Healthy Living News & Tips

Did you know you can eat as much as you want and be healthy… and at your optimal weight?

Now some may say this isn’t true… or maybe unhealthy, but here’s the kicker.

You can eat all you want AND be healthy… it just depends on WHAT you eat.

You see, if you eat the right foods, the foods that support your health, you can eat as much as you want. And that isn’t unhealthy because you will only naturally eat what your body needs when eating the right foods. You’ll never overeat when you clear your system of the ‘franken foods’, the processed and fortified things that are called ‘food’ but are not even close.

Your body has an amazing system that tells you when you’re satiated and full, but it only works properly when you eat the right foods. Many processed and prepared foods have ingredients that bypass your natural system so you overeat and rarely feel full. And therein lies the problem.

When you don’t feel satiated and full you normally don’t make healthy food choices. Nothing seems to satisfy you. And this is where most fail in getting to their optimal weight or health. They don’t know what to make to keep them naturally satiated!

Have you ever reached for that prepared frozen dinner, bag of chips or pizza because it’s just there? You don’t know what to make so you reach for whatever is convenient?

You’re not alone, we’ve all done it.

The key to reaching your optimal weight and health is to have plenty of easy to make recipes. Easy and fast and great for not only yourself, but the whole family as well.

That’s where Learn Healthy Meals comes in. I’ve designed this to make it easy for you to review and search the exclusive recipes any way you want, plus send you new recipe videos regularly. Fast healthy recipes. You’ll find tips on how to rid cravings, hunger, how to setup your kitchen, help your children make better health choices and much more.

And since it’s peach season in many parts of the country (like here in Arizona), I’ve just added a peach pie recipe that takes only minutes to make. It’s one of two pie recipes I’ll be adding that you can eat as much as you want, is healthy and your whole family will enjoy. In fact, we had a similar version of this pie for dinner three times last week (we have lots of fresh peaches). Yes, a whole pie!

If you’re a Learn Healthy Meals member, you can view this recipe, plus all past videos at the site.

If you’re not a member, no worries, just visit:

http://www.LearnHealthyMeals.com

and try it out at no cost.

And later this month, I’ll be adding the one recipe that has been most responsible for diminishing cravings and hunger…and keeping me on track… the delicious hearty mixed veggie bowl coming later in June. I guarantee you haven’t seen anything like it! It can literally change your life.

Enjoy and always to your best health!

Mark

Your health and weight release coach
http://www.10in14.com
http://www.LearnHealthyMeals.com
http://www.HealthyLivingTalk.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 worse 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 videos 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.

It’s one of the more asked questions on the internet: How Can I Lose 10 Pounds?

It’s also one of the things so many of us struggle with every day.

But it doesn’t have to be difficult or a struggle.

You see, losing any amount of weight is simple if you know how. Of course everyone knows that you have to eat a healthy diet and exercise. But what’s healthy? What do you want to eat and what do you want to avoid?

What’s good exercise?

How do you handle the cravings? The emotional attachments to certain foods? The excess weight that you just can’t lose?

These are all issues that can derail your progress towards your optimal weight. Most books, guides and systems don’t address these vital issues.

About 5 years ago I was 50 pounds overweight and desperately looking for a solution. I had searched for, bought and tried most every system and plan on the market. I lost some weight, but it normally came back with a vengance. I wasn’t able to find that permanent solution and stop struggling.

All I wanted was to feel good, to feel confident and to be healthy at my optimal weight. I almost thought that this was as ‘good as it was going to get’!

Then I found the one ‘tweak’.

The one tweak no one has the courage to talk about.

No system I’ve reviewed includes this tweak, but it’s essential to permanent and healthy weight loss.

In a very short time I lost all my excess weight and now 3 1/2 years later have been within 1 pound of the same weight… every day.

Is this something that makes sense to you?

I just can’t do it justice here in a blog post, check it out:

http://www.10in14.com

There’s over 222 minutes of video and audio of my experience plus everything you’ll need to finally learn how to reach your optimal weight, lose your excess weight permanently.

I also believe in a totally natural approach so you won’t find anything but the truth behind permanent, natural weight loss. It works every time because it’s simple and natural.

To your best health!

Mark

Lose 10 Pounds in 14 Days

Even though the recession is relative (you only have to participate if YOU want to) there is good news… and from the media of all places :).

