Does Getting More Fiber Help With Weight Loss

If I asked 100 people how much fiber they should be getting in their
diet, on a daily basis…95 of them would get it wrong. Now, some
would get about half of what they need and most wouldn’t even come
close. That isn’t good.

Yesterday, I talked about cutting your sugar consumption, which is
something everyone should strive to do. Now, if you cut your sugar
consumption…and add to that the amount of fiber you should be
taking in, you’d really be doing your body a huge favor.

Fiber fights fat, by slowing down the absorption of sugar into your
body…and it helps to cleanse the waste, generated by an overloaded
digestive system. If you don’t get enough fiber, on a regular basis,
you are increasing the risk of heart disease, diabetes and certain
forms of cancer.

How much fiber is enough? The American Heart Association says you
should get 25 to 30 grams of fiber per day. That may be enough for
some and not enough for others. Remember that these folks who give
recommendations are almost always undershooting what really works.

There is another way to measure the correct level of fiber and that
is by how many times you visit the porcelain, during in an average
day (24 hours). On average, for most people, it should be twice. If
it’s more than that…it’s okay. There are some folks who eat and
shortly thereafter, make a visit, which means your system is really
finely tuned.

But unfortunately, these people are the 5 per centers I mentioned
earlier.

You should try and get your fiber through food rather than powders,
though they will do, in a pinch. (I don’t recommend them as long
term solutions, but sometimes you need a little extra, to break up a
jam.)

One of my readers, who has changed his diet considerably in the last
year, by adding vegetables and eliminating a lot of crapola,
recommends eliminating bread and adding a supercharged bran muffin,
to every meal. He says it works wonders for him and he is definitely
a 5 per center.

Fiber rich foods also make you feel fuller for a longer time, all
while slowing the digestion of food, so insulin is released more
slowly and won’t add as much fat to your fat cells. If you combine
increased fiber intake with drinking 80 ounces of water a day, you
should have your system rolling like an express train.

So now, you have three simple things to help lose the lard.

1) Cut your sugar intake
2) Increase your fiber intake
3) Drink 80 ounces of water a day

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Then, you can make a run at wowing all the beach bunnies (or bums),
come summer.

I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

What Is The First Rule Of Weight Loss

Over the past couple of years, I’ve outlined a number of steps that
will help anyone battling the bulge. These include taking my
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These are certainly important, but the first rule of weight loss
(after those two) is:

Reduce your intake of sugar!

Other than the rotten toothed British (apologies…hip hip), we are
some sugar eating fools in this country and may soon equal, or (God
help us!) surpass them in the amount of sugar we eat per person, per
year.

The estimates, from several sources, put annual per person
consumption of sugar in the U.S. anywhere from 140 to 160 pounds per
annum. That’s 14 to 16 ten pound bags of sugar a year and we wonder
why we can’t fit into our clothing. The Brits, at present, are about
ten pounds up on us, in the 160 to 170 pounds per annum range. But
we are closing the gap very quickly and could surpass them very,
very soon.

It is extremely important to know that:

1) Sugar induces hunger and cravings
2) Sugar wreaks havoc on your blood sugar levels

The evidence to back this up is the explosion of Type II diabetes
over the last two decades.

When you eat sugar, a surge of a fat storing hormone called insulin
is released into your digestive tract. Insulin grabs hold of the
sugar and allows it to pass into the cells, where it’s used as
energy…then the excess is stuffed into your fat cells, in all
those areas you ain’t proud of…like your big fat ess and gucci
gut. Then you get the real kicker, your blood sugar levels drop,
causing hunger and cravings. Then, this happens over and over and
over.

Now…let’s get really serious. Sugar has been pinpointed as one of
the primary causes of inflammation. Inflammation is the cause of
many disease. (My Powerhouse Omega Formula helps combat this, but
think of the results you’ll get if you take the fish oil…AND cut
your sugar intake.)

Many of you out there have been able to lose at least 10 pounds,
just by eliminating soda from your diet, and some of you, even more.
It’s no secret where the sugar is and a good, reasonable goal would
be to cut your sugar intake in half. That would take you down to
about 70 to 80 pounds a year, which isn’t great, but it’s a helluva
lot better than 140 to 160.

And of course, if you can do better than that…you’ll get better
results.

I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

Should You Decrease Your Consumption Of Red Meat To Lose The Lard

That’s a question a reader wanted answered and it’s a good one. In
the health and fitness arena, you should never be afraid to ask any
questions about what’s good for you.

Before I get to my answer, let me tell you that there are a whole
bunch of well intentioned, but misinformed experts out there, who
will tell you that that reducing the amount of red meat in your diet
is a good idea and that it will improve your health. Half of them
would advocate that you adopt a vegetarian/vegan approach and the
other half would have you switch to boneless chicken breast, or
fish.

That’s fine, if that’s what you want to eat for the rest of your
life, but count me out. Just the thought of life without red meat is
enough to give me tremors. Now…one of the main reasons these
experts give for wanting you to stop eating cows is that red meat
causes inflammation and inflammation is a primary source of ill
health.

Inflammation is certainly a root cause of ill health, but red meat
is not the only cause of inflammation, even if they would like it to
be. Just what is “red meat?” That’s a better question. Would filet
mignon qualify? Yes it would. Is grocery store regular hamburger red
meat? No…it isn’t, in my opinion.

Red meat, for dietary purposes, is lean red meat. Flank steak, eye
of round, top sirloin, lean ground beef 92/8, or better (although
ground beef that lean is dry and tasteless. Good burgers are 80/20,
up to 90/10, if the meat is a good cut).

Chuck is not lean; brisket is not lean. Corned beef and pastrami are
cured, so they don’t qualify. Beef sausage doesn’t qualify.

But the lean beef is good for you and won’t harm your weight loss
program one iota. It’s protein. So if you wanted to have 6 ounces of
flank steak for dinner, go right ahead. There won’t be any
difference from chicken, or fish, and you won’t get inflamed (unless
you’re a lousy cook, but that’s a different issue altogether).

And if, despite this, you’re still leery of eating red meat, for
fear of inflammation, just take another couple of capsules of my
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If you want to be super careful, you like the taste and can afford
the extra freight, you can also get grass-fed lean red meat, which
contains high levels of omega-3 fatty acids, just like fish, unlike
grain-fed meats. Better yet, you can do both. And if you watch the
portion size, you can pretty much eat what meat you like.

So, don’t sweat the lean red meat and help keep those chickens in
Arkansas.

Meanwhile, there is no time like right now to start melting the lard
off. I have made it as easy as I possibly can for you in my book,
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I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

What’s Wrong With Man Vs Food

I first saw “Man Vs Food” a few moons back. It didn’t exactly blow
me away, but the host, Adam Richman, is a likable guy and so, I have
tuned in a few times late at night, when I haven’t been sleepy. Last
week, I was watching an episode and it struck me right away that
Adam Richman has gained about 40 pounds.

When you think about it for a minute, it’s fairly logical that the
host of a show that’s about eating either A) the biggest portion of
food ever, or B) the hottest portion of food ever, would put on a
few pounds during a season. You would also think that, being young,
he would lose it when the cameras aren’t rolling.

But that doesn’t seem to be the case with Adam Richman. He has to be
eating all the time and not getting any exercise, save liftin’ the
vittles to his piehole.

Today, I saw the first ever episode of Man Vs Food and I have to
tell you, I’m more than a little frightened for the jocular host. He
has really packed on the flubber and it’s going to be a lot harder
to get it off than it was to put it on, especially when you make
your living eating food by the slopbucket.

The Travel Channel, which produces this show, needs to put a
personal trainer in this guy’s contract, whether he likes it or not,
and maybe hire some other folks to chow down the food, while Adam
does commentary and cheers them on. Believe me, they’d have no
shortage of volunteers, and they could spread the lard, and their
liability, around.

A lot of fatfolk will tell you that “it just happened — all of a
sudden, I gained 40, 50, 60, 75, 100 pounds.” You would think they
didn’t own a mirror, which we all know isn’t true. If you have a
mirror, you really don’t need a scale. If you want to do a real
fitness assessment, strip down and have a look at yourself in the
mirror. They say the dead tell no lies…and neither does the
mirror.

Last year, I wrote a program for you to transform yourself from an
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I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

Does Big And Strong Mean You’re Healthy

When I was growing up, my Dad often referred to a guy named “Big
Ed.” I first saw Big Ed when I was 7 or 8 years old and he looked
liked a giant. He was easily two of my Dad and maybe another half.

When I was older, I heard that Big Ed weighed 4 bills and some
change. He went around 6′ 6,” as far as height was concerned. I
figured this out because a friend of my Dad’s was 6′ 4″ and Big Ed
was a little taller than he was.

Big Ed had some job with the city, but he was renowned for how
strong he was. Whenever a situation called for muscle, Big Ed got a
call and, as far as I know, he never failed to get the job done. He
moved furniture, refrigerators, pianos and even some really big
people, who needed to go the hospital. One time, he lifted a car up
on its side, as a joke.

Big Ed dropped dead at 49. He was walking down the street, dropped
to his knees, then rolled over on his side. At his wake, everybody
had a story of one of his feats of strength. The thing I remember
most was him buying ice cream for a bunch of us, one very hot summer
day.

The ice cream guy wanted to know who was paying for all of us.
“Whaddaya mean whooze paying?” said Big Ed. The ice cream guy didn’t
have any more questions.

Big Ed had a heart attack. One of his friends said he had never been
to a doctor…as far as he knew… and he was probably right. Most
men have to be forced to see a doctor, even now. In those days,
Medicine might not have been able to save Big Ed, but it certainly
could today (the chances are almost 200% better).

The other thing is, Big Ed could have helped save himself…by
taking my Powerhouse Omega Formula, which wasn’t around then. Nobody
knew about omega-3′s then and what they can do to help keep your
system running like a fine tuned machine.

Big and strong is big and strong.

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With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

Why Many Fitness Programs Have Failure Built In

I received a huge stack of mail today, with one big yellow envelope
marked “Personal.” That’s almost as good as getting a package in a
plain brown wrapper. (That’s what I hear anyway.)

So I open up the envelope and and it’s a 120 page glossy for an LA
based fitness company that will get you the body of your dreams.
Every page is full of tanned, southern California fitness people,
with well defined abs, muscles everywhere, very full lips and
absolutely perfect, gleaming white teeth. Everything screams “Look
at me! Look at me! I’m the fittest one of all!”

I leafed through all 120 pages to find an ounce of flab, some
nosehair, maybe a birthmark, or the evidence of a surgical scar, but
it was all for naught. I couldn’t find anything wrong, which is my
point. The appearance of fitness is not fitness.

Some years ago, a real fitness guy told me a story about the LA
fitness scene that I’ve never forgotten. He was in LA doing a photo
shoot and just hanging out, visiting some of the big name gyms
there. He was in one of these places and listening to a bigtime
fitness guru telling a client how to work out and get the best
results. He couldn’t believe the bee ezz he was hearing and decided
to rudely butt into the conversation. He ended up challenging the
fitness dude to a 100 yard run on the beach.

A bunch of folks followed them to the beach and the race started.
The fitness dude was done at 60 yards, collapsing, and needing
almost 15 minutes to recover. This was a classic example of being
deceived by how someone looks.

I lost 55+ pounds and believe me, I can run 60 yards. And I’m never
going to look anything like any of the folks in that brochure. But a
whole lot of people think that they fail, if they don’t end up
looking like models, when just the opposite is true. There is a huge
difference between being fit and being a fitness model. Many of
those folks have health problems that you wouldn’t believe.

Go at your own pace.

Don’t get mesmerized with six pack abs and buns of steel.

Don’t compare yourself to others. Be proud of what you’ve got.

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I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

Guess What Percentage of Americans Exercise Daily

10%

That figure really threw me for a loop, but I have to admit that
until about eighteen months ago, I was in the 90% group. That would
be the group that gets very little, or no exercise at all. 30% of
Americans get some exercise, although some of this may consist of
walking to the refrigerator and getting a beer, then lifting it to
the mouth (that’s 3 or 4 repetitions in the winter, two if it’s
really hot).

Here are a few other facts to blow air up your pant legs:

66% of the U.S. population is overweight.

50% of adults suffer from at least one chronic disease.

50% of adults are on one or more prescription drugs, at any given
time.

50% of adult males and 33% of adult females, will be diagnosed with
cancer in their lifetime.

Wow!

What it boils down to is that we face many challenges to be healthy.
Maybe we should ditch Obamacare and open boot camps. (We should
ditch Obamacare anyway.) But maybe we need to make exercise
mandatory, in spite of my Libertarian views that say, you should
never force anybody to do anything.

But if we keep going like nothing’s wrong, there will be longer
lines at the hospital than for free cheese. (Does that come with
donuts?)

This next statistic should send shivers down your spine.

We all know what Obamacare is going to cost. (Higher than most of us
can count.) But experts say that chronic disease-related losses in
productivity, from absenteeism and “pre-absente-ism” (people coming
to work but not being capable, energized, or focused enough to do
good work), are even more staggering. The estimate of these losses
is triple the direct costs of Obamacare.

Billionaire Warren Buffet, the “Oracle of Omaha,” says our
healthcare spending is like “a tapeworm eating at our economic
body.”

Figuring out what really helps your body operate at maximum capacity
usually requires research and refinement, as well as a bit of trial
and error. But…the sooner you get off your keister…the sooner
you are going to discover what works for YOU.

And keep in mind…this is really important…it does get easier.
Don’t wait to be a statistic!

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I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

5 Ways To Be Healthy In 2011

For most of us, the holidays are over and it’s back to work, or back
to whatever we do best. After a week or two of breaking all the
rules, most of us crave getting back into some kind of routine, even
though we complain vociferously about it.

We do need to take a fresh look at our health at the beginning of
every year, although you certainly can do it anytime, if you want
to. I thought I’d contribute some ways to make it easier for you.

#1) Focus on the fundamentals. Drink water, eat good food, move,
relax, connect. Don’t sweat anything complex, until you have a grip
on the basics.

#2) Aim for 85%. You don’t have to make 100% healthy choices, all
the time. It’s what you do most of the time…day in, day out…that
counts. The healthier you get, the easier and more automatic healthy
choices will become.

#3) Learn to cook. Get a dozen healthy, whole food recipes under
your belt and your life will be forever changed. Start by mastering
one.

#4) Do not skip breakfast. Make double sure you eat protein,
produce, healthy fats and some fiber. Eating breakfast wards off
excessive, or binge eating, prevents energy slumps, brain fog and
food cravings.

#5) Get off your fat S. Sitting around is deadly. Get up, walk
around, climb a flight of stairs and, as Sergeant Carter used to
scream at Gomer Pyle, “Move it! Move it! MOVE it!”

That’s a good start and I’ll have more suggestions, as we get
rolling here, in the New Year.

More importantly, invest in your health. The money you spend on your
health delivers far better returns than money spent reactively, on
treating illness and disease. When a healthy choice seems “too
expensive,” consider the long term cost of health-sapping
alternatives.

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I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

Nobody Goes There Anymore, It’s Too Crowded

I thought I’d start the New Year with a couple of Yogiisms. Not the
kind of yogi who sits around listening to bad Ravi Shankar tunes,
but one of America’s favorite two Yogi’s (Yogi Berra and Yogi Bear).

I’ve been reading Jane Leavey’s incredible biography of Mickey
Mantle, “The Last Boy,” and it brought Yogi Berra to mind. There
aren’t many of the old Bronx Bombers left, but Yogi is still with
us. I believe Yogi is around 91 years old, which means he has
walked, as William Faulkner said, “a fur piece.”

Yogi has so many good quotes, it’s hard to pick just one as a
favorite.

“It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was
talking too much.”

“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In
practice there is.”

“The towels were so thick there, I could hardly close my suitcase.”

“Little League baseball is a good thing, because it keeps parents
off the streets.”

“It gets late early out there.”

If you’re a baseball guy, or gal, and you want a good, eye opening
read about one of America’s heroes, “The Last Boy” is worth every
cent. I was lucky enough to grow up in Brooklyn, New York, during
the 50′s and 60′s, and this book really is like climbing in a time
machine. Be prepared to laugh and be prepared to cry. The story is
emotional and poignant and sometimes, disturbing. Sometimes, being a
hero isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

Mickey Mantle died from years of alcohol abuse, pure and simple.
Nobody would tell him he had to stop drinking, until it was too
late.

Drinking too much is just one way to hurt yourself. There are plenty
of other ways and I won’t shy away from telling you what they are.
At the top of the list is being overweight and there is no time like
the present to do something about it.

As you know, I lost 55+ pounds and have kept it off. I have a book
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As Yogi says, “If you come to a fork in the road, take it.”

I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

Champagne Wishes And Caviar Dreams

Well…we’ve now come to the end of another year. The best thing
about it is that there’s another one right around the corner and it
will be better than the last. If I could give everyone something, it
would be the gift of good health, which rates right up there at the
top, as far as I’m concerned.

The great English playwright Tom Stoppard once said, “A healthy
attitude is contagious, but don’t wait to catch it. Be a carrier!” I
think that’s a good way to start out a new year.

If you’ve had health issues the past year, or years, just remember
that you still have a chance to get healthy by eating properly,
getting your rest and exercising in the new year. The human body is
terrifically resilient and years of bad body management can be
undone in a relatively short period of time. Healing is a matter of
time, but it is also a matter of opportunity. The opportunity to
“turn over a new thorn,” as one of my partners likes to say is
always within us.

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Many thanks to all of you who have purchased our products and taken
the time to send us your views, no matter what they are. We look
forward to being with you in 2011.

Happy New Year!

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill