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Weight Loss

Natural Health Technologies Clinic
Eat for Life… Weight Loss Program

Can't Lose Weight?
It's NOT Your Fault!

We identify and treat the causes of weight gain or the inability to lose weight! We treat the weight gain epidemic like it’s a disease. We identify and treat the cause not just the symptoms of weight gain.

About 61% of Americans, or 127 million people, weigh too much, according to the latest government statistics.

The reason for so many fad diets is that none of them treat the causes of weight gain

Oh sure, sometimes you can lose some weight but you can’t keep the weight off!!!!

Why? Because fad diets treat the symptoms of weight gain not the cause of weight gain.

Unless you identify and treat the cause of your weight gain or what’s causing you to not lose weight you will keep chasing the latest fad diet and you well get heavier and heavier and weight loss will become more and more difficult!

Possible Hidden Causes of
Weight Gain
or the
Inability to Lose Weight

Pre-Diabetic Conditions:
High blood sugar High insulin, insulin resistance.

Organ Dysfunction:
Thyroid, gallbladder, kidney, pancreas dysfunction
Toxic liver and or fatty liver

Digestive Disorders:
Lack of digestive enzymes and or stomach acid
Leaky gut (intestinal permeability)

Colon Disorders:
Constipation, IBS

Allergies
Especially wheat and dairy allergies

Sedentary Life Style
Some kind of exercise is required for weight loss and in particular to maintain weight loss.

For an appointment for our Eat for Life weight loss program call (253) 564-9223.

Natural Health Technologies Clinic
Eat for Life… Weight Loss Program
“We Identify and Treat the Cause of Weight Gain”

First. Weight loss Tests
At our clinic you well receive a series of in-house tests to help identify the cause or causes of your weight gain or your inability to lose weight.**

Second. Customized Eat for Life Program
Based on the information from the tests you well receive personalized dietary recommendations and nutritional supplement and exercise recommendations.

Third. Monitor Weight Loss Progress
We will measure and monitor your progress to reach your ideal weight and improve your health.

Our in-house tests listed below helps to identify the organs or systems of your body that’s causing your weight gain and or your inability to lose weight.

	Pre Screen Body Chemistry Body mass index Percent of body fat Percent lean body mass Metabolic rate Protein absorption Fluid retention Toxic load Mineral deficiency

	Pre Screen for digestive organ dysfunction Pancreas Liver Gallbladder Stomach Large intestine Small intestine

	Pre Screen for other dysfunction’s that can contribute to weight gain Leaky gut (intestinal permeability) Inflammation Thyroid

	Pre Screen blood sugar (glucose test) Pre-diabetic screen High blood sugar screen Low blood sugar screen

**Outside lab tests are sometimes recommended and or required to insure proper weight loss and good health

Natural Health Technologies Clinic
Center for Digestive and Colon health
(253) 564-9223

The primary concern of being overweight is one of health and not appearance.

Health Risks Associated With Being Overweight

“Over 300,000 US deaths each year are associated with being overweight”**

“Overweight and obesity is a public health crisis. If the rate of obesity and
overweight continues at this pace, by 2015, 75 percent of adults and nearly
24 percent of US children and adolescents will be overweight or obese."

Also it could well be that being overweight and or obese well
become the leading preventable cause of death.

Overweight and Obesity is associated with an increased risk of:*


	• premature death • type 2 diabetes • heart disease • stroke • hypertension • gallbladder disease • osteoarthritis (degeneration of cartilage and bone in joints) • sleep apnea • asthma • cancer (endometrial, colon, kidney, gallbladder, and postmenopausal breast cancer) • infertility	• high blood cholesterol • complications of pregnancy • menstrual irregularities • hirsutism (presence of excess body and facial hair) • stress incontinence (urine leakage caused by weak pelvic-floor muscles) • increased surgical risk • psychological disorders such as depression • psychological difficulties due to social stigmatization

*From "The Surgeon General's Call To Action To Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity"
**A study published in JAMA in November of 1993 ("Dietary Factors and Sedentary Lifestyle," McGinnis-Foege) found that "300,000 people die each year from illness related to \| dietary factors and sedentary lifestyle."


