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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.

The pear shaped individuals were led to believe they had better odds of staying healthy while packing on the pounds. Research just proved that long held belief doesn’t hold water. Excess weight causes problems in both the apple and pear shaped individuals.

 Apple and Pear Studies

New research from Denmark points to a another possibility for those that are middle-aged and are overweight. They found that apple-shaped men who store their fat mainly around the waist and pear-shaped women who have their fat mainly around the hips are at a higher risk of developing blood clots, and deep vein thrombosis (DVT).

The study was the work of  Dr Marianne Tang Severinsen, a researcher in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology at Aarhus University Hospital in Aalborg in Denmark, and colleagues, and was published online in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association on 26 October.

Venous thromboembolism (VTE), also called deep vein thrombosis (DVT), is a significant concern in adults. It happens when a blood clot breaks free from one blood vessel and blocks the flow of blood in another. A typical VTE blood clot will travel from a vein in the leg to the lungs.

Monitoring all the challenges overweight and obese people are likely to face keeping healthy is not productive.To suggest that all these studies will scare people into health is not logical. Now doctors can increasingly monitor these individuals for this possible condition.

The 10-year prospective study, which was funded by grants from the Herta Christensens Research Foundation and the Danish Obesity Research Center (DanORC), Severinsen and colleagues assessed the link between body mass, weight distribution and incidence of VTE in 27,178 men and 29,876 women who were between 50 and 64 years old at the start of the study.

The results showed a statistically significant positive link between any type of VTE and all measurements of body size, including body weight (BMI), total mass of body fat, waist size and hip size, in both men and women.

Severinsen and colleagues also found a direct relationship between VTE and weight distribution in both men and women.

And when they adjusted for waist and hip size, they found hip circumference was positively linked with VTE incidence in women but not men and waist circumference was positively linked to VTE incidence in men but not women. The link was just as strong when they took out the effect of possible smoking, exercise, height, blood pressure, diabetes, cholesterol and in the women, hormone replacement therapy (HRT).

Severinsen told the press that:

“The implications to the public are that all types of obesity increase the risk for VTE, but the location of body fat also plays some unknown role.” “For health professionals, the implication is that all types of fat distribution should be taken into account when evaluating risk for VTE,” she stressed.

Conclusion

Scientific monitoring all the challenges overweight and obese people are likely to face keeping healthy is not productive. To suggest that all these studies will scare people into health is not logical. Now doctors can increasingly monitor these individuals for this possible condition.

Uncovering new risks is counter productive.The real danger resides on our dinner plate.  Apple and pear shaped is just a term for a body build that is predetermined, the weight of the individual is from the lifestyle. Seeing this clearly we will be able to manage health risks. Beyond the studies is the reality that there are man made environmental factor which are causing the decline in health. The shocking revelations are that our food giants, and pharmaceutical industry are leading the assault on our health.

The researchers recommend that further studies be done to explore the underlying mechanisms of these links. Just ask why is the public packing on the pounds. This alone is responsible for the increased health problems later in life.

This is not about apples and pears, this is about dollars and sense. Skip the definitions. The proportion of overweight and obese individuals are on the rise. The focus should be to create a climate that fosters health. What you need to know for maintaining and restoring health is what should be in the journals. To report all the potential dangers that are associated with our diets is not going to protect us. What it does is line the pockets of those in the sick care business.

METABOLIC SYNDROME

Metabolic syndrome is the plague of the 21^stCentury. It affects more lives than any infectious agent so far. It is as potentially destructive, and it now affects the old and young alike. The question should be is how we arrived to this point. It is now as American as apple pie, even thought recent surveys from places as far as away as Maori shows that 32% of the population has this syndrome. In the Pacific the estimate is 39%, and 16-40% of New Zealanders of European descent suffers from this.

CONDITIONS

The metabolic syndrome includes high cortisol levels, high blood pressure, high blood sugar, fatigue, and the “spare tire” around the middle. This syndrome causes a fat gain, especially in the belly, and widens the waist. This predisposes a person to diabetes and heart disease. The diagnosis to start is usually pre- diabetes, borderline high blood pressure, raised triglycerides, and higher than normal cholesterol. This is a drug companies dream, and your nightmare. You are now what I call a recyclable patient.  

The conditions related to metabolic syndrome are Insulin resistance, obesity, Glucose intolerance, elevated triglycerides, low HDL the good cholesterol, predominance of small dense LDL cholesterol particles. These are the ones that line the arteries, the large fluffy particles of LDL cholesterol go thought and are not a major cause of problems.  Also, Hypertension, Oxidative stress, and inflammation are part of the syndrome. These are possible indicators of a predisposition to some serious chronic conditions including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, stroke, cancer, polycystic ovary syndrome, gout, and asthma.

COSTS

Having the risk factors for metabolic syndrome raises the cost for the patient’s care.  It is estimated the cost is about twice as high on average when there is a risk factor for diabetes in people that have metabolic syndrome.

DIAGNOSING

Here is the fun part; there are no well-accepted criteria for diagnosing metabolic syndrome. The criteria proposed by The National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults (Adult Treatment Panel III) are the most current used criteria.

One of the markers is central obesity which means a waist circumference for men of at least 40 inches or more, and women a waste of 35 inches or more. The HDL which is considered the good cholesterol has to be for men less than 40, and for women less than 50, Then you need to have a fasting glucose 100 or higher, and blood pressure 130/85 or greater.

Here is the problem and where the costs are, these patients are routinely checked for weight, waist circumference, blood glucose, lipoproteins, and blood pressure. The guidelines are to treat risk factors such as cholesterol, hypertension and high glucose levels. Also, according to the guidelines the physician has to choose anti-hypertensive drugs carefully because different agents have different effects on insulin sensitivity.

The American Heart Association states it needs more studies to understand the relationship between metabolic risk factors and the efficacy of drug therapy in people who have the metabolic syndrome. It is also stated that the safest and most effective treatment is to lose weight and increase activity levels.

GUIDLINES

Metabolic syndrome is a troubling diagnosis for a number of reasons. The guiding numbers keep changing, what was a normal reading for glucose, now is a danger sign. Blood pressure readings, and cholesterol levels guidelines keep dropping; again what was once normal is now pre-disaster. Next we will be going for the pre, pre-diabetic. This is where a fasting glucose reading of 85 or over, puts you on a watch list for a possible tendency to having full blown diabetes. It also helps if you can name a family member that had or has the condition.

LARGE PROBLEM

Medicine looks and expects to find the boogie-man every where. You do not have to be in the medical profession to see we have a large scale problem. Our eyes are not deceiving us; we are an overweight nation, getting larger by the day. Common sense seems to be missing, metabolic syndrome, is a new disorder according to the medical profession. Obesity is a disease of the mouth, which does need to be addressed, not by pills, fad diets, or by drawing a food pyramid.

NUTRITIONAL ANSWERS

The only methods that work are the ones that address your nutritional needs. Weight control without regard for your personal nutritional needs, may help you temporarily lose a few pounds. It is a method that will fail in the long term.

With all kinds of food stuffs on the shelves that have never been consumed on a regular basis before, we are now in uncharted territory. To be able to loss weight and stay healthy is going to be a challenge, which will become more complex over time. Our individual nutritional needs are not a multi-vitamin away.