Popularized Diet Fads continue Last but not least Part 6- the Zone diet from Fitness Elements Express!

6 Popular Diet Fads and the Scientific Discovery behind them Part 6- The Zone Diet

The How to's on Designing your own Healthy Diet

Here is a quick look on some of the most popular Diets and what has been discovered with these various type diets. This will be a six part discussion and education for you on determining and forming your own personal view. While there are literally hundreds of fad diets that have been promoted over the years that we could discuss, we will limit the discussion to the following popular diets:

The Atkins diet
The Blood Type Diet
The Ornish diet
The Macrobiotic diet
The vegetarian diet
The Zone diet


Today we will start and discuss the diet and what the outcomes and conclusions were. This is part six of the six part series of articles. The next and final article will be the answer to the question you've been waiting for. What is the Best Diet to date?

The Zone Diet


The Zone diet was developed by Barry Sears, Ph.D., and popularized in his best -selling book Enter the Zone. The basic principle guiding the Zone diet is based on the relationship between the hormone insulin and the ratio of dietary fat, protein, and carbohydrates. The Zone diet proposes a dietary ratio of 40 percent carbohydrate, 30 percent protein, and 30 percent fat.

The Zone diet is popular among those people desiring to lose weight, and it definately works because the actual recomendations of the Zone diet result in the average person taking in only 800 to 1,200 calories per day. Of course any diet that is low enough in calories will result in weight loss, regardless of it's proportions of protein, carbohydrate, and and fat. As when following other weight loss programs, people generally experience good initial weight loss on the Zone diet, but the strict -and confusing-nature of the diet makes it difficult for many to follow. As a result, long-term compliance-and therefore lasting weight loss-withthis diet is difficult.

Individuals following the Zone diet are encouraged to consume protein from animal/and or vegetable sources that are relatively low in dietary fat, such as chicken or soy foods. It is also recommended that the diet include a good intake of monounsaturated fats, including olive oil, canola oil, and avocados. Individuals following the Zone diet are encouraged to avoid:

All refined carbohydrates and most simple sugars, including foods made from white flour (bread, pasta, bagels, tortillas, and breakfast cereals), candy, soda, and desserts
Fruits , vegetables , and grains high on the glycemic index, such as rice, papaya, mango, corn, potatoes, and carrots
Foods containing saturated fat, most notably red meat and whole-fat dairy products
Egg yolks and organ meats

My opinion along with the references to this article of the Zone diet is that while we agree with many of the goals and principles of the diet, since it does not focus enough on plant foods, the amount of fiber and other important phytochemicals is not sufficient to promote long-term health.


Until the last and final part to the question you've been waiting for what is the Best diet? Have a healthy and happy day!

References: Michael Murray N.D., Joseph Pizzorno N.D., and Lara Pizzorno M.A., L.M.T

By, Natalie Pyles

NSA Speaker, Author, Medical Exercise and Post Rehab Conditioning Specialist, Licensed Nutritionist, Whole Health, Fitness, and Holistic Nutrition and Nursing Educator

Popularized Diet Fads Continue Part 5 - The Vegetarian Diet from Fitness Elements Express!

6 Popular Diet Fads and the Scientific Discovery behind them Part 5- The Vegetarian Diet

The How to's on Designing your own Healthy Diet


Here is a quick look on some of the most popular Diets and what has been discovered with these various type diets. This will be a six part discussion and education for you on determining and forming your own personal view. While there are literally hundreds of fad diets that have been promoted over the years that we could discuss, we will limit the discussion to the following popular diets:

The Atkins diet
The Blood Type Diet
The Ornish diet
The Macrobiotic diet
The vegetarian diet
The Zone diet

Today we will start and discuss the Vegetarian diet and what the outcomes and conclusions were. This is part five of the six part series of articles.

The Vegetarian Diet


The vegetarian diet is defined as one avoiding all animal flesh, including fish and poultry. Vegetarians who avoid flesh but do eat animal products, such as cheese, milk, and eggs, are ovo-lacto-vegetarians (ovo = egg; lacto = milk and cheese). Those who eschew all animal products are reffered to as pure vegetarians or vegans.

The vegetarian diet is often promoted as the most beneficial diet and has been advocated by people from philosophers such as Plato to political leaders such as Benjamin Franklin and Ghandi to modern pop icons such as Paul McCartney. There is also considerable scientific research showing the benefits of the vegetarian diet. In fact, it has been shown to be associated with a lower risk of virtually every chronic disease. For exampke, numerous population-based studies have shown that vegetarians are nearly 50 percent less likely to die from cancer or heart disease than are nonvegetarians. The vegetarian diet has also been shown to reduce one's chances of developing diabetes, osteoporosis, or high blood pressure or forming kidney stones or gallstones.

While each of the authors including myself a now lifetime practicing ovo-lacto-vegetarian have some time or another been a practicing vegetarian, now believe that including fish and smakk amounts of animal foods in the diet leads to a more optimal nutritional intake. Nonetheless, we recognize the central and tremenedous importance that plant foods play in an optimal human diet.

Until part six the Zone Diet have a healthy and happy day!

References: Michael Murray N.D., Joseph Pizzorno N.D., and Lara Pizzorno M.A., L.M.T

By, Natalie Pyles

NSA Speaker, Author, Medical Exercise and Post Rehab Conditioning Specialist, Licensed Nutritionist, Whole Health, Fitness, and Holistic Nutrition and Nursing Educator

Popularized Diet Fads continue Part 4 The Macrobiotic Diet from Fitness Elements Express!

6 Popular Diet Fads and the Scientific Discovery behind them Part 4- The Macrobiotic Diet

The How to's on Designing your own Healthy Diet

Here is a quick look on some of the most popular Diets and what has been discovered with these various type diets. This will be a six part discussion and education for you on determining and forming your own personal view. While there are literally hundreds of fad diets that have been promoted over the years that we could discuss, we will limit the discussion to the following popular diets:

The Atkins diet
The Blood Type Diet
The Ornish diet
The Macrobiotic diet
The vegetarian diet
The Zone diet


Today we will start and discuss the Macrobiotic diet and what the outcomes and conclusions were. This is part four of the six part series of articles.

The Macrobiotic Diet

The macrobiotic diet was developed in the 1920's by a Japenese educator named George Oshawa. Oshawa is said to have cured himself of serious illness by changing to a simple diet of brown rice, miso soup, and sea vegetables. After regaining his health. Oshawa worked to integrate Eastern and Western philosophy and medicine to form the dietary and lifestyle principles of what is now known as macrobiotics. The following are the key components of the macrobiotic diet and lifestyle.

Eat only Organic foods.
Eat two or three meals a day.
Avoid cooking with electricity or microwaves; use a gas wood stove, and use only cast iron, stainless-steel, or clay cookware.
Chew each mouthful of food approximately fifty times to aid digestion and absorption of nutrients.
Do not eat for at least three hours before bedtime.
Take short baths as needed with warm or cool water.
Use grooming, cosmetic, and household products made from natural, nontoxic ingredients.
Wear only cotton clothing and avoid metalic jewelry.
Spend as much time as possible in natural outdoor settings and walk at least 30 minutes daily.
Do aerobic or stretching exercises such as yoga, dance, or martial arts on a regular basis.
Place large green plants throughout the house to enrich the oxygen content of the air, and keep windows open as much as possible to allow the circulation of fresh air.
Avoid watching television and using computers as much as possible.