A recent poll of gym owners and members shows an increased trend of those visiting the gym to workout in this economy. 84% of those polled said that now is the best time to invest in their health and workout.

The trends also show people are spending less on entertainment and eating out.

Many gym owners are seeing full classes and more members working out than in the past. LifeTime Fitness in particular has seen a rise of 13% in new memberships and Town Sports showed club usage up 15%.

These are great trends and I hope to see them continue. If you wanted to learn more about how to workout at home, without the costs of a gym membership or expensive equipment, check out Roger’s Lightning Routines.

To your best health!

Mark Idzik

The largest and highest quality study about the relation between eating red and processed meat and longevity reports that there is about a 30% greater risk of dying prematurely.

The study included over half a million participants, more than any in the past, and recorded their levels of meat intake. The results were pretty clear and consistent with other studies and what I’ve been saying for many years… red and processed meat kills. The diseases most identified with read and processed meat consumption were cancer and cardiovascular disease.

Out of the more than 500,000 followed over a 10 year period, 71,252 died prematurely as a result of excess red and processed meat consumption that resulted in cancer or cardiovascular disease.

By comparison, those eating a plant based diet had the least incidents of disease, consistent with previous studies that reported a vegetable based diet was the most heart healthy.

Similarly, another study, the Oxford Vegetarian Study, followed 15,000 subjects and found that meat eaters are twice as likely to die from heart disease, have a 60 percent greater risk of dying from cancer and a 30 percent higher risk of death from other causes.

While the statistics are important, there were other revealing parts of the study most have not reported.

The report also indicated that red meat eaters tended to be married, more likely white, more likely smokers, have higher body mass index, have a higher daily intake of total and saturated fat, had lower activity levels, lower intake of plant foods (fruits and vegetables) as well as vitamins.

Another interesting aspect of the report was that there was an increased risk associated with death from injuries and sudden death with higher consumption of red meat which I found interesting.

Red meat is red animal meat, and processed meats include sausages, hams, bacon, deli meats, hot dogs, cold cuts, hamburger and many other meats that could also be classified as red meats.

Bottom line is as I’ve always suggested, if you’d like to live longer, have more energy, reduce the risk of most any disease, avoid red and processed meats. Now the statistics confirm the recommendations.

Unfortunately, the study recommends eating a variety of other animal foods which will still kill you, just a little slower. The best diet is a mostly plant based diet that will give you the most energy, prolong your life, reduce risk of most every disease and allow you to attain your optimal weight and health. If you’re wondering what plant based meals you can add to your diet get specific meal plans and exclusive recipe videos at Learn Healthy Meals.

To read the study abstract visit the Archives of Internal Medicine.

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One of the questions I get most often when speaking about weight loss, overcoming health issues, more energy or just feeling better is ‘what do I eat?’. ‘I need healthy meal ideas!’

I found that once you learned about the truly healthy foods, what to stick with and what to stay away from, it gets easier to figure out. So over the years, I’ve been testing recipe meals from all over the world, hand picking only the most healthy and video taped the best.

Since research and experience has shown that plant based meals are the healthiest, all recipes are vegetarian and are simple to make in under 10 minutes.

With this new resource you can tap into to get not only fast and easy to make, delicious and truly healthy meals, but also eating tips, shopping tips, exclusive recipe videos, meal plans, tips for helping children make better eating choices, healthy kitchen setup, articles and much more at: Learn Healthy Meals. Whether or not you want to just add a few more healthy meals to your diet, or transition your entire diet, you’ll find exactly what you need.

Preview some of the recipes featured in this quick video.

To learn more visit: www.LearnHealthyMeals.com

 A petition calling for a revolutionary approach to health care reform was launched today by Mike Adams of NaturalNews.com, a natural health and information website.

Here’s more from Mike Adams:

The petition — which is endorsed by NaturalNews, the Organic Consumers Association, the Life Extension Foundation, the American Association for Health Freedom and other health freedom groups — calls for an end to FDA and FTC oppression of free speech about dietary supplements. Its ten provisions also call for full income tax deductions on health-enhancing products and services, a halt to the psychiatric drugging of children, the end of mandatory vaccination policies and the legalization of healing practices across the country. (The carrying out of natural anti-cancer therapies, for example, is currently outlawed in the United States.)