Eat for Life… Health and Weight Loss Program Lose Weight Gain Health (253) 564-9223
The first visit. Your first visit will be about an hour and forty five minuets. There are four initial tests. These tests are the first part of our multi stage *Eat for Life Healthy Weight Loss Program. The tests are simple, safe, natural methods of evaluating your body’s chemistry and the functional health of the major organs and systems of your body and can provide an indication the causes of your weight gain or inability to lose weight plus your body's structural, physical and nutritional needs. We take into consideration any symptoms you may be experiencing, lifestyle factors, or anything that could be interfering with your ability to lose weight and gain health. At a later time standard lab tests may be needed to complete the assessment. Report of Finding (ROF) 2nd visit. Based on the results of your evaluation, the physician, in concert with our clinical team, will develop your individualized health and weight loss program including dietary, supplement and exercise recommendations plus a discussion of any emotional or physical treatments you may require. Follow up visits.* In these sessions we will review and monitor the results of your ability to lose weight and gain health and address any issues to overcome that are roadblocks to your progress.

	Success Story I came to Natural Health Technologies for a quick fix to loosing weight. What I learned was that there is no “quick fix.” Healthy living is a constant present factor that is part of everyday living and weight loss.. I have been dieting for 30 years. I have ignored the facts of actively participating in my health. Now I cannot ignore it any longer. NHT made it perfectly clear that weight loss begins in the mind with information and education. My new outlook puts my eating and exercise at the top of my priority list. Thank you NHT! Karen P.

How the Eat for Life Health and Weight Loss Program is different from other weight loss programs or healthcare practices.

First of all we are an alternative healthcare clinic. We do not separate weight loss form health. Our goal is to help one lose weight while gaining health.

• We take the time to listen. Our practitioners schedule more time with you than a typical nutritionist or doctor visit for a good reason. To truly understand your condition and to help you attain healthy weight loss takes time and we go the extra mile for our patients. But it’s worth the time an effort. You heard the saying “when you have your health you have everything” Ask a person suffering from obesity or a stroke what they think of that saying!

• We treat the cause. Our philosophy is to help you find and understand the hidden causes of your weight gain and health challenges you are experiencing and create a customized treatment plan for you. What doctor, weight loss factory, has ever told you that they were going to take the time to identify the underlying cause of your weight gain and were going to measure and monitor the changes in your bodies chemistry, body fat, lean body mass etc, as you lose weight and gain health.

• Make health, not weight loss, your goal. If you set a healthy lifestyle as your goal, you are more likely to succeed in both improving your health and attaining permanent weight loss. Don't be too anxious to drop pounds right away. Enjoying the experience is crucial. You want to associate the experience of reaching a healthy weight with that of healthy eating. It may take a few months longer, but it will ensure that you'll never have to lose weight again.

• We use the healing power of nature with dietary recommendations based on natural food choices (not costly commercially made food products to buy) lifestyle changes and natural remedies that stimulate the vital force of the body to help you loose weight while restoring health.

• Never Diet Again. Most diets involve eating in a significantly different way from how you intend to eat when not "dieting." People count the days until they are released from this type of gastronomic prison. They do not associate the benefit of weight loss with learning proper eating habits -- changing tastes, desires, and attitudes -- but rather with the artificial eating patterns that they are anxious to leave…..It's not enough to make proper food choices (that don’t cause weight gain) and exercise for only a few weeks or even several months. You have to include these behaviors into your life. To do that, you have to change (not go back) the behaviors that helped make you overweight in the first place.

Success Story

Natural Health Technologies problem-solving approach is perfect for someone like me, a high achiever in all other aspects of my life. I thought I knew what the problems were that was causing my weight gain. Was I ever wrong! The re-education I received on just the first visit about weight gain was amazing. In three month I lost 8 pounds, 9 pounds of fat and gained 4 pound of healthy lean body mass plus an education that will help me make wise decisions the rest of my life. Keep up the good work.

Clint L

Our Eat for Life and Health Weight Loss Program is a customized easy to follow step by step program designed to, balance your blood sugar, reduce elevated insulin levels, controlled weight and fat loss, profoundly enhance mental clarity, improve muscle tone, reduce serum cholesterol, increase mental alertness, lower blood pressure and promote a longer, healthier way of life.

THE PROGRAM COST

First Visit. Four initial tests.	Approximately 2 hours	$150.00
Report of Findings.	Approximately 1 hour	$55.00
Follow up. Nutritionist Visits	20 minutes.	$45 per visit

For an appointment call Natural Health Technologies
(253) 564-9223

One of the more important concepts in developing any weight loss plan is stable blood sugar. What does a stable blood sugar level mean and how is it important in a healthy weight loss program?

Why those with high blood sugar levels get fat.

We're constantly told that carbohydrates are the good guys of nutrition, and that, if we eat large amounts of them, the world should be a better place. In such a world, the experts tell us, there will be no heart disease and no obesity.

Under such guidance, Americans are gobbling breads, cereals, and pastas as if there were no tomorrow, trying desperately to reach that 80 to 85 percent of total calories advocated by the high-carb extremists. This creates a terrible paradox: people are eating less fat and getting fatter!

No medical authority will tell you that excess body fat makes you healthier. There is but one alarming conclusion to reach: a high-carbohydrate, low-fat diet may be dangerous to your health.

Eating fat does not make you fat. It's your body's response to excess carbohydrates in your diet that makes you fat.

Overeating carbohydrate foods can prevent a higher percentage of fats from being used for energy, and lead to a decrease in endurance and an increase in fat storage.

Eating fat does not make you fat. It's your body's response to excess carbohydrates in your diet that makes you fat. Your body has a limited capacity to store excess carbohydrates, but it can easily convert those excess carbohydrates into excess body fat.

It's hard to lose weight by simply restricting calories. Eating less and losing excess body fat do not automatically go hand in hand.

Low-calorie, high-carbohydrate diets generate a series of biochemical signals in your body that will take you out of the balance, making it more difficult to access stored body fat for energy. Result: you'll reach a weight-loss plateau, beyond which you simply can't lose any more weight.

Diets based on choice restriction and calorie limits usually fail. People on restrictive diets get tired of feeling hungry and deprived. They go off their diets, put the weight back on (primarily as increased body fat), and then feel bad about themselves for not having enough will power, discipline, or motivation.

Weight loss has little to do with willpower. What you need is the power of information, not will power.

If you change what you eat, you don't have to be overly concerned about how much you eat. Adhering to a diet of low carbohydrate meals, you can eat enough to feel satisfied and still wind up losing fat and gaining health-without obsessively counting calories or fat grams.

Unfortunately, many people don't really know what a carbohydrate is. Most people will say carbohydrates are sweets and pasta. Ask them what a vegetable or fruit is, and they'll probably reply that it's a vegetable or fruit-as if that were a food type all its own, a food type that they can eat in unlimited amounts without gaining weight.

Well, this may come as a surprise, but all of the above-sweets and pasta, vegetables and fruits-are carbohydrates.

Of course, we all need a certain amount of carbohydrates in our diet. The body requires a continual intake of carbohydrates to feed the brain, which uses glucose (a form of sugar) as its primary energy source.

In fact, the brain is a virtual glucose hog, gobbling more than two thirds of the circulating carbohydrates in the bloodstream while you are at rest. To feed this glucose hog, the body continually takes carbohydrates and converts them to glucose.

It's actually a bit more complicated than that. Any carbohydrates not immediately used by the body will be stored in the form of glycogen.

The body has two storage sites for glycogen: the liver and the muscles. The glycogen stored in the muscles is inaccessible to the brain. Only the glycogen stored in the liver can be broken down and sent back to the bloodstream so as to maintain adequate blood sugar levels for proper brain function.

The liver's capacity to store carbohydrates in the form of glycogen is very limited and can be easily depleted within ten to twelve hours. So the liver's glycogen reserves must be maintained on a continual basis. That's why we eat carbohydrates.

The question no one has bothered to ask until now is this: what happens when you eat too much carbohydrate? Here's the answer: whether it's being stored in the liver or the muscles, the total storage capacity of the body for carbohydrate is really quite limited.

If you're an average person, you can store about three hundred to four hundred grams of carbohydrate in your muscles, but you can't get at that carbohydrate. In the liver, where carbohydrates are accessible for glucose conversion, you can store only about sixty to ninety grams.

This is equivalent to about two cups of cooked pasta or three typical candy bars, and it represents your total reserve capacity to keep the brain working properly.

Once the glycogen levels are filled in both the liver and the muscles, excess carbohydrates have just one fate: to be converted into fat and stored in the adipose, that is, fatty, tissue.

In a nutshell, even though carbohydrates themselves are fat-free, excess carbohydrates ends up as excess fat. That's not the worst of it. Any meal or snack high in carbohydrates will generate a rapid rise in blood glucose. To adjust for this rapid rise, the pancreas secretes the hormone insulin into the bloodstream. Insulin then lowers the levels of blood glucose.

The problem is that insulin is essentially a storage hormone, evolved to put aside excess carbohydrate calories in the form of fat in case of future famine. So the insulin that's stimulated by excess carbohydrates aggressively promotes the accumulation of body fat.

In other words, when we eat too much carbohydrate, we're essentially sending a hormonal message, via insulin, to the body (actually, to the adipose cells). The message: "Store fat." Hold on; it gets even worse. Not only do increased insulin levels tell the body to store carbohydrates as fat, they also tell it not to release any stored fat. This makes it impossible for you to use your own stored body fat for energy.
So the excess carbohydrates in your diet not only make you fat, they make sure you stay fat. It's a double whammy, and it can be lethal.

Insulin is released by the pancreas after you eat carbohydrates. This causes a rise in blood sugar. Insulin assures your cells receive some blood sugar necessary for life, and increases glycogen storage. However, it also drives your body to use more carbohydrate, and less fat, as fuel. And, insulin converts almost half of your dietary carbohydrate to fat for storage. If you want to use more fats for energy, the insulin response must be moderated. Diets high in refined sugars release more insulin thereby allowing less stored fat to be burned. High insulin levels also suppress two important hormones: glucagon and growth hormone. Glucagon promotes the burning of fat and sugar. Growth hormone is used for muscle development and building new muscle mass.

Insulin also causes hunger As blood sugar increases following a carbohydrate meal, insulin rises with the eventual result of lower blood sugar. This results in hunger, often only a couple of hours (or less) after the meal. Cravings, usually for sweets, are frequently part of this cycle, leading you to resort to snacking, often on more carbohydrates. Not eating makes you feel ravenous shaky, moody and ready to "crash." If the problem is chronic, you never get rid of that extra stored fat, and your energy is adversely affected. Does this sound like you? The best suggestion for anyone wanting to utilize more fats is to moderate the insulin response by limiting (ideally, eliminating) the intake of refined sugars, and keeping all other carbohydrate intake to about 40% of the diet. Generally, non-carbohydrate foods-proteins and fats-don't produce much insulin. Insulin responses can vary greatly from person to person. But generally, more refined foods evoke a stronger and/or more rapid insulin reaction. One reason for this is refined carbohydrates lack the natural fiber which helps minimize the carbohydrate/insulin response. Consumption of a certain level of natural fiber with carbohydrates can reduce the extreme blood sugar reactions described above. Low-fat diets cause quicker digestion and absorption of carbohydrates in the form of sugar. By adding some fats to the diet, digestion and absorption is slower, and the insulin reaction is moderated. By moderating carbohydrate intake you can increase your fat burning as an optimal and efficient source of almost unlimited energy.

Insulin Resistance a Pre-Diabetes Condition Perhaps a third to a half or more of our population is unable to process carbohydrates-sugars and starches efficiently. This can cause high blood sugar levels and a Pre-Diabetes condition termed insulin resistance or IR If you are a type two diabetic you have full blown IR. Like many problems, IR is an individual one, affecting different people different ways. You must determine if you are carbohydrate intolerant (a pre-diabetic condition) and if so, to what degree. WE can provide you with in house testing and outside lab testing to determine to what degree you might have insulin resistance. Remember insulin resistance means weight loss resistance. As we now know, insulin has many functions. While it can't get glucose into the cells efficiently when they're in a state of insulin resistance, insulin still performs its other tasks, including converting carbohydrates to fat and inhibiting stored fat from being burned. Don't think of IR itself as a disease, although left unchecked, it can create problems that lead to disease. It may be quite normal for some humans to be unable to eat large or even moderate amounts of carbohydrates. With the onset of modern civilization about 5,000 years ago, our physiology suddenly was asked to digest and metabolize larger amounts of sugar and starch especially refined sugars. But if we are unable to utilize the amount of carbohydrates we eat, certain symptoms will develop.

Insulin and insulin resistance

Each time we eat, insulin is released into the bloodstream. This vital hormone, secreted by special cells in the pancreas, encourages our tissues - our muscles in particular - to gobble up the glucose surging through the bloodstream after we eat a meal.

That's good news, because glucose hanging around in the blood is dangerous stuff. It can stick to proteins and destroy their ability to do their job. Kidney damage, blindness, and amputations may result.

But insulin has many other vital roles. After a meal, insulin stops the liver from releasing any fat, a potential metabolic fuel, into the blood. Why after a meal? It turns out that just like glucose, these fats, released as triglycerides, are dangerous if they hang about in the blood too long.

In some organisms, insulin plays the role of controlling their lifespan. What is the purpose of insulin in humans? If you ask your physician, they will say that the role of insulin is to lower blood sugar and you must learn right now, that is just one of insulin's many roles.

Insulin, sugar, and glycogen

When your body notices that the sugar level is elevated, it is a sign that you have more sugar than you need right now, your body is not burning it and therefore it is accumulating in your blood. So insulin is released to take that sugar and store it. How does it store it? Glycogen? Your body stores very little glycogen at any one time. All the glycogen stored in your liver and muscles would not last you through 1 active day. Once you have filled up your glycogen stores, that sugar is stored as saturated fat.

So the idea of medical professionals recommending a high complex-carbohydrate, low-saturated-fat diet is absolutely a mistake. A high complex-carbohydrate diet is nothing more than a high-glucose diet, or a high-sugar diet.

Your body's principal way of getting rid of sugar, because it is toxic, is to burn it. The sugar which your body can't burn will be rid of by storing it as glycogen, and when those glycogen reserves are full, sugar gets stored as fat. If you eat sugar your body will burn it and you stop burning fat. Another major effect of insulin on fat is it prevents you from burning it. What happens when you are insulin resistant and you have all this insulin floating around all the time? You wake up in the morning with an insulin level of 90.

Insulin resistance

When your cells are exposed to insulin at all, they get a little bit more resistant to it. So the pancreas just puts out more insulin. Cells become insulin resistant because they are trying to protect themselves from the toxic effects of high insulin. They down-regulate their receptor activity and number of receptors so that they don't have to be subjected to all that stimuli all the time.

Different cells respond to insulin differently. Some cells are more resistant than others, as some cells are incapable of becoming very resistant. The liver becomes resistant first, followed by the muscle tissue and lastly the fats. As all these major tissues, become insulin resistant your pancreas is putting out more insulin to compensate. Any time your cell is exposed to insulin it is going to become more insulin resistant. That is inevitable, we cannot stop this process, but the rate we can control.

But the pancreas can't always keep up that high level of insulin production forever. Once the production of insulin starts slowing down, or the resistance goes up, then blood sugar goes up and the person becomes a diabetic.

"Insulin resistance syndrome" refers to a combination of risk factors for type 2 diabetes, including chronically elevated insulin levels, low HDL ("good") cholesterol, abdominal obesity and high blood pressure.

Excessive intake of all carbohydrates, especially the high-glycemic type, is the primary culprit in the development of insulin resistance.

Type 2 diabetes occurs when the body no longer responds to insulin. As a result, levels of insulin in the blood become elevated and over time, can raise the risk for kidney failure and blindness, as well as heart disease.

A recent study(4) has found that insulin resistance syndrome, or "syndrome X," is found in families with a history of early heart disease - a heart attack or blood vessel blockage before age 55 in men and before age 65 in women.

Symptoms of insulin resistance

Below is a list of some of the most common complaints of people with IR Many symptoms occur immediately following a meal of carbohydrates, and others are constant. Keep in mind that these symptoms may also be related to other problems.

1. Fatigue. Whether you call it fatigue or exhaustion, the most common feature of IR is that it wears people out. Some are tired just in the morning or afternoon; others are exhausted all day.

2. Brain fogginess. Sometimes the fatigue of IR is physical, but often it's mental (as opposed to psychological); the inability to concentrate is the most evident symptom. Loss of creativity, poor memory, failing or poor grades in school often accompany IR, as do various forms of "learning disabilities."

3. Low blood sugar. Brief, mild periods of low blood sugar are normal during the day, especially if meals are not eaten on a regular schedule. But prolonged periods of this "hypoglycemia," accompanied by many of the symptoms listed here, especially mental and physical fatigue, are not normal.

Feeling jittery agitated and moody is common in IR, with an almost immediate relief once food is eaten. Dizziness is also common, as is the craving for sweets, chocolate or caffeine.

These bouts occur more frequently before meals or first thing in the morning. The old hypoglycemic diet, still in use today, recommends frequent snacks, and individuals with IR usually know to eat often. However, the hypoglycemic diet contains too much carbohydrate for most IR people.

4. Intestinal bloating. Most intestinal gas is produced from dietary carbohydrates. IR sufferers who eat carbohydrates suffer from gas, lots of it. Antacids or other remedies for symptomatic relief, are not very successful in dealing with the problem.
Sometimes the intestinal distress becomes quite severe, resulting in a diagnosis of "colitis" or "ileitis," although this is usually not a true disease state. However, IR is often associated with true gastrointestinal disease, which must be differentiated from simple intestinal bloating.

5. Sleepiness. Many people with IR get sleepy immediately after meals containing more than 20% or 30% carbohydrates. This is typically a pasta meal, or even a meat meal which includes bread or potatoes and a sweet dessert.

6. Increased fat storage and weight. For most people, too much weight is too much fat. In males, a large abdomen is the more evident and earliest sign of IR. In females, it's prominent buttocks, frequently accompanied by "chipmunk cheeks."

7. Increased triglycerides. High triglycerides in the blood are often seen in overweight persons. But even those who are not too fat may have stores of fat in their arteries as a result of IR.

These triglycerides are the direct result of carbohydrates from the diet being converted by insulin. In my experience, fasting triglyceride levels over 100 may be an indication of a carbohydrate problem, even though 100 is in the so-called "normal" range.

8. Increased blood pressure. It is well known that most people with hypertension have too much insulin and are IR. It is often possible to show a direct relationship between the level of insulin and the level of blood pressure: as insulin levels elevate, so does blood pressure.

9. Depression. Because carbohydrates are a natural "downer," depressing the brain, it is not uncommon to see many depressed persons also having IR.

Carbohydrates do this by changing the brain chemistry. Carbohydrates increase serotonin, which produces a depressing or sleepy feeling. This is the reason nice hotels place candy on your pillow in the evening; it literally helps you sleep. (Protein, on the other hand, is a brain stimulant, picking you up mentally.)

Here's another example of how trends distort the real picture: many people have been taught that sugar is stimulating. This is a significant consideration for those trying to learn, whether at school, home or work.)

10. Insulin Resistance is also prevalent in persons addicted to alcohol, caffeine, cigarettes or other drugs. Often, the drug is the secondary problem, with IR being the primary one. Treating this primary problem should obviously be a major focus of any therapy.

IR sufferers may have other symptoms as well. However, when a person with this problem finally lowers carbohydrate intake to tolerable levels, many if not most of the other symptoms may disappear.

With the stress of IR eliminated, the body is finally able to correct many of its own problems. It is possible, although unlikely, that so many of these symptoms can be found in someone who tolerates carbohydrates quite well.

Our nutritionist can provide you with a complete personalized step by step program to control blood sugars- lose weight and gain health. Besides dietary and exercise recommendations we test and monitor your blood sugar levels, weight loss, measure per cent of fat and lean body mass and for more difficult cases insulin resistance. For more information call (253) 564-9223

High levels of insulin cause several problems: one of them is high blood pressure.

One of the roles of insulin is to assist the storing of excess nutrients. Insulin plays a role in storing magnesium. But if your cells become resistant to insulin, you can't store magnesium so you lose it through urination.

Intra-cellular magnesium relaxes muscles. What happens when you can't store magnesium because the cell is resistant? You lose magnesium and your blood vessels constrict. This causes an increase in blood pressure.

Insulin also causes the retention of sodium, which causes fluid retention, which causes high blood pressure and congestive heart failure.

Centenarians, people who have lived over 100 years, don't have much in common. Many are smokers, for example. They come from all over the world without a favoring any geographic location in particular.

However, there are 3 consistent blood metabolic indicators of all centenarians which are relatively consistent: low sugar, low triglycerides, and low insulin. Among these 3 variables, insulin is the common denominator. The level of insulin sensitivity of the cell is one of the most important markers of lifespan.

Controlling your insulin levels is one of the most powerful anti-aging strategies you can possibly implement. Sugar and grains cause your body to produce insulin and high insulin levels are the single largest physical cause of accelerated aging. If you want to slow down aging and be healthy then you need to change your grains for greens.

Insulin resistance is the basis of all of the chronic diseases of aging, cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, obesity, diabetes, cancer, all the so-called chronic diseases of aging.

Fortunately insulin is the variable most easily influenced by a healthy diet and exercise. Traditional doctors will prescribe drugs to lower blood sugar in type 2 diabetics and give verbal acknowledgment to exercise.

A low grain, no sugar diet is one of the most effective ways to lower one's insulin levels. This is especially effective when combined with an aerobic exercise program which increases the heart rate to about 75% of its maximum and maintains it there for 45 minutes, 5 times a week.

Your goals should be: Reduce insulin levels as much as possible, through diet and exercise, and control your weight. 90% of those with insulin resistance are obese.

Natural Health Technologies Clinic
Colon and Digestive Health Center
1215 Regents Blvd. Suite B-1
Tacoma Washington 98466
(253) 564-9223

References
(1) Diabetes Care 2000;23:1348-1352
(2) Annual meeting of American Society of Clinical Oncology, New Orleans, May 23
(3) National Cancer Institute 2002 September 4;94(17):1293-300
(4) Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology August 2001;21:1346-1352

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