January 2006


Words from us…

Wayne’s World
January is considered an excellent time to reflect on losing weight. Motivation leads the way to deepen your resolve to lose weight and stay healthy. For long-term success with a proper weight management program, use a combination of exercise, diet and fat burners. Start by walking and working out and become disciplined about it. Setting aside regular time for exercise is beneficial for continued success!  Ask our staff member Jeff for details on creating an effective routine. Proper food choices are fruits, vegetables, and lean meats such as fish, chicken and turkey, buying organically as much as possible. Add a higher percentage of raw foods to your diet. Best way to achieve this is to attend monthly meetings of “The Romaines”, a Las Vegas raw foods club that holds banquets and conducts workshops. Ask my wife Sheri or myself for more info. Remember, city dwellers, that you live in a desert, so drink plenty of quality water and get good rest. Stay Healthy! has a fine array of fat-loss supplements, meal replacement powders, and nutritional bars. I am particularly fond of the amino acid L-carnitine, now available in liquid as well as capsules and tablets. This is an amazing fat burner and is also great for heart health. Use our quality brands of conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), a very effective fat-burning nutrient with energy benefits. Thermogenic formulas by companies such as MRM burn brown-adipose fat tissue. Check out further staff recommendations and products ads on the front page. Use these excellent fat-burning products combined with diet and disciplined exercise. This plan leads to safe, permanent weight-loss. Detailed literature is also available for the asking.
              Happy New Year, Peace, Prosperity, and Love and let us help you Stay Healthy!
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Jenny's Jive:  We live in a time & place where being overweight is an epidemic.  Your metabolism (how your body converts food into energy & then burns that energy as calories) slows down as you get older. Fewer calories are burned & more are stored as fat. As we age we tend to lose muscle & gain fat. Since muscle burns a lot of energy, our energy needs diminish as we lose muscle & our metabolism slows. Eating large amounts of refined sugars can upset the metabolic balance, while refined sugars lack the vitamins & minerals required for their own metabolism & must draw on our body’s reserves of these nutrients. Another pound-packing issue is refined “empty-calorie” foods, likely to cause us to gain fat and over-eat. By the time we’ve filled up on these concentrated calories, fiber-poor foods, we’ve eaten more calories than we need and excess turns to fat. There’s hope! Your metabolic rate isn’t completely beyond your control. Aerobic exercise & strength training are good ways to combat the overweight issues that plague us today.  Another suggestion for losing weight & maintaining high metabolism levels is to look at our eating habits.  One writer suggests that the difference between being slim & overweight is this: Slim people eat only when hungry, eat whenever they like, & stop when the hunger subsides.

Jeff's Positive Vibrations:  Weight control is a major health concern for a large majority of American citizens today. Our fast-paced lifestyle and lack of exercise has created a serious health crisis with men, women and even our children. Weight loss, however, can cause nutritional deficiencies that further impair our health. Eat frequent but small meals and snacks, and eat them slowly. Try not to eat large meals because you could lose your appetite. You can always have additional servings if you are still hungry after the first. Do not eat fried or junk foods for extra calories. Instead, eat high-calorie snacks between meals or before bedtime such as raw cheese, turkey, chicken, or tuna sandwiches, raw nuts, and rice crackers with nut butter, yogurt, yogurt fruit shakes, almond milk, and avocados. Eliminate from the diet coffee, tea and anything else (such as soft drinks) that contains caffeine. Eat in relaxed surroundings. Do not try to eat when you are upset or nervous. If you smoke, stop. Investigate food allergies and avoid any foods you think you may be allergic to. If possible, get regular moderate exercise. Walking and similar activities are good. Moderate exercise helps in the assimilation of nutrients. Avoid strenuous exercise as it can lower your immune system, but by all means, get the circulation going. Take a walk after dinner and find some activities to increase the heart rate and your cardiovascular system.

J.C. Speaking Words of Wisdom
Weight loss should be a “Life Style Change”.  This type of thinking will lead you down the path to a new healthy lifestyle rather then a quick fix diet fad. A new health regime should include drinking more water, adding more highly beneficial whole foods (grains, vegetables, fruits, etc.) to your daily meals and less junk food (candies, chips, fast food and fried foods). A journal will be helpful for following your plan and seeing your progress improve. Consider herbs as forgotten foods rather then foreign plants, and add these into your daily regime in the form of teas, powders, and capsules.  Herbs that help increase body metabolism include green tea, ginger, turmeric, and cayenne. Cereal grasses and algae can serve as natural appetite suppressants. Complete multi-vitamins are in barley grass, wheat grass and chlorella. Try one of our store favorites, “5GREENEST” by EARTH HEALING FORMULAS for a good boost of natural energy. Exercise is absolutely necessary for everyone on this planet. Tai-Chi Chuan, hiking, cycling, and all forms of moving exercise activates metabolism and increases endorphin levels, making you feel good about yourself and the way you look. Motivation is probably the biggest key to losing weight. Try to inspire yourself by setting realistic goals and looking at or reading about people that have achieved similar success.  Affirmations have been proven for the body-mind connection. Say to yourself,
“I will do whatever it takes to be healthy and fit” everyday to program yourself with a positive attitude.
A new year is the perfect time to pray and be thankful for what you have and also the time of year to start fresh with a new outlook towards your health and an overall sense of well-being.
Knowledge applied is wisdom…