Aerobic/Cardio Frustration:

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It pains me to continue to see these classes being offered that have folks…via one means of excessive exercise or another…go on these 1/2 hour to hour-long cardio sessions that have them sweating, exhausted, and buzzed afterwards, hoping and expecting that this is the only way to lose weight and fat.

It seems as if there is a deliberate attempt commercially to make people continue to believe in this methodology.

Fact is, killing yourself with these workout methods CAN work.

The problem:

Your body becomes so accustomed to this level of activity, that it goes into “preservation” mode, re-balancing the speed of one’s metabolism, as if to prepare for a famine or other level of scarcity.

The body seems to interpret excessive activity as a warning sign to “brace” itself against future taxing activities, and so adjusts the metabolism, per what the person eats and continues to do activity-wise, to compensate for any potential emergency situation.

A built-in protective mechanism that seeks to find new ways to store extra fat for needed use.

This is why, as most people have discovered for decades now, that once this high level of activity stops, the fat and weight can come back on aggressively, especially if the diet has not changed to compensate for it.

The “lifestyle” approach is the newest catchword for the workout and diet programs of the day.  We like to think that our programs were among the first to suggest the “lifestyle” approach.

When taken on from this standpoint…and only doing as much activity as is necessary to accomplish results, and understanding and using new foods from that point forward…results just tend to come, and tend to STICK.

It remains bizarre as to why these other “insanity” (etc) programs continue to be pushed and sold…when the science, and plenty of anecdotal proof exist, to show this kind of workout intensity and stress on the body, on a continual daily basis…simply is not necessary.

Food “Nutrition Facts” Label is for SURVIVAL ONLY:

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Many people assume that the nutrition label on our food products cite the “% daily value” of the nutrient that is the optimal amount for our health and well-being.

This is most certainly not the case.

Keep in mind that often times on these labels the vitamins and minerals listed are actually added to the product.  This is what is meant when the company says their product is “enriched.”  You can determine whether the vitamin or mineral is one of the added supplements by then looking at the ingredient list, and knowing the chemical name for each nutrient, can see whether they’ve simply added a vitamin/mineral to their product, or if absent, is a naturally occurring vitamin/mineral in the food itself, the latter of which we prefer.

As a side note, the reason I personally prefer the whole food version of the nutrient is that I firmly believe their are aspects to these nutrients, perhaps on a micro level so small that we don’t yet understand, that adds to the natural bio-availability of the nutrient that can in turn benefit us more.  It seems to me that the naturally occurring source of the nutrient, as nature built it, is what was intended for our bodies to use to begin with, as compared to a manufactured nutrient that has been added to the food that yes…the body can and does use…BUT *may* do so at the expense of other nutrients, as the body tries to “find” the micro nutrients necessary to help the artificial nutrient “work” in the body.

Please feel free to re-read that entire paragraph, and apologies for not being able to put it more simply.

An example of determining whether or not the nutrient on the Nutrition Facts label is naturally occurring in the food, or whether it’s been added to the food and listed on the ingredient label…and easy one…vitamin C. 

Vitamin C comes in several popular forms, but in foods the most common I have seen is the ascorbic acid variety.

If you see a listing for “100% Daily Value of Vitamin C,” and then look on the ingredient side of the label and see “ascorbic acid”…you know that the vitamin C in the food is likely to be *mostly*…if not *all*…an added vitamin to the food product.

Ascorbic acid happens to be one of those rare vitamins that we can often use in larger quantities without any seeming negative impact, or “robbing” of other nutrients in the body (though for some people, with varying conditions depending on their overall health, it can and may in my opinion) but is also water-soluble, therefore just about impossible to “overdose” on.

So it makes for a great example.

Learn the chemical names for the rest of the nutrients, and you will be able to spot them readily on the ingredient side of the label, and know whether it was added/”enriched,” or was a naturally occurring nutrient in the food itself.

Our opinions on the enrichment of our foods pending…especially as it pertains to calcium, something we largely disagree with.

Colloidal Silver HATRED:

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Tim, our FacelessFatloss guy, uploaded a video yesterday as a follow-up to his on-going series covering ionic and colloidal silver.

The difference this time was that he was primarily responding to the apparently never-ending stream of “hate mail” to his previous videos, based on what seems to have been a misunderstanding based on his previous titles.

Receiving death threats was certainly cause enough to address the issue once and for all.

There is a sharp division occurring that need not occur, if the proper perspective on alternative/holistic medicine, as compared to standard conventional medicine, is put into place.

We look at standard western medicine…going to the doctor or emergency room…as being the option we should take when we’re in serious trouble; perhaps our survival is being threatened due to illness or accident.

For the rest, we prefer a more holistic, natural approach.

The problem is, people are confusing what doctors are designed to do, in comparison to what a health-maintenance approach is designed to do.

Doctors have little to no nutritional education *in comparison to* the rest of their education.  *They are not there* to help you achieve an optimal, or superior form of health.  They are there to help you if you are in dire straits, and have an emergency to tend to.

Sure, there is some cross-over here and there.  This is happening in large part *because of* this mass-misunderstanding about the nature of the doctor/patient relationship.

Look at it this way: If we’re in a car accident, the trauma care in western society is outstanding.  They can often piece us back together, enabling our survival under conditions that might otherwise take our lives.

But if we’re simply a little sick…or having a little difficulty with pain, or other symptom that is not life-threatening…we have come to expect doctors to tend to these things, in effect enhancing our life and our health, as compared to actually SAVING our life and health.

This is not what they’re taught to do.

Hence the prescription drugs, with the huge, dangerous side-effect profiles that they so often prescribe; these are to be used as a very last resort…a life SAVING option…as compared to life ENHANCING.

This is our opinion, but we feel it makes the most sense, and is what the evidence, based on experience, shows us.

Check out Tim’s latest video for an update on a balanced perspective between ionic and colloidal silver technologies.  See his video link in the video for information on one of the two best silver products in existence, based on our use and experience with it.  The purchase benefits a charitable cause.  🙂  Or visit the information page now: http://www.facelessfatloss.com/Ionic-Silver

THE VID:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SquJk6ImeDc

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