Resources for your health II....
Today's post: Thursday, 10-27-2016
(The new resources that have been added since Tuesday's 10-25 post begin just after the strength training section. And they are labeled "New to this list, Thursday, 10-27."
1. Today the majority of Americans still eat and drink things that make them fat and sick and don't do the protective exercises that are proven to help them stay well at all or do nearly enough.
This results in heart attacks, strokes, heart failure, fatty liver, type 2 diabetes, vascular dementia and Alzeimer's disease. It also causes obesity, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, shortened life, much shorter healthy lives worth living, and tends to cause cancer. And, it both cuts the number of years people can work and their productivity while they still are working.
And, some people still smoke or use tobacco or nicotine products and ALL those problems get even worse!
The somewhat to completely ineffective drugs and medical procedures to make these avoidable problems somewhat better cost billions and billions more each year.
The economy has a lot of drag because of this and will tank if it keeps getting worse!
2. Meanwhile the research has been done in abundance. If people stop that lifestyle and instead eat mostly organic vegetables and some organic fruit and health OK protein foods and health OK fats and oils instead AND take targeted supplements when needed AND do several kinds of exercise each week including strength training and short cardio with rests for fitness and other exercises they can fit in and like, ALL that changes!
Adding strength training and short cardio with rests and customized intermittent fasting to that lifestyle can cause permanent fat loss or prevent getting fat in the first place.
This also sharply slows aging and maintains the ability to be independent and self managing for almost all their lives in the people who follow it.
People can and already have lived healthy lives worth living until well over 90 years old with none of these health problems.
They have been productive when they have kept working or productive at the volunteer work and hobbies they like all that time.
3. What are the resources that can help you make these lifestyle upgrades successfully that have helped others and gotten excellent results?
Here's a short list:
The areas they are in include:
a) Effective habit change for beneficial changes
b) Strength training produces many of the most valuable protective effects and self esteem boosts
c) Eating lots of organic vegetables which is possibly the most health protective thing known,
d) Intermittent fasting because when done successfully it's an effective way to lose fat that is OK for your health to do
e) The way less sugar and no wheat people because stopping those things enables fat loss and stops most of the very worst kinds of foods and drinks
f) And the paleo people who combine no, or way less, sugar and organic lots of organic vegetables and enough naturally fed animal protein to support effective strength training.
g) Doctors who realize that lifestyle upgrades that prevent disease and restore health are more effective and safer than drugs to solve these problems and are working to enable medicine to include this approach and do it well in addition to medicine as we have developed it for those situations where it is needed and effective.
The resources:
a) Effective habit change for beneficial changes
* James Clear has a large set of well thought out articles detailing workable techniques to do that.
http://jamesclear.com/
I've found his work very helpful personally.
How to start improving your habits. How to fix problems that block you when you try to change a habit. How to keep improving. How to ensure you keep the good habits you develop and regularly do enough of them to reliably get the good results you want.
His articles have all that and more!
b) Strength training produces many of the most valuable protective effects and self esteem boosts.
Surprisingly it is even MORE important for women; but so far, fewer women do it than men.
* http://www.theperfectworkout.com/ is the website of a company that provides two very time efficient and quiet private sessions a week, even one will help, for a slightly pricey fee per month.
They make it easy for women who have no experience to progress from there to some real health gains and protection from frailty in old age. Many of the women also begin to look much better and gain considerable self confidence. In fact, many older women who could no longer go places they enjoyed become able to do more than they could before!
Their method also tends to prevent and can help reverse osteoporosis.
They do well with professional men who are very short on time to exercise also.
* http://www.niashanks.com/ I like Nia Shanks direct approach that specializes in helping women.
"I help women achieve their goals with simple, empowering strength training programs." "I've worked with clients for over a decade, and I know what works."
"Health and fitness information that makes you feel great about yourself."
"Shanks came up with her own powerlifting program to help women of all levels become their "strongest and most awesome" selves. She encourages readers to pay more attention to the numbers on the dumbbells than on the scale, to stop obsessing over having a "perfect" diet, and to find a way to get the best results with the least amount of effort."
https://www.muscleforlife.com/
* Mike Matthews specializes in helping people use power lifts with barbells to gain muscle while staying lean or becoming lean while increasing muscle at the same time.
