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of Contents
News:
1)
The Ebook Update and More!
2)
New Articles on Ultimatefatburner.com
Articles:
1)
Special *Guest* Article
Featured
Resources
News:
1)
The Ebook Update and More!
It's
done! It's done! I don't believe it! Whooooo-hooo!
Finally.
I
finished editing and revising the newest version of The
Ultimate Fat Burning Diet Primer last weekend, and sent
it off to the editor this past Monday. I should have the book
back by tomorrow, at which point I'll give it one last "going-over".
Then it's off to Neil Tarvin of ebookgraphics.com for professional
formatting. Next, programming, and last minute revisions.
And then, by golly...
We're
live!
I
have to apologize for taking so long to get this finished,
but I really wanted this version to be special. I'm very excited
-- this is gonna be great!
Plus,
I'll be setting up an affiliate program, where you'll be able
to earn 30% commissions on all referred sales of the ebook
(I haven't settled on the price yet, but it will be significantly
more expensive than the current version). I'll also be setting
up a "help" center for those of you who aren't familiar
with such programs. Details to follow!
Of
course, I'll be redoing the sales site, and giving everything
a thorough going over.
Exciting
times ahead!
On
another front, I've hired a developer to give my new store...
http://www.ultimatefatburner-store.com
...
a brand new look. Steve Brummel will be doing the work. Check
out his Web site here,
and see what he's done! This is going to be awesome! New design
should be live by the end of next week!
By
the way, if you haven't already, check out the store. It's
stocked with all your favorite products like MuscleTech's
Hydroxycut,
Cytodyne's new ephedrine free Xenadrine
EFX, NutriAmerica's Trimspa,
and much, much more...
http://www.ultimatefatburner-store.com
2.
New
Articles on Ultimatefatburner.com
Despite
devoting most of my time to getting the ebook done and the
store "ship-shape", I've had time to post a couple
of new articles (you can expect a ton of new ones once I've
got the ebook launched and the new store finished!)...
A
review of Eat Right for Your Blood Type (yeah right), available
here...
Read
the review!
And
a list of the best fat burners under $20, available here...
Read
the article!
Lots
more articles coming soon!
Articles:
Malnourished... with Fruit and Veggies? This WILL Shock You!
Today's
guest article comes to us from Warren Matthews of Xtend-Life.com.
I've featured some of Warren's articles in this ezine and
on the Ultimatefatburner site occasionally now for many months...
Simply
because they are amoung some of the best I've ever read. Warren
touches on many health related issues, and no two issues are
ever the same. Truly, it is one issue I eagerly anticipate!
If you haven't subscribed to Xtend-Life's newsletter, there's
no time like the present. Sign up here...
http://www.xtend-life.com
I
highly recommend it.
Now,
with no further interruptions I'm turning things over to Warren.
Read carefully, this one's a shocker!...
XTEND-YOUR-LIFE
Newsletter
Issue - 21st August 2002
By Warren Matthews
Reproduced
by permission
This
is a concept that you may have difficulty in accepting. Nonetheless
it is one that I have been 'preaching' for years and has now
been confirmed by studies showing people in the US, Canada
and the UK are amongst the most malnourished in the world.
This is the case in spite of obesity reaching epidemic proportions
in the US. Malnourishment is, without a doubt, a leading factor
in a wide variety of health problems including cancers.
Does this mean that overweight people are eating all the food
to the detriment of the rest of the population? Not at all!
In fact, obese people figure prominently amongst those people
who are malnourished. I can sense you thinking... "That's
a crazy statement". After all, when you think of someone
being malnourished your mind flashes to pictures which you
have seen on TV of starving children in Africa. How can an
overweight person be malnourished?
Much
easier than you think... please read on and I will explain.
The
Problem is in the Food!
A
recent analysis of a range of staple foods in Canada including
potatoes, tomatoes, bananas, apples, onions, broccoli etc,
etc was commissioned by The Globe and Mail and CTV news. The
results were predictable to some and a shock to others. Let's
use potatoes as an example. This is what the analysis found:
Over
the last 50 years the potato has lost:
*
100% of its Vitamin A
* 57% of its Vitamin C and iron.
* 28% of its Calcium.
* 50% of its riboflavin
* 18% of its thiamine
Of
the seven nutrients analyzed only niacin levels had increased.
The results were similar for all of the 25 fruits and vegetables
tested. One of the worst results was from broccoli in which
ALL nutrients had declined measurably including niacin with
Calcium down 63%. The Globe and Mail and CTV used comparative
figures from government researchers for the years 1951, 1972
and 1999.
These earlier figures had been published in various scientific
journals in the UK including the British Food journal. Release
of this data in the US has been limited to a few alternative
health journals. Tim Lang, a professor at the centre for Food
Policy in England says as a further example of how our food
has been degraded is that you would now have to eat eight
oranges today to get the same amount of Vitamin A that your
grandparents got from eating just one orange.
What's
gone wrong?
That's
simple to explain.
Consumer demand for cheaper and 'good looking' food has, over
recent decades, changed traditional farming methods as well
as distribution. A farmer used to rotate his crops to suit
his land and maximized his yields through natural methods
and then supplied his fresh produce to his local market for
distribution.
Regrettably
that is largely the way of the past. Now, the emphasis is
on production, appearance, storability and transportability.
Nutritional value of fruits and vegetables is of virtually
no concern.
As
Dr Phil Warman, an agronomist and professor of agricultural
sciences at Nova Scotia Agricultural College points out, "crops
are bred to produce higher yields, to be resistant to disease
and to produce more visually attractive fruits or vegetables,
but little or no emphasis is placed on their vitamin and mineral
content."
Unfortunately
the situation is getting worse as more Corporations become
more vertically integrated and control the entire food process
from supplying the seeds through all the production stages,
and distribution. Because of these controls some farmers have
become little more than modern day serfs with almost no options
left to them other than to contract to these major conglomerates
and conform to their 'corporate' farming methods.
Add
to this the increasing foothold of GE engineered crops where
nutritional value is way down on the priority list and this
problem is going to become much, much more serious and will,
I believe, flow on to an elevation of health problems such
as cancer and brain disease which may well reach epidemic
proportions over the next couple of decades unless the public
wake up to what is happening.
Do
foods that have low nutritional values play a part in obesity?
Absolutely!
I
believe this is a major factor in the current epidemic of
obesity. If you are lacking in essential nutrients it will
have a serious flow-on effect in your body. First of all you
will never really feel 'well', you will lack energy which
means you exercise less, and you will have a tendency to seek
out 'comfort' foods which generally contain sugars and thus
the cycle continues and it gets worse and worse and ultimately
ends up in obesity and ill health.
What
can be done about this problem?
*
Try to eat organic fruits and vegetables wherever possible.
*
Avoid processed foods! If you think the loss of nutrient value
in fresh fruits and vegetables is bad enough, I can assure
you that it is nothing compared to the nutritional emptiness
of processed foods... and to add insult to injury they are
full of transfats due to the hydrogenated processing methods
that are used.
*
Take a QUALITY multi NUTRIENT supplement. A multi vitamin/mineral
tablet is not adequate for a number of reasons. The prime
one is that most 'multi vitamin' supplements use synthetic
ingredients with both questionable efficacy and bio-availability
and they lack other important nutrients.
Unfortunately
this is an area in which many consumers are being mislead.
It's a complex subject and as such I may devote a newsletter
to this very important subject in the not too distant future.
It was interesting to see that even some mainstream physicians
are beginning to recognize this problem as evidenced by a
recent article in JAMA which advocated people taking quality
supplements for preventative measures.
Until the next issue.
In
good health,
Warren
J. Matthews
Paul's
comments: Phew! What did I tell you -- great article eh?
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Tony
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