What’s The Eskimo Factor

Recently, I got back to Long Island just in time for the global
warming…I mean…ahem…snow. Not that it was warm in Florida
either. Why is it that these eco-nuts persist with the global
warming, when anybody whose brain is ticking knows we are in a
cooling cycle and will be for some time.

It’s obvious that these folks do not take enough fish oil, because
if they did…and all neurons were working like they are supposed
to, that they couldn’t possibly believe that we are in a warming
trend.

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I have written previously that taking my Powerhouse Omega Formula,
twice a day, is one of the best things you can do for your health.
The cardiovascular benefits, attributed to fish oil by hundreds of
studies, make the taking of pharmaceutical grade fish oil a “must
do.”

One of the most interesting studies in the fish oil literature is
one done in Alaska, done among Eskimos and Native Americans. The
diet of both groups contained extremely high amounts of fatty fish
and guess what? The study found that both groups demonstrated a
very low incidence of any kind of cardiac problem, especially
arrhythmias and heart attacks.

And among those who did have heart problems, recurrences were 30%
lower in this group, than in the general population.

There was one other thing of note at the tail end of this study:

The introduction of the Standard American Diet (SAD) into this
culture has raised the incidence of heart problems and the
recurrence of pre-existing heart problems. This has also happened
in Japan and is now happening in China.

As I have said before, we are what we eat. Medical studies are now
proving this, beyond a shadow of a doubt, and fish oil isn’t just
for those who have had a heart attack. It may be the major reason
why you never have one, and if you do, the major reason you
survive… where someone else, not taking it, may not:

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I’ll be back with more tomorrow.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

The Many Pains of The Buffet Molester

Twas talking to a friend of mine who runs a business, with 300
employees. He is what you would call a “light” manufacturer. By
that, I mean that the products he makes are small. He isn’t
building cars, or heavy machinery, or something like that. His
products, as I said, are small and light and they require a good
bit of skill to make.

Most of his employees sit at work stations, for most of their
shift. Last year, he had a record number of sick days, which cost
him money.

The problem isn’t that the employees are sick, like with
the flu.

The problem is that he has a lot of fat employees and fat
employees have all kinds of physical problems. Their ankles hurt.
Their knees hurt. They have lower back pain and upper back pain.
All their joints ache.

All this amounts to what is called “lost time.” Lost time is easily
translated into lost money. There is a large price to pay for being
overweight.

The biggest price you can pay is, of course, death.

Lower on the scale are heart disease, diabetes, stroke, high blood
pressure…which are, like, death on the installment plan.

Then comes physical pain…which comes from hauling around two
people in one body.

If there is one thing you can do to help yourself physically…it’s
lose some weight.

Until the beginning of last year, I was overweight and had been
that way for years. Although many of my pains were from an accident
I suffered, the extra weight wasn’t helping me any. I made up my
mind to do something about it, something I should have done years
ago.

Today I am 55 pounds lighter and although I have the normal aches of
someone my age, many of the other afflictions I had are gone.

This afternoon, on the radio, I was listening to a nutritionist who
really knew his stuff. One of the things he said hit me hard. It
was this, “Many people who are publicly touting diets, nutrition,
and fitness…are not healthy themselves. I know doctors who are
standing up in front of crowds telling people how to eat, who are
100 pounds overweight. I wish I had $20 for every fat dietician and
nutritionist I know.”

He went on: “When you go to the doctor and he, or she, doesn’t look
fit, get the hell out of their office, as fast as you can
go…because they obviously don’t believe what they are telling
you.”

That’s very good advice.

Right now, I’m in the best shape of my life. I got the message
late, but I got it and I heeded it.

You certainly don’t have to wait that long and it’s never too late.
The human body is marvelously resilient and capable of incredible
healing, in just weeks and months. All you have to do is give it
what it needs and you can have a new lease on life. You’re going to
have to make some changes, but they will all be for the better.

