Healthy Living News & Tips

GM: the Most Expensive Cheap Food You'll Ever Eat

GM (genetically modified) food is cheap. It is grown under conditions that turn lush complex ecosystems once known as "farms" into monoculture (single crop) deserts. The very concept of integrated farming, where one plant or animal uses the waste of another and sustains the first one (or yet another) is meaningless in monoculture. Vast industrial techniques and huge government subsidies make GM food inexpensive and chemical additives keep the prepared and fast foods so easily available cheap, cheap, cheap.
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One of the few purely 'whole food' companies in the market today, WholeFoodFarmacy, has been granted Organic Certification on three of their popular foods, Phi Plus, Cranberry Phi and Coco Cherry Phi.

Organic certification means that all ingredients are sourced from foods that are grown naturally and free of pesticides and chemicals.

WholeFoodFarmacy is a great example of how food companies can encourage healthy living habits and provide products that support their vision. The company believes strongly in the benefits of whole foods and only supplies products that are minimally handled and contain only whole food vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, herbs, spices and natural grains. Here's a little more directly from their mission statement:

"The ingredients to health, happiness, vitality, and longevity are no secret. Every major non-profit health organization in the world has been offering the same advice for many years. Eat more fruits and veggies, drink more water, exercise on a daily basis, lose weight if you need to, don't smoke, avoid toxins, & reduce stress.

To that end, we have combined delicious, healthy foods, with convenience and affordability. Our salon quality personal care items offer superior results without the toxic chemicals.

Nothing short of a consumer based, grass roots return to healthy choices and lifestyles can steer our children, and future generations, in a healthier direction."

They plan to continue the Organic Certification of the balance of their products and provide only the best foods available.

Personally, my family enjoys the foods and many of the natural personal care products. In fact, one of their 13 day programs, the Tri-Decathlon, helped many family members, friends and readers lose excess weight, regain their health and their tastes for a more natural, whole food diet. I often recommend these programs to those looking to make an improvement in their health, be it losing weight, overcoming a health issue or just wanting to improve their diet.

The reason these foods work is because you eat only whole foods for the 7 or 13 days and your body regains its natural taste for fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds and natural grains. They are conveniently packaged and the program is easy to follow (eat as much as you want!). Once you lose the 'addiction' to the Standard American Diet (SAD) of fats, clogging dairy products, heart un-healthy meats and processed and junk foods that a majority of Americans (and now becoming the world) eat, you regain your body's natural taste for what nature intended. You start eating more fresh fruits and vegetables in combination with the WholeFoodFarmacy foods and snacks. In this way, changing your habits is much easier since you are not fighting with the taste addictions (cravings) that cripple many diet efforts and makes it much easier to regain your health, your optimal weight and just feel better all around. The foods are convenient, mostly uncooked, tasty and made from all natural whole foods, nothing else.

And regardless of the fact the New Year is upon us when many of us look to make healthier choices, any time is a great time to take back your health, your body and continue a path to your best health for life. You only have one, why wait?

Visit the WholeFoodFarmacy for more information.

To your best health!

Mark Idzik

A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that yes, if your friends or those that you surround yourself with are obese, you are more likely to be obese as well. Watch out!

The study included over 12,000 participants and showed that if a subject had a friend that was obese, they had a 57% higher chance of becoming obese themselves. That number went up to 171% if both friends identified each other as strong friends. Friendship seemed to be the strongest correlation and it didn’t matter how far apart the friends were. Influence of siblings was also ranked highly with a 40% higher chance of becoming obese if another sibling was also obese.

The lesson here is one that just like any other goal, surround yourself by those that you'd like to become more like. In your finances for example, you normally make about the average income of your 5 closest friends and this transfers to your health and other parts of your life as well. Want to be healthier? Surround yourself with happy, healthy and positive minded friends and experiences!

Read more about the study in the New England Journal of Medicine.

To your best health!

Mark

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As the New Year is upon us, it's the time many make resolutions to lose weight. But what's the best way?

This year Discovery Health wants to help with the National Body Challenge. What is it?

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Recent research now shows that twice as many adults in the United States are obese compared to adults in Europe. About 33 percent of Americans are obese, compared with 17 percent in ten European countries reviewed.

Obesity, as past research has shown, leads to a number of other diseases including cancer, diabetes and others. This also increases our health care costs dramatically and they are directly tied to the 'obesity factor'.

Our health care expenditures related to obesity range from $100-150 billion per year and the costs are only rising. Why does this continue? The research's author commented "It is possible that we spend more on health care because we are, indeed, less healthy."

That's true, and only there is only one solution: taking responsibility for our own health. Watching what we eat, getting active and keeping a positive outlook on our lives. This is sometimes a challenge in today's fast paced, every busier world, although it's a choice. A choice we all make by either doing something about it or just letting things happen and then ending up in the hospital, bankrupt, or possibly an early death.

Life is a wonderful gift, take care of yours.

To your best health!

Mark Idzik

Source: NewsMax

Do you know the main reason that prevents people from losing weight? Find out what it is (I bet you're experiencing this right now) and how you can break through it fast. Find out now!

A study by researchers from the University of Birmingham has shown some very disturbing news linking chlorine, found in regular tap water, to tragic and increased difficulties with pregnancies.

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UPDATE: As of fall 2011, there are now 49 reported deaths that have been linked to Gardasil and thousands of negative reactions. (Source: Infowars.com)

Girls getting the HPV vaccine Gardasil are having more side effects and 32 have died. The side effects are not minor and emergency room visits have tripled in comparison to other vaccines given to the same age group. Adverse effect reports from the Gardasil vaccine to the CDC and other organizations continue to pour in but the CDC and Merck continue to say it's safe and that the benefits outweigh the risks. Perhaps they should speak to the parents of those almost 10,000 affected. This goes back to my contention that the strongest defense against most every illness or disease is a strong immune system - not a vaccine. The only way to get a strong immune system is to 'get out the way' and let our body heal naturally, get out of the way by keeping our bodies nurished with natural foods that keep our immune system strong, and taking care of our bodies by getting adequate rest and treating them as they should, as a temple and gift. Not by introducing a foreign vaccine that causes pain, seizures, swelling, paralysis, warts and death among other complications. And with HPV specifically, in healthy women it is self-limiting and poses no real danger. In most cases it has no symptoms or ill-effects. The worst part about this is that 24 states had introduced legistation to make this vaccine mandatory for school age girls and would not allow them to attend school without it. The good news for now is that most of the legislation has been put on hold or killed before being put to vote, but that is not stopping the manufacturer. Watch the video below for more information. Consider the implications to our freedom and the health of our children. Consider the costs to those already affected by the vaccine.