The banning of GMOs from the food supply and the requirement that the EPA investigate the environmental impact of discarded pharmaceuticals is also in the petition. In all, it calls for an end to the era of Big Pharma domination over health care and usher in a new era of nutrition-oriented, preventive health care strategies that can prevent as much as 70 percent of degenerative disease in America today, saving the nation hundreds of billions of dollars in “disease maintenance” costs.

Notably, the petition also calls for an “immediate investigation” into a revolutionary new health care system developed by Mike Adams, called Citizens In Charge. This system eliminates all health insurance, provides health care coverage to all U.S. residents, proactively invests in disease prevention, eliminates wasteful paperwork and health care administration, drastically reduces health care costs, eliminates virtually all government intervention in health care and produces far better health care outcomes at significantly reduced costs.

The “Citizens In Charge” health care system is characterized as a “socialized-free-market” system of health care coverage, combining the universal coverage of socialized medicine with the personal economic decisions of free market behavior. The system also sports a national database of health service providers where the quality of their services is rated by customers. The result? A national knowledge base of customer-generated ratings of what really works to improve health care outcomes at reduced costs.

To learn more and make your voice heard, visit the Health Revolution web site.

This story is heartbreaking. Ashley Ryburn got the Gardasil HPV vaccine as recommended by doctors nationwide. Then something went wrong. Her whole life has been turned upsidedown. She’s no longer a happy, healthy young teenager. She is in pain. She has ‘episodes’ regularly. She gets tired and needs to sleep. She’s on many different medications just to control her symptoms. She can no longer bike, run around or exercise. Listen to her story in her own words and then consider if getting a vaccine of any kind is the right thing to do. For yourself or your child.

Also, here are some quotes regarding children and vaccinations compiled by Mike Adams of NaturalNews.com.

“Recent evidence indicates that routine childhood vaccinations contribute to the emergence of chronic allergic problems such as eczema, ear infections, and asthma. While this contention is controversial, a growing number of scientists and physicians maintain that most standard vaccinations permanently disturb the developing immune system, setting the stage for hypersensitive reactions to foods and other common substances. In fact, childhood illnesses such as measles, mumps, and whooping cough may actually reduce the risk of allergy, says Konrad Kail, N.D.”
- Alternative Medicine the Definitive Guide, Second Edition by Larry Trivieri, Jr.

Childhood vaccinations may also be one element that contributes to allergy, in a way that is similar to the mechanisms of the hygiene hypothesis. The vaccinations that prevent childhood illnesses may actually be making children more vulnerable to allergic disorders, by changing the natural function of their immune systems. Specifically, the vaccinations appear to make kids’ immune systems too Th-2 skewed, with a relative deficit of Th-1 activity.
- Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders by Kenneth Bock

A beautiful young girl developed MS a few months after a series of smallpox vaccinations that were given to try to “boost” her immune system; she tried every dietary and herbal cure on earth to stem the inexorable disease; but none worked. My heart ached as I saw her come to my classes each time weaker and weaker, and finally in a wheelchair, unable to focus her eyes or to write. I think it’s not unreasonable to suspect that all the tampering and the “boosting” and the chemical intervention in the immune system can cause that damage.
- Food and Healing by Annemarie Colbin

The use of High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) has grown exponentially over the past few decades as a replacement for sugar in processed foods.

Besides the inherent health dangers of HFCS itself, a recent study published in Environmental Health by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) found Mercury in more than 1/3 of popular processed foods that contained HFCS as the first or second ingredient. “Mercury is toxic in all its forms”, noted the co-author David Wallinga, MD.

HFCS is normally found in breads, sweetened beverages, cereals, breakfast bars, yogurt, soups, luncheon meats, dressings, condiments and many other processed foods. Americans consume on average about 12 teaspoons of HFCS a day, and teenagers and high consumption consumers can consume 80% over this average. That’s a lot of HFCS, and now we know, a lot of Mercury intake.

The best alternative for your health is to avoid processed foods completely. If you do eat processed foods, carefully inspect the labels and at least avoid those containing HFCS.

To your best health!
Mark

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> How Many Meals To Good (or Bad) Health?

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This parody of the way American’s eat is right on, and quite funny although there’s more truth to this than meets the eye. Enjoy learning how the fast food industry will help you eat more of their food, with no effort at all. Read the rest of this entry »