Never Overeat Again! Abstracted from September '96 Prevention page 81: Party for one! This is the approach of Dr. Dean Ornish who wrote The Dr. Dean Ornish Program For The Reversal of Heart Disease. While you eat, don't talk to anyone, read anything or be on the phone. For one minute look at the food. Close your eyes and imagine it, smell it, then bite slowly. Notice all the … [Read more...]

Overweight And What To Do About It - A Primer Overweight is defined as the presence of a body fat content beyond 15% of total body weight in men and 20% in women. If you are overweight you almost certainly have a problem with fats (chicken-meat-oils-butter-margarine) and/or sweets. Generally, fat is found in margarine (100%), meat (50-80%), cheese (80%), butter (100%) and … [Read more...]

The Alert Judge There is in our mind, an Alert Judge that is immediately aware of anything you do wrong. The Judge pays no attention to what you do right. The second you do anything that you should not, The Judge weakens your inner (core) moral fiber, and you begin to tilt towards chilling and numbing, depressive darkness-fading and falling away from warming, encouraging … [Read more...]

Body Composition Analysis And Your Percent Body Fat Above 15% is a high body fat content in a male. Our best trained male athletes are 5-10% body fat. For women, the ideal range is 10-15%, but no higher than 20%. Body fat content is one of the most powerful determinants of the rise in cholesterol and blood pressure as well as blood sugar above 130 (the correct levels). That … [Read more...]

New Year's Resolution The New Year is here. What do you plan to do in the new year to make it better for you than last year? Would you like to raise your own income taxes by 10%? Perhaps you'd like to be sued. Or how about getting mugged and going to jail? How would you like to have surgery or perhaps just take more costly medicine? Despite the fact that this is the … [Read more...]