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July 2002 Vol. 7 No. 7

 “If opportunity doesn’t knock-build a door”.
Milton Berle

“Every Generation has the obligation to free men’s minds for a look at new worlds to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.”
James Lovell, US Astronaut

This is the first Independence Day since September 11th, 2001, and only the 2nd time in the last 100 years that America has been attacked [December 7th, 1941] and emerged stronger than before.  This year we honor those who lost their lives just being Americans on Sept. 11th and for those who were left behind.  We honor our military-brave men and women who are in harms way so that we may enjoy the parades, picnics, and barbecues and proudly wave our flag. Americans first. Fitness Professionals second. We Pledge Allegiance- One Nation Under God.

The Editor

Table of Contents for July: 

Some Basic Eating Advice for Good Health and Improving Athletic Performance
What’s wrong with my Diet?
More Reports Confirm Carcinogen in Snack Chips and French Fries
Congressman Calls for Criminal Penalties at Vaccine Mercury Hearings
The Shocking Truth About Feminine Hygiene Products - What Are Your Options?
 What You’re Not Being Told About Mammography

Some Basic Eating Advice for Good Health and Improving Athletic PerformanceLet’s cut to the chase-First eating raw fish today more than ever is not healthy-[parasites, including worms, viruses, bacteria, etc] can do the body no good.

Eating a high protein diet 25 percent or greater of the total daily caloric intake carries a myriad of potential health problems, that are too numerous to mention here-and can be reviewed at our website [conduct an article search-input “protein”.
Eating only fruit will raise the blood sugar, causing the body to over work-especially the pancreas.
The body thrives on a mixed diet-using complex carbohydrates from whole grains, sweet potato’s, brown rice, vegetables, combined with seeds, nuts, legumes.
Cooked cold water, salt water fish salmon, sardines, tuna, and many others] contains essential fatty acids. Vegetable and seed sources include ed from flax, pumpkin, seeds, soy.
Drinking clean water [spring or distilled] assists the body in riding itself of toxins.  Sweating through exercise 4-5 days a week burns fat, and balances the body.
When fat cells expand and stretch faster than the body can generate new cells-”cellulite” results-puckering-prior to lypo-genesis - new fat cell formation].
Many times individuals are reactive or allergic to foods that they eat [the big three are dairy, corn-and the derivatives [corn sweeteners] and wheat.]
Removing these foods [one at a time-starting with all dairy] can enable the body many times to drop 3-8 pounds of retained water weight that appears as fat.  This is explained in the newly released book; ” The False Fat Diet”  by Elon Haas, MD

What’s wrong with my Diet? 

Carnation instant breakfast is really not healthy for you.  A better choice would be oatmeal with fresh fruit, or egg beaters or egg substitutes with whole grain toast-a teaspoon of natural peanut butter or soy butter and some “all fruit” jam.  A cup of green tea [no sweat-n-low] or black coffee [1 cup]

mid-morning snack: 1 apple or pear or other fruit in season with a 1/4 cup of almonds, hazel nuts, pistachio’s or cashews, or different seeds such as pumpkin.

Lunch:  1 sandwich with something other than “processed cold cuts” Try peanut butter/jelly on whole grain bread.  Or, a pepper and eggplant sandwich.  A large salad with nuts, seeds or legumes, or cubed marinated Tofu.  Salmon or shrimp can be added.

Herb Tea or bottled water.

Apple or pear or orange. [try what is in season and different from what you had for breakfast.

Drink water throughout the day-1 cup [8 ounces] each hour during the day.

Dinner: Salad [with balsamic vinaigrette or olive oil-extra virgin- and either apple cinder or red wine vinegar].  Dark green leafy, mixed with carrots, celery, cucumbers, tomato’s, peppers.  

Choice of baked or sweet potato or wild or parboiled wild rice. [Drop the macaroni and cheese].

Baked or broiled fish or some type of vegetable dish.

1 to 2 cups of steamed or lightly stir fried vegetables [broccoli-asparagus, peas, corn, etc.] Add 1 tablespoon of either peanut or flaxseed oil as a topping to the vegetables. [A needed source of omega 3 fatty acids.

No more hamburger helper or hamburger.  

Drop the big coffee and mountain dew.  Drink more water.

The first few days you may actually experience withdraw symptoms from your bodies addiction of caffeine, dyes, processed sugars, and refined flour.  Hang in there!! You will feel terrific in a very short time.

More Reports Confirm Carcinogen in Snack Chips and French Fries  

Additional research confirms the importance of avoiding these cancer causing junk foods.

Popular American brands of snack chips and French fries contain disturbingly high levels of acrylamide, according to new laboratory tests commissioned by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI). The tests were conducted by the same Swedish government scientists that two months ago first discovered the cancer-causing chemical in certain fried and baked starchy foods. For full article read more at: http://mercola.com/2002/jul/3/fast_food.htm

Congressman Calls for Criminal Penalties at Vaccine Mercury Hearings 

More and more it appears that federal officials will suffer criminal penalties for what they are doing with vaccines. If you still are on the fence about vaccines please read this article. http://mercola.com/2002/jul/3/vaccine_mercury.htm

The Shocking Truth About Feminine Hygiene Products — What Are Your Options?  

This article contains information which could save you and other women in your life from complications due to feminine hygiene products. http://mercola.com/2002/jul/3/feminine_hygiene.htm

What You’re Not Being Told About Mammography 

The debate over mammography overlooks superior, nontoxic alternatives–and preventing breast cancer in the first place.  The media exercises bias as much–or more–by what it doesn’t say than by what it does say. Take the ongoing controversy on mammography. A new round of debate was sparked with the publication of an article in the October 2001 issue of the British medical journal, The Lancet. Danish investigators Peter Gotzsche, M.D. and Ole Olsen, M.Sc., analyzed the seven major studies, which have been the bedrock of the cancer establishment’s mantra that annual mammography screening saves lives. The Danish study concluded that “screening is unjustified because there is no reliable evidence that it reduces mortality.”