As I said yesterday, you are what you eat. There is a difference
between eating a peach and a Twinkie. One is natural, the other
totally synthetic. Your body needs the peach and really has no use
for the Twinkie.

Get on the fitness train with me. If I can change my stripes, so
can you.

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Then use your GPS to find the produce section of the grocery.

I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

How To Lose Weight With Williams-Sonoma

I got my brand spanking new first of the new year Williams-Sonoma
catalog in the mail today, which proclaims** WINTER SALE!** on the
cover and savings of up to 60% off, on select items.

There is also a delectable picture of a scrumptious calzone, with
steak, onions, peppers and oozing cheese, with some ground parmesan
cheese and coarse salt on the top.

Inside the catalog is a calzone mold, which will help you achieve
the same look for your own creation, if you should desire to make
one, yourself. For the uninitiated, a calzone is simply a pizza that
has been folded over. The calzone mold will make you a 7 inch pie,
which I’m just guessing contains somewhere around 1100 calories,
most of them carbohydrates and fat.

That’s if you don’t eat anything else, or drink nothing but H20.

So the key to losing weight with Williams-Sonoma is to look at the
beautiful pictures and NOT buy the calzone mold. (Sorry…you can’t
lose weight by eating a huge portion of tagliatelle with Bolognese
sauce…unless of course you are running the New York, or Boston
Marathon the next morning. Or competing in the Ironman Triathalon,
in Hawaii.)

One of the keys to weight loss is portion control, particularly when
dealing with processed carbs, like pasta. Try to keep your portion
of pasta at 4 ounces, or less, and load up on the vegetables,
whether they be sauce, or salad. The important thing to remember is
that if you eat a Maggiano’s size portion of pasta, you’ll get as
big as the restaurant (proportionally, of course).

You can eat big salads, big stir fries and plenty of fruit. Just
keep the vegetables as the star of the show and use the meats as a
condiment. I personally like big stir fries and I keep the sugary
stuffs out of the sauce, which is another no-no. Most of the time, I
also ditch the rice (though, if you must have it, try brown rice
and/or wild rice, that have more fiber).

It’s worked wonders for me and I have never been this slim since my
early 20′s. And no one who has seen me at the table would ever call
me a grazer. I eat a good amount of food…it’s just that what I eat
is different, now…than what I ate for years and years.

I’m also no purist. I’m never going to tell you I never have a piece
of cheesecake, or some ice cream, or even pizza. I do. But it’s
usually once a month, or a special occassion, and I usually don’t
finish what’s on the plate (or on my wife’s plate, which I was wont
to do for years.)

Through it all, I took my own formulas and they kept my energy level
high and consistent. They also helped me reduce the aches and pains
of getting older, which we can’t avoid, no matter how we try.
Between the weight loss and the supplements I feel like I’m 40, or
less.

2011 is going to be the Year of No Excuses. Start being all that you
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I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

Are You Bogarting Your Joints?

After you pass your 40th birthday, you start to notice that your
body takes exception to some of the things you do and sends you
signals. These signals may be subtle, or they may be painful. If
they’re painful, you may have missed them when they were subtle. Or
ignored them.

At 40, many of us still think we’re invincible. By the time we reach
50, we know we’re not, but many of us don’t want to admit it. At 60,
most of us know that we need help, in one department or another.

Growing older can be a painful experience if you ignore the signals
your body is sending out.

Joint pain is a fact of life for most of us, at a certain age. It
could be your back, your elbow, your knees, your hips, hands, feet,
or shoulders. If you let it go, you’re inviting reduced mobility,
which is never a good thing.

Painkillers are not the answer, although they are necessary in
severe cases. Many doctors prescribe NSAIDS, “super aspirin,” and
painkillers, without sufficient regard for their adverse side
effects, which can often be worse than the original problem.