His method works and his thoughtful and researched analysis is appealing. So are the results he helps people get!
He's quite knowledgable on strength training for women and has helped many get great results.
But his sweet spot is helping men of 20 to 50 to look great and more muscular while losing fat at the same time.
He has added his own line of multiple component supplements. I prefer to take many of these as separate supplements instead. But his research on the benefits of the components is well done.
The bad news is that he is sometimes less health oriented than I think is desirable. And some of his health information is dated and incorrect. But he is a very bright man who reads research well. So I think that will change eventually.
Bottom line, if you are a man who wants to look muscular and have visible abs, or you are a woman who wants to look athletic and sexy instead of just thin and willowy, Mike's advice may well be just what you need.
New to this list, Thursday, 10-27:
c) Eating lots of organic vegetables which is possibly the most health protective thing known,
A UK study found that eating six or more servings of vegetables a day or more cut the risk of heart disease, strokes, and many cancers AND cut the death rate from them and any other cause compared to people who rarely ate vegetables.
This is challenging so increasing your intake to three or more and trying to add one or two a day from there will help.
Also, eating that many every single day for many years means that it is essential to make all or almost all of those be organic vegetables only.
* Whole Foods Markets is far from perfect. But I've found that they do manage to stock organic produce of decent or good quality at a reasonable price. So they are a useful service available in most of the United States.
http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/ and
http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/list
*The work of research dentist Weston Price found that the common elements of the many peoples he found still eating as they had for thousands of years AND who also had surprisingly good health and teeth -- all had in common that they included lots of organic vegetables and fruit and some source of animal protein and fat from animals fed their natural diet. These diets also did NOT have grains or refined sugars. They were totally free of wheat flour.
We now know that the factor he found in the animal protein and fat from animals fed their natural diet these peoples eat that caused good teeth and strong bones is vitamin K2. Because K2 causes calcium to go to bone building and prevents it from hardening arteries, it also helps prevent heart disease.
There is no good place I know of to access his information at this time.
But a resource that does exist that found very similar things also found that a diet that stopped all other foods and additives and included all the different kinds of vegetables from green to orange to sea vegetables and some organ meats, particularly liver, had very dramatic health effects.
*Woman doctor, Terry Wahls MD, developed this diet to provide all the known essential nutrients in their natural forms.
This is more powerful than it might sound because real foods have hundreds of synergistic and complementary micronutrients besides the better known ones. Yes, carrots have beta carotene in abundance. But they are also high in alpha carotene that may be much more health protective AND hundreds more carotenes that make those far more protective.
She had MS that had forced her to stop working and into bed rest. She may well have been on the road to dying of MS.
Did eating the eight to 10 servings of vegetables a day and organ meats and stopping all the harmful foods and ingredients seem to work?
She gradually got close to 100 % recovery from MS! She now is back working and taking hikes for exercise.
Other people who have followed her protocol exactly have had similar results.
And, people who weren't sick who have followed her protocol have effortlessly lost fat until they became lean AND have begun to 'youthen" - they look noticeably younger!
Her book, "Wahls Protocol, The : How I Beat Progressive MS Using Paleo Principles and Functional Medicine" by Terry Wahls (2014-04-03)1800
by Terry Wahls MD & Eve Adamson is available on Amazon
And, for help with using her information this book may be helpful and is also available on Amazon:
"The Wahls Protocol Cooking for Life: The Revolutionary Modern Paleo Plan to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions" Apr 4, 2017
My personal preference and that of many Paleo people and people into strength training is to include more animal protein from animals fed their natural diet than she does.
And, unless you have an autoimmune disease, you may have less motivation than it takes to follow her protocol; but the more of the organic vegetables she suggests that you eat each week the leaner and healthier you will be.
*Another resource is the book:
"Anticancer: A New Way of Life Dec 31, 2009 by David Servan-Schreiber MD"
The author does a wonderful job showing that grains and oils from grains and animals fed grains instead of their natural diet, cause high inflammation which helps cause and speed cancer and Alzheimer's disease.
