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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.

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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!

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

While high cholesterol has had war waged on it all for the sake of profits for Big Pharma, there are some interesting studies that concluded there was actually no advantage to taking these drugs - statins in particular - over a "normal diet and enough exercise". With the dangerous side effects of statins, there seems to be more harm done than any possible benefit from their consumption. This report is offered on NaturalNews.com --

In an 8-year long heart study, researchers observed 10,000 people with high cholesterol levels. Half of them received a best-selling statin drug. The other half were simply told to eat a normal diet and get enough exercise. The results stunned the researchers. Although the statin drug did indeed lower serum cholesterol, this had no impact whatsoever on death rate, non-fatal heart attacks and fatal arterial disease. In other words, the statin-users had zero advantage over those who received no treatment at all. However, they had just spent eight years taking a costly drug with hideous side effects - risking liver failure, muscle wasting, even sudden death. Lowering cholesterol either through drugs or low fat diets does not lower the risk of developing heart disease. Read more...

The bottom line is that cholesterol is needed by the body and is an important part of the body's overall function and self-maintenance. A diet that is lacking in proper nutrition - fruits, vegetables, and other plant-based sources - is one that will increase the possibility of health problems. Same goes for lack of physical activity. Being overweight is the first and most obvious sign that potential health problems may be around the corner. So getting your diet and your fitness under control is crucial to your good health.

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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A Word on Medifast

While traditional methods of weight loss usually involve a bit of education about the type of meals to be prepared, the reason that certain foods are superior to others, and the time and frequency with which they are to be consumed, there is an easier way to get a meal plan. Medifast offers a meal plan that is not unlike conventional diets. With just a few adjustments from your normal meal selection, coupled with higher nutritional content, lower calorie content, and higher protein, Medifast is sure to provide not only great tasting foods that are healthy, but a cost effective and timely manner with which you can get started on your weight loss plan. While not only diets are alike, their focus is still on helping you achieve your weight loss goal. The foods that you eat are definitely the biggest contributing factor to your weight. The difficulty most Americans run into is not having some guidance as to what they should eat, and instead grab or drive thru what is nearest to satisfy a sudden hunger urge.

While the focus of a healthy lifestyle should not be on food, having a healthy meal plan in place will provide two immediate benefits. First, you can rest assured that the meals you are getting are going to satisfy your hunger. And second, you can be confident that by following the meal plan provided you won't have to fuss with unnecessary and unhealthy choices that permeate the marketplace - i.e. fast foods. The added bonus is that once your plan is in place, you just follow it. There may be some refining to get the foods that you find satisfying to the taste, but by and large the selections available are nothing short of satisfying even the most particular palette.

Medifast is not the final answer to the obesity solution, but one very helpful tool to get you moving in the direction of better health and therefore a healthier weight. A diet may serve the purpose of weight loss, but a diet plan should be about fulfilling a need to develp a healthy lifestyle. In the end, the choices you make will determine your weight and your level of health.

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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Your Diet is Best with Raw and Superfoods

When you set out to achieve a weight loss goal using any diet plan including Medifast, it is best to start incorporating raw foods as well. This is the best source for a full range of nutrients that will support your health. While Medifast may provide the macronutrients and some nutritional value, your body and health still needs to be supported by the thousands of phytonutrients that only comes from plant sources. Raw foods and/or Superfoods are best because they are uncooked, unheated, and in the form as they left Mother Nature - this keeps the nutrient value optimal. If you cook any foods, you will diminish the value of the nutritional content to some degree. Here's more on Raw Foods and Superfoods from NaturalNews.com --

(NaturalNews) This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni's Raw Summit Teleseminar program which can be found at (www.rawsummitarchives.com) . In this excerpt, David Wolfe weighs in on "you are what you eat" and the basics of raw and super foods.

Raw Summit Excerpt with David Wolfe raw food and super food lifestyle guru, author, chocolatier, alchemist, speaker and founder of the Fruit Tree Planting Foundation. He has spent the last 15 years spreading the news of great health around the world.

Kevin: I am excited about this call. So David, why don't you just give us a brief explanation for maybe people who don't know you that well. Who you are and a little bit about your story.

David: Well, I started out as a son of two medical doctors. And I grew up inside a medical doctor's office if you can image what that was like. And I've basically been with my dad on a huge array of different types of situations from emergency medicine to automobile crashes to motorcycle wrecks to house calls and I grew up in a very unique situation because of all those experiences. And that I believe is what oriented me towards natural health. Because I never really believed that injecting something was really necessary. And I always felt that I was really the healthiest when I ate natural foods and, in particular, the first time I ever had a fresh tangerine off a tree when we first came to southern California in 1977. read the complete interview...

Comment: While Medifast can assist with your weight loss, the nutrient value contained within raw fruits and vegetables or plant-based foods will provide the added phytonutrients that are important for good health. 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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Medifast Diet Needs to Include Changing Your Mindset

The stigma behind most diets is that they are a unique way of eating that isn't typical of an average diet. The real reason a "diet" should exist is to allow an individual an easier plan to follow that is healthier than the way they eat now. In other words, a choice of healthy meals and items that are not so unique that the dieter can't wait to complete their goal and finish the diet. Unfortunately for most of those who seek weight loss, this mindset does not bring about lasting change. This is why a true diet plan should be appealing now and in the future. It may not be the exact way of eating that will be followed for years to come, but it should provide a foundation for healthy eating, and establish not only healthy habits but a knowledge and desire to continue choosing healthy items. When you start to believe in the lifestyle, you no longer will have to seek out a diet. These same thoughts are shared by Review.com --

Shifting the focus towards being healthy is the key to an education campaign encouraging women to forgo fad diets and focus on simple, lifelong changes. The "Campaign for Healthy Weight," created by a partnership between America On The Move, Curves and the Milk Processor Education Program (MilkPEP), has a simple rallying cry - small, specific changes in physical activity and calorie intake can make a significant difference. It all starts with taking a pledge for a new, healthy approach.

"We need to get past the era of extreme dieting," agreed renowned obesity expert James O. Hill, Ph.D., co-founder of America On The Move. "Health management needs to be a bigger part of weight management."

A new report called "Weighing in on the American Diet," found that although dieting is at an all-time low, "feeling healthier" is the primary motivator for those beginning a diet. The new study, conducted by The NPD Group in collaboration with Milk Processor Education Program, looked at the who, what, how and why of dieting in this country - providing one of the most comprehensive snapshots of weight management practices in America. read on...

Final Word: 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. While Medifast can help you get on track, it is the mindset of a healthy lifestyle and the empowerment that it brings that you should seek to achieve.

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Will Irresponsible Advertising Continue on TV?

This article appeared on MSNBC.com which clearly states to "Skip all Soda", a first step in a well known diet plan -The Vice Busting Diet - due to the high amounts of sugar and therefore calories and the unhealthy nature of those beverages. But with Coca-Cola being one of the biggest corporate advertisers in the world, you find it hard to believe that such a recommendation would be given on the network's website. These are good points in this article, but you don't usually here this one on such a site because they would not want to offend their big money advertisers. This is why you never see a 'Skip all Fatty Fast Foods" because the biggest fast food restaurant in the would never allow it. Nonetheless, here is an excerpt of the article --

Let it slip that you’re trying to slim down and suddenly everyone you meet is a weight loss expert. Don’t eat white food, they’ll say. Drink gallons of water. Don’t eat after 5 P.M.

It may be impossible to avoid unsolicited diet advice, but with SELF’s help, now you’ll know what’s worth listening to. We put nine diet strategies to the test, recruiting 27 women to try one tip for three weeks. The results were impressive—one woman lost 11 pounds in only three weeks! We learned not only what works but also which habits stick. Incorporate the behaviors that work for you and soon people will start asking you for weight loss advice.

Skip all soda
At roughly 225 calories a pop, a 20-ounce bottle packs nearly the same calories as a chocolate bar but is far less satisfying. Diet soda is no body bargain, either. For every can you sip daily, your risk of becoming overweight rises by 37 percent, researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio found. Other studies hint at why: Regular use of artificial sweeteners may interfere with the body’s ability to estimate calories you’ve ingested, so you eat beyond what you need. Read more...

Comments: There's no doubt that this is helpful advice on ways to reduce the unhealthy calories in order to reach a healthy weight. But be sure as you embark on any changes in your diet, that you're doing so with the intention that you're going to live a healthy life. The by-product of those changes will be a healthy body, and you'd certainly like to maintain that healthy and fit body for good. So start with some simple changes and work up to a permanently healthy lifestyle. You can help your efforts with a sensible meal plan. 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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Yogurt - Part of a Healthy Medifast Diet

(CBS4Denver.com) -- Foods available at the grocery store that claim to boost immunity are a simple matter of eating good bacteria to fight bad bacteria and viruses. Foods with pro-biotics can improve immunity and perhaps digestion, Dr. Dave Hnida reports.

Several studies show people who eat yogurt every day producer more infection fighting cells and have stronger immune systems than those who don't eat yogurt.

As long as it says live and active cultures on the label, any yogurt should do the trick, Hnida says.

There are some products and special yogurts that have concentrated amounts of a special good bacteria that can also really improve the immune system. Lab studies seem to prove that those claims hold water. More...

Comments: While yogurt may benefit your system, a balanced diet full of plenty of fruits and vegetables is more important. Did you know that the Average American does not get at least 5 servings per day? With the amount of stress put on our systems, from the toxins in the air to the chemicals used to prepare food, our bodies need the antioxidant fighting power that comes from fruits and vegetables. And fruits and vegetable consumption has been proven to be associated with a higher likelihood of being at a healthy weight. 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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