Because of my own painful injury, I wanted to be able to provide
some relief for people in this area. Believe me, I know about pain.
It ended my surgical career, because I could no longer stand in the
operating room.

My first discovery, several years ago, was that pharmaceutical grade
fish oil made many of my aches and pains disappear. A little over a
year ago, I discovered that by adding one ingredient to an already
existing formula, I could offer even more relief.

That ingredient is green lipped mussel extract and I added it to
glucosamine, chondroitin, MSM, hyaluronic acid, vitamin C and
manganese. These ingredients combine to begin rejuvenating your
joints and eliminating pain.

Taken with my Powerhouse Omega Formula, you have an all natural one-
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If you have small aches and pains now, it would be a good time to
start warding off what’s coming later.

If you don’t do anything, eventually you’ll get much worse and you
won’t be able to do the things you like to do, because it’s too
painful. Start rejuvenating yourself, as soon as possible and get
back to being all that you can be.

I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

A Simple Salad To Keep On Hand

As we roll into the holiday season, food temptations will be all
around us. There will be cookies, candy, pie, cake, stuffing,
casseroles, you name it…it will be on the table, or counter, or in
the refrigerator. With all that delicious food around, you have to
be some kind of saint to pass it all up.

One of the rules I follow is: Out of site, out of mind.

If you don’t buy it and bring it home, it won’t be sitting in the
kitchen crying for you to gobble it up.

The other rule I have is: Make only enough for one meal.

In the past, I would have made enough food to feed a small army. So
not only did I overeat on Thanksgiving, but for days after it, too
(Oftentimes, all the way to Christmas…which lasted until mid-
January). If you plan your Holidays like that, it’s easy to put on
10 pounds of lard in 6 weeks.

So if you bring in enough food for just one celebratory meal, you
can stick with whatever program you have going.

You can also have some light foods around that are very easy to
prepare and are low in calories, but very filling. Here’s one of my
favorites and it couldn’t be easier to make. If you eat one portion,
you have consumed 46 calories and if you eat the whole thing it’s
only 186 calories, which is about the equivalent of two apples.

Cucumber Salad

2 English cucumbers
1/4 cup rice vinegar
1 Tsp sugar
1/4 Tsp salt
2 Tbsp toasted sesame seeds

Peel the cukes. Cut in very thin slices.

Combine vinegar, sugar and salt in a small bowl. Dissolve the sugar
and salt. Add the vinegar, sugar and salt to the cucumber slices.
Toss well, to combine. Sprinkle with the sesame seeds. Serve.

That takes all of about 5 minutes to make and you can eat the whole
thing, if you want, and it’s still less than 200 calories. You can’t
beat that for a snack, or side dish.

A friend of mine likes to add sliced radishes, sliced red onion,
grated carrots and cilantro sprigs to this, then slap it in a steak
roll, as a sort of vegetarian sandwich. I think he puts banana
peppers in there, too, when he likes it spiced up a touch. Just
remember, the bread adds calories, if you’re counting them.

I’m getting some good reports from people following my fat loss
program. Last week, Harold from Seattle reported in 11-1/2 pounds
lighter and Luann from Texas is down 17 pounds! That’s very good
news to hear. Both of them also take my Powerhouse Omega Formula, a
pharmaceutical grade fish oil from deep, arctic Norwegian waters.

Remember that my Formula comes with an enteric coating, which
virtually eliminates the dreaded fish burps. The enteric coating
makes sure the soft gel passes through the stomach (where 99% of all
gels burst), into the intestine, where it dissolves harmlessly, with
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I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

If You Don’t Vote Shut Your Piehole

Over the years, I have have never been shy about my political
opinions. If you’ve been reading my emails for any length of time,
you would easily guess which side of the fence I’m likely to be
standing on. That being said, I don’t just pull the lever for
everybody on my side.

I enjoy a good political debate, especially with an opponent who
knows what they are talking about, and one that is able to score a
few points of their own, without quoting party talking points. That
is what is good about politics–being able to express your ideas on
a vast array of subjects and then, letting others decide who made
the better argument.

