Nutrition Can’t Fix Everything: Baggage

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Happy New Year! I hope you’re ready to make your health a priority in 2017. Let’s begin the New Year right with a statement I discussed in my monthly conference call. I received an email in which someone was convinced that there was a nutritional solution to a health issue that she was having. I thought about that for a couple of months—not her condition but the question in general.

Nutrition cannot fix everything, whether a change in diet or a supplement. I’m going to give you three reasons this week as to why.

Let’s . . .

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Schedule Your Eye Exam

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Things were looking the tiniest bit fuzzy, so I decided it was time to get my eyeglass prescription checked. I seemed to have blurry spots in my right eye at about the level I would normally read, whether paper or computer. I made the appointment; the results weren’t exactly what I was hoping for. Based on the pressure inside my eye, I had glaucoma. I was stunned. Didn’t see that one coming—no pun intended.

I went through a different and very irritating vision test to see how much vision I’d lost. Turns out none with one . . .

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Rule 3: Move More

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While I absolutely believe that we need to eat less and eat better, the one thing that can help you faster than anything else is exercise. Changes in how your body responds to insulin happen within three days. Your heart rate and blood pressure start to decrease within a week. Even your digestive system will work better.

To help you out, there are two papers I wrote in the Health Info section of my website. Interval . . .

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Schedule Your Dental Exam

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While your physician may examine your tonsils and tongue when you have your physical, that doesn’t include your teeth. For that, you need to see a dentist. Asking people to visit a dentist is right up there with the fear of public speaking—so many people just hate it. We’ve got a great dental team that takes care of our teeth and they do everything they can to make the visit a pleasure, so Paula and I don’t mind going. Find a dentist that works with you, and the only way to do that is by trial . . .

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Rule 2: Eat Better

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The New Year is the time for beginning new habits. Some people, maybe most people, like to clean sweep old habits, flush things out, and start over. Look at the Internet ads about detoxing and cleansing: you can cleanse your system with programs that cost hundreds of dollars, using herbs no one has ever heard of, and end up spending hours in the bathroom.

Or you can simply eat better. That’s the objective of Real-Life Detox. There are foods that can help the detoxification system . . .

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Schedule Your Physical

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Most of want to be healthier, fitter, and weigh less in 2017. In order to really know what your goals should be, you need to know how you measure up right now. That’s why you should schedule your physical today. You can track your weight on a scale, and you can track your miles and your heart rate easily, but there’s more to health than how much weight you can lift. The only way to know where you stand is by getting a physical.

If the Check Oil light comes on, do you ignore it? If the Low . . .

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Rule 1: Eat Less

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The holiday season is full of tradition, and I hope you celebrated according to your beliefs and spent the time with family and friends. But as the end of the year approaches, it’s time to get ready for 2017. This week, I’m breaking with tradition and doing a message a day to help you get ready. In addition, I’m doing a Detox Weekend via Facebook January 6–8.

One of the things that we should all do is eat less. I’m not talking about losing weight. That’s important if you need to, but I mean . . .

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The Last Word on Sugar

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The sugar war continues in the health headlines these last few days of 2016. Here’s a summary of what was said and my opinion.

Researchers reviewed the science behind the nutritional guidelines that fewer than 10% of calories should come from sugar (1), a position held by the World Health Organization and the USDA. After examining the science behind those guidelines, they concluded that the guidelines are not trustworthy.

Experts responded by calling what the researchers did junk science (2). The researchers were funded by a group composed of soda, candy, and fast-food companies. The experts said that . . .

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The Detox Myth: Half Wrong

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When health experts criticize cleansing and detox programs, they attack the many questionable programs that are touted on the Internet. From colonics to foot pads, their criticism is correct. But they also get it half wrong.

Cleansing is another word for fasting, and there’s plenty of research to support a fast of two to four days to improve the immune system. But fasting doesn’t mean you get no calories; by definition, fasting is taking in fewer calories than your body needs. To make fasting more efficient, restricting calories to 800 or fewer seems to accomplish that task in . . .

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The Detox Myth: Half Right

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I’ll spend the next two blogs addressing the legitimacy of detox arguments that I’ve seen on several websites in their year-end health recommendations. When it comes to detox, they get it half right and half wrong. Today, the half right.

During presentations, I often describe some detox programs as something like standing outside on one foot during the full moon while drinking some lemon-pepper-maple syrup concoction with one hand while rubbing your belly with the other. There are some weird . . .

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