A Quick Note from Bob & Deirdre

Dear Friend,

Hello again! Today we want to tackle an issue that we’re sure is very important to you: your physical health.

We’re featuring two brief but very thought-provoking excerpts from one of the special reports we published recently. Each excerpt takes a unique view of one of the many factors that determine your health and shape.

Our goal is to help you understand each of the factors and what you can do to improve your health and your life. The articles do a great job of clarifying these complex issues and you’ll walk away with a simple framework that you can apply immediately and start making improvements today.

We also want to give you access to the tools that will help you make the changes you want in your life. So each article contains important links that you can follow to find additional information and support.

Please don’t wait. Read these articles right now. It'll only take a few minutes and you’ll be glad you did!

All our best,
Bob and Deirdre Griswold

Do you love your body?

The following is a brief excerpt from our special report titled “The 3 Keys to Life-Long Health and Weight Control.” The entire report is available to you free at http://www.efflearn.com/3keys.php.

The Love Must Come First
Many people think, and often say aloud, “I'd love my body if I could just lose 10-20 pounds.” The truth is that this thinking is completely backward. If you don't love your body to begin with, it is next to impossible to improve your health or your weight. Think about it this way, why would you take care of something you don't already love?

Let's explore an analogy to help illustrate this point. Think about how you treat an old, beat-up car verses how you treat a brand new car just off the showroom floor. With an old “beater” you don't think twice about driving through the mud, over potholes, or fast over speed bumps. You don't mind spilling things on the seat and you put in the cheapest gas you can find. You feel fine abusing a car like this because you don't really care what it looks like.

With a new car, however, you drive very carefully, wash and wax it on a daily basis, and park far away just to avoid other cars. And when you see that first scratch, within 2 minutes you're out there with the touch up paint and polish to keep it looking like new. You care about this car – you LOVE this car - and you take care of it to keep it looking and running new as long as possible.

It's the same thing with your body. Just like the old beat-up car, if you don't love your body, you probably won't take very good care of it. It becomes very easy to let yourself eat a whole box of cookies or “super-size” that order of fries. If you already “hate” your body, you feel like you can't really do any more damage, so why not have another cinnamon roll and watch some TV.

This reasoning applies to more than weight loss. It applies to all areas related to your health. Smoking is a great example. We know smoking does terrible things to our bodies. It destroys our lungs, causes cancer, and kills us. So how could somebody who truly loves their body do that to themselves?

Do You Treat Your New Car Better Than You Treat Yourself?
But what if your body is already in bad shape? It's kind of hard to love your body if it's already run down and out of shape, isn't it?

Let's go back to the car analogy. It may be easy to love a shiny new car, but it's a little harder to love something that's old and broken down. That may be true, but think about what happens when a rusted-out, beaten-up 1969 Mustang convertible ends up in the hands of an enthusiast. That person loves that car no matter what shape it's in. With wide eyes and ceaseless energy, he or she will spend a lot of time and effort restoring it until it is back in mint condition. When it's done, he or she is as proud as a parent with a newborn baby.

Why do enthusiasts do this? Where do they get the energy to restore what to others appears to be a complete disaster and a hopeless cause? The answer is “LOVE!” Enthusiasts LOVE the objects of their attention. They see beauty where others don't. They see the promise and the possibilities. They can envision the future and know they can reach their goals.

Be Your Own Enthusiast
Your body is the same way. You can be an enthusiast for your own health and fitness. Love your body no matter what shape it's in. Become an enthusiast! Restore it and be proud of the work you do!

So, begin by loving yourself. If you start today, you'll find it's much easier to improve your health and succeed in your weight control efforts.

The problem is that for most of us it is very difficult to change the way we think about ourselves. This is not something that comes naturally to us. It requires overcoming years of programming we've received from our parents, friends, the media, and even ourselves.

However, with the proper support you'll be able to do this quickly and easily. ELS has many programs to help you do just that. “Your Complete Success Weight Loss Program”, recently released by ELS, is the perfect tool to help you succeed in winning the Mental Game of weight control. Learn more by visiting www.efflearn.com/weightloss.php .

Can Micronutrition Save Your Life?

The following is another brief excerpt from our special report titled “The 3 Keys to Life-Long Health and Weight Control.” The entire report is available to you free at http://www.efflearn.com/3keys.php.

Micronutrients and Free Radicals: The War is On
Proper nutrition – nutrition that will not only help you lose fat but will also help you fight disease and maintain your health – requires that we also take in a regular supply of micronutrients. These micronutrients include all vitamins, minerals, enzymes, phytochemicals, anti-oxidants, etc. These are the critical elements that control what happens in your body at the molecular level.

Why are micronutrients important? Well, it has to do with “free radicals.” What are free radicals? Well, they're basically nasty chemicals that attack other molecules in your body.

Unfortunately, we produce millions of free radicals every day. They are simply a by-product of burning the calories that we need to live and breathe. Just like a car's engine produces smoke from its tailpipe, the engine in your body produces exhaust in the form of free radicals. To paraphrase the New England Journal of Medicine: normal metabolism generates free radicals that damage other molecules, and the result is aging, disease, and death.

So, you see, there is a war being fought within your body every day. The war is fought at the molecular level and the enemy is free radicals. Your weapon against free radicals is the micronutrients that are in the food you eat every day. These micronutrients neutralize and eliminate these free radicals. So, if you have a good supply of micronutrients in your blood at all times, your free radicals get neutralized before they can do much damage. But, if you are not eating the proper foods, you are losing the war. The result: aging, disease, and death.

Fresh, raw fruits and vegetables are the key!
Think about this: Diseases and health problems such as cancer, stroke, heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and arthritis have all been directly linked to the lack of proper nutrition that is available in fresh, raw fruits and vegetables.

You've heard the research reports. Every time a new heath-related study is released the story goes something like this: “Researchers have found that people with diets high in green, leafy vegetables have a 40% lower risk of developing _________(fill in the blank).”

That's great news! We're becoming more and more aware of how preventable many of these terrible diseases are.

So, being the curious humans that we are, we take it a step further and try to isolate the vitamin or enzyme that is responsible for protecting us from this or that disease. There are some clues that perhaps Vitamin A prevents disease X and Vitamin E prevents disease Y. But, almost without fail, when we do clinical studies giving vitamin supplements to study subjects, the results are marginal at best. For some reason, when these vitamins are isolated, they don't seem to do as much good.

What's going on here? Obviously, it has something to do with what we don't know. There are thousands and thousands of different phytochemicals. For example, a tomato has at least 10,000 phytochemicals. So, even if you take a good multi-vitamin that has 50 vitamins and minerals, you're still missing about 9,950 that you'd get by eating that tomato.

So when we isolate just a handful of these and we don't get the same results that we do with the whole food, it tells us that perhaps the benefits come from having the entire mix of nutrients. Clearly a balance of micronutrients – a little bit of everything – is the key to health and disease prevention.

A variety of fruits and vegetables every day is best!
Here's something you need to know about micro-nutrition: All known and unknown vitamins, minerals, anti-oxidants, enzymes, and phytochemicals are available in fresh, raw fruits and vegetables. That doesn't mean that any given fruit has everything you need. A tomato has many vitamins that spinach does not, and vise versa. But what science is discovering is that the right mix of fruits and vegetables will provide the broad spectrum of micro-nutrients your body needs to function properly.

Also, since your body does not store these elements very well, you need to consume a wide variety of these foods every day. Therefore, in order to win the fight against free radicals every day, you also need to be consistent with your intake.

You need the right supplement!
The best thing you can do for yourself is to eat a wide variety of fresh, raw fruits and vegetables every day. But in the real world, this is hard if not impossible. Perhaps you lack the time it takes to keep a supply handy; perhaps you don't like to eat certain fruits or vegetables; or perhaps it's February in North Dakota and they just aren't readily available at the grocery store. Whatever the reason, it is important to find alternative sources of these micro-nutrients for those times you can't get the real thing.

Unfortunately, most vitamin supplements have shown to be either totally ineffective or just marginally effective. They either lack the breadth of micro-nutrients found in fruits and vegetables, or they are created in such a way that the body cannot use the vitamins that are there (i.e. low bio-availability). In most cases, it's both.

However, there is one supplement that comes very highly recommended by thousands of health professionals and leading research organizations. Juice Plus+® is the most researched nutritional supplement in history, and the evidence is overwhelming that it really works to provide you with the micronutrients you need.

Studies by institutions such as the University of Maryland , Brigham Young University , the University of Arizona , the University of Vienna , and many others have documented the impact Juice Plus+ can have on increasing levels of antioxidants in the blood, improving immune system function, and more.

The concept of Juice Plus+ is simple yet extremely powerful. They take 17 different fruits and vegetables – organically-grown and vine-ripened. They immediately juice them and remove the water, sugar, and sodium. What's left is all the good stuff. Most, if not all, of the vitamins, minerals, and enzymes that were in the original fruits and vegetables, are concentrated into a powder and put into a pill.

While it is not exactly the same as eating a wide variety of fresh, raw fruits and vegetables every day, it is the next best thing. And in many ways it is even better because for most of us, it is the only practical way to get these micronutrients on a regular basis.

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