There is a good story in one of the biographies of Ronald Reagan,
about then Speaker of the House, Tip O’Neill and Reagan, who had
been jawing at each other for hours about a piece of legislation
that Reagan wanted and O’Neill did not. Reagan already had all the
votes he needed, but O’Neill was doing his best to hold up the vote.
Reagan had had enough and told Tip that he was going to get a vote,
regardless of what O’Neill did. Tip immediately started to protest
even louder, shouting at Reagan in the Oval Office.

Reagan let him carry on for about ten minutes, much to the amazement
of his aides. Then he stood up, looked at his watch and said “Tip,
it’s 5 o’clock and you’ve been talking all day. Now, it’s time to
get a drink, and put this business behind us.”

O’Neill stood up, shook the President’s hand and started walking out
of the office. Reagan put his arm around Tip’s shoulder and they
walked out together.

This is markedly different than President Obama recently telling a
crowd of Hispanics that “We need to punish our enemies,” and then, a
moment later, say, “They can get on the bus, but they’ll have to sit
in the back.”

In the last Presidential election, there was a guy I knew who cried
and moaned about Obama, all the time. For months, every time I saw
him, he wanted to commiserate about what a lousy President he would
make. Then by chance, I found out that he didn’t vote. Not only
that, but he hadn’t voted in over a dozen years.

This really made me mad. I haven’t listened to a word this guy says
about politics, since I found out he doesn’t vote. Why? Because in
my mind you must vote… if you want to get in the discussion. I
don’t care who you vote for, or which side you’re on, you must get
in the game…

Or shut your piehole!

If you are too lazy to register your views, I’m too busy to listen
to you talk. I don’t want to hear that voting doesn’t make any
difference, because it most certainly does.

Voting is the lifeblood of democracy. If we stop voting, you can bet
that there’s a bureaucrat that can’t wait to tell you what to do
(Bless his pointy little head!).

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I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

The Bumper Sticker Of The Year Award

This morning, I was driving around completing a number of
“honeydooze” for the wife, who handed me a list, along with my
morning tea, when I ambled into the kitchen. I had planned to have a
lazy day, but she had other ideas. The thing that sealed the deal
was that she didn’t want to go along and the weather was good. So
the way I look at it, I could be out of the house for quite awhile
by myself and maybe even sneak in some shopping at the local
bookstore.

After I had finished three of the seven things on the list, I
decided to go to a deli I like, with the added pleasure of not
getting a dirty look when I ordered a pastrami sandwich. I was
leisurely driving toward the deli when a screaming yellow Volkswagen
Beetle pulled in front of me. It had flowers on the back window and
I was thinking the word “hippie,” when I noticed a couple of bumper
stickers.

Now I expected something like “Co-exist,” or “I Brake For Animals,”
the usual hippified stuff that would be on a screaming yellow
Volkswagen Beetle, with flowers on the window. I was a little too
far back to read the bumper sticker, but the light changed to red
and the beetle stopped. I pulled up right behind and read the bumper
sticker on the left, directly in front of me.

On the left of the sticker was a big red arrow pointing to the
right, at a face of Barack Obama who looked either bemused, or
bewildered, take your pick. Then I read the slogan, which said:

“Does this ass make my car look big?”

I came unglued. The light changed and I was getting honked at, but I
was still laughing hard. I finally hit the accelerator and quickly
changed lanes, pulling up next to the beetle. Then I honked until
the driver looked over, whereupon I gave him a “thumbs up.” He
honked back, gave me a similar sign and then, turned into a grocery
store parking lot.

I laughed all the way to the deli and even while I was standing in
line.

That is by far the best bumper sticker I have seen in a long time
and gets the Dr. Bill Seal of Approval.

Remember that tomorrow is the day to vote for a midcourse
correction.

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I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill