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Low Income Equals Poor Diet - Is Medifast Affordable?

It's one of those familiar sayings - you think you can't afford to eat 'well', but really you can't afford NOT to! It turns out that low income families have poor dietary habits, eating more processed foods and less fruits and vegetables (although it is a studied fact that the majority - like 95% - of Americans don't get the minimum recommended daily servings of fruits and vegetables, so this may be a mute point!). But the reality is that if you want to get out of poverty, you've got to strive for better. For starters, that means better health. A healthy diet doesn't have to be expensive. Exercise doesn't have to be expensive (last time we checked, a 20 minute walk didn't cost anything). These two variables are the start of building a foundation of a healthy life. A better diet means the brain functions better. Just the discipline of striving for good health will create a ripple effect into other areas of life - doing a better job at work, setting goals to 'move up' and get promoted, more creative thought, improved relationships, and so on. Here's more on the subject of low income families and their poor diet --

Three studies published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association have found that people with lower income do not consume enough fruits and vegetables, largely due to cost factors.

"Cost is one of the factors often cited as contributing to less fruit and vegetable consumption among low-income populations," wrote Alanna Moshfegh in an introductory article. "Cost, as well as convenience, has been shown to be a leading influence on food choice for low-income individuals."

The three articles appear in the November issue of the journal, which is devoted to issues of poverty and nutrition as part of the Council of Science Editors' Global Theme Issue on Poverty and Human Development. More than 230 scientific journals have participated on the council. Read more...

Bottom line: a healthy diet is the beginning of a healthy and balanced lifestyle that can lead to increased productivity and a healthier way of life (you know, the American Dream!)

Note: If you are interested in a meal plan to assist with your weight loss and health, Medifast provides a diet that makes it easy to plan the foods and meals you will eat. Click here - Medifast - to try the Medifast diet meal plan to help you get started losing weight. Medifast is physician-developed. See if Medifast is an affordable diet for you!... and get a personal diet consultant when you order!

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Diet Influences Evolution

What you eat can determine the health of future generations. Or can it? If the food that you eat and the liquids that you consume can influence the health of your DNA, does it stand to reason that your offspring's health could be influenced by the meals you are eating today? Possibly, and logic would say sure, why not? On a broader level, diet and the influence on the cell and DNA is apparently an important and significant enough subject to require a conference with some very bright minds sharing their research and thoughts on the subject. Here's more --

The question of how the food we eat influences the behaviour of our cells – including our genes – is the focus of a major international conference that starts today in Melbourne.

The three-day ‘3rd Asia Pacific Nutrigenomics Conference 2008: Diet-Gene Interaction in Human Health and Disease’, has attracted food scientists, nutritionists, dieticians, doctors, nurses, food industry representatives and food regulators from around Australia and the world.

Conference Chair, the Director of the CSIRO Preventative Health National Research Flagship Dr Richard Head, says that better understanding human genes and cellular function will provide us with better ways of understanding chronic diseases and retarding or contributing to their prevention. This is of interest to the broader biomedical community including those involved in nutrition and food sciences.

The conference will feature a thorough review of current science in the area, presented by leading international experts in the field, as well as exploring industry perspectives and regulatory issues. The areas covered in the Conference include the interaction of diet and genes in obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and inflammation. In addition, there will be discussions on the most recent technologies available for understanding these interactions. More on this here....

Bottom line: Diet must be one of the most important influential factors on the future health of mankind. And certainly the quality of the foods we do have and the ground on which it is grown, needs to be taken care of in the utmost degree. Where will we be without nutrient-rich soil and plenty of fruits and vegetables from which to choose? We don't want to find out.

HWI

If you are interested in a meal plan to assist with your weight loss and health, Medifast provides a diet that makes it easy to plan the foods and meals you will eat. Click here - Medifast - to try the Medifast diet meal plan to help you get started losing weight. Medifast is physician-developed.

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Fast Food Strikes Again with New Nutritional Education Ads - the Wolf's New Ad for Sheep Safety.

And the sheep is now in charge of the flock! From “Fast Food Nation” to “Super Size Me,” McDonald’s has become the go-to villain in the United States’ obesity drama.

Not willing to become the de facto whipping boy, the company best known for its indulgent burgers and greasy fries has already added salads, fruits and other new menu options. Now, it’s defending the rest of its food lineup as well.

The “what we’re made of” campaign includes TV commercials, in-store promotions and a Web site boasting about its beef, chicken and other basic ingredients. In the coming weeks, the company also plans to add billboards and expand the Web site to include more information about cooking methods, suppliers and other practices.

WHAT THE F?

Molly Starmann, McDonald’s director of U.S. marketing, said the company hasn’t changed the farming or preparation methods that have drawn so much criticism. The point of the campaign, she said, is simply to provide more information about what the company already does.

“Our customers love the taste of our food and they just had some questions about how it’s created,” she said.

The most striking thing about the campaign is that it exposes what the company is up against. Click on lettuce, and McDonald’s will tell you that it washes its lettuce “at least twice.” Under eggs, it notes that they are delivered to stores twice a week.

Forget quality or taste -- if a company has to dispel the myth that it doesn’t follow basic hygiene practices, it’s obviously in for an uphill battle.

Still, some of McDonald’s attempts to inform are strikingly uninformative. Click on “potatoes,” and you’ll get a blurb about why fries have salt on them. That’s not exactly going to answer burning questions about food production, healthfulness and what exactly is meant by the ingredient “natural beef flavor (wheat and milk derivatives).” Under tomatoes, the company only discloses what kind it likes to use in salads.

Elsewhere on the site, McDonald’s lets you build a meal and see its nutritional value and ingredients. Nutrition information also can now be found on the back of the company’s tray liners and on other packaging.

McDonald’s deserves credit for having the guts to make such information easily accessible, even if eaters may well cringe at the high fat content – including trans fats - and unpronounceable ingredients.

For example, parents may not be too pleased to realize that six pieces of Chicken McNuggets contain 15 grams of fat and include the ingredient “dimethylpolysiloxane added as an antifoaming agent.” The visual images conjured by the words “antifoaming” in food are plentiful, and none are pretty.

Click here to see the “what we’re made of” Web site. Click here to view one of the ads.

http://adblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/04/22/912157.aspx

Click to see what they are made of? Plump tomatoes? Would that be the ketsup? And the chicken nuggets are coated in: "light tempura batter" What the Mc?

I don't know about you, but grilled chicken with spices, has a LOT less than 420 calories and 24 grams of fat! The typical grilled chicken breast is about 150 cal/3 grams fat. So that "light tempura batter" isn't really "light" is it?

Chicken McNuggets® (10 piece)
Serving Size: 5.6 oz (160 g)

And, after you are done laughing, just wait for MY "ad" that starts next week about McDonald's and just what the heck is in their food! It will be MUST see "TV"!

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May 02, 2008

Ritalin has Consequences

Almost everyone seems to know someone who has a child on Ritalin. As you may know, use of Ritalin doesn't come without risk. As with any drug, there are unwanted side-effects that can occur. Even with the research and studies showing such promising results for children with Attention Deficit Disorder, all drugs come with side-effects and can even be life threatening.

While this author doesn't necessarily agree that Ritalin is the answer to ADD, the drug companies have certainly capitalized on the deficit children seem to be in. But I think that "deficit" comes from the lack of physical activity - the kind away from a computer or TV. Getting out and observing those things that are not digital is such a key to having a calmer and more focused mind. This is not research, but just common sense, that tells us the TV and computers and cell phones are electronics that put the eye and brain's focus no more than 3 feet away. When you can put the focus on natural things that are beyond the world that exists within 10 feet of your being, you take on a picture of the world that is much greater than the many minute details that can be consuming to the brain. It is our opinion that the calming effect to the mind and possibly the attention disorder can be helped by this approach.

According to the Medical Observer, "children who use Ritalin for a long period of time could be more at risk of deliquency and substance abuse." For this reason they suggest 'taking a break' from the drug after 3 years, because "the more days of prescribed medication, the more serious the risk."

It is the opinion of The Health & Wellness Institute that a diet that is deficient in proper nutrients - i.e. fruits and vegetables - and filled with stimulants like sugar and caffeine, will also contribute to the symptoms of those diagnosed with ADD. This evidence is shown in studies where children were put on a healthy diet and after a year the results showed better grades, less conflict, less absences, and more participation in school activities. While there may not be a direct relationship between the two, there should be at least some logical deduction that diet plays a big role in the health of the mind and therefore should provide noticeable benefit to those with ADD.

Bottom line: a diet that is rich in fruits and vegetables, and without processed foods, high amounts of sugars - i.e. soft drinks or fruit drinks - and even including some regular exercise, will always be beneficial to anyone, no matter what condition they may be diagnosed with.

HWI

Note: If you are interested in a meal plan to assist with your weight loss and health, Medifast provides a diet that makes it easy to plan the foods and meals you will eat. Click here - Medifast - to try the Medifast diet meal plan to help you get started losing weight. Medifast is physician-developed.

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Cancer Risk with Potato Chips

With a headline like that, you may think twice before picking up a bag of potato chips. Yet not only are chips a source linked to an increase in cancer risk, but so too are sweet biscuits, certain breads, rolls, toast, or most fried, roasted, or grilled foods - all which contain the carcinogen acrylamide. This substance can be contained in certain foods, but also the result of those types of preparation methods. Grilling has long been known to create carcinogenic substances that can be detrimental to good health.

A study of more than 60,000 post-menopausal women has linked the chemical - produced when sugars and amino acids are cooked at temperatures greater than 120 degress - to ovarian and endometrial cancers. The Dutch report examined data from the Netherlands Cohort Study, which involved 120,000 people aged 55-70 years, about 62,000 of them women.

Here's the kicker. After 11 years, the group was analyzed and those who had consumed high levels of acrylamide, that is 40 milligrams a day or the equivalent of what is in one pack of potato chips, were twice as likely to develop ovarian or womb cancer as those who ingested a smaller amount. These findings were published in the journal Cancer, Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention.

Since the study was performed prior to 1997, the consumption of foods like french fries and other similar foods has increased, and therefore would be safe to conclude that the risk of these cancers has gone up even more!

Bottom line: If you're eating a healthy diet, one that contains more raw foods and unprocessed foods than anything else, then you're not going to have to worry about levels of acrylamide in your system. It's one thing you shouldn't have to worry about when it comes to your health - and that is preventable conditions based on what foods and beverages you consume. So stick to mainly water, fruits, vegetables, fish, 12 grain breads, and organic foods if you can. You'll be glad you did in the years to come.

HWI

Note: If you are interested in a meal plan to assist with your weight loss and health, Medifast provides a diet that makes it easy to plan the foods and meals you will eat. Click here - Medifast - to try the Medifast diet meal plan to help you get started losing weight. Medifast is physician-developed.

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April 25, 2008

Sugar - Enemy of a Healthy Medifast Diet

There is always debate about what diet is healthy and which one work best - is Atkins safe, is low-carb better, are carbs the enemy, what food combinations work, is low-fat better? The questions are endless, and the solutions seem to be even more so. However, there is one truth about a healthy diet that rings true throughout the diet community, and that is that simple sugars are the enemy. That is, sugar is so prevalent in so many foods and drinks that it is hard for most people to get away from consuming too many. And with sugars like high-fructose corn syrup you're sure to lose on all levels - bad calories, unhealthy, and too many easily consumed. Here's more about how sugar can creep into your diet --

A bran muffin and a flavored coffee drink are not unusual choices for a breakfast on the run. But along with fiber and caffeine, you may be getting something you hadn't bargained for: a day's worth of added sugar in just one small early morning meal.

We shouldn't consume more than 40 grams -- about 10 teaspoons -- of sugar a day, based on a 2,000-calorie diet, said Andy Bellatti, a graduate student at New York University's department of nutrition and food studies who blogs about diet and health at Small Bites. "It's very easy, though, to go way above that because that's basically one can of soda," Bellatti said. "So although 10 teaspoons sounds like a lot, it's actually not really that much."

Though the World Health Organization recommends that added sugar should make up no more than 10 percent of our daily caloric intake, the average American eats about double that. A muffin could have 11 teaspoons of sugar added, and a grande vanilla latte at Starbucks has about seven teaspoons. Read more...

Final note: do yourself a favor and avoid products that have sugar, except for fruits and vegetables. Even with a good effort you'll find that you're getting some in foods and drinks that you didn't expect.

HWI

If you are interested in a meal plan to assist with your weight loss and health, Medifast provides a diet that makes it easy to plan the foods and meals you will eat. Click here - Medifast - to try the Medifast diet meal plan to help you get started losing weight. Medifast is physician-developed.

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Life Expectancy and Diet

Women's Life Expectancy Has Fallen in Poor Parts of U.S.

Life expectancy for American women today is shorter in some geographical areas than it was in the 1980s, mostly because of chronic diseases linked to smoking, high blood pressure, and being overweight or obese, according to a new study published in the journal PLoS Medicine. Researchers used data from the National Center for Health Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau to calculate life expectancy for every year between 1961 and 1999 and found that women in certain areas of the United States are living shorter lives than they were in the 1980s. But when researchers looked at overall U.S. data, average life expectancy increased for men--to about 74 years--and for women--to nearly 80 years.

Still, the shortened life spans in certain areas of the country suggest that those people who were already disadvantaged became worse off between the early 1980s and 1999 and didn't benefit from gains in life expectancy seen in other, wealthier parts of the country. The findings show that it's important to monitor and address health inequalities, the study authors wrote. read more...

Comment: It's not hard to see why life expectancy would fall when the diet of most Americans is getting worse and worse, with less nutrients and nutritional value in each item consumed. For this reason we recommend Medifast as an alternative to traditional diet plans. But to make sure that you get the nutrients necessary for a healthy diet, be sure to consume at least 7 servings of fruits and vegetables per day!

HWI

If you are interested in a meal plan to assist with your weight loss and health, Medifast provides a diet that makes it easy to plan the foods and meals you will eat. Click here - Medifast - to try the Medifast diet meal plan to help you get started losing weight. Medifast is physician-developed.

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April 15, 2008

Less Food Related Sickness

In a previous blog, it was mentioned that irradiation may reduce the nutrient-value in fruits and vegetables, all to help reduce food borne illnesses. In a recent article from the Associated Press, food poisoning has been on the decline over the last decade. If this is true, then it may be harder to justify a process for "cleaning" foods that diminishes the value of the nutrients in them. Here's more on the reduction of illnesses originating from food sources --

Americans didn't suffer more food poisoning last year despite high-profile outbreaks involving peanut butter, pot pies and other foods. But it's not getting better, either. Although there have been significant declines in certain food-borne illnesses since the late 1990s, all the improvements occurred before 2004, federal health officials said in a report released Thursday.

A food safety advocacy group called the report discouraging. "We don't consider this a success at all. We want to see these numbers going down," said Nancy Donley, president of Safe Tables Our Priority, which was founded by victims of food poisoning. Read on...

Comments: While these numbers may be "discouraging" to some, the fact will remain that eliminating all food borne illnesses would be the equivalent of eliminating disease all together. Good bacteria exists with bad, and is part of the equilibrium of the environment and all living things. Imagine a world with no bacteria risks, and somehow suddenly one is introduced into the environment. It could be worse than any biological warfare imaginable. Cleaning your fruits and vegetables is a good idea. Growing them on nutrient-rich, well-maintained soil is even more important. Trying to correct the problem after the fact may be fruitless if you will, when the end result becomes a beautiful looking piece of fruit or vegetable with no bacteria yet little to no nutritional value. Taking care of the source is where we need to start. That is where good health originates. Then making healthy choices - that is, choosing fruits and vegetables over breads, processed carbohydrates, and fatty and salty foods.

If you are interested in a meal plan to assist with your weight loss and health, Medifast provides a diet that makes it easy to plan the foods and meals you will eat. Click here - Medifast - to try the Medifast diet meal plan to help you get started losing weight. Medifast is physician-developed.

*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

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April 14, 2008

Irradiation Depletes Food Quality

weight loss, diet, medifast, Dr. Patrick Havey Our fear of a dwindling healthy food supply from the environmental contaminants and soil depletion may now be trumped by the FDA. Yes, the FDA may actually take care of compromising the quality of our best sources of nutrients by demanding they be irradiated before being put on shelves and tables for consumers.

In case you don't know, the idea behind irradiating food - or any item for that matter - is to sterilize it. That means all live pathogens that may be present on that item is put in check so that it can't take hold in your body or some other living organism. Big problem here. The way we improve our immune system's ability, function, and strength is not just by consuming healthy foods. Believe it or not, we also need to be exposed to certain things so that our immune system builds up defenses. Not everything, but some things. Vaccines are an artificial way of exposing the body and although there is debate on that issue, it still holds true. The immune system is like an army of fighters. But they need to be trained, need not be complacent thinking everything is fine, and is and will always be fine.

However, without some bacteria and certainly without the optimal amount of nutritional value provided by the fruit or vegetable, the body won't have either to support the immune system. Here's more as reported on NaturalNews.com --

There's a new plot underway to sterilize your food and destroy the nutritional value of fresh produce. The players in this plot are the usual suspects: The USDA (which backed the "raw" almond sterilization rules now in effect in California) and the American Chemical Society -- a pro-chemical group that represents the interests of industrial chemical manufacturers. The latest push comes from USDA researchers who conducted a study to see which method more effectively killed bacteria on leafy green vegetables like spinach.

To conduct the study, they bathed the spinach in a solution contaminated with bacteria. Then, they tried to remove the bacteria using three methods: Washing, chemical spraying and irradiation. Not surprisingly, only the irradiation killed nearly 100 percent of the bacterial colonies. That's because radiation sterilizes both the bacteria and the vegetable leaves, effectively killing the plant and destroying much of its nutritional value while it kills the bacteria. Read on...

Bottom line: our food supply and it's quality is one of the most, if not the most, important part of supporting the health of mankind. Without proper nutrients from fruit and vegetable sources, we risk even poorer health, more sickness and disease. Support the effort to maintain and even improve the quality of the fruits and vegetables in our food supply. Contact your local and state representatives expressing your concern!

Note: If you are interested in a meal plan to assist with your weight loss and health, Medifast provides a diet that makes it easy to plan the foods and meals you will eat. Click here - Medifast - to try the Medifast diet meal plan to help you get started losing weight. Medifast is physician-developed.

The Health & Wellness Institute, DC PC

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April 09, 2008

A Healthy Diet Includes Protein

Protein is an important part of a healthy diet. One of the most commonly deficient macronutrients in most diets is protein, in lieu of too many carbohydrates and fats. Many diet plans make protein the main focus of consumed items - i.e. Atkins - while eliminating carbohydrates in favor of more fats too. But protein is important on many different levels and is the best source for not only healthy nutrition, but creating satiation without a load of calories. If you measure protein against carbs or fats, you find that it has the weight and bulk to give you that full feeling, yet doesn't have the same high calorie content as fat, which also doesn't provide that same satiated feeling.

Protein is the building block of muscle and has a longer transit time in the digestive tract, so you don't feel hungry again for a longer period of time than if you consumed more carbohydrates and fats. Here's more about the importance of protein from The Republican --

When it comes to nutrition, protein delivers! Not only does protein help keep muscles strong, it is used to create cells that fight off disease, is an ingredient for hormones, and helps with the regulation of appetite. Make the most out of your protein choices and select lean options that provide more nutrition with every bite.

Plant-based sources of protein should be your focus. You get more out of plant-proteins by way of nutrients like fiber, calcium, vitamin E and unsaturated fats. Select eggs, legumes, soy, nuts, nut butters and low-fat milk, cheese and yogurt. Eat 1/2-cup of whole beans or 1/3-cup of mashed beans every day for a fat-free protein and fiber punch. If you haven't done so yet, venture into the world of soy. Try tofu, edamame and meat analogues like veggie burgers and soy sausages for a quick and delicious twist to traditional meals. And add nuts and seeds to meals, salads and snacks for lasting satiety. read on...

Comments: If you shift your diet to include more protein, you may find that your fat and carbohydrate consumption goes down, thereby reducing your overall calorie intake, and hence leading to weight loss. Getting to a healthy weight while consuming a healthy diet is the goal. A diet plan like Medifast is good to support such a goal, as Medifast meals contain more protein than a standard diet. If you are interested in a meal plan to assist with your weight loss and health, Medifast provides a diet that makes it easy to plan the foods and meals you will eat. Click here - Medifast - to try the Medifast diet meal plan to help you get started losing weight. Medifast is physician-developed.

If you are interested in a meal plan to assist with your weight loss and health, Medifast provides a diet that makes it easy to plan the foods and meals you will eat. Click here - Medifast - to try the Medifast diet meal plan to help you get started losing weight. Medifast is physician-developed.

The Health & Wellness Institute, DC PC

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Diet Influence by Global Climate

Are we really going to spend billions of dollars in research and global climate detection equipment and prevention measures because we're worried about the temperature of the Earth going up? We'll all be dead before these apparent climate changes have even the slightest effect on the health of mankind. Unless, of course the health effects are on the mental state of the people who are capable of starting nuclear war or terror (on that basis, maybe there is some truth to this hypothesis). The money that we are potentially looking at allocating for climate management is not justified considering the risks from so many other threats to the health of mankind, or even the existence of life on Earth. Although this may have truth to it, "selling" this to the public may just not fly.

The real threat, aside from those who seek to eliminate large populations of citizens through radical methods, is the health of the Earth's food supply - referring to the soil and the products that we consume that are raised or grown. Moving to processed foods that are so abundant in the marketplace, only eliminates the thousands of nutrients (phytonutrients) that are so important to the health and well-being of indviduals. These nutrients may be shrinking in numbers because we are making them extinct through "new technologies" and "food manufacturing techniques" or even "genetically modified seeds" (corn, specifically - thank you Monsanto!)

The best approach for saving the health of our planet is focusing on the diet of it's inhabitants. Caring for the land and the fruits, vegetables, and other plants grown is a sure way to support good health. With so many people seeking weight loss and dealing with obesity, and the other extreme being those dealing with no food sources at all, this can't be an issue that is taken lightly. Universal Health Care? Ethanol-based fuel? Forget it! How about going back to the roots of good health, literally - the soil, the land.

While clean air, clean water, and nutrient-rich soil may certainly be under the influence of waste emitted by automobiles and big manufacturers, focusing on change for the purposes of controlling the temperature of the Earth may not be the angle that needs to be taken, even if there is truth to it. Change for the sake of saving our food supply and it's quality may be an easier "sell" to the public and one that will matter so much more than what could happen if the temperature of the entire Globe goes up a degree!? People don't understand nor do they probably care when they don't completely understand. Take away their food? They'll care!

Eat healthy. Live healthy. Choose fruits and vegetables as your main source of healthy nutrients.

The Health & Wellness Institute, DC PC

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April 08, 2008

Cholesterol Actually Good Part of a Medifast Diet

While we are so easily conditioned to modify or adopt new beliefs because of the millions of dollars spent on advertising, there are some important truths that tend to get lost amidst cloudy promotional campaigns. For decades, the suggestion that cholesterol is bad and the source for clogged arteries and heart attacks has been literally shoved in our face. Sure we hear about high levels of cholesterol, but does anyone remember that there is a positive use of cholesterol? In fact, it's not cholesterol that's bad, but the lipoprotein that is the problem, specifically of the low density variety.

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