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July 5, 2011  In This Issue... - Ready To Lose Weight Without Feeling Hungry? Discover 4 Foods To Never Eat and 4 Foods to Put Your Metabolism on Overdrive!
- Latest (and Greatest) Heart Disease Test
- Drug-Free Treatment Reverses Even Bone-on-Bone Arthritis...
- Chocolate: Even Healthier Than You Knew
- Pick Your No's
Ready To Lose Weight without feeling hungry? Discover 4 Foods To Never Eat and 4 Foods to Put Your Metabolism on Overdrive! If you are 1 of the millions of people who has struggled to lose weight in the past, you may be eating "so-called" healthy foods which are actually keeping the pounds on. Put an end to frustrating yo-yo dieting and start eating real, delicious and enjoyable food right now while burning fat off each and every week. - Avoid foods which are making you gain weight and not nearly as healthy as you've been lead to believe
- Eat foods like bacon, breads and tons of delicious carbohydrates each day
- Feel full, satisfied and energized after each and every meal
- See your body change quickly and permanently while still eating the foods you love
Watch this informative video to learn exactly which foods are the ones you need to eat in order to lose fat and keep it off. You may be doing just the opposite of what you should be doing and torturing yourself in the process. This video is completely free and can be accessed right HERE.
Latest (and Greatest) Heart Disease Test Picture this -- you’re feeling healthy, then at a routine physical your doctor finds a substance in your blood that means you have a high likelihood of dying from heart disease many years down the road. But there’s good news, too -- your doctor will be able to warn you while the condition is still at a very early stage. Good nutrition, proper medication and vigilance may keep it from developing further. Sounds good, doesn’t it? We’re not there yet... but we’re getting close! Researchers have developed a new blood test that detects subtle damage to the heart, thus serving as an early alert to the very beginning of heart disease. This is quite important because the sad truth is that many people who die of heart disease do not have obvious risk factors, such as obesity, diabetes or high blood pressure. How Do the Researchers Know? The test detects a blood protein called cardiac troponin T (cTnT), which heart muscle cells release in response to heart damage due to a lifestyle that strains the heart muscle -- or due to genetic vulnerability. In fact, this is the same protein that emergency physicians look for to determine whether or not a patient actually has had a heart attack. But the test used for the studies is up to 10 times more sensitive than the old version. This means that it is usually able to detect cTnT long before a person is in any real danger. Two major medical centers -- The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and the University of Maryland School of Medicine -- conducted studies on the new test, both coauthored by James A. de Lemos, MD, of Southwestern. Although the test is still in the research phase, he’s quite optimistic about it, noting that it’s a more useful measure than what’s currently available for early diagnosis of heart disease. For example, one way a doctor can screen you for heart disease today is to check your level of C-reactive protein... but this only indicates general inflammation in the body, not heart damage in particular. The studies: In Maryland, researchers measured the cTnT levels in the 20-year-old blood samples of more than 5,000 people ages 65 and over who, at the time their blood samples were taken, had no signs of heart disease. Researchers also examined the participants' medical records over the two decades since the blood had been drawn, looking for the onset of heart disease and/or death. What they found was that participants with the highest blood levels of cTnT 20 years before were four times more likely to have developed heart failure -- and also four times more likely to have died from cardiovascular causes -- than those in the group with the lowest cTnT. Meanwhile, the Southwestern study measured cTnT levels in blood obtained between 2000 and 2002 from 3,500 people, ages 30 to 65, and found that over the course of seven years, those with the highest levels were almost 15 times more likely to have died, though this test included deaths by all causes. Can You Get This Test? Unfortunately, it may be a few years before this test can be put to practical use because more research must be done on how to best evaluate its results. Meanwhile, Dr. de Lemos recommends increasing exercise, specifically aerobic activity to strengthen your heart, and also making sure that blood pressure and other risk factors are under optimal control. Start taking care of yourself right now as Dr. de Lemos advised, and it is likely that when the test does come out, your level will have already improved! Source(s):
James A. de Lemos, MD, professor of internal medicine and cardiology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas.
Drug-Free Treatment Reverses Even Bone-on-Bone Arthritis... "Bone-on-bone" is the term doctors use for the last agonizing stage of arthritis. Your cartilage is totally ground away. Steroids and supplements are pointless. Alice was told her only hope was total knee replacement. Yet thanks to a brilliant physician, she skipped the surgery and feels like new. That's right. Alice licked "bone-on-bone" arthritis without surgery or drugs. And she did so with astonishing speed. In fact, not long after seeing this doctor, she left on a three-week shopping vacation -- then returned to the doctor's office with gifts for the entire staff and pronounced herself pain-free! What's the secret? Learn more...
Chocolate: Even Healthier Than You Knew One of my coworkers has a secret stash in her bottom desk drawer. Where the characters in Mad Men keep bottles of Scotch, she hoards piles of chocolate bars, truffles and kisses that would make Willy Wonka envious. As we all happily know by now, numerous studies vindicate my friend’s sweet tooth -- trial after trial confirms that healthful components in chocolate and cocoa can be helpful for everything from heart disease to brain function (assuming that we don’t overindulge, of course). So, here’s the latest good news for my coworker and all you chocoholics -- now researchers are finding that chocolate can help sharpen your eyes… and even cure a cough! Sharpen Your Eyes and Mind In a small study at the University of Reading in the UK reported in the June 2011 issue of Physiology & Behavior, dark chocolate beat white chocolate (used as a control) in tests of vision and memory and reaction time tasks. Researchers had 30 volunteers aged 18 to 25 consume two different candy bars -- a 35-gram (about 1.25 ounces) commercially available dark chocolate bar containing 773 milligrams of cocoa flavonols and a 35-gram white chocolate bar with no flavonols on separate occasions one week apart. Afterward, investigators tested volunteers on tasks measuring vision, memory and reaction time. When the volunteers ate the dark chocolate they experienced 17% enhanced visual sensitivity (the ability to see in difficult conditions) for up to two-and-one-half hours, as compared with when they ate the white chocolate. In cognitive tests, compared with white chocolate, dark chocolate stepped up participants’ memory and reaction times -- they were able to correctly identify more of a number of objects that had been switched from their original places. Researchers speculate that cocoa flavonols achieve these effects by increasing blood and oxygen flow. Since the enhanced performance was just among those who ate dark chocolate and not white chocolate, researchers can rule out the "sugar buzz" as being the reason for improved performance. Chocolate: The New Cough Medicine What else can chocolate do for us? Produce a more effective cough medicine? Why not, say scientists at Imperial College London, who determined that theobromine -- a key ingredient in chocolate -- was one-third more successful in quieting coughs than the powerful narcotic codeine. About the research: On three different occasions, investigators gave 10 healthy volunteers theobromine, codeine or a placebo. Next they exposed them to capsaicin, the spicy compound in red pepper that can make some people cough. Higher amounts of capsaicin (about one-third more) were required to produce coughs in the theobromine group, and theobromine proved more effective than a typical dose of codeine as a cough suppressant. Theobromine directly affects the vagus nerve, which is responsible for coughs, and unlike codeine it does not cause drowsiness. Codeine is an opiate -- so a cocoa-based cough remedy would be much safer for anyone driving, using machinery and so on. A theobromine-based drug is in clinical trials in the UK. Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth... But in Moderation, Please! Alice H. Lichtenstein, DSc, a professor of nutrition science and policy at Tufts University’s Friedman School of Nutrition, finds chocolate research intriguing and believes it warrants further investigation. She says that if you enjoy chocolate, go ahead and eat it in moderation -- but it should not be your only rich source of flavonols. Dr. Lichtenstein’s recommendation: Every day, consume a wide range of flavonol-rich foods and beverages, such as blueberries, cranberries, pomegranates, grapes, grape juice, red wine, green tea... and if you like, a little chocolate. Source(s):
Alice H. Lichtenstein, DSc, Stanley N. Gershoff Professor of Nutrition Science and Policy, Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, director and senior scientist, Cardiovascular Nutrition Laboratory, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Center on Aging Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston.
Pick Your No's We recently hosted a Time Management seminar for our company's team members, run by time management master Ken Glickman He did a very powerful exercise with the group that really showed the impact of the choices we make each day: Click here to read more...
Be well, 
Carole Jackson
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