He makes it very clear and has helpful information on the anticancer effects of the many kinds of vegetables Dr Wahls recommends along with some tips in adding them to your meals.
My personal preference and that of many Paleo people and people into strength training is to include more animal protein from animals fed their natural diet than he does.
He does show why proteins and oils from animals fed their natural diet are far safer for you health than proteins and fats from animals fed grains!
*Another resource is Joel Fuhrman
https://www.drfuhrman.com/
His book, Eat to Live: The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss, Revised Edition Jan 5, 2011 by Joel Fuhrman MD is available on Amazon.
His focus using his ANDI score is on the organic vegetables and fruits and legumes that have the most nutrition per calorie.
He suggests getting your monosaturated fats from raw tree nuts or avocados instead of extra virgin olive oil for example.
He eliminates grains because they are so low on his ANDI score. Sugars score zero and are NOT on his list!
His diet also is hard for most people to follow. But those who do, find they gradually drop their body fat and become lean with low normal BMI readings.
"Beyond vegetarian and vegan there is the nutritarian. What is it and why would anyone do it? Dr. Fuhrman coined the term "Nutritarian" to describe a diet that is nutrient-dense and plant-rich, and includes anti-cancer superfoods, which also facilitate weight loss. These foods supply both the right amount of macronutrients (protein, fat and carbohydrates) and the vital micronutrients (vitamins, phytochemicals and minerals) that unleash the body's incredible power to heal itself and slow the aging process, giving the body renewed vitality."
Quite true! The research supports this strongly!
My personal preference and that of many Paleo people and people into strength training is to include more animal protein from animals fed their natural diet than he does.
Dr Furhman says his diet without animal protein provides 60 or 70 grams of protein. But this falls short of the 75% of the lean bodyweight in pounds that Matt Hedman, founder of The Perfect Workout discovered was the minimum needed for adding muscle and strength gains in his clients.
It falls even farther short of the gram per pound of bodyweight that bodybuilders and power lifters find to be optimum.
In my case, the 132 pounds of lean bodyweight I have now mean that my minimum intake should be 99 grams of protein a day. The optimum would be 162 grams of protein a day with 146 grams a day likely the minimum needed to boost my muscle and bone enough to add 14 pounds of lean body weight to replace what I lost since I was younger.
Dr Furhman also overstates the dangers of animal protein foods from naturally fed sources when eaten by people otherwise following a low inflammation version of his diet and taking protective supplements in my opinion.
And, since his diet is vegan, the safest and most health producing way to use it is to take supplements for the many key nutrients it leaves out. Methyl B12 is essential and l-carnitine and Omega 3 oils and DHA and zinc and magnesium and vitamin K2 also are.
Dr Wahls avoids the lack of trace minerals by including seaweed for it. With Dr Furhman's diet adding seaweed or the supplement spirulina and being sure to include raw tree nuts if you aren't allergic will help solve that problem.
But it's clear that the more of the high nutrition, low calorie, organic vegetables he recommends that you eat, the healthier you will be.
d) Intermittent fasting because when done successfully it's an effective way to lose fat that is OK for your health to do.
I may add some of the other people in this field to the list that will be on our websites.
But for now, the two who I think have it right and have gotten extraordinarily good results are:
Dave Asprey of Bulletproof.com and Dr Jason Fung, author of the new book:
"The Complete Guide to Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended Fasting," by Dr Jason Fung" co-authored with Jimmy Moore.
I've read an interview he did with the core of his work; and he knows the approach of Dave Asprey and has used it successfully.
They have found that unlike every day cutbacks below the level needed by your metabolism that your body's failsafe famine response reads as a famine, intermittent fasting can even boost your metabolism a bit.
And, because your brain can run on fats as well as sugars, you can use fasting with the kind of MCT oils that Dave Asprey finds do this best.
He finds this helps you sustain energy and a good mood when you have removed all the foods with carbohydrates except the lowest glycemic nonstarchy vegetables while doing partial fasting.
Further, Dr Fung finds that if you do it correctly, your brain begins to run well on your stored fat as you remove it for use!
Lastly, periodic fasting sharply lowers small particle LDL, chronic inflammation, triglycerides, and excess blood sugar!
Today's post: Thursday, 10-27-2016
(The new resources that have been added since Tuesday's 10-25 post begin just after the strength training section. And they are labeled "New to this list, Thursday, 10-27."
1. Today the majority of Americans still eat and drink things that make them fat and sick and don't do the protective exercises that are proven to help them stay well at all or do nearly enough.
This results in heart attacks, strokes, heart failure, fatty liver, type 2 diabetes, vascular dementia and Alzeimer's disease. It also causes obesity, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, shortened life, much shorter healthy lives worth living, and tends to cause cancer. And, it both cuts the number of years people can work and their productivity while they still are working.
And, some people still smoke or use tobacco or nicotine products and ALL those problems get even worse!
The somewhat to completely ineffective drugs and medical procedures to make these avoidable problems somewhat better cost billions and billions more each year.
The economy has a lot of drag because of this and will tank if it keeps getting worse!
2. Meanwhile the research has been done in abundance. If people stop that lifestyle and instead eat mostly organic vegetables and some organic fruit and health OK protein foods and health OK fats and oils instead AND take targeted supplements when needed AND do several kinds of exercise each week including strength training and short cardio with rests for fitness and other exercises they can fit in and like, ALL that changes!
Adding strength training and short cardio with rests and customized intermittent fasting to that lifestyle can cause permanent fat loss or prevent getting fat in the first place.
This also sharply slows aging and maintains the ability to be independent and self managing for almost all their lives in the people who follow it.
People can and already have lived healthy lives worth living until well over 90 years old with none of these health problems.
They have been productive when they have kept working or productive at the volunteer work and hobbies they like all that time.
3. What are the resources that can help you make these lifestyle upgrades successfully that have helped others and gotten excellent results?
Here's a short list:
The areas they are in include:
a) Effective habit change for beneficial changes
b) Strength training produces many of the most valuable protective effects and self esteem boosts
c) Eating lots of organic vegetables which is possibly the most health protective thing known,
d) Intermittent fasting because when done successfully it's an effective way to lose fat that is OK for your health to do
e) The way less sugar and no wheat people because stopping those things enables fat loss and stops most of the very worst kinds of foods and drinks
f) And the paleo people who combine no, or way less, sugar and organic lots of organic vegetables and enough naturally fed animal protein to support effective strength training.
g) Doctors who realize that lifestyle upgrades that prevent disease and restore health are more effective and safer than drugs to solve these problems and are working to enable medicine to include this approach and do it well in addition to medicine as we have developed it for those situations where it is needed and effective.
The resources:
a) Effective habit change for beneficial changes
* James Clear has a large set of well thought out articles detailing workable techniques to do that.
http://jamesclear.com/
I've found his work very helpful personally.
How to start improving your habits. How to fix problems that block you when you try to change a habit. How to keep improving. How to ensure you keep the good habits you develop and regularly do enough of them to reliably get the good results you want.
His articles have all that and more!
b) Strength training produces many of the most valuable protective effects and self esteem boosts.
Surprisingly it is even MORE important for women; but so far, fewer women do it than men.
* http://www.theperfectworkout.com/ is the website of a company that provides two very time efficient and quiet private sessions a week, even one will help, for a slightly pricey fee per month.
They make it easy for women who have no experience to progress from there to some real health gains and protection from frailty in old age. Many of the women also begin to look much better and gain considerable self confidence. In fact, many older women who could no longer go places they enjoyed become able to do more than they could before!
Their method also tends to prevent and can help reverse osteoporosis.
They do well with professional men who are very short on time to exercise also.
* http://www.niashanks.com/ I like Nia Shanks direct approach that specializes in helping women.
"I help women achieve their goals with simple, empowering strength training programs." "I've worked with clients for over a decade, and I know what works."
"Health and fitness information that makes you feel great about yourself."
"Shanks came up with her own powerlifting program to help women of all levels become their "strongest and most awesome" selves. She encourages readers to pay more attention to the numbers on the dumbbells than on the scale, to stop obsessing over having a "perfect" diet, and to find a way to get the best results with the least amount of effort."
https://www.muscleforlife.com/
* Mike Matthews specializes in helping people use power lifts with barbells to gain muscle while staying lean or becoming lean while increasing muscle at the same time.
His method works and his thoughtful and researched analysis is appealing. So are the results he helps people get!
He's quite knowledgable on strength training for women and has helped many get great results.
But his sweet spot is helping men of 20 to 50 to look great and more muscular while losing fat at the same time.
He has added his own line of multiple component supplements. I prefer to take many of these as separate supplements instead. But his research on the benefits of the components is well done.
The bad news is that he is sometimes less health oriented than I think is desirable. And some of his health information is dated and incorrect. But he is a very bright man who reads research well. So I think that will change eventually.
Bottom line, if you are a man who wants to look muscular and have visible abs, or you are a woman who wants to look athletic and sexy instead of just thin and willowy, Mike's advice may well be just what you need.
New to this list, Thursday, 10-27:
c) Eating lots of organic vegetables which is possibly the most health protective thing known,
A UK study found that eating six or more servings of vegetables a day or more cut the risk of heart disease, strokes, and many cancers AND cut the death rate from them and any other cause compared to people who rarely ate vegetables.
This is challenging so increasing your intake to three or more and trying to add one or two a day from there will help.
Also, eating that many every single day for many years means that it is essential to make all or almost all of those be organic vegetables only.
* Whole Foods Markets is far from perfect. But I've found that they do manage to stock organic produce of decent or good quality at a reasonable price. So they are a useful service available in most of the United States.
http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/ and
http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/list
*The work of research dentist Weston Price found that the common elements of the many peoples he found still eating as they had for thousands of years AND who also had surprisingly good health and teeth -- all had in common that they included lots of organic vegetables and fruit and some source of animal protein and fat from animals fed their natural diet. These diets also did NOT have grains or refined sugars. They were totally free of wheat flour.
We now know that the factor he found in the animal protein and fat from animals fed their natural diet these peoples eat that caused good teeth and strong bones is vitamin K2. Because K2 causes calcium to go to bone building and prevents it from hardening arteries, it also helps prevent heart disease.
There is no good place I know of to access his information at this time.
But a resource that does exist that found very similar things also found that a diet that stopped all other foods and additives and included all the different kinds of vegetables from green to orange to sea vegetables and some organ meats, particularly liver, had very dramatic health effects.
*Woman doctor, Terry Wahls MD, developed this diet to provide all the known essential nutrients in their natural forms.
This is more powerful than it might sound because real foods have hundreds of synergistic and complementary micronutrients besides the better known ones. Yes, carrots have beta carotene in abundance. But they are also high in alpha carotene that may be much more health protective AND hundreds more carotenes that make those far more protective.
She had MS that had forced her to stop working and into bed rest. She may well have been on the road to dying of MS.
Did eating the eight to 10 servings of vegetables a day and organ meats and stopping all the harmful foods and ingredients seem to work?
She gradually got close to 100 % recovery from MS! She now is back working and taking hikes for exercise.
Other people who have followed her protocol exactly have had similar results.
And, people who weren't sick who have followed her protocol have effortlessly lost fat until they became lean AND have begun to 'youthen" - they look noticeably younger!
Her book, "Wahls Protocol, The : How I Beat Progressive MS Using Paleo Principles and Functional Medicine" by Terry Wahls (2014-04-03)1800
by Terry Wahls MD & Eve Adamson is available on Amazon
And, for help with using her information this book may be helpful and is also available on Amazon:
"The Wahls Protocol Cooking for Life: The Revolutionary Modern Paleo Plan to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions" Apr 4, 2017
My personal preference and that of many Paleo people and people into strength training is to include more animal protein from animals fed their natural diet than she does.
And, unless you have an autoimmune disease, you may have less motivation than it takes to follow her protocol; but the more of the organic vegetables she suggests that you eat each week the leaner and healthier you will be.
*Another resource is the book:
"Anticancer: A New Way of Life Dec 31, 2009 by David Servan-Schreiber MD"
The author does a wonderful job showing that grains and oils from grains and animals fed grains instead of their natural diet, cause high inflammation which helps cause and speed cancer and Alzheimer's disease.
