Dean Ornish on Healing

I found this great talk by Dr. Dean Ornish explaining how we can change our health and even reverse disease by changing our lifestyle and eating habits.  It is 16+ minutes of video, but well worth the time.

TRX Total Body Workout

The TRX provides a total-body workout for men and women of all ages and fitness levels with just one piece of equipment that is easy to set up, use and store. TRX products are made by Fitness Anywhere, which designs and sells original products of innovative design and premium quality construction.

Used by elite athletes in the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, MLS & NCAA including Drew Brees, Carmelo Anthony, Jamie Moyer and more.

Featured in Men’s Health, Outside, Self, Shape, Sports Illustrated, NY Times, WSJ, Today Show and Good Morning America.

TRX customers benefit from free shipping on orders of $150+ (to addresses within the U.S.), a 30-day 100% satisfaction guarantee, a one year limited replacement warranty and access to free workouts and training tips in the TRX Community.

What Are We to Do?

For most of our evolutionary history we have not had access to unlimited calories. We belonged to hunter-gatherer societies and burned a lot of energy in everyday tasks. Our ancestral human diet varied for different groups of our forebears who lived in different habitats. It was a diet that was mostly vegetarian, with very little fat (probably about 10% of total calories) and very little sugar. Sweet flavors were rarely encountered – they typically occurred in ripe fruit or wild honey – and meat was a rare luxury and was usually quite lean when it could be obtained. For inland peoples, salty flavors were almost unknown. In many locations intermittent famines were regular occurrences, so when energy-dense foods containing fat and sugar were available, it made sense to gorge on them to establish a body fat reserve for anticipated hard times.




Now that we have test kitchens, restaurant chains, commercial bakeries, and other food production corporations, the average weight of an adult in the United States has increased by about twenty-six pounds between 1960 and the present.



Believe it or not, our brains wiring in the pleasure center is contributing to the problem as well. The substance leptin and dopamine receptors or lack thereof can all play a role in the obesity battle.



So, what are we to do?



• Be informed! Know as much as you can about your body & brain.

• Decide what it is going to take to transform into the body of health and fitness.

• Read labels, shop mainly on the outskirts of the grocery store.

• Cook from scratch, select and eat lots of vegetables and fruits, as close to the original state as possible. Cooking is still necessary of course, but eat raw when you can.

• Decide which habits and activities need to change, and then, ‘Just Do It.’

• Repeating a behavior about 22 times starts a new habit.

Healthy Eating Begins at the Grocery Store

Years ago, whenever my Mom would start a new diet, she would clean out her cupboard and refrigerator, put all the "non-diet" foods in a large black garbage bag and give the bag to me!

Well, that's good that she rid her kitchen of undesireable food stuffs, I highly recommend doing that, but when I would look inside this bag I would think, "Why did you even buy this crap?"

So, the moral to this story is, "Healthy eating begins at the grocery store." If you don't buy it, it won't be in your house to tempt you to eat it when you go looking for a satisfying snack.

I must admit a slight bit of disappointment nudges me when I'm looking in my refrigerator or cupboard for a snack and the worst items I can find are nuts (very calorie dense), cottage cheese, low fat yogurt, fresh veggie packs or fresh fruit. But, it keeps me in line and on track.