Whole grains, such as brown rice, barley, millet, oats, corn, and rye, make up the bulk of the macrobiotic diet. The diet also emphasizes the consumption of vegetables, especially cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, bok choy, collards, and mustad greens. Beans, tofu, and sea vegetables should be eaten on a daily basis, and a few servings each week of nuts, seeds, and fresh fish, such as halibut, flounder, cod, or sole, are permissible. All foods should be organically grown, and, ideally, only fresh and locally grown fruits and vegetables should be eaten.

My view along with the refereneces I have provided for this article of the macrobiotic diet is that it incorporates many of the same principles that we advocate but falls short in its nutritional completeness and variety of health-boosting foods.

Nonetheless, the macrobiotic diet is a health-promoting diet that clinical research has shown it to be beneficial for people with cancer and cardiovascular disease.

Until part five the Vegetarian Diet have a healthy and happy day!

References: Michael Murray N.D., Joseph Pizzorno N.D., and Lara Pizzorno M.A., L.M.T

By, Natalie Pyles

NSA Speaker, Author, Medical Exercise and Post Rehab Conditioning Specialist, Licensed Nutritionist, Whole Health, Fitness, and Holistic Nutrition and Nursing Educator

6 Popular Diet Fads Continue- The Ornish Diet part 3 from Fitness Elements Express!

6 Popular Diet Fads and the Scientific Discovery behind them Part 3- The Ornish Diet

The How to's on Designing your own Healthy Diet

Here is a quick look on some of the most popular Diets and what has been discovered with these various type diets. This will be a six part discussion and education for you on determining and forming your own personal view. While there are literally hundreds of fad diets that have been promoted over the years that we could discuss, we will limit the discussion to the following popular diets:

The Atkins diet
The Blood Type Diet
The Ornish diet
The Macrobiotic diet
The vegetarian diet
The Zone diet

Today we will start and discuss the Ornish diet and what the outcomes and conclusions were. This is part three of the six part series of articles.

The Ornish Diet

Dean Ornish, M.D., is a developer of the Ornish diet. It is quite similiar to the diet that Nathan Pritikin developed and popularized in the 1970's. Both diets are basically the opposite of the Atkins diet. While the Atkins regimen is high in fat and low in carbohydrates, the Ornish diet program is low in fat and protein and high in whole-grain , natural complex carbohydrates. The Ornish prescription is to consume 10 percent of calories as fat, 70 to 75 percent of calories as complex carbohydrates, and 15 to 20 percent of calories as protein. The Ornish diet excludes all animal products, except nonfat milk and nonfat yogurt. It also resricts all plant foods high in fat, such as avocados, nuts, and seeds.

Dr. Ornish and his colleges have shown quite convincingly in well-designed clinical studies that can reverse heart disease. My main objectives to the Ornish diet along with my references objectives are that it is too restrictive and does not provide a sufficient amount of beneficial fats, and omega-3 fatty acids. In particular, the Ornish diet excludes fish, despite a significant body of research that demonstrates a protective effect of fish (and fish oil) consumption against heart disease.

Until part four the Macrobiotic Diet have a healthy and happy day!

References: Michael Murray N.D., Joseph Pizzorno N.D., and Lara Pizzorno M.A., L.M.T

By, Natalie Pyles

NSA Speaker, Author, Medical Exercise and Post Rehab Conditioning Specialist, Licensed Nutritionist,Whole Health, Fitness, and Holistic Nutrition and Nursing Educator

6 Popular Diet Fads Continues Part 2- The Blood Type Diet from Fitness Elements Express!

6 Popular Diet Fads and the Scientific Discovery behind them Part 2- The Blood Type Diet

The How to's on Designing your own Healthy Diet

Here is a quick look on some of the most popular Diets and what has been discovered with these various type diets. This will be a six part discussion and education for you on determining and forming your own personal view. While there are literally hundreds of fad diets that have been promoted over the years that we could discuss, we will limit the discussion to the following popular diets:

The Atkins diet
The Blood Type Diet
The Ornish diet
The Macrobiotic diet
The vegetarian diet
The Zone diet

Today we will start and discuss the Blood Type diet and what the outcomes and conclusions were. This is part two of the six part series of articles.

The Blood Type Diet

The Blood Type Diet is the culmination of nearly four decades of work conducted by Peter D'Adamo, N.D., and his father, James D' Adamo, N.D. It was popularized by the best-selling book by the younger D'Adamo, Eat Right 4 Your Blood Type. The principles of the Blood Type Diet are based on the theory that people with different blood types respond differently to specific foods. The concept is always based on evolutionary history and the observation that different blood types emerged as the environmental conditions and eating styles of our ancestors changed. Between 50,000 B.C.E. and 15,000 B.C.E as a necessary adaptation to a more agrarian lifestyle. Climatic changes in the western Himalayan mountains led to the appearance of type B, and the blending of type A and B blood types in modern civilization resulted in the appearance of the type AB blood type.

According to the Blood Type Diet, the physiological reason why people should eat according to their blood type relates to lectins, proteinlike substances found in many commonly eaten foods. Lectins, also known as phytoheagglutins, were first identified in 1888, at which time was discovered that lectins interact with sugar-containing molecules on the surface of cells. This discovery allowed certain lectins to be used in blood typing, since blood type is determined by the presence or absence of specific sugar-protein residues on the surface of red blood cells.

Although most of the lectins found in food are destroyed by cooking or digestive enzymes, Dr. D' Adamo believes that as many as 5 percent of the lectins we take in through our diet are absorbed into the bloodstream, and some of these our incompatible with our blood type. Many food antigen is eaten by a person with type A, type B, or type AB blood, the immune system recognizes that lectin as a foreign invader. Dr. D'Adamo implicates this lectin-caused immune response as the orgin of many common health complaints and believes that if you want to prevent health problems, it is important to eat foods that are compatible with your blood type.

To conclude my opinion of the Blood Type Diet along with my references is that blood type is just one genetic variable. In fact the ABO system is only one of the many different blood -typing methods, and to date more than thirty unique markers have been identified on the surface of red blood cells. In addition, one of the key suppositions of this diet is that dietary lectins are actually absorbed, but most of the research on, lectins has been performed in test tubes, not humans. Since many food lectins are destroyed by cooking , digestive enzymes, and bacteria in the intestines, it is not really known to what degree, if any, dietary lectins are absorbed. Nonetheless, there is some evidence to support the link between dietary lectins and some disease. All this being said their is some validity to the program but not all related to just blood typing alone.

Until part three the Ornish Diet have a healthy and happy day!

