Why isn't the FIT FOR LIFE DIET by HARVEY & MARILYN DIAMOND being used for the HEART FOUNDATION of the world
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The problem is big money as talked about in the books.  What would happen to the dairy industry, meat industry, drug industry.  You get too popular explaining what really happens to the body when this crap is ingested, these industries will spend millions of dollars to make you look like a fool to keep their billions rolling in.  Sad but true.  Changing individuals is hard enough.  It's like asking someone to change the beliefs they were raised with.          Become the model of extreme health, then people will listen to you more.  GOOD LUCK!
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Because Oprah wants you to. (cue twilight music)\nNah. Actually In the late 50's early 60's women started to become more independent and getting out of that club and cave thing they called a kitchen. Well that shot the advertisments pertaining to women and appliances. BIG money. So what then? Make-up, clothes,fitness,weight-loss,plastic surgery, breast augmentation,etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. Give it another 20 years and all that appearence crap will be gone, when they finally tell you gals that placing that oxygen depleting mask on your face everyday makes it age twice as fast.\nNuff said. NEXT!
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I don't exactly know but there is that commercial about Dr. Berstein and I have heard that he /or his assistants give mega boosts Vit B12 as well as follow a diet..\nDon't remember the details but didn't hear anything nice about it......like you can't get your money back if you say it does not work....\nHeard it was very expensive..\nHope someone who went through this will explain you more.\nHe has a bad reputation now here.
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Yes.There are many reasons why.\n* Congenital heart disease\n*High blood pressure\n*other health issues such as Diabetes,morbid obesity,aneroxia,bullimia\n*drug abuse(all drugs,whether they are legal or illegal can be abused)\n*A high fat,high calorie,high sodium,high cholesterol diet and very little exercise
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If it worked we'd all use it. If you want to do this it is for life so you need to totally change your way of eating and exercising. This is not a diet rather than a healthy eating plan for life. So no more talking diet cause it means time limit. \n\nHere are the golden rules: \nInitially cut down to 1200 calories women & 1500 men \nExercise 6 times per week for 1 hours a day. Do three weight sessions and three cardio sessions. No gym involved. \nDon't eat carbs after 4pm, never eat carbs within 2 hours of exercise or within 1 hour of exercise. \nDrink 3 litres of water per day. You can have a green tea at the end of the day. \nLimit your fruit in take to 2 pieces per day. \nNever eat dinner after 6pm.\nAdopt of low GI eating plan this is sustainable for life!\nMake low fat dairy choices \nAll food choices need to be low fat\nDon't make food a big deal and don't socialise using food\n\nFollow this menu plan as a suggestion: \nBreakfast 7am - 1 cup hot water w lemon\n20 minutes later have a bowel of oats w water (no honey) OR\nfruit salad w low GI soy yogurt\nSnack 10am - pear or apple (both low GI)\nLunch 12.30pm - multigrain sandwich w 50g tuna/lean meat & salad (no butter)\nSnack 3pm - low GI yogurt OR skim berry smoothie (no honey or banana) plenty of ice, 1/2 cup skim milk & 1/4 cup yogurt\nDinner 5.30pm - 120g-150g grilled lean meat/fish/prawns/tofu patties (not fried) w spinach salad & mixed vegies (no whites, carbs) OR 3 egg white/soy omlette with ham, cheese and tomato\nSnack - 1 scoop of low cal low fat ice cream (if hungry)\n\nExercise is must be intense. Refer to www.bodybuilding.com for your weights routine. Never do weights two consecutive days have a cardio day in between. \n\nCardio needs to include running, go hard up stair wells and cycling. You get the most benefits from exercise when your body is totally fatigued and this is when you see changes. \n\nTo maintain you can increase calories to 1500 women & 1800 men and reduce exercise sessions to 3-4 times per week. If weight creeps up again due to holiday period etc.. go back to 1200 cal and 6 sessions again. \n\nGood luck it worked for me it can work for anyone.
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There are a few who say yes (and buy this diet book to do it), but most of the literature points to preventing or significantly improving the signs and symptoms of chronic heart failure.  What needs to be determined is the cause of the chf.  Chf can be treated with diuretics, beta blockers, low salt diet, exercise, amongst other things.  Mitral valve prolapse does not usually interfere with your everyday life and often does not need need treatment, though if it is necessary, it can be treated as well.  Remember, you need to be in touch with your primary care doctor and a cardiac doctor as well.\n\nEdit:  What I  meant was there are some diets out there.  Check with your doctor.   The book I referred to is Dr. Dean's Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease.  You should ask your physician about it.  See whether he approves.  It's basically just a certain diet, exercise, quit smoking if you do, type book that might help lower cholesterol levels.  However, because chf is so serious,  what is a good diet for one patient might not be a good diet for another.  It depends on your hdl and ldl readings and the cause of your chf.  It is by no means something I would suggest doing without your doctor's approval despite the impressive list of supporters.\n\nSources:  http://edition.cnn.com/HEALTH/library/DS/00061.html\n          and MSN health on the web
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First, a disclaimer - I'm a fat bugger, and hell no, I ain't putting down no doughnut!\nNow onto a sober analysis of the question. It's true that this is being proposed in the media as a possible source of healthcare funding for the future. And there's a certain logic in what it's trying to do, which is use a tax mechanism to socially engineer a reaction in people towards healthier habits. The problem comes from two sources.\nFirstly, if we accept this, we have to accept that the State gets to decide what lifestyles are socially acceptable. If smokers are to be taxed to provide the ventillators they may need, and fat people are to be taxed extra to pay for their healthcare, then what's to stop sunbathers being taxed extra to pay for the skin cancer research they'll need, or joggers being taxed to pay for the treatments for mysterious exploding heart syndrome they die of because they're so damned healthy in ever other way, and so on. And what's to keep it within a medical context? If groups of people can be socially engineered through tax frameworks, what's to stop the introduction of a 'vanity tax' on people who buy hair dye, because the government decides that actually, on balance, you're not really worth it after all...\n\nAnd secondly, there's the inherent hypocrisy of such a move. It's like the smoking debate - stop people being able to smoke practically everywhere, but still take healthy chunks of tax revenue from the big tobacco companies. How about any "fat tax" being applied to businesses rather than consumers - every McDonalds happy meal sold to include a tax contribution to deal with the heart attack with the happy little youngster's name on it? Evey can of Coke to carry a tax donation towards a new set of dentures, and so on...Y'know, address the problem at state, corporate and consumer level, rather than just targetting and stigmatising the consumer. What do you think?
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YES IT WORKS!\n\nSince every diet needs to be tailored to your needs, this plan works.\n\nmy friends parents sell it, and I have never heard of a dissatisfied customer. try it
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Anybody can do it.  But it is especially for people with hypertension.  I just took a nutrition class and we had this discussion.
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i agree in another country they throw flour to each other  i also think that they should send the food they are going to waste like that to asia or africa or any of those countries where you see that people doesn't have anything to eat or even clean water to drink. we should never forget that god gave us this earth and everything in it is for everybody. same with rich people i'm not saying all of them but the mayority, they are multi millionaire, why couldn't they take a few million dollars and send some food to those countries, instead you see them buying real expensive cars and houses, they only think about themselves nobody else.  We have to stop thinking about ourselves a little and start thinking about everybody else. lets say you and your children are starving wouldn't you like that at least somebody will give you food for your kids. put yourselves in that position. think of what those people have to go thru seeing their love ones die because they don't have nothing to eat.  seeing their own children die of diseases and starvation, and some of us that have everything we complaint  that is not enough . just think about it.
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It’s the one recommendation in almost every diet plan, every guide to nutrition, every fitness book. Even organizations such as the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the World Health Organization, the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, the American Heart Association, and the American Cancer Society agree. But as much as it’s preached, most people still don’t eat enough fruits and vegetables every day.
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Since every person is different, they really cannot determine what is "typical". They do this to cover themselves for liability issues. If they are sued and say Jane Doe lost 80 pounds and I didn't then the company can say that they told you this was not typical.  Gimmick diets never work, but even legitimate diets use this wording to cover their liability exposure, which may or may not be upheld in a court of law. Companies and professionals have a much larger set of standards to go by than an uninformed general member of the public.
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What is it for? that the answer.\n\nIf you are going to live a longer life than do it. If it is for beauty and making  yourself look better like plastic surgery then no.\n\nBut if you need to fix your arteries so you ca spend more time with your kids then do it
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I worked at a place where a class like that was taught!!  It is called Family Life Seminar and teaches life skills like budgeting, organization and nutrition.  It was put on by Parkview Hospital and Habitat for Humanity.  If you have either of those associations in your area, ask them.  Or try your county's Youth Services Bureau, it was part of their classes they provided for the community.  Don't get me wrong, it SHOULD be taught in schools, but it isn't at least not in my area anyways.
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dont want to promote unhealthy living/pills etc... BUTTTTT\n\nIm in the same dilemma and my wedding is in 30 days. \nIm trying Cylaris - supposed to be the strongest diet pill on the market. Im getting myself a bottle today.\n\nwww.buycylaris.com and other health stores like GNC carry it.\n\n\ngood luck!
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my dad passed away when he was 42 from heart attack...\nso i share the same concern with you\n-first try to control the diet by reducing fat in it encourage  fruit and vegitble intake \n-by the age of 20 let them do lipid profile test to see the amount of fat in their bodies\n-avoid hypertension(don't add extra salt for their food)\n-avoid smoking\n-avoid alcohol \n-avoid obesity\n-do exercise \nwhat i want to tell you here is that for ischemic heart disease there are unmodified risk factors and modified risk factors \nunmodified it means that you can not change it as ;age,male gender,family history,race\nand the modified risk factors which i told you above how to beat\nwish you luck
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Yes, the South Beach Diet. It was actually designed by a cardiologist for better health,(and of course weight loss)for his heart patients, a good percentage of whom were diabetic. The book "The South Beach Diet" is in paperback now, I got mine at Walmart for $5.77. It is also the easiest diet I have ever been on. And I am a HUGE bread lover!! I hope you get and read the book regardless of whether you try the diet because it is a treasure of info.