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Lean and mean weight loss

262,085 miles since Dec 31st, 1989.

Pictured here is one of the best material investments I’ve ever made since migrating to the US.

I bought this car brand new on New Year’s eve and she’ll probably run until 350,000+ miles, without any major work.

Aging gracefully

But what has this car got to do with health?!?!?

I’m getting there in a minute, so please bear with me.

I don’t get 35 miles per gallon mileage anymore, but she’s still at a respectable 26-30 mpg. Still pretty green, relatively.

Here are the top 3 biggest expenses I’ve incurred to date:

• clutch replacement – $897.73 May 2008
• strut replacement – $690.47 Apr 2002
• distributor replacement – $527.77 Jun 2006 (this was my fault because I made some simple, but stupid modifications)

Notice that the major components: the engine, the transmission, the frame, the body are all original and intact. Heck, even the paint is original.

Normal maintenance:

• timing belt – $550.06 May 2006 (3 yrs premature – long story)
• timing belt – $353.56 Mar 2003
• timing belt – $365.40 Jun 1997
• oil change – guestimated at $1,050 over the 19-yr period (as prescribed, every 7500 miles)

All throughout its life of 19+ years, only once did this car ever stop on the road, and I had to call a tow truck to help me out. (That was a result of my stupid modifications!)

One more thing: this car is NOT pampered. It doesn’t sit idle in the garage with a warm blanket, but it does stay inside the garage every night.

So again, what has this got to do with health?

Here’s my point. If you take care of your car, the car will take care of you.

Take Care of Your Body and
It Will Take Care of You

Take care of your body TODAY and everyday thereafter, and it will take care of you for a long and healthy life.

In reality, your entire body is in constant repair and maintenance. Almost every living cell dies and gets replaced by a new cell – CONSTANTLY.

As you age, however, the cell duplication process becomes less and less efficient. It slowly deteriorates over time – normally. But it could accelerate depending on your lifetyle.

It’s just like making a photocopy of a picture. A copy of the original is fine. But a copy of the copy is not quite as good. What if you make 50 subsequent copies of the picture? What do you think will the last picture look like?

Get the picture? (No pun intended.)

Copying from a copy leads to poor quality

When a living cell duplicates itself, do you think it needs raw materials or ingredients to do that?

You betcha. Specifically, your living cells need MICRO nutrients (minerals, enzymes, vitamins, biotics, etc.), which in turn, come from MACRO nutrients (carbs, proteins and fats) that you eat.

This is the reason why I don’t believe in counting calories. Quality food will keep your metabolism going, while bad calories will CHOKE your metabolism.

So if you feed your cells on empty calories, the cells do not reproduce properly. If your organ cells fail, then eventually the organ itself fails.

Let’s take the pancreas. When its cells start to age prematurely, then it will slow down in producing insulin. And of course, lack of insulin (which is different from insulin resistance), can potentially lead to weight gain.

I’m not a body builder, and I don’t really have any aspirations to be one. I’m just a regular guy who’s discovered REALIZED some common sense approach to maintaining a lean (not mean) body.

As I grow old into my sunset years, I’d like to be strong, healthy and ACTIVE up to at least 100 years.

Please, no chronic disease that would cripple me for 10, 20 or even 30+ years. No organ transplants or heart bypass operations either.

I don’t wanna be moving around with a cane, let alone in a wheelchair or cart, with an oxygen tank strapped behind me. It’s not the way to enjoy the time with my grandkids.

Preferably,  I’d just stop breathing in my sleep one day. (After I’ve had my last words with my family & close friends.)

Here’s one of my simple rules – don’t mess around with the manufacturer (unlike the “simple” modification I did with my car).

When it comes to my health, NATURE is the manufacturer. I try my darn hardest not to mess with it.

As much as I practically can, I let natural foods maintain my health – avoiding, as much as possible, man-made medication including processed foods and pre-packaged “weight loss” meals.

Are you investing on wellness and prevention, instead of spending for repair and intervention?

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In a recent study conducted by the Associated Press, 41 million Americans are exposed to a variety of prescription drugs without their knowledge, just by drinking their own tap water.

Our scientists have tampered so much with synthetic chemicals that they are no longer decomposing or breaking down into a harmless state.

Here’s what’s been happening:

1. Your neighbor Stanley takes prescription medication for sleeping pills, antibiotics, sex hormones, insulin, whatever.
2. Stanley’s body doesn’t absorb everything that he swallows, and he ends up flushing the chemicals down the toilet, when he pees.
3. All the waste ends up either in your sewer system, or your aquifer.
4. The water is recycled and cleaned up – supposedly for safe drinking.
5. The reality is, the cleaning and filtration process has not kept with the explosive proliferation of biochemical agents produced by the food and drug industry.

Public utility companies insist that the dosages are too small to have any significance. The truth is, no one knows the real answer, particularly how these artificial chemicals react with one another.

What are you going to do about this?

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