfson, M.D., M.P.H., of Columbia University Medical Center and the New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, analyzed data collected from a national sample of office-based psychiatry practices. The number of medications prescribed and specific medication combinations were assessed from a total of 13,079 office visits to psychiatrists by adults (18 years or older) between 1996 and 2006.

Overall, there was an increase in the number of psychotropic medications prescribed during office visits. Between 1996 to 1997 and 2005 to 2006, the percentage of visits at which two or more medications were prescribed increased from 42.6 percent to 59.8 percent and the percentage of visits at which three or more medications were prescribed increased from 16.9 percent to 33.2 percent. In addition, the median (midpoint) number of medications prescribed at each visit increased from one to two (an average increase of 40.1 percent).

“While the evidence for added benefit of antipsychotic polypharmacy is limited, there is growing evidence regarding the increased adverse effects associated with such combinations,” the authors write. For example, some combinations have resulted in increases in body weight and total cholesterol level, whereas others may be associated with an increase in fasting blood glucose level.

Truth

A small new study provides more evidence that, on average, antidepressants may be little more effective than a sugar pill in most patients who take them.

“I think we’ve made decisions (about how to treat depression) more difficult,” says co-author Robert DeRubeis, a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania. The findings are published in today’s Journal of the American Medical Association. “I hope we have.”

“The health establishment needs to take stock and ask about costs and benefits” of antidepressants, DeRubeis says. Meanwhile, he says, his study “should give one pause” about prescribing antidepressants to mildly, moderately or even severely depressed patients. Instead, he says, doctors might want to consider non-drug options, such as exercise or psychotherapy.

Better Yet

Brain function is a product of nutrition. It is a known fact that a diet high in sugar and refined carbohydrates causes depression. Omega 3 fatty acids are needed for proper brain function. According to research published in 2003, kids that consumed soft drinks and sugary snacks performed at the level a 70-year-old in tests of memory and attention. Studies have shown that B vitamins have brain-boosting powers.

Sugar depletes vitamin stores, and causes nutritional deficiencies. A diet high in vitamins, minerals and omega-3 has been shown to affect psychological health. This is what holistic depression and anxiety treatment is based on.

There is a direct relationship between nutrition and aggression. In 2002, Bernard Gesch, a physiologist at Oxford University tested nutritional supplements on inmates in British prisons. He worked with 231 detainees for four months. He gave half the group of men, ages 18 to 21, multivitamins, minerals and fatty-acid supplements with meals. The other half were given placebos. Violence among the group taking the supplements fell 37 percent and minor infractions fell by 26 percent.

“Fruits and vegetables are like Mutual funds,” says university of Kentucky professor of neurology David Snowdon, PHD. “They’re a big pot of literally thousands of compounds that offer protection against a variety of diseases including Alzheimer’s disease.” Fresh fruits and vegetables have been proven to lower the risk of dementia.

Nutrients that feed the brain help it handle stress and stay alert. Good nutrition feeds body, mind and spirit.

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