References: Michael Murray N.D., Joseph Pizzorno N.D., and Lara Pizzorno M.A., L.M.T

By, Natalie Pyles

NSA Speaker, Author, Medical Exercise and Post Rehab Conditioning Specialist, Licensed Nutritionist,Health, Fitness, and Holistic Nutrition and Nursing Educator

Fitness Elements Express New Whole Body Functional Fitness and Food Method Special Labor Day Offer Buy 1 and Get 2nd 1 Half Off

For Further
Information Contact:

For Immediate Release

Natalie Pyles, President, Fitness Elements Express
Direct Phone: 480-212-1947
Email: FitnessElementsExpress@yahoo.com

Fitness Elements Express New Whole Body Functional Fitness and Food Method Special Labor Day Offer Buy 1 and Get 2nd 1 Half Off

Scottsdale, and Phoenix AZ President of Fitness Elements Express, Natalie Pyles announces the August 31st 2010 launch of Fitness Elements Express Whole Body Functional Fitness and Food Method with a buy 1 get 2nd 1 half off in Desert Ridge Park with a bold results guarantee: if the participant does not achieve his or her predertimed weight loss or whole health, fitness, and nutritional needs within 120 days a 100% refund will be issued. No questions asked. Just flat out Results Guaranteed.

"What most people want is a weight loss, whole health, nutrition and a complete fitness solution that ultimately works to support their lifestyle and works for them in the long term," explains Natalie Pyles, a Certified Master Fitness Trainer, Wellness Coach, and Licensed Nutritionist with over nineteen years of experience in the Medical, Health, and Fitness Industry in the Phoenix and surrounding area. "Three essential components are necessary to obtain the desired results:

1. The correct prescribed movement mix: cardiovascular exercise to burn calories during the session, and functional training and core strength training to increase the individual's metabolism and keep the body up with the everyday stresses of life in todays hectic schedule , thereby burning calories at a higher rate throughout the day. Otherwise known as Functional Food and Fitness, and Core Conditioning a Newer Popular 2010 Health, Fitness, and Nutrition Trends for overall Lifestyle Fitness Elements Express is offering.

2. The correct mix of Nutritional Coaching and Weight loss Techniques: traditional dieting causes the body's metabolism to slow dramatically to conserve fuel for energy. It's unhealthy and generally results in a 'yo-yo' or 'bounce-back' reverse effect causing the person to have to eat less and less. When the goal should be to get the person to eat more of the healthful foods and being used as energy and fuel with a variety of foods that work for you and not against you. This keeps the body's metabolism burning calories at a higher rate all day long. It's counterintuitive, but it's an ageless time-tested, scientific fact.

3. The correct education, motivation tactics for long term sustainability, emotional support, and an overall Wellness Solution: people need the right educational information, guidance, wellness vision solution, proper goal setting, realistic expectations and time frames, and a little- or sometimes a lot- of external motivation and emotional support to achieve their weight loss, health and fitness goals. The Whole Health Reboot System provides the accurate information, motivation, and emotional suppport system the participants need."

Fitness Elements Express Whole Body Functional Fitness and Food Method solution gets participants to agree to adhere to specific Whole Health, Wellness Coaching, Exercise protocols, and Nutritional guidelines and attend prescribed sessions on either a Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays or Tuesdays, Thiursdays, and Saturdays for a 16 week period. In return, Ms. Pyles guarantees each participant will achieve his or her predertimed weight loss, whole health, functional food and fitness goals. Ms. Pyles can be reached for more information at 480-212-1947.

"We sit down with each new participant individualy, honestly assess their current whole health situation and create mutually agreed upon aggresive, yet sensible and achievable goals. At the end of the sixteen-week period, if the participant has not met or exceeded his or her goals, we will unconditionally refund every penny of their investment. This guarantee is stipulated in writing and is a binding contract,"says Natalie Pyles.

"No other whole health, functional fitness, food and nutritional program I'm aware of offers such an iron-clad guarantee of results. Believe me, if I wasn't confident this system works, I certaintly wouldn't offer a bold money-back guarantee. People are sick of the hype and misinformation surrounding the weight loss, health, and fitness industry. All they want are tried and true time-tested scientific results. We guarantee the Fitness Elements Express Whole Body Functional Food and Fitness Method is a no-nonsense, practical solution for anyone and will fulfill on the promise regardless of the individual's fitness level or age. It's fun, functional, and flexible and will give people the personal victory this Labor Day," explains Ms. Pyles.

Note to Editor : Natalie Pyles is available for Free 79 minute Functional Food and Fitness diagnostic testing and assessments on your whole health, fitness, wellness, and nutritional needs at http://WholeHealthFitness.Info/

6 Popular Diet Fads and the Scientific Discovery behind them Part 1 from Fitness Elements Express!

6 Popular Diet Fads and the Scientific Discovery behind them Part 1



The How to's on Designing your own Healthy Diet


Here is a quick look on some of the most popular Diets and what has been discovered with these various type diets. This will be a six part discussion and education for you on determining and forming your own personal view. While there are literally hundreds of fad diets that have been promoted over the years that we could discuss, we will limit the discussion to the following popular diets:

The Atkins diet
The Blood Type Diet
The Ornish diet
The Macrobiotic diet
The vegetarian diet
The Zone diet


Today we will start and discuss the Atkins diet and what the outcomes and conclusions were.

The Atkins Diet

Out of the six diets we will be discussing in this six part series the Atkins diet is perhaps the most famous weight loss diet of all time. It is a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet developed by Robert Atkins, M.D. during the 1960s. In the early 1990s, Dr. Atkins brought his diet back into the nutrition spotlight with the publication of his best-selling book Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution. It is estimated that more than 20 million people wolrdwide have tried the Atkins diet, which emphasizes the consumption of protein and fat. Individuals following the Atkins diet are permitted to eat unlimited amounts of all meats, poultry, fish, eggs, and most cheeses.

The Atkins diet is divided into four phases: Induction, Ongoing Weight Loss, Premaintenance, and Maintenance. During the Induction phase (the first fourteen days of the diet), carbohydrate intake is limited to no more than 20 grams per day. No fruit, bread, grains, starchy vegetables, or dairy products, except cheese, cream and butter, are allowed during this phase. During the Ongoing Weight Loss Phase, dieters experiment with various levels of carbohydrate consumption until they determine the most liberal level of carbohydrate intake that allows them to continue to lose weight. Dieters are then encouraged to maintain this level of carbohydrate intake until their weight loss goals are met. Then during the Premaintenence and Maintenance phases, dieters determine the level of carbohydrate consumption that allows them to maintain their weight. To prevent regaining the weight lost, dieters must stick to this level of carbohydrate consumption, perhaps for the rest of their lives.

Despite its enormous popularity, the Atkins program was not evaluated in a proper clinical trial until 2003. In this initial study, while people following the Atkins Diet did experience initial weight loss, though likely as a result of water loss rather than true fat loss, in the long run they gained it all back plus more. While the subjects on the Atkins diet had lost more weight than subjects on convetional diet in six months , the difference in 12 months was not significant. Adherence in both groups was poor. Other clinical studies have shown similiar results.

The findings from these clinical trials indicate that although adhering strictly to the Atkins diet in the first six months may initially lead to more weight loss upfront, but eating a more healthful diet , such as the one I will recommend at the end of this six part series will equal efficacy in the long run and considerably more health promoting. Until part two the Blood type Diet have a healthy and happy day!

References: Michael Murray N.D., Joseph Pizzorno N.D., and Lara Pizzorno M.A., L.M.T

By, Natalie Pyles

NSA Speaker, Author, Medical Exercise and Post Rehab Conditioning Specialist, Licensed Nutritionist,Health, Fitness, and Holistic Nutrition and Nursing Educator

New Special Offer from Fitness Elements Express! Back to School Whole Body Back Method Offer Results Guarantee

Fitness Elements Express Back to School Whole Body Back Method Offers 18.10% Off and a Results Guarantee


Scottsdale, and Phoenix AZ President of Fitness Elements Express, Natalie Pyles announces the August 21st 2010 launch of Fitness Elements Express Whole Body Back Method to North Phoenix and Scottsdale residents with a 18.10% off discount and bold results guarantee: if the participant does not achieve his or her predertimed weight loss or health and fitness goals within 90 days a 100% refund will be issued. No questions asked.

"What most people want is a weight loss, whole health coaching, and a total fitness solution that ultimately works to support their lifestyle and works for them in the long term," explains Natalie Pyles, a Certified Master Fitness Trainer, Wellness Coach, Licensed Nutritionist, and Holistic Nursing and Nutrition Educator with over nineteen years of experience in the Medical, Health, and Fitness Industry in the Phoenix and surrounding area. "Three essential components are necessary to obtain the desired results:

1. The correct prescribed exercise and eating metabolism mix: cardiovascular exercise to burn calories during the session, and lean muscle-building strength training to increase the individual's metabolism, thereby burning calories at a higher rate throughout the day. Otherwise known as Exercise and Eating Metabolism Conditioning a New 2010 Whole Health,Fitness, and Nutrition Trend Fitness Elements Express is offering.

2. The correct mix of Nutritional Therapies, Cooking, and Food addiction Counseling: traditional dieting causes the body's metabolism to slow dramatically to conserve fuel for energy. It's unhealthy and generally results in a 'yo-yo' or 'bounce-back' reverse effect causing the person to have to eat less and less. When the goal should be to get the person to eat more of the healthful foods and being used as energy and fuel with a variety of foods that work for you and not against you. This keeps the body's metabolism burning calories at a higher rate all day long. It's counterintuitive, but it's an ageless time-tested, scientific fact.

3. The correct information, motivation, emotional support, and overall Whole Health and Wellness Vision: people need the right information, guidance, whole health, wellness vision, proper goal setting, realistic expectations and time frames, and a little- or sometimes a lot- of external motivation and emotional support to achieve their weight loss, health and fitness goals. The Whole Health and Body Back to school method provides the accurate information, motivation, and emotional suppport system the participants need."

Fitness Elements Express Whole Health and Body Back to school method participants agree to adhere to specific Whole Health, Wellness Coaching, Exercise protocols, and Nutritional guidelines and attend prescribed sessions on either a Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays or Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays for a 12-16 week period. In return, Ms. Pyles guarantees each participant will achieve his or her predertimed weight loss, health, and fitness goals. Ms. Pyles can be reached for more information at 480-212-1947.

"We sit down with each new participant individualy, honestly assess their current health situation and create mutually agreed upon aggresive, yet sensible and achievable goals. At the end of the twelve-week period, if the participant has not met or exceeded his or her goals, we will unconditionally refund every penny of their investment. This guarantee is stipulated in writing and is a binding contract,"says Natalie Pyles.

"No other health, fitness, and nutritional program I'm aware of offers such an iron-clad guarantee of results. Believe me, if I wasn't confident this system works, I certaintly wouldn't offer a bold money-back guarantee. People are sick of the hype and misinformation surrounding the weight loss, health, and fitness industry. All they want are tried and true time-tested scientific results. We guarantee the Fitness Elements Express Whole Health Back to school Body Back method is a no-nonsense, practical solution for anyone and will fulfill on the promise regardless of the individual's fitness level or age. It's fun, functional, and flexible and will give people the personal victory this Labor Day," explains Ms. Pyles.

P.S. Natalie Pyles is available for Free 90 minute dietetic diagnostic testing and assessments on your health, fitness, wellness, and nutritional needs at http://WholeHealthFitness.Info/

The Dark Side of Weight-Control Quackery-The Ultimate Crime Stopper ! Part 4

New! Nutrition Education from Fitness Elements Express!


What Fad Diet's Don't Teach

Did you know that that every year Americans have spent $33 billion annually on weight loss foods, products, services, and the next diet fad and trend (ADA,2009)? That is an unbelievable number of weight-loss gimmicks that we as Americans and our obsession with losing weight have truly thrown right into the toilet. While some weight-loss frauds merely slim down the wallets (instead of the bodies) of those who get confused and use them, others may endanger their victims. When will this ever stop? And, of course, almost all of them fail to produce permanent weight loss. I guess if you are too lazy to truly investigate or do your own homework part of this responsibility should lie on you! Yes I said you! It may sound harsh but I've been around far too long and know the truth about weight loss and you should by know too!

Diet quacks want people to believe that special food combinations and/ or supplements promote quick and effortless weight loss (Barrett). The bottom line is input and output my health and fitness friends. What that means to you is an appropriate amount of exercise and eating that is customized to fit your whole health, fitness, and nutritional needs period.

How Weight-Loss Quackery Harms

Frances Berg, MS, RD, editor of the Healthy Weight Journal, notes that the most insidious aspect of weight-loss quackery is that it creates false hope for people trying to lose weight. Repeated attempts to lose weight, followed by the inevitable regain, bring on a sense of failure, shame, and powerlessness. It batters the self-esteem and is psychologically damaging. With their magical solutions and outrageous promises, weight-loss quacks undermine responsible weight management programs and make them seem ineffective by comparison (Berg).

Kelly Brownell, an obesity expert in the psychology department at Yale University, states, "When I get calls about the latest diet fad, I imagine a trick birthday cake candle that keeps lighting up and we have to keep blowing it out" (Liebman).

Weight loss is a lucrative field for quacks, and they are not shy about exploiting it. Our first Amendment protects them. To help combat weight-loss quackery, health and fitness professionals should be able to both recognize dietary fads and educate their clients on proper weight-loss strategies. So my health and fitness friends when you are searching for the proper education and right approach to your weight loss strategy and weight management make sure you use your wisdom and gut on this one it could cost you your life.

What Fad Diet's Don't Teach

Fad diets and fasting are also faulty from a behavioral standpoint, because they tend to reinforce bad habits once the dieters return to their usual eating habits. What you had to do to get the weight off you have to keep up that Lifestyle and this is exactly why dieters fail over and over again. Dieters are also distracted from the truth that a real long-term weight control requires fundamental changes in Lifestyle period. (Barrett). I should know I am living proof of this myself I took off 65 pounds at age 18 and I am now 35 and never gained my weight back ever. I have exercised and eaten a sensible eating plan for my lifestyle ever since. I practice what I preach and do what I tell you my health and fitness friends. Once a food addict always a food addict.

The dieter is encouraged to learn about the consumption, planning, and preparation of foods to make well-educated food selections. Rather, most diets establish rigid rules and limitations that can only be followed for a short time. Typically, the dieter abandons the diet and the weight is regained ( Barrett).

Fad diets appeal to the emotions and therefore perpetuate the myth that weight loss can be achieved quickly and easily. Rarely do they address the need to make basic changes in what are life-long ways of looking at and dealing with food (Barrett). That is why I highly suggest journals when you eat so you are aware of why you are eating what your eating and being aware of what you are doing it for. With are hectic lifestyle today fast food shoveling is making us more unhealthful and stressed out than ever before. Try to remember the three P's when approaching making your lifestyle changes, proper planning prevents poor performance. Good luck my health and fitness friends with making the right decision for your food and fitness choices for life.


Have a happy and healthy day!


References: Nutrition Dimension, Ellen Coleman, (Barrett and Herbert),(Liebman), and (Berg).


By, Natalie Pyles


NSA Speaker, Author, Medical Exercise and Post Rehab Conditioning Specialist, Licensed Nutritionist, Health, Fitness, and Holistic Nutrition and Nursing Educator

The Dark Side of Weight-Control Quackery Crimes at its Best! Part 3

The Dark Side of Weight-Control Quackery Crimes at its Best! Part 3 New Nutritional Education from Fitness Elements Express!

How Disreputable elements of Food Combining have Failed

Did you know that that every year Americans have spent $33 billion annually on weight loss foods, products, services, and the next diet fad and trend (ADA,2009)? That is an unbelievable number of weight-loss gimmicks that we as Americans and our obsession with losing weight have truly thrown right into the toilet. While some weight-loss frauds merely slim down the wallets (instead of the bodies) of those who get confused and use them, others may endanger their victims. When will this ever stop? And, of course, almost all of them fail to produce permanent weight loss. I guess if you are too lazy to truly investigate or do your own homework part of this responsibility should lie on you! Yes I said you! It may sound harsh but I've been around far too long and know the truth about weight loss and you should by know too!

Diet quacks want people to believe that special food combinations and/ or supplements promote quick and effortless weight loss (Barrett). The bottom line is input and output my health and fitness friends. What that means to you is an appropriate amount of exercise and eating that is customized to fit your whole health, fitness, and nutritional needs period.

How Weight-Loss Quackery Harms

Frances Berg, MS, RD, editor of the Healthy Weight Journal, notes that the most insidious aspect of weight-loss quackery is that it creates false hope for people trying to lose weight. Repeated attempts to lose weight, followed by the inevitable regain, bring on a sense of failure, shame, and powerlessness. It batters the self-esteem and is psychologically damaging. With their magical solutions and outrageous promises, weight-loss quacks undermine responsible weight management programs and make them seem ineffective by comparison (Berg).

Kelly Brownell, an obesity expert in the psychology department at Yale University, states, "When I get calls about the latest diet fad, I imagine a trick birthday cake candle that keeps lighting up and we have to keep blowing it out" (Liebman).

Weight loss is a lucrative field for quacks, and they are not shy about exploiting it. Our first Amendment protects them. To help combat weight-loss quackery, health and fitness professionals should be able to both recognize dietary fads and educate their clients on proper weight-loss strategies. So my health and fitness friends when you are searching for the proper education and right approach to your weight loss strategy and weight management make sure you use your wisdom and gut on this one it could cost you your life.

How Disreputable elements of Food Combining has Failed

Food Combining is another disreputable element of Natural Hygiene that was popularized by the book Fit for Life (Barrett and Herbert). This book which sold over one million copies, shows how a weight-loss program founded on unscientific concepts can be a huge commercial success (Barrett).

The authors, Harvey and Marylin Diamond, espouse the theory that when foods are combined inappropriately, they become "rotten" and cannot be absorbed from the intestinal tract. This "toxifies" the body and makes people fat. (Barrett).

The Diamonds contend that people gain weight not from overeating and inadequate exercise, but because they eat protein-rich foods at the same time as they eat starchy foods. The authors say our digestive tracts cannot assimilate more than one of these "concentrated foods" at a time, since the enzymes that digest protein nullify the enzymes that digest carbohydrate, and vice versa.

As a result, the Diamonds claim, food cannot be digested properly. In the process, they add, all the food's nutrients are destroyed and toxic by-products are stored in fat tissue, where they cause a "bloated appearance." The Diamonds also believed that the energy wasted on the incomplete digestion of these foods reduces the body's ability to eliminate the "toxic residues" deposited in the fat tissues after previous meals. The ending solution is to eat only one "concentrated" food per meal. Look health and fitness friends you are entitled to make your own conclusion and form your own beliefs on appropriate nutritional values and healthful eating. You need to remember that the bottom line is input and output there is no bad food everything in moderation is o.k. The key being portion control and moderation!

These theories totally disagree with our knowledge of physiology and nutrition. Keep in mind that the concepts of food combining originated at the turn of the century when people knew little about basic physiology and nutrition. Only decreased calorie absorption causes weight loss, not weight gain. So don't let all these confusing theories fool you.


Have a happy and healthy day!

References: Nutrition Dimension, Ellen Coleman, (Barrett and Herbert),(Liebman), and (Berg).


By, Natalie Pyles


NSA Speaker, Author, Medical Exercise and Post Rehab Conditioning Specialist, Licensed Nutritionist, Health, Fitness, and Holistic Nutrition and Nursing Educator

Shocking furniture breaking Event! Goodman's turnaround Weight Loss story Revealed! No more Gravesite Goodies for this Joyful Johnny!

Goodman Staying Healthy After 400 Pound Shock

JOHN GOODMAN is committed to keeping his weight down because he was tired of "breaking the furniture" as a 400 pound (181.4 kilograms) big guy.
The actor showed off a slimmer new look during an appearance on U.S. TV show The Late Show with David Letterman on Wednesday night (16Jun10), and spoke candidly about his weightloss battle.


Goodman blamed years of heavy drinking and overindulgence for packing on the pounds.

The former Roseanne star explained, "I hit it (alcohol) pretty hard for 30 years and there was a lot of residual damage... I'd get off of Roseanne every spring, I'd lose 60 pounds (27.2 kilograms)... Then I got too fond of the barley corn (beer) and then I'd just screw everything up, so then I'd gain it back and then some, every year."
But when he started tipping the scales at 400 pounds, Goodman knew it was time to take a drastic life and diet change - or die.


He embarked on a weightloss programme and he's motivated to maintain his smaller waistline, joking, "I was breaking furniture, for Lord's sake!"
The 58 year old admits it will be a fight he will always face, but he's committed to staying healthy: "(I'm) getting a lot of exercise, I feel great."

P.S. If Johnny can do it so can you!! Lifestyle changes and NEW healthy habits are just a call away 480-212-1947 for a FREE Dietetic Diva Coaching Consultation today!!

The Dark Side of Weight-Control Quackery from Fitness Elements Express!

The Dark Side of Weight-Control Quackery

How Weight-Loss Quackery Harms

Did you know that that every year Americans have spent $33 billion annually on weight loss foods, products, services, and the next diet fad and trend (ADA,2009)? That is an unbelievable number of weight-loss gimmicks that we as Americans and our obsession with losing weight have truly thrown right into the toilet. While some weight-loss frauds merely slim down the wallets (instead of the bodies) of those who get confused and use them, others may endanger their victims. When will this ever stop? And, of course, almost all of them fail to produce permanent weight loss. I guess if you are too lazy to truly investigate or do your own homework part of this responsibility should lie on you! Yes I said you! It may sound harsh but I've been around far too long and know the truth about weight loss and you should by know too!

Diet quacks want people to believe that special food combinations and/ or supplements promote quick and effortless weight loss (Barrett). The bottom line is input and output my health and fitness friends. What that means to you is an appropriate amount of exercise and eating that is customized to fit your whole health, fitness, and nutritional needs period.

How Weight-Loss Quackery Harms

Frances Berg, MS, RD, editor of the Healthy Weight Journal, notes that the most insidious aspect of weight-loss quackery is that it creates false hope for people trying to lose weight. Repeated attempts to lose weight, followed by the inevitable regain, bring on a sense of failure, shame, and powerlessness. It batters the self-esteem and is psychologically damaging. With their magical solutions and outrageous promises, weight-loss quacks undermine responsible weight management programs and make them seem ineffective by comparison (Berg).

Kelly Brownell, an obesity expert in the psychology department at Yale University, states, "When I get calls about the latest diet fad, I imagine a trick birthday cake candle that keeps lighting up and we have to keep blowing it out" (Liebman).

Weight loss is a lucrative field for quacks, and they are not shy about exploiting it. Our first Amendment protects them. To help combat weight-loss quackery, health and fitness professionals should be able to both recognize dietary fads and educate their clients on proper weight-loss strategies. So my health and fitness friends when you are searching for the proper education and right approach to your weight loss strategy and weight management make sure you use your wisdom and gut on this one it could cost you your life.

References: Nutrition Dimension, Ellen Coleman, (Barrett and Herbert),(Liebman), and (Berg).


By, Natalie Pyles


NSA Speaker, Author, Medical Exercise and Post Rehab Conditioning Specialist, Licensed Nutritionist, Health, Fitness, and Holistic Nutrition and Nursing Educator

Have a happy and healthy day!!

Consumers Beware! Social Harms Distortion of Perspective Nutrition Quackery at it's Best! Part 4

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Consumers Beware! Social Harms Distortion of Perspective Nutrition Quackery at it's Best! Part 4


This will be a four part series on Harm done by Quackery that will include: indirect harm by omission, psychological harm, economic harm, social harm, and direct harm by commission. This four part series will discuss how the harm caused by quackery fits into these categories.

Indirect Harm

Quackery can seriously harm or kill people by persuading them to abandon, delay, or fail to seek effective medical treatment for grave medical conditions (Barrett and Jarvis, ADA 2008). This is considered indirect harm by omission (Calif. Medical Association). While the number of people lured away from effective treatment into disability or death cannot be ascertained, it is apparently not large enough or obvious enough to provoke a public outcry (Barrett and Jarvis).

Direct Harm

Direct harm is considered harm by commission such as poisoning, maiming, malnutrition, or injury (Barrett and Jarvis). This category includes dangers posed by herbs, herb and drug interactions, contaminated and adulterated supplements, excess vitamins and minerals, and the macrobiotic diet. The L- trytophan tragedy will be discussed first since it is good example of the harm that can occur when dietary supplements are sold without proof of safety, efficacy, potency, or purity (Foster and Tyler).


Social Harm

Here is the final section of this four part series of Harm done by Quackery. Last but not least there is also harm to society. Consumers are taking greater responsibility for self-care due to an evolving health care system and are more vulnerable to nutrition misinformation, quackery, and fraud than ever before. Nutrition products have been found to be among the most commonly misused. This issue becomes even more critical as the population ages, since the majority of victims of health care fraud-up to 60 percent- are older people (ADA 2008).

Money wasted on quackery would be better spent on medical research. Instead, quacks use a great deal of this money to spread misinformation and weaken consumer protection laws.

Quackery is so subtle that few people even realize they are victims. Unfortunately, many people believe that an unscientific method has helped them. They usually have confused cause and effect with coincidence. Sometimes an unproven approach actually relieves emotionally related symptoms by reducing the person's tension level (Barrett and Jarvis).

Quackery can also ruin the lives that are thoroughly deluded that they devote themselves o promoting the methods and welfare of quackery. I'm not saying alternative medicine and supplements are all bad I personally believe there is a time and place for prevention of disease. However, you also need to do your homework when it comes to Health Care, Exercise, Nutrition and Scientific evidence of dangerous disease-producing bacteria. To end this series just be aware of the quacks that claim disease-producing bacteria destroys essential nutrients (which is untrue). Be your own judge and get good resources of science-based evidence and a trusted professional adviser. Best advice be your own advocate, get the facts, and the real truth.

Have a healthy and happy day!!

To yours in Health, Fitness, and serious Nutrition talk,

Natalie Pyles

References: Nutrition Dimension, Ellen Coleman, (Barrett and Herbert), (Foster and Tyler).

NSA Speaker, Author, Medical Exercise and Post Rehab Conditioning Specialist, Licensed Nutritionist, Health, Fitness, and Holistic

3 Harms of Quackery caused by Outbreaks Revealed! Part 3 from Fitness Elements Express!

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3 Harms of Quackery caused by Outbreaks Revealed! Part 3

This will be a four part series on Harm done by Quackery that will include: indirect harm by omission, psychological harm, economic harm, social harm, and direct harm by commission. This four part series will discuss how the harm caused by quackery fits into these categories.

Indirect Harm

Quackery can seriously harm or kill people by persuading them to abandon, delay, or fail to seek effective medical treatment for grave medical conditions (Barrett and Jarvis, ADA 2008). This is considered indirect harm by omission (Calif. Medical Association). While the number of people lured away from effective treatment into disability or death cannot be ascertained, it is apparently not large enough or obvious enough to provoke a public outcry (Barrett and Jarvis).

Direct Harm

Direct harm is considered harm by commission such as poisoning, maiming, malnutrition, or injury (Barrett and Jarvis). This category includes dangers posed by herbs, herb and drug interactions, contaminated and adulterated supplements, excess vitamins and minerals, and the macrobiotic diet. The L- trytophan tragedy will be discussed first since it is good example of the harm that can occur when dietary supplements are sold without proof of safety, efficacy, potency, or purity (Foster and Tyler).


Economic Harm

Here is an example of what direct harm can do and why it is up to you to be preventative and use true wisdom before it is life threatening to you or anyone you know and care for. Most victims of Quackery are harmed economically rather than physically (Barrett and Jarvis). The true cost of quackery is difficult to calculate, but is likely in the tens of billions of dollars, especially when considering the cost of purchasing products (such as some supplements) that may do no harm but also provide no benefit (ADA,2008 Updated).

Quackery that involves small sums of money and no bodily injury is often considered harmless. For example, a person who buys a protein supplement from multilevel marketer is going to go broke. This is your choice on the matter I personally use my own products but I am clear and upfront with all my customers and clients. Retail shopping is always an o.k. way to shop too, but honesty is always what you want in dealing with any Health Care professional. Use your Gut on this matter!! However, this practice may indicate confusion on the part of the person and vulnerability to more serious (and expensive) forms of quackery (Barrett and Jarvis).

Americans spent $5.8 billion or more each year on multilevel health products (Nutrition Business Journal, 2008). Those that have nutritional value (such as vitamins and low-fat foods) are, without fail, overpriced. Do me a favor look at quality and how long a product will last you that is fairly priced for the proven quality suggested by a Licensed Health Care professional not someone off the streets that knows nothing about supplements. The products promoted as remedies are phony, unproven, or intended for conditions that are unsuitable for self-medication. Also, people who distribute multilevel products are generally not qualified to give health advice(NCAHF 2008; Barrett and Herbert). Just use good judgment on this topic my health and fitness friends and make sure you are taking advice from a Health and Nutrition expert that will not harm you or make you a product of Nutrition Quackery.

This article was not written to scare you or make you afraid of everything out on the market, because I see no point in being scared of everything that is no fun and not my position at all. I do want you educated, and informed on what you put into your body. You also must get as credible as possible sources of information to what you truly need. These are scary times we are living in and all kinds of things are coming out of the wood works so please be advised.

To conclude: As you know Government actions against multilevel organizations have not been energetic by any stretch at all, so you must be you own good consumer and do your homework. Remember these companies are left alone unless their advertising is so flagrant and their sales volume so great that regulatory agency is obliged to intercede. Best advice be your own advocate, get the facts, and the real truth.

Have a healthy and happy day!!

To yours in Health, Fitness, and serious Nutrition talk,

Natalie Pyles

References: Nutrition Dimension, Ellen Coleman, (Barrett and Herbert), (Foster and Tyler).

NSA Speaker, Author, Medical Exercise and Post Rehab Conditioning Specialist, Licensed Nutritionist, Health, Fitness, and Holistic Nutrition and Nursing Educator

Did You Know Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis (NEAT) can burn up to more than 1000 calories without even Stepping one foot in the Gym?

NEW! Weight Control Update from Fitness Elements Express!

Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis (NEAT)

Non-exercise activity thermogenesis (NEAT) refers to the activities of daily living that burn calories without stepping foot inside of a gym. In fact, it appears that NEAT has more of an impact on body weight than “working out” does. NEAT varies widely among people. Yours could contribute as little as 15% or as much as 50% of your total energy expenditure.

People with highly active jobs can burn up to 1000 calories more each day than their sedentary counterparts. According to the American Heart Association, “To reverse obesity, we need to develop individual strategies to promote standing and ambulating time by 2.5 hours per day and also re-engineer our work, school, and home environments to render active living the option of choice.”

Add some more activity into your daily routine, and keep at it for 3 weeks. It will become a habit, and you may just become thinner and healthier! Dr James Levine of the Mayo Clinic, the founder of the NEAT principle, has studied calorie burning for more than 20 years. For more information about NEAT, read Levine’s book, Move a Little, Lose A Lot, written with Selene Yeager.

Simple ways to increase NEAT
Try these suggestions:

Pace while talking on the telephone
Do jumping jacks, push-ups, or another exercise of your choice during commercial breaks
Park as far away as possible from the store when shopping
Do not use drive-through banking or fast food—get out of the car and walk inside
Take the stairs instead of the escalator or elevator
Mow the grass with a push mower
Become a gardener instead of hiring a landscaper
Do not send interoffice e-mail; instead, walk to the other person’s office and talk face to face
Get up every 20 minutes and walk around, or do some stretches when working at your computer or doing other work at your desk
Just stand up; stand instead of sitting whenever possible—you will increase your level of NEAT
Wash your car by hand instead of taking it to a drive-through car wash
Prepare your own meals instead of purchasing them ready to go; yes, even slicing your own tomatoes or mashing your own potatoes increases NEAT
Put your alarm clock across the room instead of right beside the bed—up and at ‘em
Do a little housework every day
Schedule your work meetings with coworkers or have your after-dinner conversations with friends and family outside—take a walk around the block or yard
References and recommended readings

Hellmich N. Q&A: how to drop pounds with all-day activities, not exercise. Available at: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/weightloss/2009-01-21-fidget-activity_N.htm. Accessed May 17, 2010.

Levine JA, Vander Weg MW, Hill JO, Klesges RC. Non-exercise activity thermogenesis: the crouching tiger hidden dragon of societal weight gain. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol [serial online]. 2006;26:729-736.Available at: http://atvb.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/26/4/729. Accessed May 17, 2010.

Mayo Clinic. Levine, James A. (non-exercise activity thermogenesis). Available at: http://mayoresearch.mayo.edu/mayo/research/levine_lab/. Accessed May 17, 2010.

Forwarded, By Natalie Pyles

Your Whole Health, Fitness, and Nutrition Expert

Have a Healthy and Happy Day!!

Intuitive Eating: The 10 Principles Whole Health and Fitness Education from Fitness Elements Express!

Intuitive Eating: The 10 Principles

1. Reject the diet mentality

Throw out the diet books and magazine articles that offer you false hope of losing weight quickly, easily, and permanently. Get angry at the lies that have led you to feel as if you were a failure every time a new diet stopped working and you gained back all of the weight. If you allow even one small hope to linger that a new and better diet is possibly lurking around the corner, it will keep you from staying free enough to rediscover “intuitive eating.”

2. Honor your hunger

Keep your body biologically fed with adequate energy and carbohydrates. Otherwise, you can trigger a primal drive to overeat. Once you reach the moment of excessive hunger, all intentions of moderate, conscious eating are fleeting and irrelevant. Learning to honor this first biological signal sets the stage for rebuilding trust with yourself and food.

3. Make peace with food

Call a truce, and stop the food fight! Give yourself unconditional permission to eat. If you tell yourself that you can not or should not have a particular food, it can lead to intense feelings of deprivation that build into uncontrollable cravings and, often, binging When you finally “give-in” to your forbidden food, eating is experienced with such intensity, it usually results in overeating and overwhelming guilt.

4. Challenge the food police

Scream a loud “no” to thoughts in your head that declare you are “good” for eating under 1000 calories or “bad” because you ate a piece of chocolate cake. The food police monitor the unreasonable rules that dieting has created. The police station is housed deep in your psyche, and its loudspeaker shouts negative barbs, hopeless phrases, and guilt-provoking indictments. Chasing the food police away is a critical step in returning to intuitive eating.

5. Respect your fullness

Listen for body signals that tell you that you are no longer hungry. Observe the signs that show that you are comfortably full. Pause in the middle of eating a meal or a food and ask yourself:

* How does the food taste?
* What is my current fullness level?

6. Discover the satisfaction factor

The Japanese have the wisdom to promote pleasure as one of the goals of healthy living. In our fury to stay or become thin and healthy, we often overlook one of the most basic gifts of existence—the pleasure and satisfaction that is found in the eating experience. When you eat what you really want in an environment that is inviting and conducive, the pleasure you derive is a powerful force in helping you feel satisfied and content. By providing this experience for yourself, you will find that it takes much less food to decide you have had enough.

7. Honor your feelings without using food

Find ways to comfort, nurture, distract, and resolve your issues without using food. Anxiety, loneliness, boredom, and anger are emotions we all experience throughout life. Each has its own trigger, and each has its own appeasement. Food will not fix any of these feelings. It provides comfort for the short term, distracts from the pain, or even numbs you into a food hangover. But food will not solve the problem. If anything, eating for an emotional hunger will only make you feel worse in the long run. You will ultimately have to deal with the source of the emotion, as well as the discomfort of overeating.

8. Respect your body

Accept your genetic blueprint. Just as a person with a shoe size of 8 would not expect to realistically squeeze into a size 6, it is equally as futile and uncomfortable to have the same expectation with body size. But mostly, respect your body so that you can feel better about who you are. It is hard to reject the diet mentality if you are unrealistic and overly critical about your body shape.

9. Exercise—feel the difference

Forget militant exercise. Just get active, and feel the difference. Shift your focus to how it feels to move your body, rather than the calorie-burning effect of exercise. If you focus on how you feel from working out, such as energized, it can make the difference between rolling out of bed for a brisk morning walk or hitting the snooze alarm. If when you wake up, your only goal is to lose weight, it is usually not a motivating factor in that moment of time.

10. Honor your health

Make food choices that honor your health and taste buds, while making you feel well. Remember that you do not have to eat a perfect diet to stay healthy. You will not suddenly get a nutrient deficiency or gain weight from one snack, meal, or day of eating. It is what you eat consistently over time that matters. Progress not perfection is what counts.



Used with permission
Contributed by Evelyn Tribole, MS, RD, and Elyse Resch MS, RD, FADA, authors of Intuitive Eating, 2nd ed. New York, New York: St Martin’s Press; 2003. (www.IntuitiveEating.org)

Forwarded: By, Natalie Pyles

Whole Health Fitness, Wellness, and Nutrition Expert

Yes Harm Done by Quackery can cause Psychological Harm Part 2

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Yes! Harm Done by Quackery can cause Psychological Harm! Part 2

This will be a four part series on Harm done by Quackery that will include: indirect harm by omission, psychological harm, economic harm, social harm, and direct harm by commission. This four part series will discuss how the harm caused by quackery fits into these categories.

Indirect Harm

Quackery can seriously harm or kill people by persuading them to abandon, delay, or fail to seek effective medical treatment for grave medical conditions (Barrett and Jarvis, ADA 2008). This is considered indirect harm by omission (Calif. Medical Association). While the number of people lured away from effective treatment into disability or death cannot be ascertained, it is apparently not large enough or obvious enough to provoke a public outcry (Barrett and Jarvis).

Direct Harm

Direct harm is considered harm by commission such as poisoning, maiming, malnutrition, or injury (Barrett and Jarvis). This category includes dangers posed by herbs, herb and drug interactions, contaminated and adulterated supplements, excess vitamins and minerals, and the macrobiotic diet. The L- trytophan tragedy will be discussed first since it is good example of the harm that can occur when dietary supplements are sold without proof of safety, efficacy, potency, or purity (Foster and Tyler).

Now adding to the list we will continue this discussion with the topic of Psychological Harm which is perfect for today's times.


Psychological Harm

Quackery also causes tremendous mental anguish by arousing irrational fears -convincing people to wrongly believe they have serious illnesses such as cancer.(Calif. Medical Association).

Creating false hope in for the seriously ill, however, is quackery's most heartless kind of psychological harm. Even when death is unavoidable , false hope can do great harm. The person's elation over an expected cure is followed by deep despair when the treatment fails. The removal of hope crushes the human spirit (Herbert,1993).

Authorities who study the dying process note that, although the initial reaction is shock and grief, most terminally ill will adjust well, provided they don't feel deserted. Those who except the reality of impending death can put their affairs in order and die psychologically prepared. Unfortunately, those individuals who buy false hope from quacks can get stuck in an attitude of denial. They waste their time, money, and what little they have left to just enjoy the rest of their life.

This article was not written to scare you or make you afraid of everything out on the market, because I see no point in being scared of everything that is no fun and not my position at all. I do want you educated, and informed on what you put into your body. You also must get as credible as possible sources of information to what you truly need. These are scary times we are living in and all kinds of things are coming out of the wood works so please be advised.

Have a healthy and happy day!!

To yours in Health, Fitness, and serious Nutrition talk,

Natalie Pyles

References: Nutrition Dimension, Ellen Coleman, (Barrett and Herbert), (Foster and Tyler).

NSA Speaker, Author, Medical Exercise and Post Rehab Conditioning Specialist, Licensed Nutritionist, Health, Fitness, and Holistic Nutrition and Nursing Educator

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Yes! Harm Done by Quackery causes Outbreaks! Part 1

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Yes! Harm Done by Quackery causes Outbreaks! Part 1

This will be a four part series on Harm done by Quackery that will include: indirect harm by omission, psychological harm, economic harm, social harm, and direct harm by commission. This four part series will discuss how the harm caused by quackery fits into these categories.

Indirect Harm

Quackery can seriously harm or kill people by persuading them to abandon, delay, or fail to seek effective medical treatment for grave medical conditions (Barrett and Jarvis, ADA 2008). This is considered indirect harm by omission (Calif. Medical Association). While the number of people lured away from effective treatment into disability or death cannot be ascertained, it is apparently not large enough or obvious enough to provoke a public outcry (Barrett and Jarvis).

Direct Harm

Direct harm is considerd harm by commission such as poisoning, maiming, malnutrition, or injury (Barrett and Jarvis). This category includes dangers posed by herbs, herb and drug interactions, contaminated and adulterated supplements, excess vitamins and minerals, and the macrobiotic diet. The L- trytophan tragedy will be discussed first since it is good example of the harm that can occur when dietary supplements are sold without proof of safety, efficacy, potency, or purity (Foster and Tyler).


L-Tryptophan

Here is an example of what direct harm can do and why it is up to you to be preventative and use true wisdom before it is life threatening to you or anyone you know and care for. Studies in the 1960's and 1970's showed that 1 gm doses of L-tryptophan, an essential amino acid, reduced the time needed to fall asleep in both normal people and mild insomniacs. Even though the product was not approved for drug use, health food stores (quick to recognize a potential money-maker) began to market 100 to 667 mg capsules utilized as an over-the-counter sleep aid, and was even promoted to aid depression, premenstrual syndrome, and weight loss, although it had not been proven or safe or effective for any of these purposes (Barrett and Herbert).

In 1989 all disaster struck. A contaminated batch of the amino acid supplement triggered an outbreak of eosinophilic myalagia syndrome (EMS), a rare disorder characterized by severe muscle and joint pain, weakness, swelling, of the arms and legs, fever, skin rash, and an increase in eoisinophils, a type of white blood cell (Barrett and Herbert,1994). Over the next year, 1,500 cases and 38 deaths were reported (Barrett and Herbert, 1994). The outbreak was traced to a contaminant in L-tryptophan produced by a manufacturing problem at the plant of Showa Denko KK in Japan (Foster and Tyler,1999;Barrett and Herbert, 1994).

Most authorities still believe to this day that L-tryptophan never should have been marketed to the public in the first place. Like most single ingredient amino acids, it did not have FDA approval for medicinal use. In fact, the FDA issued a ban in 1973 but did not enforce it (Barrett and Herbert, 1994).

This article was not written to scare you or make you afraid of everything out on the market, because I see no point in being scared of everything that is no fun and not my position at all. I do want you educated, and informed on what you put into your body. You also must get as credible as possible sources of information to what you truly need. These are scary times we are living in and all kinds of things are coming out of the wood works so please be advised.

Have a healthy and happy day!!

To yours in Health, Fitness, and serious Nutrition talk,

Natalie Pyles

References: Nutrition Dimension, Ellen Coleman, (Barrett and Herbert), (Foster and Tyler).

NSA Speaker, Author, Medical Exercise and Post Rehab Conditioning Specialist, Licensed Nutritionist, Health, Fitness, and Holistic Nutrition and Nursing Educator