He makes it very clear and has helpful information on the anticancer effects of the many kinds of vegetables Dr Wahls recommends along with some tips in adding them to your meals.
My personal preference and that of many Paleo people and people into strength training is to include more animal protein from animals fed their natural diet than he does.
He does show why proteins and oils from animals fed their natural diet are far safer for you health than proteins and fats from animals fed grains!
*Another resource is Joel Fuhrman
https://www.drfuhrman.com/
His book, Eat to Live: The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss, Revised Edition Jan 5, 2011 by Joel Fuhrman MD is available on Amazon.
His focus using his ANDI score is on the organic vegetables and fruits and legumes that have the most nutrition per calorie.
He suggests getting your monosaturated fats from raw tree nuts or avocados instead of extra virgin olive oil for example.
He eliminates grains because they are so low on his ANDI score. Sugars score zero and are NOT on his list!
His diet also is hard for most people to follow. But those who do, find they gradually drop their body fat and become lean with low normal BMI readings.
"Beyond vegetarian and vegan there is the nutritarian. What is it and why would anyone do it? Dr. Fuhrman coined the term "Nutritarian" to describe a diet that is nutrient-dense and plant-rich, and includes anti-cancer superfoods, which also facilitate weight loss. These foods supply both the right amount of macronutrients (protein, fat and carbohydrates) and the vital micronutrients (vitamins, phytochemicals and minerals) that unleash the body's incredible power to heal itself and slow the aging process, giving the body renewed vitality."
Quite true! The research supports this strongly!
My personal preference and that of many Paleo people and people into strength training is to include more animal protein from animals fed their natural diet than he does.
Dr Furhman says his diet without animal protein provides 60 or 70 grams of protein. But this falls short of the 75% of the lean bodyweight in pounds that Matt Hedman, founder of The Perfect Workout discovered was the minimum needed for adding muscle and strength gains in his clients.
It falls even farther short of the gram per pound of bodyweight that bodybuilders and power lifters find to be optimum.
In my case, the 132 pounds of lean bodyweight I have now mean that my minimum intake should be 99 grams of protein a day. The optimum would be 162 grams of protein a day with 146 grams a day likely the minimum needed to boost my muscle and bone enough to add 14 pounds of lean body weight to replace what I lost since I was younger.
Dr Furhman also overstates the dangers of animal protein foods from naturally fed sources when eaten by people otherwise following a low inflammation version of his diet and taking protective supplements in my opinion.
And, since his diet is vegan, the safest and most health producing way to use it is to take supplements for the many key nutrients it leaves out. Methyl B12 is essential and l-carnitine and Omega 3 oils and DHA and zinc and magnesium and vitamin K2 also are.
Dr Wahls avoids the lack of trace minerals by including seaweed for it. With Dr Furhman's diet adding seaweed or the supplement spirulina and being sure to include raw tree nuts if you aren't allergic will help solve that problem.
But it's clear that the more of the high nutrition, low calorie, organic vegetables he recommends that you eat, the healthier you will be.
d) Intermittent fasting because when done successfully it's an effective way to lose fat that is OK for your health to do.
I may add some of the other people in this field to the list that will be on our websites.
But for now, the two who I think have it right and have gotten extraordinarily good results are:
Dave Asprey of Bulletproof.com and Dr Jason Fung, author of the new book:
"The Complete Guide to Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended Fasting," by Dr Jason Fung" co-authored with Jimmy Moore.
I've read an interview he did with the core of his work; and he knows the approach of Dave Asprey and has used it successfully.
They have found that unlike every day cutbacks below the level needed by your metabolism that your body's failsafe famine response reads as a famine, intermittent fasting can even boost your metabolism a bit.
And, because your brain can run on fats as well as sugars, you can use fasting with the kind of MCT oils that Dave Asprey finds do this best.
He finds this helps you sustain energy and a good mood when you have removed all the foods with carbohydrates except the lowest glycemic nonstarchy vegetables while doing partial fasting.
Further, Dr Fung finds that if you do it correctly, your brain begins to run well on your stored fat as you remove it for use!
Lastly, periodic fasting sharply lowers small particle LDL, chronic inflammation, triglycerides, and excess blood sugar!
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